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Norrick, Neal R. "Swearing in literary prose fiction and conversational narrative." Narrative Inquiry 22, no. 1 (2012): 24–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.22.1.03nor.

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This article compares swearing in novels with swearing in everyday talk based on a representative sample of British and American prose fiction and a several large corpora of natural conversation. Swearing allegedly makes fictional dialogue more realistic, but up till now no one has attempted a systematic comparison of fictional and natural conversational swearing. Fiction writers incorporate swearing into their dialogue to delineate characters and to signal emotions, sometimes setting it off from non-swearing talk and commenting on it in various ways. Traditionally, the author’s own voice cont

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Redfern, Richard K. "Can the English Language Take Care of Itself? A Dialogue." English Journal 90, no. 4 (2001): 60–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.58680/ej2001742.

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Presents a (fictional) conversation between a college English professor and a graduate student in English who is something of a purist about the language. Shows, in conversations across a semester and a half, her changing attitudes about the rules of good English, “purity” in the language, divided usage, and confusing grammar and usage.

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Ringfort-Felner, Ronda, Matthias Laschke, Shadan Sadeghian, and Marc Hassenzahl. "Kiro." Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 6, GROUP (2022): 1–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3492852.

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Soon, voice assistants might be able to engage in fully-fledged social conversations with people, rather than merely providing a voice-operated interface to functionality and data. So far, not much is known about designing such "social" voice assistants and the potential social experiences, which could and should emerge in everyday situations. In the present paper, we created a design fiction to explore a sophisticated social voice assistant in the context of the car. Based on models from psychology and psychotherapy, we designed the fictional "virtual passenger" Kiro. We created a website for

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Zhao, Yongping, Yufang Zhao, and Jinfu Zhang. "Transmitting Stereotype-relevant Information In Conversation: Evidence from Chinese Undergraduates." Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal 44, no. 7 (2016): 1069–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.2224/sbp.2016.44.7.1069.

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In the field of communication, previous researchers who employed the serial reproduction method have mainly used written communication and fictional story assessment techniques. To extend the literature, we conducted 2 studies to explore the communication of stereotyperelevant information using the face-to-face oral serial reproduction method. A research report containing stereotypical information about Tchambuli men (Study 1, N = 40), and a fictional story containing stereotypical information about a football player (Study 2, N = 40), were transmitted through 10 separate chains involving 4 pe

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Condrat, Viorica. "Conversation Analysis in "Hills like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway." Limbaj şi context = Speech and Context : Rev. de lingvistică, semiotică şi şt. literară 2009 (2) (April 5, 2017): 109–14. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.495178.

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Abstract Conversation may seem chaotic at first sight. Yet, under analysis, it appears to be a highly structured process, which follows specific rules and norms adopted by a given linguistic community. The present article analyzes the conversation interchange between the protagonists of Ernest Hemingway’s short story “Hills like White Elephants”. The undertaken study reveals the similarities between fictional and natural conversations. It is an attempt to prove that any conversation is centered on a practical necessity. The author aims at highlighting the existence of a literary conversation (

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Pace-Sigge, Michael. "Presence and Absence of Laughter and Gestures: Examples from the Spoken BNC2014 and Dickens’ Novels." Journal of Corpora and Discourse Studies 7 (May 27, 2024): 233–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.18573/jcads.116.

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This paper is concerned with extra-linguistic discourse markers in different types of conversation. Specifically, it investigates the presence and absence of two ways to underscore the meaning a speaker tries to convey, namely laughter and the use of gestures, a corpus-assisted approach will be used to look at these two types of discourses. First, the (transcribed) natural conversations found in the Spoken BNC2014 and second, the conversations by fictional characters as found in the novels of Charles Dickens will be compared for this purpose. This paper looks, in its first half, at instances w

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S. Green, Mitchell. "From Signaling and Expression to Conversation and Fiction." Grazer Philosophische Studien 96, no. 3 (2019): 295–315. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18756735-09603002.

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This essay ties together some main strands of the author’s research spanning the last quarter-century. Because of its broad scope and space limitations, he prescinds from detailed arguments and instead intuitively motivates the general points which are supported more fully in other publications to which he provides references. After an initial delineation of several distinct notions of meaning (Section 1), the author considers (Section 2) such a notion deriving from the evolutionary biology of communication that he terms ‘organic meaning’, and places it in the context of evolutionary game theo

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MacKenzie, Ian. "Poetry and formulaic language." Linguistic Approaches to Poetry 15 (December 31, 2001): 75–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/bjl.15.06mac.

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Corpora show that people are less original in using language than is generally believed. We routinely employ an immense repertoire of semi-preconstructed phrases, though we also adapt them: creative extensions and adaptations of institutionalized locutions sometimes occur more frequently than the ordinary form. Corpora also reveal that fiction uses verbal idioms rarely found in other forms of writing or in conversation, which suggests that novelists draw on their own experience of stereotyped fictional dialogue more than on real-life conversation. Oral epic poetry, from Homer to Beowulf, was,

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Rizqi Hidayat, M. Yusril, Errend Marchella Leonic Franchsicha, and Wahyu Indah Mala Rohmana. "THE IMPLEMENTATION OF LITERATURE IN EXTRACURRICULAR “STUDENT CONVERSATION CLUB”." Bahtera: Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra 22, no. 2 (2023): 232–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.21009/bahtera.222.10.

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Literature is divided into two parts, namely fiction and non-fiction. Literature is not only studied within the scope of school, but there are those who study it outside the school class. One of them is extracurricular activities. The literature referred to in this extracurricular activity is fictional literature such as choirs, songs and plays. The results of previous studies state that literature such as music and poetry can improve the quality of a person's language, and not only improve language, literature can also provide space for us to express. The purpose and reason for the researcher

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McClish, Glen. "“The very breath of life”: The Conversational Rhetoric of Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South." Journal for the History of Rhetoric 25, no. 3 (2022): 279–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/jhistrhetoric.25.3.0279.

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Abstract In her novel North and South (1854–55), the nineteenth-century British writer Elizabeth Gaskell suggests an innovative practice of conversational rhetoric involving diverse stakeholders. Through the story of Margaret Hale and her efforts to help mill workers and millowners negotiate their seemingly intractable conflicts in the fictional city of Milton, she sets forth a dialogic process in which both male and female interlocutors bring their reasoning and experience to the table, recognize the value of other interlocutors, and establish bonds of sympathy beyond their individual interes

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Altalhouni, Ayah. "Ink and Resistance." Writing across the University of Alberta 5, no. 1 (2024): 55–58. https://doi.org/10.29173/writingacrossuofa77.

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Ayah Altahouni’s piece explores the role of writing for communities in exile. She imagines a fictional conversation between an exiled Palestinian student and the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. Set in Paris in 1988, this text examines how writers and poets can preserve cultures and identities facing diaspora and war. This piece was written in WRS 101 for an assignment that asked students to imagine a conversation with a famous writer.

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Reznik, Y. M. "Konstantin Semenovich Pigrov as an Epicurean of the 21st century (on the occasion of his 85th birthday)." Voprosy kul'turologii (Issues of Cultural Studies), no. 8 (July 28, 2023): 562–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.33920/nik-01-2307-03.

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We present to your attention a conversation about a wonderful person, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor Konstantin Semyonovich Pigrov. For almost half a century he worked at the Faculty of Philosophy at St. Petersburg University (now the Institute of Philosophy of St. Petersburg State University). I have already had to interview him (“Philosophy of Creativity and Creativity in Philosophy: An Interview with Professor K.S. Pigrov, July 2010” [8]) and publish an essay about him (“Strokes on the Philosophy of Life and Work of K.S. Pigrov” [5]). Recently, Konstantin Semyonovich turned 85 years old an

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Bednarek, Monika. "The language of fictional television." English Text Construction 4, no. 1 (2011): 54–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/etc.4.1.04bed.

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This article describes differences in the frequency of words/n-grams in television dialogue as compared with a variety of other corpora. It explores frequent lexico-grammatical patterns in the television series Gilmore Girls, in other fictional programmes, and in unscripted spoken and written English. Using ranked frequency lists, the ‘dramedy’ Gilmore Girls is compared both to unscripted language and to a corpus containing dialogue from ten other television series. The results allow us to describe both the specifics of the dialogue of this particular dramedy and the general characteristics of

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Lee, Timothy, and Ludwin E. Molina. "“If You Don’t Speak English, I Can’t Understand You!”: Exposure to Various Foreign Languages as a Threat." Social Sciences 10, no. 8 (2021): 308. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci10080308.

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The number of non-English speaking and bilingual immigrants continues to grow in the U.S. Previous research suggests that about one third of White Americans feel threatened upon hearing a language other than English. The current research examines how exposure to a foreign language affects White Americans’ perceptions of immigrants and group-based threats. In Study 1, White Americans were randomly assigned to read one of four fictional transcripts of a conversation of an immigrant family at a restaurant, where the type of language being spoken was manipulated to be either Korean, Spanish, Germa

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Burley, Mikel. "A DIALOGUE ON IMMORTALITY." Think 8, no. 21 (2009): 91–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1477175608000432.

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The fictional case of Elina Makropulos has been a focus for philosophical reflections on immortality. Here Mikel Burley presents a conversation between Elina and two imaginary philosophers (some, but not all, of whose views bear a passing resemblance to those of Bernard Williams and John Martin Fischer respectively).

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Shea, William R. "Conversations with Galileo: A Fictional Dialogue Based on Biographical Facts." Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 72, no. 4 (2020): 241. http://dx.doi.org/10.56315/pscf12-20shea.

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CONVERSATIONS WITH GALILEO: A Fictional Dialogue Based on Biographical Facts by William R. Shea. London, UK: Watkins Media, 2019. xi + 115 pages, including notes and further reading. Hardcover; $14.95. ISBN: 9781786782496. *Have you ever wanted to engage in an extended conversation with a famous person whose work and historical milieu you have studied carefully for many years? William R. Shea, one of the world's leading Galileo scholars, invites you to sit down, relax with a cup of coffee or a glass of wine, to engage in a conversation with Galileo. Conversations with Galileo: A Fictional Dial

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Skorczynska, Hanna, and Rosa Giménez-Moreno. "Analysing metaphor in the family register through scripted sitcom conversations." Metaphor and the Social World 7, no. 2 (2017): 252–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/msw.7.2.05sko.

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Abstract This study looks into the patterns of metaphor use in the family register of scripted sitcom conversations. Previous studies of metaphor in conversation adopted different approaches to the concept of register, resulting in a rich but complex picture (Cameron, 2003, 2007, 2008; Deignan, Littlemore & Semino, 2013; Kaal, 2012). This research attempts to reduce such complexity by using an approach to register based on closely defining communicative settings and the participants’ roles (Giménez-Moreno, 2006). In this way, we were able to focus on the register used by family members and

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Rahmawati H. "Kekuatan Makna Ungkapan Bijak Dalam Novel “Rindu” dan “Pukat” Karya Tere Liye: Kajian Semantik." Sintaksis : Publikasi Para ahli Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris 1, no. 6 (2023): 84–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.61132/sintaksis.v1i6.368.

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Language has an important position in human life, namely as a communication tool that connects individuals with each other. The irreplaceable role of language forces humans to be able to master language. Effective communication can be achieved if there is the same meaning between the communicator and the communicant regarding the message conveyed. The research aims to explain the form of wise expressions in the novels "Rindu" and "Pukat" by Tere Liye; the meaning of wise expressions contained in each wise expression in conversation; and the power of the meaning of wise expressions in conversat

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Anthoni, Ellen, Khushboo Balwani, Jessica Schoffelen, and Karin Hannes. "20:30 BRUXSELS TALKS." Art/Research International: A Transdisciplinary Journal 6, no. 1 (2021): 151–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.18432/ari29607.

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On the 23rd of January 2020, a radio talk show of the future, 20:30 Bruxsels Talks, took place in Brussels. With fictional guests and artists from the year 2030, it discussed how the transition to a climate-proof city had happened since 2019. The body of this article is the script of this fiction piece, produced by BrusselAVenir and BNA-BBOT. In the introduction we explain the relationship between the field of futures studies and fiction, we frame 20:30 Bruxsels Talks within futures studies, and highlight the potential of fiction for knowledge creation and dissemination. By publishing the scri

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Latour, Bruno, and Dipesh Chakrabarty. "Conflicts of Planetary Proportion – A Conversation." Journal of the Philosophy of History 14, no. 3 (2020): 419–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18722636-12341450.

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Abstract The introduction of the long-term history of the Earth into the preoccupations of historians has triggered a crisis because it has become impossible to keep the “planet” as one single entity outside of history properly understood. As soon as the planetary intruded into history, it became impossible to keep it as one naturalized background. By problematizing the planetary, Dipesh Chakrabarty has forced philosophers, historians and anthropologists to extend pluralism to the very ground on which history was supposed to unfold. Hence Bruno Latour’s attempt at counting the number of “plane

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Gardner, Carli. "Mash-up, Smash-up: Mixing Genres and Mediums to Rewrite History in Do Not Say We Have Nothing." Contemporary Kanata: Interdisciplinary Approaches To Canadian Studies, no. 1 (September 26, 2021): 7–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.25071/2564-4661.17.

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In Madeleine Thien’s novel Do Not Say We Have Nothing, a historical photograph of three protestors at Tiananmen Square is directly inserted into the fictional text. The goal of my research is to start a scholarly conversation on this work by exploring the relationship between the historical image and the fictional text to establish Thien’s novel as postmodern. Drawing on postmodernist theories, this paper applies the works of prominent thinkers in the field to ask how the collision of genres and mediums (history and fiction; image and text), in Do Not Say We Have Nothing renders the novel post

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Stout, Vanessa, Eric Earnhart, and Mariam Nagi. "Teaching Race and Ethnicity in the Age of Trump: Using Popular Culture in a Polarized Classroom." Teaching Sociology 48, no. 3 (2020): 220–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0092055x20928469.

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Teaching race and ethnicity in various sociology courses, we found students in our classes can be very reluctant to approach the subject of race, discrimination, and racism. Moreover, during class discussion, they often have a hard time defining and analyzing these concepts. In this study, we examine how popular culture can be a useful tool to teach difficult subjects, such as race and ethnicity. Instead of a traditional lecture, we had students watch the popular Cartoon Network series Teen Titans. Using the characters’ interactions from this series as examples, students constructed definition

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WINTERER, CAROLINE. "VENUS ON THE SOFA: WOMEN, NEOCLASSICISM, AND THE EARLY AMERICAN REPUBLIC." Modern Intellectual History 2, no. 1 (2005): 29–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1479244304000319.

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What did early national Americans mean when they articulated fears of “luxury and effeminacy,” those twin sins of a republic that idolized the classical virtues of manly self-restraint? This essay argues that the fear of luxury and effeminacy circulated not just as airy metaphor but as palpable reality, specifically in the figure of the female recumbent on the sofa. The article traces separately the careers of Enlightenment Venus, who especially in her recumbent form embodied fears of passion in a republic built on reasoned consent, and the sofa, a piece of neoclassical furniture that rose to

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Mills, Monique T., Leslie C. Moore, Rong Chang, Somin Kim, and Bethany Frick. "Perceptions of Black Children's Narrative Language: A Mixed-Methods Study." Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools 52, no. 1 (2021): 84–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/2020_lshss-20-00014.

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Purpose In this mixed-methods study, we address two aims. First, we examine the impact of language variation on the ratings of children's narrative language. Second, we identify participants' ideologies related to narrative language and language variation. Method Forty adults listened to and rated six Black second-grade children on the quality of 12 narratives (six fictional, six personal). Adults then completed a quantitative survey and participated in a qualitative interview. Results Findings indicated that adults rated students with less variation from mainstream American English (MAE) more

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McDougall, Jennifer. "Oil Fictions: World Literature and Our Contemporary Petrosphere (Stacey Balkan and Swaralipi Nandi, 2021)." Revue d'Histoire de l'Énergie 13, no. 1 (2025): 1i—9. https://doi.org/10.3917/jehrhe.013.0001i.

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Oil Fictions , an essay collection edited by Stacey Balkan and Swaralipi Nandi, offers critical literary analysis of a play and a selection of novels and short stories which interrogate how oil and historical economic structures impact society. Chapter authors, which include Amitav Ghosh and Imre Szeman, bring these stories into conversation with one another and with a range of social and literary theorists. Many of the essays concern the marginalization of people living near extraction sites in the Global South and suggest a number of creative strategies to tell the story of oil. Authors reac

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Lone, Mushtaq Ahmad. "Role of Literature in Shaping Social Understandings of AI." International Journal of Advanced Research & Higher Studies 3 (2024): 152–56. https://doi.org/10.70818/ijarhs.v03i02.2024.0241214.

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The way society views artificial intelligence (AI) has been significantly influenced by litera ture, especially science fiction. Examining possible AI futures stimulates public conversation and has a big impact on attitudes. AI is frequently portrayed as a danger in dystopian fiction, posing existential, control, and malevolent issues. On the other hand, utopian views portray AI as a positive force that solves world problems, improves human capacities, and provides friendship. These stories can have an impact, but there are drawbacks as well. Fictional depic tions of AI have the potential to s

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Bobin, Joanna. "Blanche and Stanley, polar opposites. A pragmastylistic analysis of interactions from Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire." Język. Religia. Tożsamość. 1, no. 23 (2021): 7–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0015.6123.

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The paper is an attempt at demonstrating how the language used by fictional dramatic characters contributes to their characterization, that is, how the readers (audiences) perceive them based on inferences drawn from a variety of textual cues. These cues include explicit selfand other-presentation as well as implicit hints retrieved from conversation structure, aspects of turn-taking or features of the language used by the character. In this paper, Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski from Tennessee Williams’ play The Streetcar Named Desire are analyzed and characterized as being polar opposite

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Battle, Christina. "[WHAT’S HAPPENING?] I’M FEELING EMOTIONAL." Public 31, no. 59 (2019): 88–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/public.31.59.88_1.

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[What’s Happening?] I’m feeling emotionallooks to how animated GIFS, used as emotional aides in online conversation, might be changing the ways that we relate. While the reliance on GIFs as stand-ins for emotional expressions may be a way to build the social back into online communication and a reaffirmation of the role of emotion in society as an important and even critical requirement; the essay considers how the over representation of fictional characters, animals, and cultural stereotypes selected by algorithms may be shifting culture in ways we haven’t yet realized.

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Newbould, M.-C. "Solitary Confinement, Aloneness, and Sociability in Sterne." Literature & History 32, no. 2 (2023): 129–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/03061973231213032.

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Laurence Sterne develops his complex approach towards solitude throughout his fictional and non-fictional writings. Ranging between A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, Bramine's Journal, Letters from Yorick to Eliza, and Sterne's sermons, this article explores how Sterne juxtaposes the pleasures of retirement with more painful loneliness, and the opportunities that each opens up for sometimes challenging self-contemplation. Various locations stimulate Sterne's engagement with this relationship in differing ways: simply, the enjoyable solitude of country retreat contrasts with the s

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Marais, Sue. "“The economies of repetition”: The market, the artistic, and the genocidal in Ivan Vladislavić’s “Curiouser”." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 52, no. 1 (2016): 27–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021989416684899.

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As a fictional response to a series of artworks by the Johannesburg artist, Joachim Schönfeldt, Ivan Vladislavić’s The Exploded View had unconventional origins. Though Vladislavić maintains that the links between Schönfeldt’s images and his own text are understated, certain motifs are obviously common to both. Moreover, if authenticity is one of Schönfeldt’s central themes, this is no less true of The Exploded View — and particularly of the story “Curiouser”, which features another (fictional) Johannesburg artist, Simeon Majara. The latter’s multi-media pieces not only raise uncomfortable ques

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Hubbard, E. H. "Conversation, characterisation and corpus linguistics: Dialogue in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility." Literator 23, no. 2 (2002): 67–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v23i2.331.

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This article reports on a corpus-based exploration of the role that fictional dialogue plays in characterisation. The focus is on the two main characters of Austen’s Sense and Sensibility and (a) the extent to which certain features of their dialogue can be said to tie in with general perceptions that Elinor represents the “sense” and Marianne the “sensibility” of the novel’s title; and (b) the extent to which Austen can be said to have exploited these features to enable the sisters to speak with subtly differing voices. The features themselves were drawn from two linguistic frameworks, namely

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Jamieson, Sara. "Age discrimination, youth culture, and midlife in Richard B. Wright’s In the Middle of a Life." British Journal of Canadian Studies 37, no. 1 (2025): 45–65. https://doi.org/10.3828/bjcs.2025.4.

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This article approaches Canadian author Richard B. Wright’s 1973 novel In the Middle of a Life through the lens of critical age studies and offers a close reading of the text as a fictional engagement with the North American conversation about age discrimination in employment, a problem that the novel links to a wider cultural middle-ageism exacerbated by the rise of 1960s youth culture. Situating its 42-year-old protagonist’s struggles with finding work and with maintaining a relationship with his teenaged daughter in relation to nationalist anxieties about American cultural and economic impe

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Thakur, Vijay Singh. "COOPERATIVE PRINCIPLE OF CONVERSATIONS IN VIKRAM SETH’S A SUITABLE BOY: A SOCIO-PRAGMATIC ASSESSMENT OF INFERENTIAL CHAINS OF INTERPRETATION." International Journal of Education 9, no. 1 (2016): 24. http://dx.doi.org/10.17509/ije.v9i1.3714.

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<p>Grice (1975) provides an interpretative model that explains how we draw inferences from conversation. This theory of Cooperative Principle (CP), based on the philosophical ideas of Grice, relates the text to its contexts, including social context. As Schiffrin (1994) remarks, the application of CP to dialogic conversations leads to a particular view of discourse and its analysis, i.e. discourse as a text whose contexts (including cognitive, social and linguistic contexts) allow the interpretation of real speaker meaning in utterances (p. 227). The approach that Gricean Pragmatics offe

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Rossby, Emma. "‘Comme si quelqu’un écrivait à ma place: ’ Materiality and Interactivity in Exaheva’s Digital Comics." French Review 98, no. 2 (2024): 49–68. https://doi.org/10.1353/tfr.2024.a947600.

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ABSTRACT: As part of an emerging generation of comics creators in Belgium, Exaheva’s art resists binaries and challenges an assumed disembodied reader of Franco-Belgian bande dessinée. This article places tools from comics and visual studies in conversation with queer and reception theories to analyze three of Exaheva’s comics: apocalyptic short story Slowly , sci-fi series Mekka Nikki, and interactive comic Still Heroes . By considering how these stories meet readers across virtual and physical spaces, I argue that Exaheva’s comics take visual pleasure in fictional storytelling seriously whil

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Locke, John L. "Conversation and community: Chat in a virtual world. Lynn Cherny. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications, 1999. Pp. 369." Applied Psycholinguistics 21, no. 1 (2000): 152–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0142716400221073.

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In the early 1990s, Lynn Cherny spent much of her time in the MUD – not mired in wet earth, but actively exploring “Multi-User Dungeons.” These “fictional universes with a focus on role-playing,” as they are defined in the Introduction, enable groups of Internet-connected individuals to assemble in cyberspace, communicating by way of sequentially typed text. Later, as a doctoral student in linguistics at Stanford, Cherny decided to study ethnographically – that is, from the perspective of one methodically and dispassionately observing a different race – the expressive practices of those habitu

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Gaponova, Zh K. "The synthesis of documentary and fictional codes in the story “Superpowers by inheritance: My Soviet Grandfathers” by O. Kolpakova." Philology and Culture, no. 3 (October 4, 2023): 99–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.26907/2782-4756-2023-73-3-99-105.

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The article studies the mechanisms of interaction between documentary and fictional codes in O. Kolpakova’s work “Superpowers by Inheritance: My Soviet Grandfathers”, considered here as a translator of intergenerational ties. The author focuses on establishing the place of the family in the history of the country in different eras, which correlates with the purpose of our study – to determine the nature of the connection between non-fiction and fiction, past and present, which are presented in the story both in a dialogic unity and in opposition. The article concludes that the complex narrativ

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Williams, Kristin S. "Introducing ficto-feminism: a non-fiction, fictitious conversation with Hallie Flanagan, director of the Federal Theatre Project (1935–1939)." Qualitative Research Journal 21, no. 3 (2021): 244–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/qrj-10-2020-0127.

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PurposeFicto-feminism is offered here as a creative method for feminist historical inquiry in management and organizational studies (MOSs).Design/methodology/approachThis paper introduces a new method called ficto-feminism. Using feminist polemics as a starting point, ficto-feminism fuses aspects of collective biography with the emic potential of autoethnography and rhizomatic capacity of fictocriticism to advance not only a new account of history in subject but also in style of writing.FindingsThe aim of ficto-feminism is to create a plausible, powerful and persuasive account of an overlooked

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Lieu, Judith M. "Letters and the Topography of Early Christianity." New Testament Studies 62, no. 2 (2016): 167–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0028688515000429.

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While embedded in contemporary letter-writing conventions, early Christian letters were also instrumental in the creation of a distinctive Christian world-view. Fundamental to letters of all types, ‘real’ and fictional, is that they respond to, and hence negotiate and seek to overcome, actual and imagined spatial and temporal distance between author and recipient(s). In practice and as cultural symbols, letters, sent and transmitted in new contexts, as well as letter collections, produced in the Christian imagination new trans-locational and cross-temporal dynamics of relationality that can be

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Williams, Haleigh R. "“Effective Disembodiment:” Female Patienthood and Reproductive Health in Elisa Albert’s After Birth and Pamela Erens’s Eleven Hours." Contemporary Women's Writing 13, no. 1 (2019): 34–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpz005.

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Abstract Historically, female patienthood has been defined by an expectation of passivity and the concession of bodily autonomy. After Birth by Elisa Albert (2015) and Eleven Hours by Pamela Erens (2016) shed light on the status of the modern female patient through the lens of her treatment throughout the process of childbirth in a clinical setting. The increasing medicalization of pregnancy and childbirth in the United States has added a compelling layer to the existing tension between women and the institution of medicine. Positioning these texts in conversation with the treatment of women a

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Rodi Risberg, Marinella, and Laurie Vickroy. "Repairing Historical Trauma in Louise Erdrich's The Plague of Doves." American Indian Quarterly 47, no. 4 (2023): 297–323. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/aiq.2023.a921872.

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Abstract: Louise Erdrich's The Plague of Doves fictionalizes an historical account of three Native Americans who were hanged without trial by a white mob for the murder of various members of a white family. These acts become foundational traumas, part of patterns of colonial suppression that are transmitted intergenerationally and play out in repetitive dysfunctional relationships in the fictional white small town of Pluto, North Dakota, bordering a reservation. In order to unravel the complex threads of Erdich's narrative of repressed and displaced traumas that entangle different generations,

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Kuckelman, Meghan. "A Radical Monopoly on Sapience." Science Fiction Studies 52, no. 2 (2025): 302–22. https://doi.org/10.1525/sfs.2025.52.2.302.

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This paper examines the notion of species uplift—the process by which non-human species may be “uplifted” to human levels of consciousness through technological means—by way of a conversation between the fictional world of David Brin’s Uplift series and the social critiques of philosopher and historian Ivan Illich. Instead of taking a moral perspective focused on “animal rights” or concerning myself with the nature of the “human,” my argument considers the effects that institutional management of the development of sapience in any species might have on that species’s ability to engage in poesi

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Gabor, Vasyl. "Features of Interviews in the interwar Western Ukrainian press." Presoznavstvo. Press Studies, no. 4 (2024): 66–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.37222/2786-7552-2024-4-3.

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This paper presents an analysis of thirty-five interviews with prominent socio-political and religious figures, published in Western Ukrainian press during the interwar period, was conducted. These interviews featured notable individuals such as Avgustine Voloshin, Julijan Rewaj, Konstantyn Hrabar, Yaroslav Nečas, Dionisije Njaradi, Andrey Sheptytsky, and a range of writers and artists, including Olha Kobylianska, Bohdan-Ihor Antonych, Sviatoslav Hordynsky, Sofia Yablonska, Iryna Vilde, Stepan Levinsky, Yaroslav Muzyka, Margit Sielska, Osip Sorokhtei, and director Yurii Avhustyn Sherehii. Them

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Bax, Sander. "“The Writer Is Essentially Indiscrete.” On the Literary Gossip of a Dutch Literary Celebrity." Werkwinkel 12, no. 2 (2017): 81–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/werk-2017-0014.

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Abstract In contemporary media culture, literary writers arouse the fascination of media fans by awakening in them the desire for the authentic by publishing autobiographical novels or other forms of life narrative. In doing so, they run the risk of becoming part of media’s large gossip mechanism that plays such a central role nowadays. The public conversation about the books of writers such as the Dutch author Connie Palmen - whose Logboek van een onbarmhartig jaar will be the main case study of this article - becomes focused on the elements of truth and authenticity and ignores the literary

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Martínez-Falquina, Silvia. "Of Strangers and Relations: Native American Hospitality in Toni Jensen and Susan Power." Lectora: revista de dones i textualitat, no. 29 (October 31, 2023): 19–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1344/lectora2023.29.2.

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This article examines narrative articulations of Native American hospitality in the autobiographical essay “The Worry Lines” (2020), by Métis writer Toni Jensen, and the fictional chapter “Sacred Wilderness” (2014), by Standing Rock Sioux Tribe member Susan Power. In both texts, relevant connections to the Other are made outdoors by means of words, deriving in the lowering of walls—which both separate and connect—and calling for a reexamination of Indigenous peoples as strangers within the doors of the US settler colonial state. The result is a vindication of Indigenous sovereignty and literar

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García García, Marta. "„weil es halt schwieriger ist zu reden als es einfach selber zu machen“ – Lernenden-Engagement und Escape Games im Spanischunterricht." Fremdsprachen Lehren und Lernen 52, no. 2 (2023): 50–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.24053/flul-2023-0021.

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Educational Escape Games (EEG) are learning scenarios in which participants must solve a series of puzzles with a clear educational purpose in order to escape from a (fictional) locked room under time pressure. This paper examines two EEGs designed by teacher education students and play-tested with two Spanish classes (10th and 13th grade). The study focuses on the construct of learner engagement from the perspective of conversation analysis and investigates the extent to which learners engage cognitively, affectively, and socially. The results demonstrate that the participants jointly accompl

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Siepmann, Dirk. "A corpus-based investigation into key words and key patterns in post-war fiction." Functions of Language 22, no. 3 (2015): 362–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/fol.22.3.03sie.

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This study is an exploratory investigation into lexico-grammatical items specific to a large corpus of English-language post-war novels, as compared to corpora of conversation, news and academic English. Its overall aim is threefold: first, to show how the subjective impression of ‘literariness’ arising from fictional works is at least partly based on the statistically significant use of highly specific words and lexico-grammatical configurations; second, to attempt a broad classification of key words and patterns; third, to illustrate the fiction-specific patterns formed by three key words. A

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Paterson, Isla May. "Playing to the West only? Representations of Picasso, the gendered body and Islamism in Kamel Daoud’s Le peintre dévorant la femme." International Journal of Francophone Studies 24, no. 1 (2021): 89–148. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ijfs_00031_1.

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This research explores Algerian writer Kamel Daoud’s 2018 non-fictional text, Le peintre dévorant la femme. The text addresses questions relating to religious extremism, the meaning of art, death and eroticism, and the relationship between l’Occident and l’Orient through the visual aid of Picasso’s 1932 Année érotique. Central to this research is the notion of the hybridized public intellectual (Daoud) entering hybridized public spheres (Franco-Algerian and beyond). The consequences of operating within a plural readership suggest that Daoud, subconsciously or not, speaks to particular sectors

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Aretz, Sabine Elisabeth. "Sexualization of Female Perpetration in Fictional Holocaust Films: A Case Study of The Reader (2008)." Genealogy 3, no. 4 (2019): 52. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genealogy3040052.

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The publication of Bernhard Schlink’s novel The Reader (1995) sparked conversation and controversy about sexuality, female perpetrators and the complexity of guilt regarding the Holocaust. The screen adaptation of the book (Daldry 2008) amplified these discussions on an international scale. Fictional Holocaust films have a history of being met with skepticism or even reject on the one hand and great acclaim on the other hand. As this paper will outline, the focus has often been on male perpetrators and female victims. The portrayal of female perpetration reveals dichotomous stereotypes, often

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Balčiūnienė, Ingrida, and Aleksandr N. Kornev. "Discourse acquisition along with the early and preschool age." Pediatrician (St. Petersburg) 12, no. 5 (2021): 85–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.17816/ped12585-95.

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Numerous studies in language acquisition have been revealed that oral discourse plays a crucial role in cognitive development and communicative development and has an impact on the so-called narrative mind, social intelligence, autobiographic memory, and personal identity. The paper is devoted to the main patterns and mechanisms of the acquisition of oral personal discourse along with the early and preschool age. The paper includes the following sub-topics: conversation acquisition, personal narrative and fictional story acquisition, relations between different genres of personal discourse, an

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Pavesi, Maria. "This and That in the Language of Film Dubbing: A Corpus-Based Analysis." Meta 58, no. 1 (2014): 103–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1023812ar.

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Recent research in audiovisual translation has focussed on the language of both original and translated dialogue, revealing different degrees of alignment between fictional dialogue and spontaneous conversation. In this context, demonstratives deserve special attention as they are major means to highlight segments of the current discourse and extra-linguistic reality in speech and may play a significant role in cinematic language as well. Furthermore, demonstratives are an area of dissimilarity between languages, with their translation being potentially subject to interference from the source

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