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...

The novels commissioned and published as part of the Hogarth Shakespeare project involve a series recontextualisations Shakespeare’s work, not only from genre drama to that prose or range established subgenres, but choice author adapt it may also serve locate adaptation in very specific microgenre defined by connotations engendered modern author’s oeuvre – frame its reception accordingly. artic...

This article places the Kenyan intellectual Ngũ gũ wa Thiong’o’s Wizard of the Crow (2006) in what has until now been seen as a predominantly Latin American tradition of dictator novels. Dictator novels unmask the intrinsic fallibility of power. The purported omnipotence of the dictator is undermined by dictation: that is, by his power’s reliance on the shifty and ambiguous medium of language, ...

Using José Saramago's (1922-2010) novel "The history of the siege Lisbon" (1989) as a model and example, this article attempts to demonstrate function multiperspective narrative structures in metahistoriographical novels, making reference Vera Ansgar Nünning. It discusses problem supposed objectivity studies invisibility marginalised groups, who should no longer be exclusively focus description...

Previous critical readings of Toni Morrison’s novels, especially Paradise, largely emphasise the universal themes explored in her novels, namely, feminism, culture, psychology, and of course, her remarkable presentation of African-Americans in racial and cultural conflicts. Yet, there are major areas that remain unexplored in her works. One of the most conspicuous absences is Morrison’s dominan...

Using a critical discourse analytic model of translation criticism, the present study attempts to explore the effect of ideology and idiosyncrasy on the lexical choices in translation studies. The study employed a descriptive approach to answer two research questions: Is there any relationship between ideology and idiosyncratic features of translators' lexical choices? And if yes, can it be ana...

Studies of language in dementia have concluded that, along with a general cognitive decline, linguistic features are also negatively affected. Studies of the language of healthy elders also observe a linguistic decline, but one which, in contrast, is markedly less severe than that induced by dementia. In this paper, we examine whether the disease can be detected from the diachronic changes in w...