The Linguistic Landscape of Popular Culture: Analyzing Military Speech in Manga by Ioana Ruxandra Toșu

“… This study investigates Japanese popular culture, focusing on manga as a central cultural product that offers rich narrative and visual content that reflects both universal and culturally specific themes. …”
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“[A]ll comes alive and starts to dance”: The 29th Chapter of Gabriel Josipovici’s Goldberg: Variations by Günther Jarfe

“…By combining “singing in canon” and “dancing round the table” and presenting this scene in a very stylized fashion Josipovici tries to create a narrative equivalent to Bach’s quodlibet. Within their respective contexts, both pieces perform a similar function. …”
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A critical study of group-defining categories in the discursive construal of national identity by Nina Shtok

“…The discourse has increasingly framed the war as a battle against external threats, positioning Russia as a defender of traditional values and a bulwark against perceived Western encroachments. This nationalist narrative, actively promoted by the government, serves to mobilise public support for its policies. …”
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México ¿la dictadura perfecta? by Rocío  Ruiz Lagier

“…In this article, I am interested in analyzing the way different narratives unfold about the recent past, where oblivion has been a substantial element of internal politics. …”
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« Trying to avoid », « trying to conceive » : (re)produire une féminité contradictoire par la quantification by Myriam Lavoie-Moore

“…The case study of this app shows how this ideal of empowerment, associated to the one of the self-realization by having a child, can create an unempowering feeling for the women that are unable to have a child because of the construction of a narrative of a woman that should be in control of her body.…”
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The impact of the cognitive-emotive dialectic on L2 development of English majors in the free teacher education program in China: a perezhivanie perspective by Wei Li

“…Utilizing multiple sources of data, including questionnaires, narrative frames and interviews, this study conducts a thematic analysis of the cognitive and emotive elements in the data. …”
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Positive sentiment and expertise predict the diffusion of archaeological content on social media by Chiara Bonacchi, Marta Krzyzanska, Alberto Acerbi

“…These insights underscore the nuanced dynamics of archaeology communication, emphasizing the importance of expert-led and positively charged narratives in engaging the public on social media.…”
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The Brass-Bells Drum: An African Literary Writer’s imaging of Neo-colonial woes in Nigeria by Arinpe G. Adejumo, Emmanuel Akinyinka Ilori

“…The paper concludes that the uniqueness of Iṣọla’s discourse of postcolonial woes manifests in the adroit blend of motifs and narrative techniques of political instability, betrayal of trust, acute leadership crisis, and corruption. …”
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Les foyers d’en-haut.La montagne, emblème du paradoxe de l’intégration des requérant·es d’asile en Suisse by Viviane Cretton

“…Far from the tourist and romantic representations of the mountains, the oppositions between the top and the bottom (the valley and the plain), between the periphery and the centre (the mountain and the town) run repeatedly through the collected narratives. They maintain a representation of the mountain as a non-place of social life, an isolated place, as opposed to cities on the plain. …”
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From Biophysical Calculation to Financial Risk Assessment: Three Worlds of Accounting for Nature by Sylvain Maechler, Valérie Boisvert

“…The impacts on the latter remain largely invisible to economic processes. This is the narrative behind the proposal to integrate nature into a central instrument of capitalism: accounting. …”
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How Did We Deal with the Pandemic? - Experience from a Tertiary Health Institute in Eastern India by Jawahar S. K. Pillai, Biswajeevan Sahoo, Thean Singh, Siddharth Mishra, Ramkrishna Mondal, Kiran MV Kumar

“…This study aims to describe the challenges faced during the COVID-19 pandemic and how we dealt with the pandemic successfully. This narrative analysis study was made in a 960-bedded teaching hospital during the pandemic. …”
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Queering Christopher Kirkland (1885): Eliza Lynn Linton’s “Autobiography-in-Drag” by Nathalie SAUDO-WELBY

“…Although Christopher claims in the last pages that he “stand[s] absolutely alone”, the character has been constructed throughout the narrative mainly in inter-relational terms, and the story is peopled with positive, partly idealized, spiritual and intellectual godmothers and daughters. …”
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La représentation des paysages d’exil dans les arts visuels contemporains : l’exemple du film Parmi nous de Clément Cogitore by Ann Epoudry

“…Supporting this analysis with Clément Cogitore’s short fiction film Parmi nous (2011), which narrates the attempts of illegal migrants in exile to cross a border zone, we seek to understand how the constructed landscapes of the sets in the film reveal a symbolic and stereotyped landscape and how the relationship between the characters and the landscape, which the artist shows in this work, seems to reinvent the places travelled through and offer a new form of participation within the landscape.…”
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What Is Happening Here?: An Auto-Ethnographic Account of an Emerging Woman Academic’s Entry into the Academy in South Africa by Nokulunga Shabalala

“…The paper aims to bring to the fore the dynamics that perpetuate black women academics’ sense of nonbelonging, voicelessness, and stagnation. Through my narrative, I critically discuss the concepts of time, space, temporality, emotion, and gender within the academic environment and how these elements intersect to shape experience. …”
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Quotatifs et ethos interactionnel : quelques fonctions de l’introducteur BE LIKE by Yann FUCHS

“…This construction is twofold: first, the use of BE LIKE is a way for the speaker to take and keep the floor in order to tell a whole narrative, against the usual turn-taking schemes of oral conversation. …”
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Uma carta para Mark Freeman sobre a “promessa trágica” de doenças neurodegenerativas by Will Lucas Silva Pena

“…Nela, debato elementos que o autor traz em seu artigo Beyond narrative: dementia’s tragic promise (2008a), em especial a associação entre “narrativas”, “subjetividade” e “processos de adoecimento”. …”
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Viral Justice: TikTok Activism, Misinformation, and the Fight for Social Change in Southeast Asia by Nuurrianti Jalli

“…While the research counters the prevalent narrative that digital activism is rife with misinformation, it underscores the importance of maintaining accuracy to protect credibility. …”
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Text-image relationships in contemporary fairy tales by Victoria Yefymenko

“…Key theoretical approaches to this issue are outlined. Visual and verbal narratives are examined at three levels: ideational, interpersonal and textual. …”
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Initiating language engagement with multimodal learning tasks by Aránzazu García-Pinar

“…The present study explores the engagement among five engineering undergraduates for one semester while working on L2 tasks, which entailed the multimodal analysis of 8 technology-related TED Talks and was purposefully designed to initiate them into multimodal literacy and foster their language learning. A narrative qualitative analysis of an open-ended questionnaire that the students completed at the end of the semester shows that the students were working on the task and engaged in the process. …”
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Festivalising Heritage in the Borderlands: Constituting Ethnic Histories and Heritages under the Rule of the Finn Forest Republic by Stein R. Mathisen

“…The Finn Forest Museum plays an important role in the festival, both with collections manifesting a genuine material culture, as an arena for the performance of intangible heritages, and as a venue for telling narratives about the historic background of this culture. …”
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