bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Women and their Journey to Self-Empowerment: A Case Study of Six Indonesian Female Migrant Domestic Workers
Authors: Pusparani Safira Prabawidya , Soetjipto Ani Widyani
Published: May 2019

In Indonesia, female migrant domestic workers’ representations tend to contain negative meanings. Although they are named as “heroes of development”, but their position is nothing more than a commodity for the country. Such treatment makes female migrant domestic workers becomes vulnerable to violence and exploitation by employers, agents, andgovernment staff. Nevertheless, there is an alternative narrative that is rarely highlighted in literature or media, namely the representation of female migrant domestic workers as powerful actors. This paper seeks to fill in that alternative narrative by highlighting the agencies did by these six female migrant domestic workers. The author believes that by using the standpoint feminism perspective to analyze the struggle of these six female migrant domestic workers in empowering themselves after the oppression, it can be seen that agency has been manifested by female migrant domestic workers during the migration process. This study reveals the efforts of female migrant domestic workers to manifest their empowerment through migration decisions in the middle of patriarchal structures, their ability to resist structures with activism, and become agents of development and change for their communities.
Challenging Disregard: Advocacy Journalism and the Campaign for Domestic Worker Legislation in Indonesia
Authors: Austin Mary
Published: May 2019

This article examines a recent ILO funded project designed to engage more Indonesian journalists and media organizations in advocacy journalism on behalf of domestic worker legislation. Applying Ann Stoler’s notion of ‘disregard’ in the context of post-Suharto
democratization, I illustrate how established newsroom practices and patterns of reporting helped maintain distinctions between ‘home’ and overseas domestic workers which impeded progress towards comprehensive legislation. Indonesia’s endorsement of the adoption of ILO Convention 189 in June 2011 opened up political opportunities, provided a framework for re-scripting media narratives and encouraged journalists to give more space to domestic workers’ voices. At the same time, increased media coverage enabled those opposed to legislation to reiterate a gendered disregard for the social and economic value of domestic work.
Domestic Workers amongst Paradoxes of the Politics of Gender and the Politics of Developmentalism: A Case Study from Indonesia in New Order Era
Authors: Irawaty Diah
Published: May 2019

As a political control over women to enforce them to follow state’s narrative of ideal women, the New Order regime produced and applied two contradictory forms of gender politics. On the one hand, Soeharto campaigned for state maternalism that promotes fulltime women’s role in domestic sphere. These women were claimed to be the pillar of the nation. On the other hand, the government endorsed the politics of developmentalism that carried out women in development and enforced women’s participation in the national development agendas. Women were encouraged to leave their homes and abandon their families. How was this contradictory
gender politics produced, reproduced and applied toward female domestic workers? What were social-political contexts behind the deployment of this political approach? What are the implications of this politics to the situations of women’s domestic workers?
Effort of Domestic Workers to Realize Decent Work: Learning, Organizing and Fighting
Authors: Pelupessy Purnama Sari
Published: May 2019

This paper discusses the situation of domestic workers (PRT) and the process of organizing domestic workers that has been doing by the author as a community organizer. The author, with a feminist framework, explores the history of the oppression of women attached to unpaid domestic work and the impact it has on domestic workers who are currently underpaid. This article also discusses the attitude of the state in viewing domestic workers as workers, as citizens and as women as well as the state’s reluctance to ratify the ILO Convention No 189 or ratify the Domestic Workers Protection Bill. The author uses her experience and knowledge in the labor movement and is enriched with the distinctive characteristics of domestic workers. This study concludes that efforts to change the working situation experienced by domestic workers need to be done by organizing domestic workers to have the power to urge the
state to realize decent work.
Contribution of Indonesian Women Migrant Workers (TKIP) to Child Welfare
Authors: Anshor Maria Ulfah
Published: May 2019

This article is part of dissertation research on childcare of Indonesian Women Migrant Workers (TKIP) in pesantren, using a qualitative approach and analysis unit in child and their environment. This study uses the ecological system theory of Bronfenbrenner and the
concept of Global Care Chain with the perspective of child protection. The results showed that the children of TKIP who abandoned by their mothers abroad became losing care, disrupted their social welfare psychically and socially; there is interdependence between the child’s of TKIP and his/her family with TKIP abroad; pesantren is an option for TKIP family because there is no professional childcare for the children of TKIP when their mother abandons her/him. Institutionally pesantren has potential to break the Global Care Chain injustice on the care of TKIP children with the support of religious values and traditions of pesantren. However, policy support is needed to ensure the care and social welfare of TKIP’s children that based on community and which integrated comprehensively in
blueprint of Indonesian migrant worker policy.
Procesos de Gestión Tecnológica del Conocimiento en Educación Básica
Authors: Parra Fidel , Martínez Silvia , Recalde Henry
Published: May 2019

El propósito de esta investigación fue analizar los procesos de gestión tecnológica del conocimientoen educación básica, tomando como referentes teóricos a los autores Odreman (2014), Paniuaguay otros (2007), se utilizó un enfoque cualitativo interpretativo, mediante una revisión documental,los datos de las informaciones recabadas se interpretaron desde la óptica del saber; lógica y razóndel investigador. Sobre esa base, los hallazgos evidencian resultados deficientes con respecto a losprocesos de gestión tecnológica del conocimiento en las instituciones de Educación Básica de Venezueladonde se persigue la combinación del tratamiento de la información, con las capacidades decreatividad e innovación de los estudiantes, a través del uso de las Tecnologías de la Información yla Comunicación (TIC); por lo cual se realizan dos sugerencias concretas; la primera sugiere realizaruna diagnosis en cada entidad educativa venezolana sobre las necesidades reales del nivel de educaciónbásica con respecto a la sinergia entre el conocimiento y las TIC, para la inserción de sistemasy equipos de vanguardia. La segunda propone realizar reflexiones pertinentes que deben conducir a las comunidades de ese nivel educativo al manejo efectivo de las nuevas tendencias tecnológicas en educación, para coadyuvar a la pertinencia y calidad de la educación actual en Venezuela.
Test para la investigación científica: aportes para su diseño
Authors: Villarruel-Fuentes Manuel , Villarruel-López Elvira Monserrat
Published: May 2019

La travesía científica del investigador dentro de las ciencias sociales, humanas y de la conducta se encuentra acotada por el paradigma de referencia, mismo que dicta el sentido y la naturaleza del método a emplear. Al respecto existen serias dificultades conceptuales y metodológicas asociadas al diseño de cuestionarios o test aplicados en la investigación, lo que determina una escasa validez y confiabilidad en los resultados. Bajo este contexto problemático se exponen una serie de recomendaciones dirigidas al logro de mayores niveles de rigor científico dentro de los test para la investigación, con el objetivo de coadyuvar a la preparación del novel investigador, así como para aquellos que incursionan en el paradigma empírico-analítico.
Análisis de una guía en exelearning en el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje de los estudiantes del instituto tecnológico superior tecnoecuatoriano
Authors: Garay Cisneros Víctor Alfonso
Published: May 2019

Tomando en cuenta que la tecnología y la información representan innovación en la educación, se hizo un estudio con el fin de analizar la herramienta de autor eXeLearning como guía para alumnos del Instituto Tecnológico Superior Tecnoecuatoriano. En el uso de esta herramienta se empleó como referente teórico la relación entre la enseñanza y el aprendizaje como un proceso significativo de aprendizaje. Para esto se tomó como fundamento la teoría de Vygotsky, que hace énfasis en cómo el alumno, mediado por el docente como facilitador del constructo, puede integrar los aprendizajes nuevos con los ya existentes para elaborar un conocimiento nuevo, y acceder a un aprendizaje autónomo. El software eXeLearning se usó como guía en la asignatura de Medio Ambiente, puesto que sirve como herramienta y estrategia metodológica para ser usada en la recolección de datos tanto en el aula como fuera de ella. Se aplicó una encuesta estructurada a una muestra de docentes y estudiantes del tercer semestre de la carrera de Mecánica Automotriz del Instituto Tecnológico Superior Tecnoecuatoriano, con la que se determinó que el uso de la herramienta eXeLearning produce un cambio en la práctica de la enseñanza por parte de los docentes, ya que rompe estructuras y lleva al docente al uso de la innovación en el proceso de enseñanza. Por otro lado, los alumnos conocen la tecnología y valoran el uso de esta herramienta en el aula, ya que esta propició una motivación extra al momento de aprender y formar conocimiento.
OLD AGE IN TURKEY AND WORLD AND SIGNIFICANT PROBLEM OF AGING WORLD: ELDERLY ABUSE AND NEGLIGENCE
Authors: YAĞCI ÖZEN Melek
Published: May 2019

Developments
in the field of medicine and technology in our day, early diagnosis and
treatment of diseases’ becoming possible thanks to these developments,
improvements in standards of living, decrease in fertility rate, extension of
expected life time result in aging of world population. Aging world population
brings problems on old age into agenda. One of these problems is elderly abuse
and negligence. Being a new
subject matter for our country which was previously seen as a taboo throughout
the world and started being paid necessary attention nowadays, elderly abuse is
called as “all kinds of violent conducts directed to elders by relatives or
other caregivers”.

This study
aims at assessing the situation in Turkey and world on the issue of elderly
abuse and negligence and to set forth a projection concerning old age on the
basis of demographic data in Turkey.
IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON SOCIAL LIFE OF TEENAGERS IN INDIA: A CASE STUDY
Authors: SİNGH Vijay
Published: May 2019

Social
media is playing an important role in every sphere of life now days. Computers
and internet has contributed a lot in this field. Smart phones have put the
entire world on a common platform. We can connect with anybody throughout the
world with the help of social media. There are many social media networks to
choose for the people. In this study I have selected Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram,
Twitter, YouTube and Google as the popularity of these social media networks is
more among Indian youth. Other social media networks were excluded from the
study. To find out the impact of media on youth we have look in to both
negative and positive impacts, because everything have positive and negative
aspects. The study was conducted in Shimla, the capital city of Himachal
Pradesh. A sample of 200 respondents was selected having smartphone with them. The
sample age group was from 15-19 years old. In this age group most of the
parents allow their children to use the mobile phones. The samples were
selected with the help of random-cum-purposive sampling. The study was carried
out with the aim to examine the use pattern of social media by the youth of Himachal
Pradesh. To conduct this study a well-structured questionnaire was developed. The
collected data was analysed on percentage and average bases. The study found that
there was a negative impact of social media on social life of teenagers.
DELAYING BEHAVIOR IN INSTITUTIONS: PROCRASTINATION
Authors: UYAR Seda
Published: May 2019

Human-resource, whose importance cannot be denied for
institutions, can contribute to the institution with the knowledge and skills
they have. On the other hand, they can punish the institution with different
behaviors. Procrastination, interpreted as a coping
mechanism (Burka and Yuen, 1983, p.60), is a complex fact that has behavioral,
emotional, and cognitive features (Kovylin, 2013, p. 27).

In this study, the procrastination term was defined and
the factors that cause the procrastination behavior were explained. In
addition, the correlated dimensions and the results from the point of
institutions were discussed.
SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP
Authors: UYAR Seda
Published: May 2019

Leadership, which has a difficult explanation with a
single definition, is an inevitable fact to discuss because the most important
source of the organizations is human. The characteristics of the leadership
need to be customized in order to integrate people’s efforts for a common
purpose and to ensure the continuity of this. The spiritual leadership that arises within the scope
of organizational needs is seen as a need for both the leadership and the
followers (Jamaludin, 2011, p. 77).

In this study, document
analysis method was used. Spiritual leadership term was defined and the
characteristics of the spiritual leaders were mentioned. In addition, the
outputs of spiritual leadership for the benefit of both the organization and
the employees were discussed.
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LEADER-MEMBER EXCHANGE AND INNOVATIVENESS: MODERATING ROLE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL CAPITAL OF EMPLOYEE
Authors: HACIOĞLU Canberk , ERKUŞ Ahmet
Published: May 2019

Innovativeness / creativity are key for organizational health. Since the technological developments mostly eliminated the complex business models, organizations are easily copying the models from each other. In such a challenging environment, organizations should create difference. There are multiple ways of creating differences but the most sustainable way is to create organization culture based on innovation and creativity. This study aimed to examine the relation between leader-member exchange (LMX) and innovativeness with the moderating role of Psychological Capital. Structured survey questions addressed to 157 employees of different companies in Turkey to gather the research data.
Preface
Authors: Nordrum Lene
Published: May 2019

This article is the preface to Vol. 6, No. 1 of the Nordic Journal. Abstract is n/a.
Bilingual Scientific Literacy? The Use of English in Swedish University Science Courses
Authors: Airey John , Linder Cedric
Published: May 2019

A direct consequence of the Bologna declaration on harmonisation of European education has been an increase in the number of courses taught in English at Swedish universities. A worrying aspect of this development is the lack of research into the effects on disciplinary learning that may be related to changing the teaching language to English in this way. In fact, little is known at all about the complex inter-relationship between language and learning. In this article we attempt to map out the types of parameters that our research indicates would determine an appropriate language mix in one section of Swedish higher education—natural science degree courses. We do this from the perspective of the overall goal of science education, which we suggest is the production of scientifically literate graduates. Here we introduce a new term, bilingual scientific literacy to describe the particular set of language-specific science skills that we hope to foster within a given degree course. As an illustration of our constructs, we carry out a simple language audit of thirty Swedish undergraduate physics syllabuses, listing the types of input provided for students and the types of production expected from students in both languages. We use this information to map out an ‘implied student’ for the courses with respect to bilingual scientific literacy. The article finishes by identifying issues for further research in this area.
English as an Academic Lingua Franca – the ELFA project
Authors: Mauranen Anna , Ranta Elina
Published: May 2019

No abstract available.
English as a Lingua Franca: A New Variety in the New Expanding Circle?
Authors: Mollin Sandra
Published: May 2019

The traditional tripartite model of English world-wide has so far ignored one of the most important functions of English today, namely that of a lingua franca between non-native speakers. In integrating ELF into models such as Kachru’s, the question that arises is whether it can count as a variety. Evidence from a corpus-based study of lingua franca English as it is used between European speakers indicates that it is not a non-native variety in the traditional sense. It is suggested here that ELF could be conceptualised as a register, which can be integrated into the variety- and nation-based model only on a functional level.
Den levende fonograf: Nordmændenes Professor Higgins
Authors: Sandved Arthur O.
Published: May 2019

English was taught at the University of Oslo from the early 1820s, but did not become an academic discipline proper until fifty years later, when Johan Storm was appointed Professor of English and Romance Languages. Johan Storm was a man of quite extraordinary abilities. He produced scholarly work of high standard in various disciplines: phonetics, Norwegian dialectology, English language, French syntax — and also 'applied linguistics', if I may be allowed to use the term somewhat anachronistically.
The ‘Attractive’ Progressive – Why use the -ing Form in English as a Lingua Franca?
Authors: Ranta Elina
Published: May 2019

In SLA literature, the ‘extended’ use of the progressive in L2 English production has often been considered a ‘problem’. The studies have been based on elicited data and explanations for such use have ranged from first language interference to target language input. In this paper, my aim is to look into the use of the progressive in authentic spoken L2 English from a fresh, more communicative perspective, namely that of English as a lingua franca. The main focus is on finding out whether the use of the progressive is really ‘extended’, and if so, does this cause problems in communication. At the end, an explanation for the characteristic use of the progressive in ELF is attempted. The data for the study comes from an academic ELF speech corpus, ELFA.
Muthos as Logos: The Concept of Truth in the Poetry of Ted Hughes
Authors: Drangsholt Janne Stigen
Published: May 2019

No abstract available.
Modern Loanwords in the Nordic Countries. Presentation of a project.
Authors: Graedler Anne-Line
Published: May 2019

In the Nordic countries, tensions between indigenous "languages of identity" and English, the global language, have been felt and expressed with an increasing sense of urgency over the past few decades. National language councils have to a varying extent and in different ways addressed the topic, but so far there has been no attempt at a unified Nordic policy on linguistic globalization.
Is "den forste att gå" den förste som gick?
Authors: Ljung Magnus
Published: May 2019

Like all other European languages - and a good many others - Swedish has been exposed to the linguistic influence of English for a long time. The first wave of loanwords reached Swedish as early as the 17t h century, bringing a trickle of different loans, such as dogg [dog], tobak [tobacco], puritan and kväkare [Quaker].
English Influence on Swedish Word Formation and Segmentals
Authors: Lindström Anders
Published: May 2019

The object of this study is to determine the nature and degree of English influence on contemporary spoken Swedish at the phonological and morphological levels. Particular attention is paid to certain contactlinguistically critical situations of importance for speech technology applications. Several corpora of spoken and written Swedish are analyzed regarding segmental and word formation effects. The results suggest that any description of contemporary spoken Swedish (be it formal, pedagogical or technical) needs to be extended to cover both phonological and morphological material of English origin. Previous studies of socio-linguistic and other underlying factors governing the variability observed have shown that education and age play a significant role, but that individual variability is large. It is suggested that interacting phonological constraints and their relaxation may be one way of explaining this. An attempt at a diachronic comparison is also made, showing that morphological processes involving English material are frequent in contemporary Swedish, while virtually non-existing in two corpora of spoken Swedish from the mid 1960s. Requirements for speech technology applications are also discussed.
Quite As a Degree Modifier of Verbs
Authors: Diehl Hannele
Published: May 2019

No abstract available.
Knowledge about Language in English Language Courses for Future Language Professionals
Authors: Arnó-Maciá Elisabeth
Published: May 2019

This article reports on a study focusing on KAL (knowledge about language) in language courses in English Studies, the training of future language teachers and other professionals. Language is key in the professional competence of future graduates, who need to know the language and know about the language. Apart from promoting students’ proficiency, language courses also transmit certain views of language that will become part of the knowledge of future language professionals. Using ethnography and discourse analysis, this study looks at the development of a language course over a semester, through classroom observation and interviews with lecturers and students.
Writing for an International Audience in a US Technical Communication Classroom: Developing Competences to Communicate Knowledge Across Cultures
Authors: Brady Ann , José Laurence
Published: May 2019

This paper confronts the local dimension of a U.S. scientific and technical communication program with the new challenges globalization raises, and shows how an assignment sequence implemented in an advanced technical communication course has enacted and nurtured new “communities of practice” (Wenger 1998) that cross institutional borders and favor a social orientation to learning. This paper argues that writing for and collaborating with an international audience helps students to develop a more sophisticated knowledge of their own communication practices, and to perceive the movement from local to global as a transition enabling the creation of knowledge and of new learning processes.
Avril, Chloé. 2008. The Feminist Utopian Novels of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Themes of Sexuality, Marriage, and Motherhood. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen P.
Authors: Kella Liz
Published: May 2019

No abstract available.
Gilquin, Gaëtanelle, Szilvia Papp, and María Belén Díez-Bedmar (eds.). 2008. Linking up contrastive and learner corpus research. Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi.
Authors: Oksefjell Ebeling Signe
Published: May 2019

No abstract available.
“No more‟n a needle in a haystack”: The City as Style and Destructive Underworld in John Dos Passos‟ Manhattan Transfer
Authors: Madsen Michael
Published: May 2019

This article discusses how John Dos Passos in Manhattan Transfer (1925) uses the fragmented Manhattan of the early twentieth century both as a style for writing an urban tale and as a symbol of a suffocating, all-consuming fiery inferno, where the only chance for success and redemption is by leaving. Taking its point of departure in theories on city literature and historical writings on the city of the early twentieth century, the article discusses Dos Passos‟ cryptic and fragmented style and links it to the portrayal of a fragmented and destructive city.
Just to give you kind of a map of where we are going:
Authors: Ädel Annelie
Published: May 2019

One of the basic functions to which language is put is to comment on discourse or on language itself. Reflexivity in language occurs in everyday discourse as well as in specialised discourse, such as academic papers or lectures. It is often referred to as metadiscourse, or „discourse about discourse‟, as in In this paper, I explore… or just to give you kind of a map of where we are going… Such expressions are very common in academic genres, where the writer/speaker is expected to guide the audience through the discourse, for example by making its structure explicit. While research into metadiscourse has focused on academic writing, academic speech has remained largely unexplored. Furthermore, comparisons of spoken and written metadiscourse are rare, so the similarities and differences between spoken and written types of metadiscourse are unknown. The present qualitative and corpus-based study compares the use of personal metadiscourse in 30 spoken university lectures to that of 130 highly proficient essays by graduate students. The purpose is to present an empirically based taxonomy of the discourse functions of spoken and written metadiscourse with respect to academic English. Despite claims in previous research that separate treatment is needed, a lumping approach is taken rather than a splitting one. The goal is to create one taxonomy for both modes, thereby highlighting both similarities and differences in the distribution of discourse functions across speech and writing. The proposed taxonomy consists of 23 discourse functions, divided into four main categories: Metalinguistic comments, Discourse organisation, Speech act labels and References to the audience. The findings reveal that most of the discourse functions in the taxonomy occurred in both speech and writing, although spoken metadiscourse performed a greater range of discourse actions than written metadiscourse. Differences in the conditions of speech and writing did indeed cause variation in the use of metadiscourse: The discourse functions REPAIRING, MARKING ASIDES and CONTEXTUALISING occurred only in the spoken data because of the lack of time for planning and revision in real-time discourse, while MANAGING COMPREHENSION/CHANNEL and MANAGING AUDIENCE DISCIPLINE occurred only in the spoken data because of the direct presence of an audience. Factors related to genre were also found to cause variation in the use of metadiscourse: ARGUING was considerably more common in the written data, since academic writers typically need to put a great deal of work into argumentation, while lecturers generally present information not based on their own research. MANAGING THE MESSAGE, on the other hand, was common in the spoken data, which can be attributed to lecturers adopting a more authoritative role than student writers.
Beyond the Abyss: Jack London and the Working Class
Authors: Paul Ronald
Published: May 2019

No abstract available.
Whose Rules Rule?: Grammar Controversies, Popular Culture and the Fear of English from Below
Authors: Trotta Joe
Published: May 2019

No abstract available.
Remaking Feminism: Or Why Is Postfeminism So Boring?
Authors: Whelehan Imelda
Published: May 2019

No abstract available.
Spelling's significance for textual studies
Authors: Blake Norman , Thaisen Jacob
Published: May 2019

Manuscript spellings are rarely taken into account when editors trace the stemma of their text for, if considered at all, they are used to localise the various manuscripts. From an evaluation of two Canterbury Tales manuscripts, Christ Church, Oxford, MS 152 and British Library MS Harley 7334, we seek to establish that this is an important omission in textual studies, for changes in the spelling system of a manuscript can signal whether these represent a change of exemplar and thus can control other methods of determining how many exemplars were used in its production. This conclusion is supported by evidence that changes in the spelling system coincide with changes in these manuscripts' codicology.
Existential there and catenative concord. Evidence from the British National Corpus
Authors: Olofsson Arne
Published: May 2019

No abstract available.
Recurrent word-combinations in English student essays
Authors: Oksefjell Ebeling Signe
Published: May 2019

The point of departure for this study is Stubbs and Barth‘s article from 2003 where they describe how recurrent phrases can be used as text-type discriminators. A subset of the British Academic Written English (BAWE) corpus—a corpus of student writing—consisting of English Studies essays is compared with two text-types taken from BNC-Baby in order to test and validate Stubbs and Barth‘s claims about recurrent word-combinations. Then the most salient combinations occurring in the BAWE student essays are subjected to a functional analysis, based on Moon (1998), to better be able to say something about their main functions in this text-type. Finally, the functions of recurrent phrases of the BAWE essays will be compared to the functional characteristics of the academic prose part of BNC-Baby.
Early Modern English Medical Texts. 2010. Corpus [CD-ROM].
Authors: Grund Peter J.
Published: May 2019

No abstract available.
Detritus and literature
Authors: Bonheim Helmut
Published: May 2019

No abstract available.
Types of intertextuality in Chairman’s statements
Authors: Shaw Philip , Pecorari Diane
Published: May 2019

Intertextuality is a pervasive feature of all discourse, but norms and conventions vary widely across domains. Academic conventions can cause difficulties for those who have been exposed to, or move on to, domains with other practices. Academic conventions are well documented; here we examine those of business writing. We created a corpus of chairman’s statements from annual corporate reports and searched them for signalled and unsignalled intertextual relationships. We hypothesise that statements from the same company will be linked by both repeated phraseology and acknowledged intertextuality.
Language and gender in a US reality TV show: An analysis of leadership discourse in single-sex interactions
Authors: Cheung Matthew Sung Chit
Published: May 2019

This paper examines issues relating to language, gender and leadership in the debut season of the reality TV show The Apprentice (USA). In particular, it looks at the ways in which two male and two female project managers ‘do leadership’ through discourse in single-sex interactions. The analysis shows that these project managers display leadership styles which are by and large in accordance with the gendered norms and expectations. It is found that while their leadership styles are not evaluated entirely positively, the male managers receive both positive and negative comments for using predominantly masculine speech styles and the female managers who ‘do leadership’ by employing a largely feminine discourse style are perceived negatively. It is also argued that the singlesex contexts of interactions can be seen as being constructed intentionally in the TV show in order to capture the gender-stereotypical speech styles of ‘doing leadership’.
About the Contributors
Authors: Editorial team
Published: May 2019

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“Second Time Round”: Recent Northern Irish History in For All We Know and Ciaran Carson’s Written Arts
Authors: Moi Ruben , Brox Larsen Annelise
Published: May 2019

This paper analyses how Ciaran Carson’s For All We Know (2008) adds to other disciplinary approaches to the challenges of re-presenting the past. The representation of history is a controversial field, as much of the radical tradition of history debates in Marx, Derrida, Foucault and Kristeva indicates. Controversies over history are also prevalent in Belfast and Northern Ireland where history seems to have intervened upon the life of individual people more brutally and insistently than in most other places in the Western world in the latter decades of the last century. Carson is one of the many acclaimed poets who try to come to terms with the almost incomprehensible historical predicament of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. What is the poet to write about in times of murder and mayhem? Why? How? How does poetry relate to the representations of the past and the emergence into unknown futures? Carson has endured the tragedies, the turmoil, and their bearings upon the peace-emerging society in Belfast throughout his whole life. For All We Know constitutes a historical document, which in its poetic creativity and formal strategies, supplements other attempts to account for life in Belfast and Northern Ireland during the Troubles.
The Indeterminacy of Identity in Tom Murphy’s A Whistle in the Dark
Authors: Carroll Michelle
Published: May 2019

This article sets out to explore the implications of postcolonialism for Irish identity politics, through Tom Murphy’s A Whistle in the Dark. Through the characters of this play, who struggle to define a coherent national identity for themselves in the industrial city of Coventry, Murphy depicts the reality of modern Ireland by locating the play in the pathology of the alienated individual who contradicts the hegemony of Catholic bourgeois nationalist Ireland. By contextualising the liminal aspects of A Whistle in the Dark, the primary aim of the article is to focus on these contradictions and the resulting indeterminate identity that lies at the borderlines of Irish culture. This analysis is informed by Homi Bhabha’s concepts of hybridity and mimicry in relation to the dynamics of colonialism. Through the sense of failure that permeates the play, and the desire to escape the confinements of constructed identity categories, which restrict and trap the characters within ascribed identities, A Whistle in the Dark explores the boundaries between essentialising narratives of Irish identity, and a non-dialectical space. The nature of identity is further complicated by Bhabha’s hybrid voices and performances that allow for an indeterminate plurality of identities to exist in these liminal spaces where they are forced to make their own private myths fuse with the contemporary public identity they must inhabit.
“You look behind you as you could not then”: Embodied Cognition and Linguistic Confusion in Beckett’s “Heard in the Dark I”
Authors: Palmstierna Einarsson Charlotta
Published: May 2019

Samuel Beckett’s short story “Heard in the Dark I” points to the significance of the body for the process of reshaping experience and seeing the world afresh. Moreover, the situation that unfolds in the narrative constitutes a breaking with the habitual flow of things and introduces a path to something beyond linguistic meaning. Through the medium of text, the reader will encounter the movements described as if they were performed. That is to say, reading the meticulous descriptions of physical movements in the text forces the reader to engage with, and imaginatively perform, the very motions described. In so doing, Beckett prompts his reader to break with the habitual appropriation of language as a means to try to make “sense” of the text, turning our attention instead towards the body. By heightening the reader’s attention to the body, Beckett manages to return us to the particularity of presentation, and in this sense his texts are wake-up calls to perception.
Hunger: Passion of the Militant
Authors: Lynch John
Published: May 2019

This is a study of the 2008 film Hunger made by the British director Steve McQueen, a film that dramatises events in the Maze Prison in the period leading up to the 1981 Irish Republican hunger strike and death of Bobby Sands. It considers the filmic and artistic practice of McQueen in conjunction with certain concepts from the work of Deleuze and Guattari to develop a productive thinking about how the film addresses this traumatic event. Hunger employs a series of aesthetic techniques that push at the limits of the viewer’s senses and suggest new ways of thinking about the subject. McQueen’s concern to go beyond the clichés of the media coverage of the Irish conflict provides a unique insight into the production of a militant subjectivity generated by the opposition to the prison regime of the Maze in Belfast. Ultimately, however, it is argued that McQueen collapses into a form of religious iconicity that reinforces the Irish Republican mythology of suffering and redemption. Hunger, as a work of cinematic creation, offers a powerful sense of how resistance can be made manifest on screen yet, simultaneously, can become captured by the transcendental unity of identity thinking operating through the image of the romanticised face.
‘Not Sure What Is Going on Today’: Verbal Evidential Strategies in Celebrity Gossip Blogs
Authors: Esther Sánchez Margarita
Published: May 2019

Celebrity gossip blogs are rapidly becoming a widespread discursive practice to know the latest news about the rich and famous. Due to the numerous gossip blogs that exist in the blogosphere and their continuous flow of news, the bloggers feel the pressure of the immediacy that is linked to the readers’ frequent access so as to keep their knowledge updated. As a result of this informative frantic pace, the bloggers make use of a whole array of sources that provide them with the newest gossip. They then use this gossip to comment and further assess it through their own opinions. This study follows a quantitative and qualitative approach to a selection of celebrity gossip blogs in order to determine the most recurring verbal evidential strategies used by bloggers. Evidentials can be defined as those markers that indicate the source and reliability of the information. In particular, they refer to whether the information is seen, heard, reported, inferred, etc. The results of the study point to three main verbal strategies that reflect the blog writer’s acquisition of information: hearsay verbs attributed to external sources, mindsay and verbs of perception averred by the blogger. The use of these specific verbal markers suggests the writers’ wish to attract the audience so that they participate actively with their own comments regardless of the veracity of the gossip.
Features of Orality, Academic Writing and Interaction in Asynchronic Student Discussion Forums
Authors: Skogs Julie
Published: May 2019

This study employs quantitative and qualitative methods to compare the frequency and usage of selected linguistic features with a deictic function in discussion forum messages taken from three undergraduate courses in English. The main aim of the study was to examine how the written asynchronous interaction in the discussion forums relates to spoken registers (conversation and an oral academic seminar) and written academic prose; a secondary aim was to investigate student interaction. The results of the study show that the frequencies of the majority of features examined were positioned between the spoken registers and academic prose and that these features were sometimes used in structures typical of conversation and other times used in structures typical of academic prose.
Dante’s Dream: Rossetti’s Reading of the Vita Nuova Through the Lens of a Double Translation
Authors: Moriconi Chiara
Published: May 2019

Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s work as an interlinguistic and intersemiotic translator of the Vita Nuova reveals much about his characteristic adaptation of Dante to the new sensibility of Victorian poetry and art. After translating the episode of the dream of Beatrice’s death into English, Rossetti goes on to illustrate it in an early watercolor version (1865), and then in a final monumental oil (1871) which will be closely examined in this article. By focusing on both phases of Rossettian translation this article means to show how Rossetti derives from the Florentine a distinctively Dantesque iconographic repertoire which he then develops into a post-Romantic set of poetics. It is precisely in the distance between Dante’s poetry and Rossetti’s double works of art that the latter’s understanding of and autonomy from Dante has to be traced.
Revisiting the multifunctionality of the adverbials of ACT and FACT in a cross-linguistic perspective
Authors: Usonienė Aurelija , Šolienė Audronė , Šinkūnienė Jolanta
Published: May 2019

The last two decades have seen a great rise of interest in the corpus-based contrastive studies on the multifunctional nature of modal adverbials and discourse markers. Most of the attention has been devoted to the multifunctionality of the “actuality and reality” (Biber et al. 1999) adverbs actually, in fact, really, indeed and truly and their meanings have been proved to be very much discourse, syntactic and social context-dependent both diachronically and synchronically (Schwenter and Traugott 2000; Aijmer 2003; Paradis 2003; Aijmer and Simon-Vandenbergen 2004; Lewis 2006; Aijmer 2007; Mortier and Degand 2009; Defour et al. 2010; Simon-Vandenbergen 2013). The description of the complex and dynamic relief of their functional and semantic-pragmatic potential has been mainly based on the translation paradigm analysis. The languages dealt with are either Germanic (English, Dutch, Swedish) or Romance (French, Spanish). The present paper aims to check how the semantic pragmatic meanings of the two English adverbials (actually and in fact) are expressed in Lithuanian, a Baltic language. With the focus on the scope of multifunctionality of the adverbials under study an attempt will be made to find out how Lithuanian translation correspondences (TCs) ‘mirror’ the English actuality adverbials, i.e. how much language-specific or resembling the English adverbials the Lithuanian TCs are in terms of form and meaning. The study will also look at the pragmatic functions Lithuanian TCs perform in academic discourse thus attempting to arrive at the description of their functional potential.
Reading affective communities in a transnational space in Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies
Authors: Roy Binayak
Published: May 2019

This paper seeks to shed light on the formation of communities in a transnational space in Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies which chronicles the lives of a motley group of people who, after many upheavals, board the Ibis. The Ibis becomes a space where crosscultural caste, class, gender, and national collaborations blur all sorts of boundaries and enable the formation of new alliances. The ethics of compearance defiantly resists the instruments of power, colonial or otherwise, to orchestrate divisions and exclusions through its politics of immediate conjunction, conjuncture, coalition and collaboration. The paper tries to unravel how the novel presents the emergence of reconstituted families within contexts of domination and resistance. With the erasure of the boundaries of language, class and caste among these migrants, they replaced the notion of authentic, discrete national cultures with a shared openness to the world, espousing a utopian belief in a trans-racial human collectivity. The crisscrossing oceanic trading routes offer an affective map of the world of unlikely kinships and intimacies formed on the fluid world of the ocean as a consequence of the machinations and practices of Empire. The paper argues how the narrative creates a transnational space above the narrow confines of a singular culture, nation, territory and community, a free space (in a world without binaries) which is supposed to be above all temporal or spatial constraints.
The Taming of a Shrew: Composition as Induction to Authorship
Authors: Eriksen Roy
Published: May 2019

No abstract available.
The fact of metafiction in nineteenth-century American children’s literature: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s A Wonder Book and Elizabeth Stoddard’s Lolly Dinks’s Doings
Authors: Troy Maria Holmgren
Published: May 2019

This article examines two American books for children: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys (1851) and Elizabeth Stoddard’s Lolly Dinks’s Doings (1874). In both books, fairy tales or myths are framed by a contemporary American setting in which the stories is told. It is in these realistic frames with an adult storyteller and child listeners that metafictional features are found. The article shows that Hawthorne and Stoddard use a variety of metafictional elements. So, although metafiction has been regarded as a postmodernist development in children’s literature, there are in fact instances of metafiction in nineteenth-century American children’s literature.
Reading literature rhetorically in education: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ‘The Prison-Door’ as an exercise in close reading
Authors: Ullén Magnus
Published: May 2019

Despite the many historical links between literature and rhetoric, teachers of literature have made relatively few attempts to draw on rhetoric for teaching purposes. The present article suggests how this may be done, and argues for the pedagogical benefits of taking a rhetorical approach to literature. By means of a close reading of the first chapter of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, I demonstrate how a text may be systematically explored through the five steps (partes) of the classical rhetorical process. In conclusion, it suggests that rhetoric may be a means to bridge the gap between the many facets of English as a second language subject, as rhetoric provides a holistic framework allowing us to study literature and culture as language, and vice versa.
No one is “pro-politically correct”: Positive construals of political correctness in Twitter conversations
Authors: Wikström Peter
Published: May 2019

This study investigates use of the contested term politically correct (PC) in written conversational exchanges on Twitter. PC is sometimes assumed to be entirely a fabrication by conservatives or the far right, not a label that anyone would voluntarily attach to themselves. This study focuses on discursive instantiations of PC that challenge this assumption by construing PC favorably. To this end, a small set of conversations featuring more-or-less clearly positive construals of PC, selected from an initial material of 184 Twitter conversations containing the target phrase “politically correct,” are analyzed in detail. The aim is to see how such construals appear and function in everyday discourse.
Ex uno plures: A case for monosemy
Authors: Wherrity Michael
Published: May 2019

In this article I address the issue of word meaning: Do lexical items have many meanings or do they have one basic meaning which speakers exploit in various contexts to achieve their communicative goals? While most cognitivists assume the former, there are some others who opt for basic meanings. In what follows I propose that both analyses can be used to advantage if the semantic variation that exists among linguistic items is considered. In effect, I suggest that while semantically rich words do exhibit polysemy, more schematic, semantically sparse items are best explained in terms of basic meanings.
Swedish hinna viewed through its English correspondences – have time or be able to?
Authors: Johansson Mats , Nordrum Lene
Published: May 2019

This article considers the Swedish verb hinna and its English correspondences in the English-Swedish Parallel Corpus – both in the direction Swedish original to English translation and in the direction English original to Swedish translation. Swedish hinna lacks a straightforward equivalent in English; thus its English correspondences in parallel corpora can shed light on its meaning and use, as described in the method ‘seeing language through multilingual corpora’ (Johansson 2007). The results for hinna suggest that hinna is monosemous, but that its core meaning is enriched by implied ones (presupposition and conversational implicature). Based on the observed translations and sources of hinna, we propose that in the majority of our data hinna denotes time sufficiency and also presupposes ability and conversationally implicates actualization. We relate our discussion of hinna to van der Auwera and Plungian’s (1998) semantic map of modality, in which ability and sufficiency are seen as contiguous modal meanings.1