Annotated corpora are invaluable resources for researchers in the humanities: on the one hand, for natural processing tasks, they can serve as standards against which results from new automatic methods can be measured; on the other hand, in corpus-based studies, they enable either to answer existing research questions or to explore original ones. In this respect, some annotation frameworks such...

This article addresses to what extent literary critics in the United States, the Netherlands and Germany have drawn ethnic boundaries in their reviews of ethnic minority writers between 1983 and 2009 and to what extent these boundaries have changed in the course of ethnic minority writers’ careers and across time? By analyzing newspaper reviews, we find that American reviewers less often mentio...

It is generally accepted that the practice of medicine could be improved by turning to the humanities in general, and to narrative and text interpretation in particular. Neverthless, there is hardly any agreement as to the nature of the clinical text, whether it be the patient's narrative that needs to be richly understood, or the patient as patient who must be both personally and clinically de...

In literary histories written in both Iran and the West it has generally be assumed that early modern Persian literary works are (technically inferior) copies of Western literary works. This has been and is still a claim. Almost no academically and scientifically sound works has substantiated this claim. While there is no point in denying a European influence on early modern Persian literature,...

The present article has the general objective of conducting a comparative study between two Portuguese language textbooks for 8th year Elementary School – Final Years: “Singular e Plural: leitura, produção estudos de linguagem”, by Balthasar and Goulart (2015) “Tecendo Linguagens: Língua Portuguesa”, Oliveira Araújo (2018), used in municipal public schools city Carpina-PE. Based on assumptions ...

Since the emergence in the 1960s of English Language as a university subject in its own right, the relationship between the study of literature and the study of language has often been one of bitter rivalry. Literary critics have railed against the ‘cold’, ‘scientific’ approach used by scholars of language in their analyses of literary texts, whilst linguists have accused their literary colleag...

n Calibrations, Ato Quayson provides us with a highly stimulating and thoughtprovoking method by which the literary aesthetic domain is read in order to shed light on larger social processes (xv).' Although there is some fluidity in the direction of this movement of thought, the motivating factor, indeed the primary interest in the aesthetic, is to put it to use for an understanding of the "soc...

This article reports on an UKLA funded study which is working with young readers to explore the use of fictional texts interrogate raciolinguistic ideologies in schools. We draw data generated from workshops where students read and responded Front Desk, a 2018 novel by Chinese writer Kelly Yang, centres around immigrant girl who target systemic language discrimination. describe how literary mig...