Self-Fashioning and Poetic Voice: Elizabeth Singer Rowe’s Authorial Prerogative

Singer Identification in Popular Music Recordings Using Voice Coding Features Singer Identification in Popular Music Recordings Using Voice Coding Features

In most popular music, the vocals sung by the lead singer are the focal point of the song. The unique qualities of a singer’s voice make it relatively easy for us to identify a song as belonging to that particular artist. With little training, if one i s familiar with a particular singer’s voice one can usually recognize that voice in other pieces, even when hearing a song for the first time. T...

A new self-administered questionnaire to determine patient experience with voice prostheses (Blom-Singer valves).

AIM To obtain information about valved speech and related issues in patients who have undergone total laryngectomy with the help of a new structured questionnaire on voice prosthesis. SETTINGS AND DESIGN A questionnaire-based pilot study set at a tertiary referral head and neck cancer unit. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty-five patients using voice prostheses, who showed no signs of recurrence ...

Fashion and Self-Fashioning: Clothing Regulation in Renaissance Europe

Introduction In 1378 a ten-year-old girl named Nicolosa was fined fourteen lire for wearing a fine silk gown with tassels on the streets of Florence. In 1398 a prostitute of the same city was prosecuted for failing to wear high-heeled slippers and a bell on her head. All across Italy officials were sent to weddings, funerals and general social gatherings to ensure that the participants were wea...

Review of Paula Backscheider , Elizabeth Singer Rowe and the Development of the English Novel

Authorial Voice Behind the Use of Multimodal Metaphors in Fashion Magazine Advertising

This paper proposes the integration into a coherent whole of current insights from two linguistic approaches, cognitive and systemic functional linguistics, with the aim of trying to develop an analytical tool that will allow users a deeper understanding when examining advertising discourse, which is characterized by relying on a multimodal universe since two are the semiotic modes used: langua...