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Men, Militarism, and Disruption
This chapter reconsiders the linguistic and discursive enlanguaging of Alpha and other dominant masculinities, taking a critical turn and reframing...
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Hysteria, Impropriety and Presence: Towards a Feminist Approach to Intersemiotic Translation
Discussing her own translation of Hélène Cixous’ novel Inside (1969/1986) into theatre, Berger suggests the figure of the hysteric as way of...
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Democratising the Language of Feminist Expression: English and Bhasha Contexts of Indian Women’s Writing
Bharti Arora’s paper explores how women’s writing across linguistic, regional, caste and/or communal divide engages with the task of knowledge...
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Children of “A Dream Come True”: A Critical Content Analysis of the Representations of Transracial Chinese Adoption in Picturebooks
This study offers a critical content analysis of thirty-six contemporary realistic picturebooks featuring transracial Chinese adoption. The...
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Introduction
The fact that “gender is an omni-relevant category in most social practices” (Lazar 2005: 3) lies at the very core of both gender and language...
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From Discourse to Body and Back via Critical Materialism: Bringing Discourse and Affect Research Together
This chapter explores the biopolitical implications of bodies being articulated through collocations of the “state” (the political body) and...
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Kazakh Cultural Models of Family and Home in Contrast
The aim of the paper is a presentation and discussion of a cluster of concepts of family and home in a cross-linguistic perspective, with a...
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The Practitioner’s View: The Value of Linguistics in International Business Consultancy
My work is self-consciously political. Taking the perspective of a practitioner, this chapter focuses on how consultancy work delivered to...
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The Linguistic and Cultural Environment of Canadian Television
A tree could only thrive because the florid ground is nurturing its roots. Similarly, any communicative situation has languages to convey it. They...
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Devising and Implementing Whole School Literacy across the Curriculum (LAC) strategies in the 11 to 19 Secondary School Curriculum
This chapter discusses and outlines the research upon which Chapters 4 – 6...
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Conclusions
A sexist and imbalanced status quo is reproduced in the language used to describe, refer to and construct women, in both the private and the public...
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Life’s Too Short: On Translating Christian Marclay’s Photo -Book The Clock
Literary translator and poet Jen Calleja discusses the process of translating the photo-book The Clock—the catalogue of the film installation of the...
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Literature Review
It is hardly a coincidence that the period which saw the development of feminist and then gender studies also witnessed a remarkable growth in...
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A Critical Sociocultural Cross-Case Analysis
In this chapter, we bring together the four testimonios to illustrate the themes and nuances of their counternarratives that “strengthen traditions...
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Another Populism Is Possible: Popular Politics and the Anticolonial Struggle
In this chapter the authors move away from pejorative and derogatory definitions of populism that have shaped media reporting and scholarly debate...
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Critical Sociocultural Lens
In this chapter, we describe how an interconnected critical and sociocultural lens may uniquely capture the dynamic impact of the literacies and...
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(Re)viewing the Warrior Woman: Reading the Old English “Iceberg” Riddle from an Ecofeminist Perspective
The Exeter Book’s Riddle 33 depicts its subject, an iceberg, as a warrior woman who can cause damage to ships with her physical prowess and powerful...
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Femininity and female sexual desires in “The Lang Women”: an analysis using Halliday’s theory on transitivity
This article deals with the linguistic representation of and the relationship between femininity and female desires and needs in Masters’ short story...
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Introduction
This introduction illustrates the scholarly aim and objectives of this collection, investigating the multifaceted and pervasive relationship between...
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Radical Ekphrasis ; or, An Ethics of Seeing
In ‘Radical Ekphrasis; or, An Ethics of Seeing’ poet and translator Sophie Collins applies Susan Sontag’s description of photography to another mode...