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How can we design social media to be inclusive?
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Humboldt's 'thinking language': Poetics and politics
(Oxford University Press, 2016-12-24)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 ... -
Humboldt's 'Thinking Language': Poetics and Politics
(Oxford University Press, 2017-01-02)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 ... -
Humboldt's 'Thinking Language': Poetics and Politics
(Oxford University Press, 2016-12-25)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 ... -
(l) as a sociolinguistic variable in Francoprovençal
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 ... -
‘The página is still blanca’: reading the blanks in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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 ... -
Reading/Writing Multilingualism: language, literature and creativity in the multilingual classroom
(Wiley, 2017-10-30)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 ... -
Review: ‘La Sepmaine’ de Du Bartas, ses lecteurs et la science du temps: en hommage à Yvonne Bellenger. Actes du Colloque international d'Orléans (12–13 juin 2014) by Denis Bjaï
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Thinking Language. Wilhelm von Humboldt now. Introduction
(Oxford University Press, 2017-01-02)Introduction -
‘Tick boxes are just tick boxes’: Problematising evidence-based teaching and exploring the space of the possible through a complexity lens
<jats:p> This article seeks to provide a new paradigm for questioning how quality and excellence in teaching practices are understood and evaluated. By combining ideas from complexity theory and Michel Foucault’s conception ... -
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 ... -
Understanding Autistic Adults’ Use of Social Media
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Visible Voices: Translating Verse into Script & Print 3000 BC – AD 2000. By Nicolas Barker.
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2017-06-01)