It is generally assumed that orthographic-phonological (O-P) consistencies are higher for Japanese kana words than for kanji words and that orthographic-semantic (O-S) consistencies are higher for kanji words than for kana words. In order to examine the validity of these assumptions, we attempted to measure the O-P and O-S consistencies for 339 kana words and 775 kanji words. Orthographic neigh...

Konstantina Zanou's Transnational patriotism is a thought-provoking book, which offers multi-faceted perspective on its subject that brings together scholarship nationalism and diasporas with modern Greek Italian intellectual history. Written in lively accessible language based thorough research, it makes the reader rethink some of major dilemmas our own time while still remaining true to persp...