Cinema and Identity: Criss-Cross Reflections by Irina S. Semenenko, Vladimir I. Pantin, Elena V. Morozova

“…Cinema is regarded as an effective tool for creating and revising historical narratives, for promoting new images and meanings and for exposing prospects for future social development. …”
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The Victorian Thumb Bible as Material Object: Charles Tilt’s The Little Picture Testament (1839) by Alyssa J. Currie

“…Intended to provide children with a simplified introduction to Biblical narratives and religious instruction, thumb Bibles illustrate the mediation of religious instruction through material culture. …”
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Language and Sustainability, Linguistic Sustainability: Between Economization and Simulative Democracy? by Goranka Rocco

“…The considerations lead to a reflection on the possibilities and limits of linguistic sustainability with regard to the progressive economization of knowledge and science, which influence language use, and on the other hand with regard to the gap between real developments, which seem to privilege one or at best a few languages, and the official narratives on the promotion of multilingualism. This gap is interpreted in the context of the hypothesis of structural or systemic social unsustainability (Blühdorn 2020) and particularly in line with Blühdorn’s concept of ‘Simulative Democracy’ (2013). …”
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Referential Choices and Specific Language Impairment: Sensitivity to Contrast Levels and Grammatical Role by Maja Stegenwallner-Schütz, Flavia Adani

“…Existing findings on referential choices by children with SLI are currently inconsistent and have mainly been reported based on narratives. We used an elicited production task to manipulate the referent’s accessibility by means of two factors: (a) contexts that instantiate different levels of contrast (one vs. two contrasts) and (b) the grammatical role of the expression (subject vs. object). …”
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Internet Memes as Stabilizers of Conspiracy Culture: A Cognitive Anthropological Analysis by Emily Godwin, Brittany I. Davidson, Tim Hill, Adam Joinson

“…Internet memes have emerged as the de facto language of the internet, where standardized memetic templates and characters distill and communicate narratives in simple, shareable formats. While prior research has highlighted their broad appeal as they traverse diverse audiences, their cultural function within online communities has received less attention. …”
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Power, tourism, and ecology: a critical inquiry into aconcagua’s power structures and conceptions of nature by Henry Mooney

“…This research contributes to political ecology scholarship by illuminating co-constructed narratives on nature, politics, and societal structures in high mountain areas which can overlook the profound effects of power dynamics and economic interests on local ecology in managed park systems in periphery states.…”
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From Painting to Picturebook: Bhajju Shyam’s Insider Indigenous Art by Indraprastha University, India

“…An insider, bearer of a ritual bardic cultural function, narrates the story of his work and his community using the medium at hand. …”
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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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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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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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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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An alien among aliens: Translating multicultural identities in Singapore’s contemporary theatre by Bei Hu

“…It reveals Kuo’s proposition of multiculturalism as a counternarrative to the official discourse of multiracialism propagated by the authorities, uncovering how playwrights represent as translation agents within multilingual narratives. …”
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Seeking victims’ perspective on remedy: the case of Brasil Verde Farm’s workers by Regiane Cristina de Oliveira

“…To understand the challenges preventing the effectiveness of the remedy system, this article relies on the collaboration with workers from Barras (Piauí), that were subjected to slave labor in the Brasil Verde Farm. The workers’ narratives – collected through oral history methodology, during a fieldtrip to Piauí, in March 2016 –, help to overcome the ongoing debate on remedy studies related to the discourse of victims’ “wants and needs”, and reveal that any reparation measure that intend to promote social emancipation has to deal with the absences of the right to participation, security, adequate standards of living, health, adequate housing, education, and also access to land.…”
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The Role of Traditional Environmental Knowledge in Taytnapam Toponyms by Eugene S. Hunn, Richard H. McClure Jr.

“…Traditional geographic narratives, such as those of Taytnapam elders Jim Yoke and Louis Castama, served a critical pedagogical role in educating the young with respect to native livelihoods. …”
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Russia`s Cultural Diplomacy in the Current Geopolitical Context by Alina STOICA, Ana ORJUHOVSCHI

“…The use of this soft power, which complements traditional foreign policy strategies, is aimed at strengthening relations with partner countries, countering negative narratives or attracting/maintaining sympathy with states where the state in question has political, economic, etc. interests. …”
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L’emploi de formes d’adresse dans les interactions interculturelles – perceptions et discussions authentiques entre francophones et finnophones by Johanna Isosävi

“…Participants co-construct their experiences through discursive means, and their narratives often show shared knowledge. Finally, L2 speakers are not passive recipients, but exercise their agency by refusing an address form or suggesting an alternative. …”
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Beyond Verbatim: Embodied Truth and the Limits of Language in House Arrest by Mehmet Ünal

“…Through verbatim text, minimalist staging and emotionally resonant performance, Smith highlights how individuals, particularly those from marginalised groups, are vulnerable to having their narratives distorted or controlled by those in power. …”
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"Recalling-ls-Greatest": Personal Memory and Lyricism in Toyin Falola's A Mouth Sweeter than Salt and Counting the Tiger's Teeth by Felicia Ohwovoriole

“…In presenting actions in the two self-narratives, Toyin Faiola exploits the resources of indigenous and contemporary African songs, incantatory chants and transliterated version of many lyrics. …”
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Joyful Encounters: Learning to Play Well with Machines by Sandry Eleanor, Peaty Gwyneth

“…These encounters are often shaped by stories about the capabilities of machines and humans, while the interactions themselves go on to provoke new narratives. Although human– machine interaction can be theorized as ‘cyborg’ or ‘hybrid’, this paper argues that adopting the idea of the ‘assemblage’ is a better way recognize the flexibility of bringing disparate humans and machines together, whether in relation to playing a game or playing music. …”
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Digital Storytelling: Boosting Literacy Practices in Students at A1-Level by Pedro Alejandro González Mesa

“…The personal stories and media literacy allowed the participants to combine both narratives and digital elements when writing in English in a collaborative work-group in which they co-constructed their stories. …”
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