Linguistics and marketing: The effect of foreign languages in advertising messages by Juan Miguel Alcántara-Pilar, Iván Manuel Sánchez-Duarte, María Bermúdez-Martínez, María Eugenia Rodríguez-López

“…An audio-only advertising message for a fictional company was created and translated into these languages. …”
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Die Übersetzung eines künstlichen Dialekts im Roman David Mitchells „Der Wolkenatlas“ („Cloud Atlas“) by Teresa Maria Włosowicz

“…The narrator is a goatherd whose dialect can be described, on the one hand, as simplified, partly distorted English and, on the other hand, as an exotic dialect which contains neologisms referring to fictional species, culture-specific terms, etc. Special attention is paid to the translation of neologisms as well as to the rendering of the original style. …”
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« Cette femme éminente a touché l’âme universelle ». Une théorie médicale du talent de l’actrice-chanteuse dans La Pasta nell’Otello de Luigi Morando De Rizzoni (Vérone, Crescini,... by Céline Frigau Manning

“…Luigi Morando De Rizzoni’s fictional dialogue La Pasta nell’Otello was published in Verona following Giuditta Pasta’s tour of northern Italy during the winter of 1829-1830. …”
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MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY IN POPULAR CULTURE: AN ANALYSIS OF THE REPRESENTATION OF BIOACTIVE SUBSTANCES IN CARTOONS AND GAMES by Aldo S. de Oliveira, Angelica Justino, Thiago H. Doring, Vanessa Nascimento

“…We explore how these substances, often complex in their composition and effects, are reinterpreted and simplified to fit into fictional narratives, influencing the public perception of science. …”
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Elemente de identitate românească în opera lui Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu by Gabriela Iliuţă

“…Qu’il ait écrit des mémoires ou des fictions, Gheorghiu a raconté son histoire où s’est reflété l’Histoire, plus ou moins romancé, de son siècle, se révélant, à notre avis, un des plus importants représentants du genre autobiographique dans les lettres roumaines.…”
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Queering Christopher Kirkland (1885): Eliza Lynn Linton’s “Autobiography-in-Drag” by Nathalie SAUDO-WELBY

“…The life of the famous anti-feminist Eliza Lynn Linton (1822-1898) was full of contradictions, which are reflected in her fictionalized autobiography, The Autobiography of Christopher Kirkland (1885). …”
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ORGANIC FOOD POSITIONING: HOW DO COMPANIES WANT THEIR BRAND TO BE PERCEIVED BY CONSUMERS? by Mihai STOICA

“…Positioning bases related to consumption occasions, brand values, and association with fictional characters or celebrities play a secondary role in supporting the brand position. …”

The Cinematic Visions and Dreams of Edgard Varèse by Gabriele

“…Déserts (1954), albeit only in intention, La procession de Verges (1955) and Poème électronque (1959) pioneeringly investigate different ways of understanding music in relation to moving images: from the fictional work to the documentary film, and to the multimedia experience. …”
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“Where Does My Hope Come From?”: P. D. James’s The Children of Men (1992) as a Christian Dystopia in the Context of the Late 20th Century Demographic Crisis by Suzanne Bray

“…One result was the appearance of several “demodystopias” or fictions concerned with the demographic crisis which was causing increasing concern in the developed world at the time. …”
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Du dépouillement surgit le silence : une adaptation sous couvert de minimalisme audiovisuel by Louis Daubresse

“…We will examine in turn the dramaturgical role that this silence from the Coen movie plays in the fictional universe of No Country for Old Men, and the primary space in which it unfolds. …”
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Le rôle de l’intertexte et du palimpseste dans la création d’une Écosse mythique dans Waverley et Rob Roy de Walter Scott by Céline SABIRON

“…Besides, the characters, such as the popular historical outlaw Rob Roy, are romanticized and mythicized in these fictions which recount the 1715 and 1745 Jacobite Risings in an epic style. …”
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Taking Place and Finding One’s Place: Unhomely Events in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007) and Exit West (2017) by Maëlle Jeanniard du Dot

“…In his novels The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007) and Exit West (2017), Pakistani writer Mohsin Hamid plunges the reader into the core of real-life events through purely fictional material. The characters through which nativist riots or post-9/11 New York are perceived have a specific viewpoint: they are all migrants. …”
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The Circulation of Icons in Planetary - Pictures, Popular Culture and Materiality by Nicolas LABARRE, Laura PERNA, Errol RIVERA

“…In the series, the readers and the protagonists are invited to explore the “secret” history of a fictional world. This history is composed of visual allusions to notable works of 20th-century popular culture. …”
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De la crainte de la damnation éternelle aux prémisses de l’angoisse existentielle contemporaine : inquiétudes sotériologiques et eschatologiques chez William Hale White (« Mark Rut... by Jean-Michel Yvard

“…Such are some of the questions which are raised in this paper through a study of the autobiographical and fictional writings of William Hale White (« Mark Rutherford »).…”
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Adaptive translation of medieval morality plays for contemporary African audiences: A case study of the morality play Everyman in Sesotho by T.J. Makutoane

“… Morality plays such as Everyman were first produced in England during the latter half of the 15th century. Their fictional nature, however, clothed moral truths in line with Catholic doctrines. …”
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Modernism’s Zoo (Pet and Pen in Virginia Woolf’s Flush) by Frédéric Regard

“…The paper begins with registering the renewal of critical interest in Virginia Woolf’s Flush, a fictional biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s dog. …”
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De la sangre al oro : la transubstanciación del cristianismo y del capitalismo en la comida ritual huichol (México) by Frédéric Saumade

“…The vitality of the tradition would rather be due to native society’s capacities in reinterpreting, upon the basis of the dry/wet paradigm, the typical elements from the Western mind – transubstantation, capitalization, monetary symbol, inflationist process – whose transforming properties, between material and fictional value, have become part of an adaptive cosmology.…”
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The case for weak null in English by Andrew Tollet

“…Rather than a corpus-based statistical approach, this paper draws upon a smaller selection of contemporary, non-fictional texts from a variety of semantic fields to illustrate the points being made. …”
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Marching towards the Cruzada: Douglas Jerrold's road to nationalist Spain by F. Hale

“…In the present article, which traces Jerrold’s political thought through his fictional and nonfictional work, it is demonstrated that his advocacy of Franco’s Nationalist forces was not merely a knee-jerk response to the anticlericalism of 1936 but virtually an inevitable consequence of his commitment to what he termed the “Counter-Revolution” as a means of restoring his vision of an earlier era. …”
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Shards of the Glass Ceiling by Svetlana Seibel

“…Perhaps as in no other genre of literature or television, corporate conspiracy themes and corporation critique agendas abound in science fictional narratives. In television which engages the corporate machine theme, the corporation as antagonist is often fleshed out to such a degree that it becomes, for all intents and purposes, a character in the narrative. …”
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