School of Languages, Linguistics and Film: Recent submissions
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China Pushed the Pink Tide and the Pink Tide Pulled China: Intertwining Economic Interests and Ideology in Ecuador and Bolivia (2005–2014)
(2020-12-01)This article examines the rise of leftist ideology in Ecuador and Bolivia in light of their deepening economic relations with China from 2005 to 2014. First, it reveals that market trends account for trade fluctuations but ... -
Top-down or bottom-up? Employing a middle-ground approach in designing a uk academic writing course for advanced chinese graduates
(2020-01-01)This article documents the academic writing course design process for advanced Chinese learners aiming to pursue postgraduate degrees in business-related fields at their respective target universities in the UK. Four holders ... -
Actions Speak Louder than Words: China’s Consultative Peacekeeping in Africa
(2019-09-03)Existing concepts (e.g. ‘non-interference’ and ‘pragmatism’) remain too vague to provide explanations for China’s increasingly assertive security policy. To avoid this pitfall, this article adopts a narrower focus on Chinese ... -
Taking bazin literally
(2017-01-01)This article argues against the standard readings of Bazin's seminal essay "The Ontology of the Photographic Image," which are based on Charles S. Peirce's account of indexicality but for reasons distinct from recent ... -
Late 1920s film theory and criticism as a test-case for Benjamin’s generalizations on the experiential effects of editing
(2016-07-02)This article investigates Walter Benjamin’s influential generalization that the effects of cinema are akin to the hyper-stimulating experience of modernity. More specifically, I focus on his oft-cited 1935/36 claim that ... -
Fictional emotions and the moral dimension of the paradox of fiction in cinema
(2020-01-01)The paper offers a twofold intervention in the debates about the paradox of fiction. First, it argues that too much emphasis has been placed on the paradox’ epistemological aspect. This has led to a neglect of its ethical ... -
Theorizing fiction in film non/fiction: Some thoughts on recent german film theory
(2019-01-01)Despite fiction film arguably being the privileged object of film theory the notion of “fiction” has been undertheorised by film scholars in general and those working in German in particular. Perhaps the most important ... -
Textualism, extratextualism, and the fiction/nonfiction distinction in documentary studies
(2021-01-01)This article critiques existing textualist and extratextualist (intentionalist and reception-driven) approaches to capturing the ordinary understanding of the fiction/nonfiction distinction in philosophical and film ... -
Motivation for LOTE learning: a cross-country comparison of university learners of French
(2021-03-12)This is an original manuscript / preprint of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development on 16 Mar 2021, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2021.1897129. -
'More than biological': Cherie Dimaline's *The Marrow Thieves* as Countergenetic Fiction.
This article reads Métis writer Cherie Dimaline’s novel The Marrow Thieves as one among a growing number of Indigenous counter-genetic fictions. Dimaline targets two initiatives that reductively define Indigeneity as ... -
Excluded entailments and the de se/de re partition
We show that some PRO-sentences (sentences containing an unpronounced subject in an infinitive clause) appear to receive de re interpretations when they occur in suitable discourse contexts or linguistic environments. This ... -
Stem similarity modulates infants' acquisition of phonological alternations
Phonemes have variant pronunciations depending on context. For instance, in American English, the [t] in pat [pæt] and the [d] in pad [pæd] are both realized with a tap [ɾ] when the –ing suffix is attached, [pæɾɪŋ]. We ... -
Film studies and the experimental method
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The use and abuse of cinema: German legacies from the Weimar era to the present
(2016-10-07)This is an original manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Studies in European Cinema on 07 Oct 2016, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/17411548.2016.1234834. -
Early Cinema in Asia
(2018-01-01)
