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Rhetorical humanism vs. objectoriented ontology: The ethics of archimedean points and levers

Allen, Ira J. (University of Wisconsin Press, 2014)
Lebanese youth narratives: a bleak post-war landscape

Khalaf, Roseanne Saad (2014)

To identify the themes that define the lives of a generation living in a conflict-ridden post-war society, I explore the changing views of Lebanese students through an analysis of the personal narrative texts that they ...
“the worst part of the dead past”: Language attitudes, policies, and pedagogies at syrian protestant college, 1866–1902

Arnold, Lisa R. (National Council of Teachers of English, 2014)

To underline the value of composition’s international and multilingual history, this article presents an account of language attitudes, policies, and pedagogies at Syrian Protestant College (Beirut) between 1866 and 1902, ...
A Case Study of Construct State Nominals: Extending the Predication Approach

Choueiri, Lina (Brill Academic Publishers, 2014)

This paper deals with a class of non-canonical construct state nominals, whose annex is non-nominal. More specifically, it examines the properties these non-canonical constructs share with canonical construct state nominals, ...
The postcolonial Joe Sacco

Hodapp, James M. (Routledge, 2015)

Joe Saccos almost universally lauded comics frequently reveal issues and people that are overlooked or misrepresented in western media. Whether these are Palestinians, African immigrants in Malta, or Indian villagers, Sacco ...
The problematic and pragmatic pedagogy of world literature

Hodapp, James M. (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015)

In addressing the reemergence of world literature as a discipline, critics such as Emily Apter and Gayatri Spivak gesture to the problem of the scale of world literature in trying to preserve the value of localized knowledge. ...
Extending the scope of speaking assessment criteria in a specific-purpose language test: Operationalizing a health professional perspective

O'Hagan, Sally; Pill, John; Zhang, Ying (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2015)

Criticism of specific-purpose language (LSP) tests is often directed at their limited ability to represent fully the demands of the target language use situation. Such criticisms extend to the criteria used to assess test ...
Milton and Islam: Bridging Cultures

Currell, David; Gleyzon, François Xavier (Routledge, 2015)
Meditations on Mediation: John Milton and the Muslim Jesus

Currell, David (Routledge, 2015)

This paper explores theological and textual confluences between John Milton and Islamic theology. Rather than argue for the direct influence of Islamic sources on Milton, a series of historical and intellectual contexts ...
Swinburne reads Keats: Prostitution, pornography and the decadence of aesthetic critique

Gonsalves, Joshua David (Cogent OA, 2015)

Keats and Swinburne loom large as purveyors of the “aesthetic” in its early and late nineteenth-century forms—that is, as a discourse of subject-formation through the exercise of tasteful distinction and as a self-referential ...
Troubled freedom, rhetorical personhood, and democracy’s ongoing constitution

Allen, Ira J. (Taylor and Francis Inc., 2015)

Freedom is a contested concept, at once bound up with and promising transcendence of social bonds. This article examines the understanding of freedom particular to rhetorical theory, a troubled freedom that is the negotiation ...
How much is enough? Involving occupational experts in setting standards on a specific-purpose language test for health professionals

Pill, John; McNamara, Tim F. (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2015)

This paper considers how to establish the minimum required level of professionally relevant oral communication ability in the medium of English for health practitioners with English as an additional language (EAL) to gain ...
The Different Styles of Christine de Pizan. An Initial Stylometric Analysis

Richards, Earl Jeffrey; Wrisley, David Joseph; Dulac, Liliane (Brepols Publishers, 2016)

This article attempts to identify the different styles employed by Christine de Pizan in all of her works using empirically based stylometric analysis. The results, at once heuristic but also statistically significant, ...
The influence of vowel laryngealisation and duration on the rhythmic grouping preferences of Zapotec speakers

Crowhurst, Megan J.; Kelly, Niamh Eileen; Teodocio, Amador (Academic Press, 2016)

Some studies of human rhythmic grouping biases (RGBs) have found that listeners tend to perceive greater duration as marking group endings, a long-last RGB that has been related to preboundary lengthening in languages. ...
Modeling the transmission of al-mubashshir ibn fātik's mukhtār al-hikam in medieval Europe: Some initial data-driven explorations

Wrisley, David Joseph (Brill Academic Publishers, 2016)

This article addresses the transmission of a mid-eleventh century Arabic compilation of Hellenic wisdom, al-Mubashshir Ibn Fātik's Mukhtār al-Hikam wa-mahāsin al-kalim, into medieval European languages. It documents new ...
The Pronominal Copula in Arabic

Choueiri, Lina (Brill Academic Publishers, 2016)

The literature on the syntax of verbless predication in Arabic is rich, but little attention has been given to the 'pronominal copula', PRON. Its main characteristics are well-known: it only takes the form of third person ...
Sex and love as routes for border crossing and homing desire in anglophone Lebanese fiction

Hout, Syrine C. (Routledge, 2016)

This article marshals key concepts from studies of diasporic literatures and close readings of two post-civil war anglophone Lebanese novels – Koolaids: The Art of War by Rabih Alameddine and De Niro’s Game by Rawi Hage – ...
Drawing on indigenous criteria for more authentic assessment in a specific-purpose language test: Health professionals interacting with patients

Pill, John (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2016)

The indigenous assessment practices (Jacoby & McNamara, 1999) in selected health professions were investigated to inform a review of the scope of assessment in the speaking sub-test of a specific purpose English language ...
God Terms and Activity Systems: A Definition of Religion for Political Science

Allen, Ira J.; Allen, Saul (SAGE Publications Inc., 2016)

Political science struggles, sometimes more than it knows, to study religion's relationship with politics, democratic and otherwise. The difficulty is in part theoretical. This paper synthesizes diverse strains in recent ...
What is Out There to Resist? : Critical Terrains and Clashing Creeds in under the Bombs

Hout, Syrine C. (Brill Academic Publishers, 2016)

This article demonstrates that Philippe Aractingi's 2007 Under the Bombs-produced in response to the July 2006 war between Lebanon and Israel-is a docudrama in the form of a road(block) movie, whose internal borders are ...

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