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    The various rising tones in Newcastle English: a phonological distinction? by Sophie Herment, Laetitia Leonarduzzi, Caroline Bouzon

    Published 2020-12-01
    “…It is acknowledged in the literature that Newcastle English is characterised by the use of rising tones as the default tone, Tyneside English being part as such of those varieties displaying a typical Urban Northern British Intonation (UNBI). A previous study on Newcastle English performed on the NECTE corpus allowed to make out two main types of rises: simple rises or rise-plateaus on the one hand, and up-stepped level tones on the other hand. …”
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    Laurence Housman (1865–1959): Fairy Tale Teller, Illustrator and Aesthete by Audrey Doussot

    Published 2011-03-01
    “…Laurence Housman’s work in the fields of fairy literature, illustration and book design was one of the most inventive and innovative contributions to the British Aesthetic movement which turned the artistic and literary scene upside down in the second half of the nineteenth century. …”
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    Early Adaption of Assessments Using Generative Artificial Intelligence and the Impact on Student Learning: A Case Study by Ling Wang, Shengchen Li, Yue Chen

    Published 2024-12-01
    “…This paper intends to cover this gap by reporting on a case study of a prompt adaptation of GenAI in an assessment in a year-two module in artificial intelligence which is delivered to students in three-degree programmes in a Sino-British university, at the end of 2022. Taking a mixed method qualitative methodology approach, the study collected data from both staff and students, lecturing and studying on the module which was then analysed using NVIVO software. …”
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    Mina Loy’s Surrealist Strategies of Renewal by Diane Drouin

    Published 2024-12-01
    “…In her essay “Modern Poetry,” published in the little magazine Charm in 1925, the British artist Mina Loy identified the source of the renewal of the English language in the streets of New York, famously claiming: “It was inevitable that the renaissance of poetry should proceed out of America, where latterly a thousand languages have been born.” …”
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    The Reversed Canvas: A Topos of Conflict Between Commercial and Aesthetic Values in Nineteenth-Century Paris and London by Richard Read

    Published 2023-11-01
    “…This chapter concerns the double valency of commercial and aesthetic values in reversed paintings depicted in nineteenth-century French and British paintings and cartoons of academic juries. …”
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    Understanding intercultural virtual exchange through a translanguaging lens in Chinese as a foreign language by Guo Zhiyan, Xu Xinyue

    Published 2023-07-01
    “…The current study is based on a nine-week virtual exchange project that took place between 22 students learning Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) from a British university and their partners from a Chinese university. …”
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    Au-delà de la focalisation : la pseudo-clivée comme stratégie de recherche d’adhésion by Florine Berthe, Isabelle Gaudy-Campbell

    Published 2024-08-01
    “…By doing so, it paves the way for the co-enunciator’s adhesion to the focalised segment.Using a corpus of spoken British English (Berthe, 2021), this article puts forward different strategies implemented by the enunciator to this end. …”
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    ‘Savages’ and Spiritual Engines: Feeling the Machine in H. G. Wells’s Time Machine and ‘Lord of the Dynamos’ by Tamara Ketabgian

    Published 2018-06-01
    “…Exposing the freighted colonial subtext of natural theology, Wells anatomizes the modern worship of machinery, comparing the metropolitan British viewers of engines to naïve primitives in their own right.…”
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    A Study of Selected Pre-Colonial Political Entities in the Niger- Benue Confluence Region of Nigeria by Hadizat Audu Salihu

    Published 2022-12-01
    “…The study revealed that there were dynamics in the political system operated in the Niger-Benue confluence region in the pre-colonial era which impacted other ethnic group’s political structures and contributed to the development of the region before British colonial rule. The study concludes that the Niger-Benue confluence area like many regions in Nigeria had diverse political entities that have contributed to its development before, during and after colonial rule. …”
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    ‘In physical things a man may invent; in moral things he must obey’: Addressing the Child(like) in George MacDonald’s Fairy Stories by Audrey Doussot

    Published 2020-12-01
    “…George MacDonald is one of the Victorian authors whose fairy tales have brought about the renewal of the genre while becoming classics of British children’s literature. Meant for the whole family, his stories present the blend of didacticism and fantasy that characterizes the fairy tale genre as well as the Victorian taste for edifying while indulging in fancy. …”
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