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Modern Languages Open @modlangopen.bsky.social · 14d

📣 NEW: 'Odessa, Vienna and Jerusalem: Zionism, Performative Nationhood and Multinational Empires' by @ralexm.bsky.social examines Zionism within multinational empires and the performative nature of national demands within this economy.
Read it #OA: bit.ly/Marshall-MLO
@europeinthepub.bsky.social

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Modern Languages Open @modlangopen.bsky.social · 19d

Popular this week ⬇️
'“Everything Remains the Same”: Julio Camba Travelling Spain' by David Miranda-Barreiro @bangormodlangs.bsky.social
Read it #OpenAccess: bit.ly/Julio-Camba-Travelling-Spain
@benschofield.bsky.social @drmirnasolic.bsky.social @abilox.bsky.social

'Minoritised Languages and Travel' written in white on a teal background with an image in black and white to the right - ATTRIBUTION for the illustration which introduces the collection: Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru - The National Library of Wales . Title: Foreign correspondent that specializes in broadcasting visiting Caernarfon. Author: Charles, Geoff 1909-2002. License: http://creativecommons.org/licences/by-nc-nd/2.0/uk/.

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Modern Languages Open @modlangopen.bsky.social · 22d

Institutions & libraries can become members of MLO for £3,000/$3,900, allowing scholars to publish 5 #OpenAccess articles for the price of 4 without time limit (subject to rigorous peer review). This equates to a saving of £750/$975! 💰
Find out more: bit.ly/MLO-Membership @ilcs.bsky.social

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Modern Languages Open @modlangopen.bsky.social · 26d

'Bodies of Evidence: The Depiction of Violence Against Female Characters in Late Imperial Russian Crime Fiction' by Claire Whitehead and Grace Docherty has also been popular this week.
Read it #OpenAccess via MLO: bit.ly/BodofEv
@sta-modlangs.bsky.social @lostdetectives.bsky.social

'Bodies of Evidence: The Depiction of Violence Against Female Characters in Late Imperial Russian Crime Fiction' written on a light blue banner with the authors names on a blue banner beneath: Claire Whitehead and Grace Docherty.

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Modern Languages Open @modlangopen.bsky.social · 29d

'Ideological and Theoretical Considerations to Postcolonial Education in the Lusophone Countries' by Nicola Bermingham and Paul O’Neill is popular this week.
➡️ Read it #OpenAccess: bit.ly/BerOn
@spanishinsoc.bsky.social @drmirnasolic.bsky.social @abilox.bsky.social

'Language and Education in the Lusophone Countries: Theory and Practice – Língua e educação nos países lusófonos: teoria e prática' written in white text on a blue background with a child's illustration of the alphabet featured to the right.

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Modern Languages Open @modlangopen.bsky.social · Sep 5

James Rann asks an important question this week from the special collection guest edited alongside @victoriadonovan.bsky.social & @daryatsymbalyuk.bsky.social.
He asks: 'Does Impact Reinforce the Boundary Between the Academy and the World?'
Read it #OpenAccess, only on MLO: bit.ly/MLO-Rann

'Slavic Studies Goes Public: Who? What? Why? Where? When?' written in white overlaying a photograph of seven people stood on a cloudy beach.

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Modern Languages Open @modlangopen.bsky.social · Sep 2

Popular article on MLO this week⬇️
'Investigating the Canon: The Reader as Detective in Reworkings of Madame Bovary and Jane Eyre' by Dr Katie Jones @standrewsenglish.bsky.social
Read it #OpenAccess: bit.ly/_Detective
@saraharens.bsky.social @ritorneropoeta.bsky.social @saramarzagora.bsky.social

'Investigating the Canon: The Reader as Detective in Reworkings of Madame Bovary and Jane Eyre' by Katie Jones on a purple and lilac banner.

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Modern Languages Open @modlangopen.bsky.social · Aug 27

Popular this week on #MLO 📣
'Black Skin, Red Masques: Reading Frantz Fanon and Audre Lorde in Tension with Edgar Allan Poe' by @xineyaophd.bsky.social @qucl.bsky.social
Read it #OpenAccess on MLO: bit.ly/BlackSkin-RedMasques
@timb-m.bsky.social @uclselcs.bsky.social @ucldiscovery.bsky.social

UNMASKING THE RED DEATH: A special collection from Modern Languages Open written in white over a red tinted surrealist image of a girl floating on a theatre stage with red floating lampshades.

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Modern Languages Open @modlangopen.bsky.social · Aug 25

@hpartzsch.bsky.social @drmirnasolic.bsky.social @abilox.bsky.social @svshh.bsky.social @joannebrueton.bsky.social @politonaiz.bsky.social @naswells.bsky.social @benschofield.bsky.social @spanishinsoc.bsky.social

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Modern Languages Open @modlangopen.bsky.social · Aug 25

MLO Membership Explained 🔐
Once a library purchases an MLO membership (£3,000), this allows their scholars to publish 5 Open Access articles for the price of 4, saving £750!*

Find out more: bit.ly/MLO-Membership
*subject to rigorous peer review
@ilcs.bsky.social @cmlangs.bsky.social

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Modern Languages Open @modlangopen.bsky.social · Aug 19

'Divergent: A Corpus-assisted Semantic/Semiotic Study of Eresia, “Heresy”, in Contemporary Written Italian' by Caterina Guardamagna offers a corpus-assisted lexical semantic/semiotic analysis of the noun eresia “heresy":

@livunihss.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social @sotauol.bsky.social

Divergent: A Corpus-assisted Semantic/Semiotic Study of Eresia, “Heresy”, in Contemporary Written Italian' by Caterina Guardamagna is written in white text on top of a purple and blue set of horizontal banners.

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Modern Languages Open @modlangopen.bsky.social · Jul 25

The article examines the use of ethnographic theories and practices as key lynchpins in a broader system of experiential and holistic approaches to language and cultural learning. Read the full article #OpenAccess, only on MLO: bit.ly/MLO-Ethnography

Ethnography and Modern Languages | Modern Languages Open

While rarely explicitly recognized in our disciplinary frameworks, the openness and curiosity on which Modern Languages in the UK is founded are, in many ways, ethnographic impulses. Ethnographic…

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Modern Languages Open @modlangopen.bsky.social · Jul 25

Popular this week: 'Ethnography and Modern Languages' by @naswells.bsky.social, @cforsdick.bsky.social, Jessica Bradley, Charles Burdett, Jennifer Burns, Marion Demossier, Margaret Hills de Zárate, @svshh.bsky.social, Shirley Jordan, @theapitman.bsky.social & Georgia Wall ⬇️

'Ethnography and Modern Languages' by Naomi Wells, Charles Forsdick, Jessica Bradley,
Charles Burdett, Jennifer Burns, Marion Demossier, Margaret Hills de Zárate, Saskia Huc-Hepher, Shirley Jordan, Thea Pitman, and Georgia Wall on a series of light and mid blue banners.

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Modern Languages Open @modlangopen.bsky.social · Jul 22

NEW ARTICLE: Un, Dos, y Juntos: Interpretation, Incommensurability, and Linguistic Evolution in Juana Adcock’s “Thirteen Ways of Inhabiting a Language” by Calum MacLean Esler @sgsah.bsky.social @clairesquires.bsky.social
Read it #OA: bit.ly/MLO-Esler
@hpartzsch.bsky.social @drmirnasolic.bsky.social

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Modern Languages Open @modlangopen.bsky.social · Jul 17

Popular article: 📣 'Becoming Musicomic: Music and Comics in Resonance' by Armelle Blin-Rolland asks what happens when music and comics are created and experienced together?
Read the article #OpenAccess via MLO: bit.ly/Pitman-MLO
@ilcs.bsky.social @imagecomics.com #comics

'Becoming Musicomic: Music and Comics in Resonance' by Armelle Blin-Rolland written in purple and blue banners with the MLO banner at the bottom of the graphic.

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Modern Languages Open @modlangopen.bsky.social · Jun 26

📣 NEW ARTICLE: '“Second Generations” and Identity in Andrea Cotti’s Luca Wu Series: An Opportunity for a Fruitful Intercultural and Transnational Dialogue in Italian Crime Fiction' by Marco Paoli @livunihss.bsky.social‬ @livunilanguages.bsky.social
Read it OA via MLO: bit.ly/MarcoPaoli-MLO

'“Second Generations” and Identity in Andrea Cotti’s Luca Wu Series: An Opportunity for a Fruitful Intercultural and Transnational Dialogue in Italian Crime Fiction' by Marco Paoli is written in white text on a light and mid blue banner.

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Modern Languages Open @modlangopen.bsky.social · Jun 19

'Navigating the Public Sphere in an Era of Misinformation' by Jessica Zychowicz discusses definitions, challenges and opportunities of research on post-Soviet Ukraine. Read the #OpenAccess article for free via MLO: bit.ly/Zychowicz-MLO @victoriadonovan.bsky.social @daryatsymbalyuk.bsky.social

'Navigating the Public Sphere in an Era of Misinformation' by Jessica Zychowicz on a blue and purple background banner.

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Modern Languages Open @modlangopen.bsky.social · Jun 16

Learn more about extended reality linguistics in @aalsayed.bsky.social 's work on 'Extended Reality Language Research: Data Sources, Taxonomy and the Documentation of Embodied Corpora' available #OpenAccess on MLO: bit.ly/4aL2HOK @dh-researchhub.bsky.social @ukiedh.bsky.social @ucldh.bsky.social

'Extended Reality Language Research: Data Sources, Taxonomy and the Documentation of Embodied Corpora' by Abdulrahman A. A. Alsayed in blue banners.

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Modern Languages Open @modlangopen.bsky.social · Jun 10

'The English Way to Italian Socialism: The PCI, ‘Red Bologna’ and Italian Communist Culture as Seen through the English Prism' by @marzmac.bsky.social is popular this week. Read it #OA on MLO: bit.ly/Maccaferri-MLO @psa-italian.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social

'The English Way to Italian Socialism: The PCI, ‘Red Bologna’ and Italian Communist Culture as Seen through the English Prism' by Marzia Maccaferri on a blue and pink banner.

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Modern Languages Open @modlangopen.bsky.social · Jun 5

Part of the Reading and Writing in Transit special collection, this article links the practices of poet Caroline Bergvall to wider questions stemming from new materialist approaches to language in order to examine translation’s crucial role in shaping literature.

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Modern Languages Open @modlangopen.bsky.social · Jun 5

NEW ARTICLE: 'Losing One’s Way: Poet as Nomadic Translator in Caroline Bergvall’s “Via” and Drift' by Gareth Hughes. Read it #OpenAccess on MLO: bit.ly/Hughes-MLO @hpartzsch.bsky.social @drmirnasolic.bsky.social‪ @llc-rhul.bsky.social‬

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Modern Languages Open @modlangopen.bsky.social · May 30

'Identity, Interculturality, and Language Learning on British Television' by @rahaworth.bsky.social is popular this week - read the full article #OA via MLO: bit.ly/3wpWBDQ @iniis.bsky.social @studyemmir.bsky.social @journalics.bsky.social @language-learn.bsky.social @innovationllt.bsky.social

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Modern Languages Open @modlangopen.bsky.social · May 26

'Contemporary British Travel Writing on Italy and British Broadsheets: Tobias Jones, John Hooper and Tim Parks' by Kate Willman is popular this week. Read it #OpenAccess on MLO: bit.ly/Willman-MLO @ilcs.bsky.social @psa-italian.bsky.social

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Modern Languages Open @modlangopen.bsky.social · May 19

'The Media Intertextuality of “Que Tiro Foi Esse”: Tracking the Circulation of (Stray) Bullets in and through a Brazilian Internet Meme' explores the function of memes as “cultural touchstones” by @toririo.bsky.social. Read it Open Access on MLO: bit.ly/QTFE-Holmes @ilcs.bsky.social

A purple blue and pale blue series of banners with the article title written on top in white 'The Media Intertextuality of “Que Tiro Foi Esse”: Tracking the Circulation of (Stray) Bullets in and through a Brazilian Internet Meme.'

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Modern Languages Open @modlangopen.bsky.social · May 13

This article is collaborative photo-essay that examines the narratives and broader significance of the documentary film about the parallel lives of miners in Eastern and Western Ukraine.