Purpose – This paper’s purpose is to show how literary texts can be used as a source for gaining insights into social practices, including accounting. It aims to deepen our understanding of such social practices in their cultural, social, economic and political contexts by examining portrayals of business and accounting transactions and of reflections of social and economic concerns in two Germ...

We present an approach to the extraction of family relations from literary narrative, which incorporates a technique for utterance attribution proposed recently by Elson and McKeown (2010). In our work this technique is used in combination with the detection of vocatives — the explicit forms of address used by the characters in a novel. We take advantage of the fact that certain vocatives indic...

My article explores some aspects of Theodor W. Adorno's work in relation to contemporary music general and electroacoustic particular. Let us recall that Adorno never seriously considered the latter, which he regarded more as a technological bricolage than legitimate source for production works. One purposes this paper is demonstrate under definition musique informelle, opens wide door all musi...