Abstract The work of the French illustrator and writer Gilles Bachelet has been recognised through numerous awards, but he is not yet sufficiently well known in critical community. In this article, multilevel humour that constructs his studied, both from an iconic a textual perspective, as situational characters emerge metafiction, self-referentiality heteroreferentiality. For purpose, theories...

Products embody possibilities for performativity in everyday actions. These are eliminated the design process to create usage scenarios. But users interpret product use terms of performativity. Product cases discussed borrowed from performance art literature: iterability, referentiality, delegated performance, as a set task-based instructions outsourced other people, allowing construction, enab...

Abstract Modernist literature was obsessed with a metaphysical problem regarding the word. A series of formal and material experiments started to address word’s self-referentiality aesthetic autonomy, against backdrop new sociocultural milieu in early twentieth century. To discover how this materialisation language explored interplay literary artistic modernisms, paper will critically scrutinis...

Roberts’s short stories have not received extensive scholarly attention, yet they make up a substantial part of her oeuvre. Her output is configured in particular and coherent way, one that overlaps with novels, but consistent itself. This configuration summed by the term plenitude. Abundance noted in: genre mood—in shifts mixture comic dark; characters settings—the range female figures present...

Nonhuman primates mostly communicate not only with a rich vocal repertoire but also manual and body gestures. In contrast to great apes, this latter communicative gestural system has been poorly investigated in monkeys. the last 15 years, research we conducted baboons Papio anubis, an Old World monkey species, have shown potential direct evolutionary continuities some key properties of language...

this paper examines cases of the translator's presence in translated narrative texts. after reviewing the literature, hermans believes that a translated text belongs to the second voice which is always present in a translation. the paper elaborates, through some translated passages into persian, upon three cases of a translator's presence; namely, cases where the text’s orientation to...

The interview is a follow-up from Samantha Frost’s article, ‘The Attentive Body’, in Body & Society 26(4). Tomoko Tamari invites Frost to explore her interest ‘biocultural creatures’, with its focus on ‘bodies’ responsive self-transformation’ epigenetic processes, and unfolds Peirce’s account of the index for understanding meaning-making biological processes. also introduces Katherine Hayle...

Abstract The article addresses the question of what happens to internal linguistic variability in a language contact situation by looking at how first-generation Russian immigrants Germany use two variants possessive pronouns (reflexive and non-reflexive) for referencing subject. To extent does frequency variants, as well constraints on their use, remain same monolingual variety, or change conv...

This article proposes a ‘topological’ reinterpretation of the extended nominal architecture in relation to southern Italo-Romance vocatives with and without allocuzione inversa (‘address inversion’, Renzi 1968), phenomenon involving ‘inverse’ lexical indexation speaker-addressee relationship (reg.It. Mangia, papà! ‘Eat up, little one!’, father child). Topological Mapping Theory (Longobardi 2005...