Global hip-hop culture and the scopophilic spectacle of women in South African hip-hop music videos by Ntebaleng Mpetsi, Toks Oyedemi

“…Four critical elements are adopted from Laura Mulvey’s seminal theoretical discourse about the positioning of women in narrative cinema, to study the gender representation and sexual presentation of women in two popular South African hip-hop music videos. …”
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Witraże dziecięcego „bycia w życiu” – dobrostan versus obrazy codzienności by Justyna Kusztal, Małgorzata Turczyk

“…The context of the analyzes undertaken by the authors is an interdisciplinary current of childhood studies, and in particular the discourses devoted to caring for a child. Nowadays, the most visible discourse of child’s well-being requires observing particular areas of children’s participation in social life and asking questions about the actual situation of the child in our country, development opportunities and difficulties in implementing children’s rights and ensuring its well-being. …”
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“Blackboxing Whiteness” by Jaqui Hiltermann

“…The home, and the relationships between actants, reflects discourses and hierarchy. Women remain tightly bound to the home, and to postfeminist discourses of domesticity and domestopia. …”
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The propagation of seismic waves, misinformation, and disinformation from the 2024-10-05 M 4.5 Iran earthquake by Benjamin Fernando, Ross Maguire, Brianna Fernandez, Saman Karimi, Elizabeth Koenck, Göran Ekström, Tom Rivlin, Celeste Labedz

“…This event is an illustrative warning of how seismic data can be misinterpreted and/or manipulated in public discourse. …”
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Trabalho infantil e cultura camponesa: interpelações às políticas públicas by Thais Barbosa Reis, Maria Dione Carvalho de Moraes

“…The addressing of child labor became a part of the Brazilian state agenda in the 1990s, anchored in the discourse on the human rights of children. But the addressing of that problem through public policies to combat child labor meets resistance in peasant socie-ties, in which children are socialized through work. …”
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Opening up Bodyspace: Perspectives from Posthuman and Feminist Theory by Xenia Kokoula

“…Over the last decades, architectural discourse has been invigorated by opening up container conceptions of space, by exploring a new dynamic understanding of space and focusing on its production processes. …”
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A post-colonial political theology of care and praxis in Ethiopia’s era of identity politics by N.A. Terefe

“…She contends that post-colonial discourse and the praxis of in between pastoral care can disrupt and challenge hegemonic definitions of culture, identity, home, and subjectivity. …”
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Le maire et la mosquée. Islam et laïcité en Île de France by Françoise Duthu

“…Numerous politicians and media outlets in France have been developing a discourse that vilifies Muslims and the Islamic faith when commenting on national or international events. …”
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Bycie dziecka w Polsce „dobrej zmiany”– między Konwencją o Prawach Dziecka a rzeczywistością by Małgorzata Dagiel, Małgorzata Kowalik-Olubińska

“…The authors analysed a discourse of the Ombudsmen for Children’s interventions in order to reconstruct the image of being of the child in a new socio-political reality in Poland. …”
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‘Senses’: Assessing a Key Term inDavid Chidester’s Analysis of Religion by Johan M. Strijdom

“…Chidester’s analysis of the senses in European Christian discourses on the one hand, and in colonial and postcolonial African indigenous religion and imperial religious studieson the other hand, is compared and assessed. …”
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Medieval Naturalia by Chantal Stein

“…This paper explores the discourse between extant tangible objects and contemporary texts such as bestiaries, lapidaries, and alchemical compendia to examine how the iconography of the artifact’s form and the iconology of the ornamentation contributed to the overall signification of the naturalia.…”
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Wifehood (Im)politeness in Negotiating Responsibility, Position, and Solidarity in Ola Rotimi’s Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again by Ezekiel Opeyemi Olajimbiti

“…The study underscores the peaceful coexistence of wifehood within family discourse as a contribution to solving unhealthy marital issues characterized by linguistic politeness and impoliteness that pervade the contemporary society. …”
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Corporalidade brasileira na fabricação da identidade nacional by Ana Lúcia Castro, Renata Pires Pinto

“…However, in the 1990s the official tourism lobby softened the “sexy tone” of its discourse, and in 1999 Embratur received an award from the World Tourism Organization for its campaign to help fight the exploitation of children and youth by sexual tourism. …”
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Socialisation entre pairs et genre lors du passage en 6e by Benoit Dejaiffe, Gaelle Espinosa

“…The results show that beyond the stereotyped discourse held by the students according to which boys and girls experience their entry into secondary school in the same manner, a more detailed analysis reveals that there is a difference in the way girls and boys talk about their own experience in terms of peer socialization and in the words they use to formulate it.…”
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A relação entre ciência e ideologia em tempos de hegemonia financeira: a biotecnociência e o mercado de promessas by Leandro Módolo Paschoalotte

“…In this sense, through a literature review of the specialized literature and the discourse analysis of central characters of the techno-scientific field on screen, we defend as central argument that the development of the economy around biotechnologies and, underlying it, the emergence of a “market of promises” have made scientific discourses begin to function ideologically as vehicles of capital accumulation.…”
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The Sharing of Reference Strategies across Two Languages: The Production and Comprehension of Referring Expressions by Greek-Italian Bilingual Children by Maria Andreou, Jacopo Torregrossa, Christiane Maria Bongartz

“…We tested 31 Greek-Italian bilingual children by using a narrative task (assessing the use of referring expressions in discourse) and a timed judgement task (related to the interpretation of referring expressions). …”
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From Text, to Myth, to Meme: Penny Dreadful and Adaptation by Alison Lee, Frederick D. King

“…According to David Greetham, ‘contamination’ occurs when ‘one mode of discourse . . . leaks into or infects another, so that we experience both at the same time.’ …”
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Filmowy Poemat pedagogiczny: między Makarenką a wymogami kultury totalitarnej by Jakub Sadowski

“…The literary Pedagogical Poem was created as an autonomous work against totalitarian discourse, however it still participates in it. The key to its reading (which is specific for totalitarian culture) analyzed in this text results from the main function of narratives of this culture, i.e. the transmission of units of its mythological universe. …”
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The ‘Platformisation’ of Domestic Work in South Africa by Tengetile Nhleko

“…Using evidence obtained through in-depth interviews and analysis of published company discourse material, this paper argues that far from formalising and modernising domestic work through the twin forces of commercialisation and digital platform technology, the phenomenon of platform domestic work is deepening informalisation in paid domestic work as a form of insecure ‘gig work’, and also through the widespread practice of platform leakage by domestic workers on the platform. …”
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Early Eighteenth Century’ Jewish Religiousness: A Case of Leibele Prossnitz as Depicted in Bashraybung fun Shabbetai Ẓevi by Miroslav Dyrčík

“…This early modern Jewish messianic movement is reflected as heretical in academic and non-academic discourse alike and Bashraybung is the only contemporary source describing Leibele Prossnitz’ religious behaviour in more detail. …”
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