The thesis I develop in this article, based on the Humboldtian tradition of Sprachdenken [thinking language], is that language is a paradigm for our ideas on the way communal life functions. If that is the case, our theory ...

This article argues for (l) as a sociolinguistic variable in Francoprovençal: (l) refers to variable palatalisation of /l/ in obstruent+lateral onset clusters (/kl, ɡl, pl, bl, fl/), a feature that has long been the subject ...

This article reads Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao via its trope of ‘páginas en blanco’ in order to argue that its creolised language, stylistic devices, and structural organisation mimic the experience ...

This article examines the relationship between the discipline of ‘English Literature’, and the contemporary multilingual classroom. It argues that our field has often been cast as a kind of corrective to the ‘problem’ of ...

Introduction

The article (Part I) is based on the impressive collection of previously unpublished diaries (69 notebooks, 32 973 pages) of Sofia Smirnova-Sazonova, writer and journalist (1852—1921). The diaries are kept in the Manu­script ...