This article explores the relationship between literature, childhoods, and youth in the educational sphere during the Popular Unity administration (UP... [more]
This essay reflects on the paradox of how the twenty-first-century opening up of comparative literature to non-Western literatures under the aegis of ... [more]
Previous literature has argued that proficient bilingual speakers often demonstrate monolingual-equivalent structural processing of language (e.g., the processing of structural ambiguities; Frenck-Mestre, 2002), In this paper, we explore this thesis furth
South African history and culture is etched with traces of subalterns that continue to struggle against silencing. The resistance struggle owed much to the efforts of ordinary South Africans, who bore the brunt of repression. The tactics of the apartheid
We critically review the mushrooming literature addressing the neural mechanisms of moral cognition (NMMC), reaching the following broad conclusions: (1) research mainly focuses on three inter-related categories: the moral emotions, moral social cognition
In the present paper, we show that in its efforts to maintain credibility and claim social relevance, the Ecological Society of America (ESA) and its members repeatedly negotiate a boundary between science and politics. While the boundaries of ecology are
This paper explores specific issues concerning linguistic theory and the use of simplicity criteria in the early Transformational Generative Grammar literature. In particular, the influence of Nelson Goodman and Willard Van Orman Quine upon the work of No
The indefinite determiner yi 'one'+ classifier' is the most approximate to an indefinite article, like the English a, in Chinese. It serves all the functions characteristic of representative stages of grammaticalization from a numeral to a generalized
The debate concerning the approach of the early Christians to the military can be advanced by paying attention to a genre of literature that scholars have largely ignored: the church orders. These documents-the Apostolic Tradition, Canons of Hippolytus, T
The paper deals with combined metaphorical/vocative uses of animal names in Serbian in addressing people, both abusively and affectionately, thereby expressing the speakers' attitude towards their addressee. The discussion is based on the results obtaine
Although not so richly documented as some other French principalities, enough evidence survives to describe various rituals connected with ducal civic entries in late medieval Brittany, which have been largely ignored in recent general literature. This ar
This paper examines the effect on contemporary American literature of a popular discourse on depression, looking at Rick Moody's memoir The Black Veil, and two novels, Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections and David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest. It argu
In the context of increasing British discomfort with the cult of sensibility in the 1790s, medical writers redefined the profile of the melancholic as a highly rational, rather than emotional, literary man. Charlotte Smith's representation of melancholia
Nitrogen isotope analysis is now commonly used to investigate the diets, and to a lesser extent, the environments of ancient populations. These studies assume that mammals are predictably enriched in N-15 over their food, and concomitantly, that N-15 beco
Desire and seduction, hallmarks of epistolary literature, are foregrounded in the novels of Barcelona-born Olga Guirao. Mi querido Sebastian, which consists of a single letter, focuses on homosexuality and incest. The alternating monologues of Adversarios
Criticism has repeatedly suggested the need to demythologize the role of the prostitute as a supposedly altruistic and necessary character in nineteenth-century society and literature, replacing this image with that of an unnatural laborer/character manip
Although there is a fair sized literature documenting the relationship of religousness and spirituality with health and well-being, far fewer studies have examined this phenomenon for people with serious mental illness. In this research, religiousness is