Journal articles: 'Contemporary English fiction'

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Hynes, Joseph, Michael North, and Patrick Swinden. "Contemporary English Fiction." Contemporary Literature 27, no. 1 (1986): 90. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1208601.

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Bekhta, I. A. "INNER SPEECH IN CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH FICTION." Scientific notes of Taurida National V.I. Vernadsky University, series Philology. Social Communications 4, no. 2 (2019): 11–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.32838/2663-6069/2019.4-2/03.

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Luca, Ioana. "Performance and Performativity in Contemporary English Fiction in English." Indialogs 5 (March 20, 2018): 161. http://dx.doi.org/10.5565/rev/indialogs.111.

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Karim, Asim. "Female Sexuality in Contemporary Pakistani English Fiction." Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 22, no. 4 (December 2019): 24–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.5782/2223-2621.2019.22.4.24.

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Female sexuality has remained a taboo subject in Pakistani literary and cultural representations. However, a considerable shift has occurred in contemporary Pakistani English fiction. Focusing on female bodily behaviour, the fiction explicates multiple shades of female sexual relations and experiences outside the cultural and religious norms in an unusually direct and explicit fashion. This study analyses the way Pakistani fiction, written in English, responds to the variety of different ideologies imposed upon women’s bodies and sexuality. It analyses some key sexual experiences of pubertal sexual awakening, postmarital sex, women’s urge for proactive sexual intercourse, and disavowal of motherhood, pregnancy and birthing. The collective representation of female sexuality in each case embodies a transgressive experience outside the shame/shameless, licit/illicit binaries. However, the representation, despite its explicitness, does not constitute in any way women’s sexual autonomy against the predominant masculine discourses. The issues have been analyzed within the framework of debates on the female body, heterosexuality, the male gaze and commodity fetishism.

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Amanuddin, Syed, and A. N. Dwivedi. "Studies in Contemporary Indian Fiction in English." World Literature Today 62, no. 4 (1988): 728. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40144778.

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Sil, Esha. "South-Asian fiction in English: Contemporary transformations." Journal of Postcolonial Writing 53, no. 5 (January 31, 2017): 626–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2017.1283726.

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Rasool, Syed, and Jehangir Khan. "Pashtun Images in Contemporary Pakistani Fiction in English." University of Chitral Journal of Linguistics and Literature 1, no. 1 (March 3, 2018): 23–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.33195/uochjll/1/1/02/2017.

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Living in an area that has long been a battlefield where various world powers have often been at loggerheads, Pashtuns have frequently drawn the attention of several works of fiction. Yet literary scholars have largely ignored the importance of these works of fiction looking into the lives of Pashtuns. This paper proposes that from the times of the Cold War to those of the War on Terror, Pashtun identities have been clouded by the hegemonic discourses of the contesting global powers, leading to gaps and silences in their depiction in literature.This paper argues that the Pashtun images in contemporary Pakistani fiction in English exhibit strong influences of the dominating narratives; simultaneously, however, they seem to offer various patterns of subversion of the prevailing power narratives. Despite the fact that Pashtuns are generally regarded as the most subversive people of South Asia and that their lands have been regarded significant strategically as well as geographically, yet they are portrayed as the Others of the mainstream cultural discourses. This paper aims to highlight the contours of the socio-cultural and political valuation of Pashtuns in contemporary Pakistani fiction in English.

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Von MÃ¼cke, Dorothea. "Humanist vestiges in contemporary science fiction." Cadernos de Letras da UFF 29, no. 58 (July 12, 2019): 127–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.22409/cadletrasuff.2019n58a658.

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Both Spike Jonze’s her and Alex Garland’s ex machina make references to such outdated media and cultural techniques as the handwritten letter, the hand-drawn sketch, oil paintings and the bound volume of the book. An analysis of the use and function of these seemingly obsolete cultural techniques in the two science fiction movies reveals a surprising commitment to traditionally humanist values as grounded in the invocation of the individualized, mortal human body.---Original in English.

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Mehmood, Sadaf. "Voicing The Silences: Women In Contemporary Pakistani Fiction In English." Pakistan Journal of Gender Studies 18, no. 1 (March 8, 2019): 113–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.46568/pjgs.v18i1.28.

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Indigenous women of Pakistan have long been struggling with the patriarchal norms. Categorization of their existence in the conventional oppressions connotes diversified victimization. Grappling with such assorted repressions and articulating the subsequent silences, women writers of Pakistan and the social activists are incessantly engaged to empower women from societal peripheries. The selected fiction exposes how the indigenous woman is controlled and exploited on the name of religio-cultural rhetoric. The present article outlines the historical developments in changing the social positioning of women after independence by highlighting the urgency of raising women consciousness in the academic sphere to form an alliance for collective identity. This article evaluates Ice Candy Man (1988), My Feudal Lord (1994) and Trespassing (2003) to explore the changing images of indigenous Pakistani women after partition. It aims to highlight the struggle and resistance of female characters against the patriarchal propriety of Pakistani society. The study is significant to highlight the struggles of women writers to articulate the silences of assorted exploitation buried under the hegemony of socio-historical discourses. The study concludes that through female characterization the women writers organize specific academic movement of awakening that provides situational analysis to relate with the turbulences of the fictional world to correspond the real challenges.

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Aldama, Frederick Luis, and Meenakshi Bharat. "Desert in Bloom: Contemporary Indian Women's Fiction in English." World Literature Today 79, no. 1 (2005): 87. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40158807.

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Szpila, Grzegorz. "Proverbs as Vehicles of Truth in Contemporary English Fiction." Armenian Folia Anglistika 3, no. 2 (4) (October 15, 2007): 39–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.46991/afa/2007.3.2.039.

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The article addresses one of the key issues of the studies of proverbs which refers to the use of proverbs in literature. The article is an attempt to reveal the attitude of the author and the character towards the proverbial truth. The traditional wisdom contained in a proverb can be either accepted or totally rejected. Besides these extremes, there is another situation when the characters of a literary text and/ or the author accept the proverbial truth to a certain extent. A proverb is applied in most diverse ways in literature starting from traditional interpretations to literary reinterpretations which serve the specific needs of the author.

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Bernard, Catherine. "A Certain Hermeneutic Slant: Sublime Allegories in Contemporary English Fiction." Contemporary Literature 38, no. 1 (1997): 164. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1208856.

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Tittler, Jonathan. "Contemporary Spanish American fiction in English: Who is translating whom?" Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research 4, no. 1 (July 1998): 91–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13260219.1998.10429946.

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Kidder, Richard. "Some Examples of the Ecogothic in Contemporary English Language Fiction." Caietele Echinox 35 (November 16, 2018): 212–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/cechinox.2018.35.13.

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Meyer, Neele. "Challenging Gender and Genre: Women in Contemporary Indian Crime Fiction in English." Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 66, no. 1 (March 28, 2018): 105–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/zaa-2018-0010.

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Abstract This paper looks at three Indian crime fiction series by women writers who employ different types of female detectives in contemporary India. The series will be discussed in the context of India’s economic growth and the emergence of a new middle class, which has an impact on India’s complex publishing market. I argue that the authors offer new identification figures while depicting a wide spectrum of female experiences within India’s contemporary urban middle class. In accordance with the characteristics of popular fiction, crime fiction offers the possibility to assume new roles within the familiar framework of a specific genre. Writers also partly modify the genre as a form of social criticism and use strategies such as the avoidance of closure. I conclude that the genre is of particular suitability for women in modern India as a testing-ground for new roles and a space that helps to depict and accommodate recent transformations that connect to processes of globalization.

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Inggs, Judith. "Transgressing Boundaries? Romance, Power and Sexuality in Contemporary South African English Young Adult Fiction." International Research in Children's Literature 2, no. 1 (July 2009): 101–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/e1755619809000519.

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Although sexuality is now regarded as one of the dominant ways of representing access to power in young adult fictions, adolescent sexuality, and even teenage romance, has remained relatively unexplored in South African examples of the genre. Works that do depict sexual relationships have generally worked to deliver didactic warnings of the potential dangers of engaging in any form of sexual activity. This article explores and examines whether, and how, adolescent sexuality is depicted and portrayed in contemporary South African young adult fiction written in English. The focus is on a range of works published during the years of the transition to democracy in South Africa, beginning in 1989. The article posits three broad categories of the genre, and concludes that the third of these at last gives evidence of a welcome move towards more openness and innovation.

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Eichel, Roxana. "Genre Transgression in Contemporary Romanian Crime Fiction." Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica 11, no. 1 (November 1, 2019): 21–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ausp-2019-0002.

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Abstract Crime fiction is currently evolving towards a literary genre which encompasses the intertwining of several textual practices, rhetorical modes, cultural identities, and topoi. Multiculturalism and the relation to alterity are gradually conquering the realm of detective fiction, thus rendering the crime enigma or suspense only secondary in comparison to other intellectual “enjeux” of the text. Transgressing the national horizon, contemporary detective fiction in Romanian literature can be thus considered as “world literature” (Nilsson–Damrosch–D’haen 2017) not only because it does not engage representations of Romanian spaces alone but also due to its translatability, its transnational range of cultural values and practices. This article aims to discuss several categories of examples for this fresh diversity that Romanian crime fiction has encountered. Novels written recently by authors such as Petru Berteanu, Caius Dobrescu, Mihaela Apetrei, Alex Leo Şerban, or Eugen Ovidiu Chirovici employ variations such as either alternative narrators or cosmopolitan characters, or contribute to anthologies, writing directly in English in order to gain access to a more complex audience. The paper sets out to analyse the literary or rhetorical devices at work in these transgressional phenomena as well as their effects on contemporary Romanian crime narratives and their possible correlations to transnational phenomena.1

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Tykhomyrova, Olena. "Metafiction in contemporary English-language prose: Narrative and stylistic aspects." Lege Artis 3, no. 1 (June 1, 2018): 363–416. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/lart-2018-0010.

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Abstract This paper focuses on metafictional narrative strategies characteristic of contemporary English-language fiction. The research reveals the variety and stylistic peculiarities of these strategies, as well as specifies the definition of metafiction with regard to its liminal status and self-reflexivity. Narrative metalepsis, specific framing and plot arrangements, metafictional commentary, and other techniques have been analyzed resorting to numerous examples.

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King, Adele, and Khushwant Singh. "The HarperCollins Book of New Indian Fiction: Contemporary Writing in English." World Literature Today 80, no. 3 (2006): 65. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40159098.

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Singh, Dr Jyoti. "The Ideology of Beauty and Devaluation of the Womankind: A Reading of Contemporary Indian English Fiction." Paripex - Indian Journal Of Research 3, no. 7 (January 1, 2012): 1–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.15373/22501991/july2014/29.

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Lehtonen, Sanna. "Touring the magical North – Borealism and the indigenous Sámi in contemporary English-language children’s fantasy literature." European Journal of Cultural Studies 22, no. 3 (September 19, 2017): 327–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367549417722091.

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Discourses of exotic Lapland with its indigenous inhabitants, the Sámi, are widely circulated in the tourist industry and also surface in contemporary English-language children’s fantasy fiction. In contrast to the ‘self-orientalism’ of discourses of tourism, where places and people are represented as exotic to a tourist gaze, the portrayals of the North and its inhabitants gain different symbolic meanings in fictional texts produced by outsiders who rely on earlier texts – myths, fairy tales and anthropological accounts – rather than on their own lived experience of the North or indigeneity. This article applies the concept of Borealism to examine cross-cultural intertextuality and discourses of the Sámi/Lappishness in English-language children’s fantasy by four contemporary authors. The Sámi and their folklore become recontextualised in fictional texts through a Borealist gaze that associates the indigenous characters with feminist and ecocritical discourses and frames indigenous ethnicity in stereotypical ways.

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Beyer, Charlotte. "“I Stand Out Like a Raven”: Depicting the Female Detective and Tudor History in Nancy Bilyeau’s The Crown." American, British and Canadian Studies Journal 28, no. 1 (June 27, 2017): 91–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/abcsj-2017-0006.

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Abstract This article examines the portrayal of female identity and crime in the Tudor period in Nancy Bilyeau’s contemporary historical crime fiction novel, The Crown (2012). Featuring a female detective figure, Joanna Stafford, Bilyeau’s novel forms part of the wealth of contemporary fiction using Tudor history as context, reflecting a continued interest in and fascination with this period and its prominent figures. This article examines Bilyeau’s representation of the Tudor period in The Crown through the depiction of English society and culture from a contemporary perspective, employing genre fiction in order to highlight issues of criminality. My investigation of The Crown as crime fiction specifically involves analysing gender-political questions and their portrayal within the novel and its tumultuous historical context. This investigation furthermore explores the depiction of agency, individuality, religion, and politics. The article concludes that Bilyeau’s suspense-filled novel provides an imaginative representation of Tudor history through the prism of the crime fiction genre. Central to this project is its employment of a resourceful and complex female detective figure at the heart of the narrative.

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Stojnić, Aneta. "Cyborgs from Fiction to Reality: Marginalized Other or Privileged First?" Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture 10, no. 1-2 (January 1, 2013): 49–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.51151/identities.v10i1-2.278.

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In this paper I will offer an analysis of cyber technology, cyberspace and cyborg from its appearance in fiction to its contemporary realizations, in order to show symbolic place of cyborg has changed, in the light of contemporary power relations. I will focus on the cyborg figure in literature and film, mainly the cyberpunk genre characteristic for fictionalization of the relations between individual, society and technology. Author(s): Aneta Stojnić Title (English): Cyborgs from Fiction to Reality: Marginalized Other or Privileged First? Journal Reference: Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 10, No. 1-2 (Summer-Winter 2013) Publisher: Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities – Skopje Page Range: 49-53 Page Count: 5 Citation (English): Aneta Stojnić, „Cyborgs from Fiction to Reality: Marginalized Other or Privileged First?,” Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 10, No. 1-2 (Summer-Winter 2013): 49-53.

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Attridge, Derek. "Contemporary Afrikaans Fiction in the World: The Englishing of Marlene van Niekerk." Tekstualia 3, no. 46 (July 4, 2016): 129–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0013.4213.

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Many of the most ambitious and important South African novels of the past fi fty years have been written in Afrikaans, but in order to reach a global audience the authors have had to turn to translators. Focusing on Marlene van Niekerk’s novels Triomf (1994; English translation by Leon de Kock, 2000) and Agaat (2004; English translation by Michiel Heyns, 2007), this article examines the challenges that this fi ction, and the particular character and social status of different varieties of Afrikaans, present to the translator, and discusses the signifi cance of the differences between versions addressed to an English-speaking South African readership and versions addressed to a global readership. Derrida’s claim that the only thing to be translated is the untranslatable is discussed, and the untranslatability of Triomf and Agaat, it is suggested, also means that they can only be translated and retranslated.

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Ouyang, Wen-chin. "The Qur’an and Identity in Contemporary Chinese Fiction." Journal of Qur'anic Studies 16, no. 3 (October 2014): 62–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/jqs.2014.0166.

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How is it possible to comprehend and assess the impact of the Qur’an on the literary expressions of the Hui Chinese Muslims, who have been integrated into Sinophone and China’s multicultural community since the third/ninth century, when the first ‘translations’ of the Qur’an in Chinese made by non-Muslims from Japanese and English appeared only in 1927 and 1931, and that by a Muslim from Arabic in 1932? This paper looks at the ways in which the Qur’an is imagined, then embodied, in literary texts authored by two prizewinning Chinese Muslim authors. Huo Da (b. 1945) alludes to the Qur’an in her novel The Muslim’s Funeral (1982), and transforms its teachings into ritual performances of alterity in her saga of a Muslim family at the turn of the twentieth century. Zhang Chengzhi (b. 1948) involves himself in reconstructing the history of the Jahriyya Ṣūfī sect in China between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries in his only historical novel, A History of the Soul (1991), and invents an identity for Chinese Muslims based on direct knowledge of the sacred text and tradition.

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Sarabando, Andreia. "Potiki in Portuguese: language hybridity and the pitfalls of paratext." Translation Matters 3, no. 1 (2021): 125–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.21747/21844585/tm3_1a8.

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This article looks at the Portuguese translation of Patricia Grace’sPotiki, and more specifically at the paratextual elements that it contains, as a response to the linguistic hybridity of its source text. Potiki incorporates Māori elements in its mostly English-language text in a way that is common in Māori fiction writing these days, but which was groundbreaking at the time of its release, in 1986. The Portuguese translation’s decision to include paratextual information clarifying the meaning of words and expressions, which is absent from English-language publications, can be considered controversial and, moreover, runs counter to contemporary approaches to hybrid linguistic features in fictional texts.

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Moore‐Gilbert, Bart. "Anglo‐Saxon attitudes: Empire, race and English studies in contemporary university fiction." Wasafiri 13, no. 26 (September 1997): 3–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02690059708589553.

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Blashkiv, Oksana. "Vagaries of (Academic) Identity in Contemporary Fiction." Journal of Education Culture and Society 9, no. 1 (June 27, 2018): 151–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.15503/jecs20181.151.160.

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Aim. The article attempts to look at question of academic identities through the prism the academic novel. This literary genre emerged in English and American literature in early 1950s and centers on the image of the professor. In Slavic literatures the genre of the academic novel appears roughly in early 1990s, which is directly connected with the change of the political order following the fall of the Berlin Wall and disbanding of the Soviet Union. Contemporary Ukrainian literature with its post-Soviet heritage presents a unique source for the study of academic discourse. Methods. An interdisciplinary approach which combines sociological investigation of academic identity (Henkel 2005) and hermeneutic literary analysis is used for this study. In this respect three novels from the contemporary Ukrainian literature – “University” (2007) and “Kaleidoscope” (2009) by Igor Yosypiv, and “Drosophila over a Volume of Kant” (2010) by Anatoliy Dnistrovyj – are chosen for analysis. Results. Analysis of the novels shows that the literary representation of academics’ lives goes in line with the sociological findings, which, in defining a successful academic, put a strong accent on a discipline and academic institution. The interpretation of Yosypiv’s novels about a Ukrainian nephrologist at the American Medical School suggests that protagonist’s academic success is rooted in the field of applied science as well as an American institution of higher education, while Dnistrovyj’s novel sees a failure of a philosophy professor in the crisis of the Humanities as survived in post-Soviet Ukraine. Conclusion. The given novels of Igor Yosypiv and Anatoliy Dnistrovyj show that in case of academic identity theme, the academic novels support sociological studies, i.e. the discipline (Applied Sciences and Humanities) as well as the university rank (American vs. post-Soviet) play a decisive role in scholars’ academic life. This in its turn proves that the academic novel, like in the time of its emergence in the 1950s, continues to be a literary chronicler of higher education.

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Šimůnková, Renata. "ENGLISH PRESENT PARTICIPLES AND GERUNDS FUNCTIONING AS ADVERBIALS AND THEIR TRANSLATIONS INTO CZECH." Discourse and Interaction 11, no. 1 (June 30, 2018): 67–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/di2018-1-67.

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The paper presents a comparative study of non-finite -ing forms with the aim of justifying their classification into gerunds and present participles. The empirical part focuses on -ing forms functioning as adverbials in contemporary English fiction and their corresponding Czech translations. The study is based on a manually excerpted corpus of works of contemporary English fiction and their translations into Czech. The results have shown present participles are more frequent than gerunds when functioning as adverbials, suggesting functional differences even in the area where they theoretically share a common function. As far as the translations into Czech are concerned, significant differences have been noticed between the two -ing forms, present participles being most commonly translated by means of clauses in a coordinate relation while for gerunds a way of translation which would so significantly prevail has not been identified, but nouns or verbal nouns have been the most common counterparts.

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Muradyan, Gayane. "Syntagmatics of Nominative Collocations in Modern English Essay." Armenian Folia Anglistika 4, no. 1-2 (5) (October 15, 2008): 6–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.46991/afa/2008.4.1-2.006.

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The study of syntagmatic collocations reveals that these linguostylistic units are based on some language prototypical syntagmatic patterns and their systemic application largely conditions the functional-stylistic orientation of this or that expression of speech. Syntagmiatcic collocations are distinguished with their wide usage, and like all the other functional varieties of the style of public writing the genre of contemporary essay is built on the juxtaposition of fact and fiction, the real and the imaginary.

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Davies, Mark. "The 385+ million word Corpus of Contemporary American English (1990–2008+)." International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 14, no. 2 (June 10, 2009): 159–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.14.2.02dav.

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The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), which was released online in early 2008, is the first large and diverse corpus of American English. In this paper, we first discuss the design of the corpus — which contains more than 385 million words from 1990–2008 (20 million words each year), balanced between spoken, fiction, popular magazines, newspapers, and academic journals. We also discuss the unique relational databases architecture, which allows for a wide range of queries that are not available (or are quite difficult) with other architectures and interfaces. To conclude, we consider insights from the corpus on a number of cases of genre-based variation and recent linguistic variation, including an extended analysis of phrasal verbs in contemporary American English.

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Davies, Mark. "Expanding horizons in historical linguistics with the 400-million word Corpus of Historical American English." Corpora 7, no. 2 (November 2012): 121–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/cor.2012.0024.

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The Corpus of Historical American English (COHA) contains 400 million words in more than 100,000 texts which date from the 1810s to the 2000s. The corpus contains texts from fiction, popular magazines, newspapers and non-fiction books, and is balanced by genre from decade to decade. It has been carefully lemmatised and tagged for part-of-speech, and uses the same architecture as the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), BYU-BNC, the TIME Corpus and other corpora. COHA allows for a wide range of research on changes in lexis, morphology, syntax, semantics, and American culture and society (as viewed through language change), in ways that are probably not possible with any text archive (e.g., Google Books) or any other corpus of historical American English.

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Sen, Sucharita. "Memsahibs and ayahs during the Mutiny: In English memoirs and fiction." Studies in People's History 7, no. 2 (December 2020): 159–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2348448920951520.

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Drawing upon the personal accounts of British women who lived through the Mutiny (1857–58), this article argues that these accounts, being characterised by diversity, both supported and contradicted the official discourse of the British Raj. While the domestic spaces in the household were shaken by the storm of the Mutiny, interpersonal relations sometimes transcended the animosity which the Mutiny had garnered. By bringing the contemporary British fiction into the spectrum of analysis, this article argues that the Mutiny fiction and personal accounts have a common chord in their portrayal of the loyalty of the native servants in the hour of crises for their employers. These relationships, however, also implied the status of white superiority over coloured subordination as also the memsahib’s special preserve of idleness.

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Graham-Marr, Alastair, and William Pellowe. "Taking a literature circles approach to teach Academic English." Journal of Language and Cultural Education 4, no. 1 (January 1, 2016): 133–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jolace-2016-0011.

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Abstract Literature circles (LC), an activity framework for classroom discussion, has been adapted for EFL classes to help students engage more deeply with reading texts. In this approach, students read texts outside of class, and discuss the texts in class, using a specified discussion framework. Originally developed for L1 classes as a tool for teaching literature, LC has been adapted for EFL classes, not only to help develop reading skills, but also to help students develop their discussion skills. However, to date, many adaptations of LC have relied on graded fiction as source material, which is not always appropriate for tertiary education. Feeling pressure to match course content with the labour market needs of our contemporary global society, English departments are increasingly being asked to include more academic content in their classes. This requires that non-fiction be used as source material. This preliminary study examines student perceptions of an LC class using non-fiction as source material. The subjects of this short, qualitative, pilot study were engineering students at a university in Japan. Procedures of the class and the issues that emerged are discussed.

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Adami, Esterino. "More than Language and Literature." Le Simplegadi 18, no. 20 (November 2020): 44–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.17456/simple-155.

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This article investigates the interdisciplinary connections between language and literature in the Indian postcolonial context. I argue that a linguistic approach to contemporary Indian English fiction is useful to unpack complex cultural, social and identitarian questions. As a case study, I analyse some of the short stories from The Adivasi Will Not Dance (2017) by Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar, a contemporary author from a marginalised ethnic group of rural India. My methodology benefits from postcolonial studies, sociolinguistics and critical stylistics, to show how Shekhar reshapes the canon by foregrounding Indian English, borrowings from the Santhali language and registers of specialised discourse.

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Ashraf, Ayesha, and Sardar Ahmad Farooq. "Multiplicity of History in Our Lady of Alice Bhatti Through Historiographic Metafiction." International Journal of English Linguistics 10, no. 1 (January 13, 2020): 395. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijel.v10n1p395.

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English fiction, in the recent decades, has significantly manifested its deepest concern for postmodern transformation of history through subversion of the traditional historical narratives. The current research paper aims to highlight the postmodern transformation of history in the selected English novel Our Lady of Alice Bhatti written by Muhammad Hanif. The selected novel as postmodern historiographic metafiction highlights that contemporary fiction manifests and retells the traditional history through memory, parody, self-reflexivity and intertextuality. The current research study generates a better understanding of the present interdisciplinary relation of fiction with that of other disciplines especially history. The postmodern theoretical concepts of Linda Hutcheon are incorporated in this current study. This research is qualitative and exploratory, while textual analysis has been used as a research method. This research ends with the findings and recommendations for further research.

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Jadhav, Swapna. "MANOHAR MALGONKAR - “THE INDIAN KIPLING”." International Journal of Research -GRANTHAALAYAH 4, no. 2 (February 29, 2016): 62–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v4.i2.2016.2813.

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Manohar Malgonkar a versatile Indian fictional writer represents the life of pre independent and of post independent India that has left heavy memories of events which changed our nation’s history and society in the most profound ways. His novels “ Distant Drum” (1960), “Combat of Shadows “(1962),” The Princes” (1963), “A Bend in the Ganges” (1964), and “The Devil's Wind” (1972) witness a wonderful knock of weaving plots of singular originality. His themes such as the army life, the aristocracy, commonality, partition of India, violence, sex, hunting, betrayal and revenge actually provides scope to find out the depth of Human relationships.“There is no exaggeration in calling him “INDIAN KIPLING”. Malgonkar has similarities with R.K. Narayan. Both are contemporary Indian fiction writers in English and have experimented with the English language. He finds India under the pressures of modern education and industrialization changing its virtues and reminds us to overcome the evil factors. As a contemporary of writers such as Mulk Raj Anand and Khushwant Singh, it is a fact that Malgonkar’s contribution to the genre we refer to today as Indian Writing in English remains largely unacknowledged.

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Γκότση, Γεωργία. "Elizabeth Mayhew Edmonds: Greek prose fiction in English dress." Σύγκριση 25 (May 16, 2016): 23. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/comparison.9064.

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Elizabeth Mayhew Edmonds (1823-1907) played a significant role in the mediation of Modern Greek literature and culture in late nineteenth-century Britain, with her translations forming a vital aspect of her activity as a cultural broker. Focusing on Edmond’s transmission of late nineteenth-century Greek prose fiction, the article discusses her translation practices in the contemporary contexts of the publishing domain and the marketplace as well as of her effort to acquire authority in the literary field. Albeit impressive for a woman who was an autodidact in Modern Greek, the narrow scope of Edmonds’ translations offered a limited image of the developments in Modern Greek fiction. Her correspondence with John Gennadius and Thomas Fisher Unwin sheds light on her sense of superiority regarding male Greek authors such as Drosines and Xenopoulos, whose texts she rendered into English. Against this background, the article seeks to explain her translating choices and examines how a self-conscious translator such as Edmonds tried to shape the reception of Greek fiction in Victorian England by portraying it in terms of an ethnographic study of cultural survivals. Finally, through a parallel reading of the original texts and her somewhat mundane renderings, the article seeks to illuminate her translating craft: although worthy for their contribution to the promotion of Modern Greek literature in Great Britain, Edmond’s translations suffered from her inability to recreate the density of the original texts.

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Boyer-Kelly, Michelle Nicole. "Reading Contemporary African-American Literature: Black Women’s Popular Fiction, Post-Civil Rights Experience, and the African-American Canon. By Beauty Bragg." English: Journal of the English Association 67, no. 256 (2018): 81–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/english/efy004.

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Espunya, Anna, and Anita Pavić Pintarić. "Language style in the negotiation of class identity in translated contemporary Spanish fiction." Babel. Revue internationale de la traduction / International Journal of Translation 64, no. 3 (October 2, 2018): 348–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/babel.00042.esp.

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Abstract In the early novels of the Carvalho detective series by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, set in the years of Spain’s transition to democracy, the negotiation of identities and political stance are paramount characterization resources. Given the role of speech in the construction of identity, translations may vary in the readings they afford beyond the detective aspects. We apply the sociolinguistic concepts of identity work and language style (albeit mediated by fictive orality), and the discourse analysis tools of Appraisal Theory, to analyse two working-class characters in Los mares del sur (1979) and in its English (1986) and Croatian (2007) translations. In Spanish the language style of both characters reflects class allegiance, involvement and tenacity, intense feelings, a direct interpersonal approach and a rejection of altercasting. Their vocabulary and quotations from external sources index their ideology. The English translation is the least aware of identity work through language style and interaction. The characters’ standardized speech shows less involvement, tenacity and intensity. The Croatian translation follows the source text literally; involvement is maintained within a fictive colloquial spoken variety. Both translations maintain directness and a contractive dialogic style, and both make references to class and ideology more explicit.

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Said, Nadya Khairy Muhamed. "A Morpho-Syntactic Study of Contemporary Science Fiction Short Stories." International Journal of English Linguistics 9, no. 3 (April 6, 2019): 117. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijel.v9n3p117.

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The aim of the present study is to research two morphological processes: acronym and compounding (phrasal compounds/circumlocution) and one syntactic category which are ‘existential sentences’ in science fiction short stories. The present paper identifies different types and rates of existential sentences. In this respect, ‘bare existential and locative’ read the high percentages and may be contrasted with other classifications of English existential sentences which have a verb other than ‘be’ and a definite expression. ‘Phrasal compounds’ vary in rates as they constitute notable percentage for those that involve ‘lexical means and lexical relations’ followed by ‘prepositional compounds’, ‘conjunctional compounds’, and those involve ‘a noun, pronoun, and an adjective’. Furthermore, ‘phrasal compounds’ containing a verb’ having the value of zero. Analysis of data has acknowledged that ‘atomic’ acronym constitutes the high percentage than ‘molecular’ and this explains the abundance of the unpronounceable acronym in science fiction. Generally, existential sentences, existential sentences may give the entire clause a fresh status.

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Cherkunova, M. V., and E. V. Ponomarenko. "Dynamic properties of abstracts to works of fiction in english." Philology at MGIMO 7, no. 2 (July 6, 2021): 98–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.24833/2410-2423-2021-2-26-98-107.

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The article is devoted to dynamic transformational processes within contemporary English minitexts (small-format texts). The paper reflects the findings of a research that encompasses 500 advertising abstracts to works of fiction. Transformational dynamics is disclosed in terms of linguosynergetics based on a dynamic-and-systemic representation of evolutionary developments in book abstract discourse. Particularly, the conventional invariant discourse features are considered; non-systemic stochastic elements are revealed in such texts; abstract discourse ability of generating senses which exceed mechanic addition of text units meanings, i.e. functional synergism, is under analysis. The authors argue that fluctuations are observed on the lexical, structural and contextual levels of text organisation. The analysis of the data obtained leads to the conclusion that the system features of book abstracts are currently undergoing transformation of their pragmasemantic parameters, which are moving towards those of purely advertising discourse. Today’s trend to the reduction of the verbal communication volume shows that the prospect for further investigation of minitexts (including book abstract discourse) lies in the elaboration of the pragmasemantic synergism concept, with the said discourse feature being of special significance to the texts aimed at compact incorporation of considerable contents.

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Cardoso, André Cabral de Almeida. "Precarious humanity: the double in dystopian science fiction." Gragoatá 23, no. 47 (December 29, 2018): 888–909. http://dx.doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.v23i47.33608.

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The double is a common feature in fantastic fiction, and it plays a prominent part in the Gothic revival of the late nineteenth century. It questions the notion of a coherent identity by proposing the idea of a fragmented self that is at the same time familiar and frighteningly other. On the other hand, the double is also a way of representing the tensions of life in large urban centers. Although it is more usually associated with the fantastic, the motif of the double has spread to other fictional genres, including science fiction, a genre also concerned with the investigation of identity and the nature of the human. The aim of this article is to discuss the representation of the double in contemporary science fiction, more particularly in its dystopian mode, where the issue of identity acquires a special relevance, since dystopias focus on the troubled relation between individual and society. Works such as Greg Egan’s short story “Learning to Be Me”; White Christmas, an episode from the television series Black Mirror; Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Never Let Me Go; and the film Moon, directed by Duncan Jones, will be briefly examined in order to trace the ways the figure of the double has been rearticulated in dystopian science fiction as a means to address new concerns about personal identity and the position of the individual in society.---Original in English.

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Olohan, Maeve. "How frequent are the contractions?" Target. International Journal of Translation Studies 15, no. 1 (November 20, 2003): 59–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/target.15.1.04olo.

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This paper analyses contractions in translated language, comparing the use of contracted forms by translators of fiction and biography into English with the contraction patterns of writers of similar texts in English. Significant differences are found between the English of literary translation and contemporary literary English writing, in terms of both variety of contracted forms encountered and frequency of occurrence of contractions. Qualitative analyses then focus on the functional description of some contracted and non-contracted forms, and also consider the contraction practices of different translators. The relationships between contractions and other linguistic features, explicitation in translation, translator style, discourse function and genre are touched upon, and avenues for further research of this nature are suggested.

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Papantonakis, Georgios. "Colonialism and Postcolonialism in Science Fiction for Greek Children." MANUSYA 13, no. 1 (2010): 24–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/26659077-01301003.

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In contemporary Greek history we do not encounter the historical and social phenomena of colonialism or postcolonialism with the exception of cases where nations conquered Greek islands; the Dodecanese Islands and the Eptanisa (Seven Islands) were conquered by the English and the Italians, and Cyprus was conquered by the British in the Middle Ages and in contemporary times. These historical situations have been transferred into certain historical Greek fictions in adult literature and in the literature of children and young adult. The focus of this essay is on investigating and depicting colonialist attitudes and post-colonialist situations in science fiction for Greek Children. Initially, we attempt a brief introduction to the literature of children and young adults and mainly science fiction for children in Greece, and following this we outline the aims of our research. Then we define the terms “colonialism,” “postcolonialism” and the new suggested terms “historical colonialism” and “literary colonialism” and refer to their relationship with science fiction. This is due to the fact that the setting of these narratives “is dictated” by a group of events that the writers themselves have either brought about or believe will take place in the future. Afterwards we point out the criteria that are used to distinguish between five types of colonization in the texts and we investigate at greater length the role that children and adolescents play in the texts, as they participate actively as liberators and saviors, as protectors for peace and the environment or as characters that take on the roles of adults. The children and young adults remain passive spectators of a peaceful colonization or do not participate in the action since the heroes in the story are insects. In this case, they are limited to the role of reader. Through the study of these texts, we detect similarities to similar situations, both in antiquity and at a later date, or during contemporary times where similar policies in certain countries have been regarded. Finally, we realize that after the inversion of colonialism and the liberation of the colonized planets, these planets are governed democratically, according to Plato’s and Aristotle’s ideas on politics.

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Mok, Olivia. "Strategies of Translating Martial Arts Fiction." Babel. Revue internationale de la traduction / International Journal of Translation 47, no. 1 (December 31, 2001): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/babel.47.1.02mok.

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The strategies of translating Fox Volant of the Snowy Mountain, a martial arts novel by Jin Yong, into English are determined mainly by the skopos of bringing Jin Yong’s work to life for a Western audience, shaped also by the translator’s ideology and the poetics dominant in the receiving culture. It follows that the functions associated with translating this literary text, a major genre in contemporary Chinese literature, would include introducing martial arts fiction as a literary genre; introducing Jin Yong as a master storyteller; and presenting genre-specific devices employed in penning a classic work. An overriding strategy adopted by the translator proved to be extensive rewriting into the target language as the translated work only materialized after serious efforts at recreative translating. The fluent translation strategy, when aptly used, is the one that effects transparency, thereby evoking authorial presence in a literary translation.

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Opreanu, Lucia. "Word Havens: Reading One’s Way out of Trauma in Contemporary Fiction." University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series 9, no. 2 (November 19, 2020): 93–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.31178/ubr.9.2.10.

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Prompted by the attention received in recent years by the collateral benefits of reading and the growing prominence of bibliotherapy in the literary marketplace, this paper aims to investigate the therapeutic effects of books as they emerge from the experience of fictional characters, a perhaps less scientifically sound endeavour than empirical studies and clinical trials targeting real-life readers but one likely to occasion interesting perspectives on reading as a coping mechanism in the face of trauma. By focusing on a variety of reading experiences gleaned from a selection of novels ranging from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to William Styron’s Sophie’s Choice, Graham Swift’s Waterland, Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient, Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief, Lloyd Jones’ Mister Pip and Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows’ The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and targeting acts of solitary communion with narrative as well as illicit seminars, informal book clubs and impromptu public readings, the analysis intends to highlight the extent to which literature can provide more than a mere pastime or intellectual challenge to its most vulnerable readers. Whether such benefits entail a sense of community, a temporary shelter from the hardships of war, a reprieve from the abuses of a totalitarian government or sanctuary from the less brutal but nevertheless haunting scars of broken relationships, parental disapproval or social rejection, the ultimate goal is to identify and assess the various survival strategies employed within these fictional universes. The

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Ashraf, Ayesha, and Munawar Iqbal Ahmed. "TRANSFORMATION OF HISTORY IN THE GLASS PALACE AND BURNT SHADOWS: A POSTMODERNIST ANALYSIS." Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities 58, no. 2 (December 31, 2019): 33–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.46568/jssh.v58i2.6.

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South Asian English fiction, in recent decades, has significantly manifested its deepest concern for history and its relevance in the contemporary global scenario. The last couple of years have noticed the publication of many English novels by Indian and Pakistani authors that in fact belong to the very genre of postmodern historiographic metafiction. In fact, postmodern fiction writers usually deviate from the traditional representation of past events. The current study examines the way history writing is reconfigured in the selected postmodern novel. In these novels, the writers retell the traditional history through innovative narrative techniques and multiplicity of the views that de-centralize the conventional history. The present research attempts to explore Amitav Gosh’s The Glass Palace and Kamila Shamsie’s Burnt Shadows as historiographic metafiction, that is a sub-genre of postmodern fiction. The study focuses on the selected texts to explore how these novels transform the traditional history through the incorporation of magic realism, intertextuality and self-reflexivity. This research is qualitative and descriptive, while the textual analysis has been used as a research method. The theoretical concept of Linda Hutcheon is incorporated in this current study that ends with findings and recommendations for future research.

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Scott, Jeremy. "Midlands cadences: Narrative voices in the work of Alan Sillitoe." Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 25, no. 4 (November 2016): 312–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963947016645001.

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This paper will examine excerpts from a range of Alan Sillitoe’s prose fiction, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958) and short stories from the collection The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1958), via a comparative exploration of the texts’ representations of Midlands English demotic. The narrative discourse traces a link between the experience of the Midlands English working classes represented and the demotic language they speak; the narrators have voices redolent of registers rooted in 1950s English working-class life. The texts also contain different methods of representing their protagonists’ consciousness through the demotic idiolects that they speak. Sillitoe’s is a novelistic discourse which refuses to normalise itself to accord with the conventions of classic realism, and as such prefigures the ambitions of many contemporary writers who incline their narrative voices towards the oral – asserting the right of a character’s dialect/idiolect to be the principal register of the narrative. The paper will demonstrate this thesis through the ideas of Bakhtin, and through an analytical taxonomy derived from literary stylistics. It aims to propose a model which can be used to analyse and explore any fiction which has been labelled as ‘working-class’, and asserts that such an approach leads to a more principled characterisation of working-class fiction (based on its use of language) than current literary-critical discussions based simply on cultural/social context and biography.

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Ebeling, Jarle, and Signe O. Ebeling. "Comparing n-gram-based functional categories in original versus translated texts." Corpora 13, no. 3 (November 2018): 347–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/cor.2018.0153.

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This study outlines and tests a method for comparing the use of functional categories consisting of high-frequency 3-grams in original and translated texts. The 3-grams are extracted from a corpus of contemporary English fiction texts (EO) and a comparable corpus of fiction texts translated into English from Norwegian (ET). The two varieties contain the same number of texts, thirty-nine, and about the same number of words, 1.3 to 1.4 million. Several different baselines against which to normalise the 3-gram frequencies are tested and a way of evening out the initial differences between the token counts of EO and ET is proposed. These last two points have an impact on the extent to which some of the categories differ statistically. On the basis of the comparison of the token counts of the 3-grams extracted for the study, it seems that most differences are a matter of degree, rather than being systemic at the level of the functions investigated.

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