School of Languages, Linguistics and Film: Recent submissions
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POLITICS AND SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT IN RECENT RUSSIAN DOCUMENTARY FILM
Russian art and literature has, since the early 19th century been dominated by a civic tradition of artists defining themselves as “the conscience of the nation.” Of all cinematic forms, documentary has been seen as the ... -
Introduction to Special issue of Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema and Culture of Ukraine
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The Place of Ukraine in Mark Donskoi’s, The Rainbow (Raduga/ Raiduha, Kyiv and Ashgabat Studios, 1943)
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2024-10-01)This paper will argue that Mark Donskoi’s 1944 film The Rainbow, made in the evacuated Kyiv film studios in Turkmenistan, gains an enormous amount when seen as a Ukrainian film. While the Odesa-born Donskoi is usually ... -
Gender Penalty? Linguistic Discrimination and Perceptions of Female Football Commentators
This experimental sociolinguistic study investigates implicit attitudes relating to female football commentators. Several high-profile sports-media figures have claimed that women’s voices are “too high-pitched” for ... -
Mary Magdalene in Modern Visual and Popular Culture (Including Documentaries)
This chapter considers the array of representations of Mary Magdalene on the cinema screen between 1912 and 2022. The survey shows the perennial fascination with the sexuality of Mary Magdalene and the range of stereotypes ... -
DESYNONYMIZING (WORLD) THEORY AND POETICS
(2024-04-01)This article enquires into the notion of world poetics constructed by Wang Ning in the lead article of this symposium. By examining the relationship between the discourses of world literature and literary theory, and between ... -
Josephson, Olle (2018): Språkpolitik [Language policy]. Stockholm: Morfem. 320 p.
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Prescriptivism
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Memory Writing and Cosmopolitan Identity in Timothy Mo’s Pure
(Taylor & Francis, 2024-06-26)In his recent novel Pure (2012), Timothy Mo maps the complex interaction between memory and identity in the post-9/11 context. The novel interweaves the memory narratives of four protagonists and mainly describes the ... -
How long is long? Word length effects in reading correspond to minimal graphemic units: An MEG study in Bangla.
(PLOS, 2024-04-18)This paper presents a magnetoencephalography (MEG) study on reading in Bangla, an east Indo-Aryan language predominantly written in an abugida script. The study aims to uncover how visual stimuli are processed and mapped ... -
Negotiating the Good Friday Agreement and Ending the Ukraine War
(Taylor & Francis, 2023-01-01)This article argues that an understanding of the successful process which led to the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement (GFA) provides a useful context for understanding the constraints and opportunities for peace making in ... -
Mapping affective circuits of a Twitter trolling attack against feminist arts-based pedagogy during the COVID-19 global pandemic
(Tay, 2022)We examine a Twitter attack against our phEmaterialist pedagogy during a UK-wide COVID-19 lockdown. We explore how trolls swarmed together in a collective mocking and ridiculing of images of colorful Play-doh genital models ... -
“The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions”: New Cosmopolitanism and Pacifist Warriors
(2022-01-01)Since the end of the Cold War “New Cosmopolitans” have justified the renaissance of “righteous war” by providing cosmopolitan, humanitarian, human rights and even pacifist justifications for military intervention. This ...