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Cosmotechnics from an Anthropotechnological Perspective (2020)
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Pavanini, M. (2020). Cosmotechnics from an Anthropotechnological Perspective. Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities, 25(4), 26-38. https://doi.org/10.1080/0969725x.2020.1790833

Yuk Hui’s concept of cosmotechnics provides us with an excellent theoretical device to investigate the role of technology in relation to a culture’s self-understanding. This paper, in the first place, aims to contextualise Hui’s reflexion on cosmotec... Read More about Cosmotechnics from an Anthropotechnological Perspective.

Semantic and attentional networks in bilingual processing: fMRI connectivity signatures of translation directionality (2020)
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Zheng, B., Báez, S., Su, L., Xiang, X., Weis, S., Ibáñez, A., & García, A. M. (2020). Semantic and attentional networks in bilingual processing: fMRI connectivity signatures of translation directionality. Brain and Cognition, 143, Article 105584. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2020.105584

Comparisons between backward and forward translation (BT, FT) have long illuminated the organization of bilingual memory, with neuroscientific evidence indicating that FT would involve greater linguistic and attentional demands. However, no study has... Read More about Semantic and attentional networks in bilingual processing: fMRI connectivity signatures of translation directionality.

Review of García (2019): The Neurocognition of Translation and Interpreting (2020)
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Zheng, B., & Xie, M. (2021). Review of García (2019): The Neurocognition of Translation and Interpreting. Target: International Journal of Translation Studies, 33(1), 157-162. https://doi.org/10.1075/target.20055.zhe

Since the beginning of Translation and Interpreting Studies (TIS), multiple disciplines have been involved in the field, making it “a house of many rooms” (Neubert and Shreve 1994, vii). As process-oriented TIS started to attract increasing attention... Read More about Review of García (2019): The Neurocognition of Translation and Interpreting.

Allocation of cognitive resources in English-to-Chinese translation: An eye-tracking, key-logging and retrospective think-aloud study（英译汉过程中译者的认知资源分配模式——基于眼动、键击和反省法的实证研究） (2020)
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Wang, Y., & Zheng, B. (2020). Allocation of cognitive resources in English-to-Chinese translation: An eye-tracking, key-logging and retrospective think-aloud study（英译汉过程中译者的认知资源分配模式——基于眼动、键击和反省法的实证研究）

Deseo narrativo en la cronística post-alfonsí (2020)
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Hijano, M. (2020). Deseo narrativo en la cronística post-alfonsí. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 97(5), 465-478. https://doi.org/10.3828/bhs.2020.27

La Estoria de Espanna de Alfonso X dio lugar a una serie de reescrituras en los dos siglos después de su composición. Este artículo sitúa uno de los textos que la continúa –la Crónica particular de San Fernando– en su contexto histórico y discursivo... Read More about Deseo narrativo en la cronística post-alfonsí.

Disturbance and Destruction: The Aetiology of Trauma (2020)
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Haukedal, R. S. (2020). Disturbance and Destruction: The Aetiology of Trauma. Culture, Theory and Critique, 61(1), 22-36. https://doi.org/10.1080/14735784.2020.1762101

In this article, I examine Catherine Malabou’s concept of trauma, and argue that her replacement of the Freudian unconscious with the cerebral unconscious might fit adequately into a different framework from the one she proposes. Comparing her view o... Read More about Disturbance and Destruction: The Aetiology of Trauma.

Cultural trauma and its impact on the Iraqi Assyrian experience of identity (2020)
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Kassem, N., & Jackson, M. (2020). Cultural trauma and its impact on the Iraqi Assyrian experience of identity. Social Identities, 26(3), 388-402. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504630.2020.1762557

This article explores the impact of a century of cultural trauma and marginalisation on the shaping of modern Iraqi Assyrians’ identity and their present-day experiences, including their decisions and sense of belonging to their homeland. Using quest... Read More about Cultural trauma and its impact on the Iraqi Assyrian experience of identity.

Consultation behaviour with online resources in English-Chinese translation: an eye-tracking, screen-recording and retrospective study (2020)
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Cui, Y., & Zheng, B. (2021). Consultation behaviour with online resources in English-Chinese translation: an eye-tracking, screen-recording and retrospective study. Perspectives, 29(5), 740-760. https://doi.org/10.1080/0907676x.2020.1760899

This paper investigates the interaction between translators’ perceived translation problems and their online consultation behaviours, and how different consultation behaviours affect translation acceptability. Previous studies indicate that online co... Read More about Consultation behaviour with online resources in English-Chinese translation: an eye-tracking, screen-recording and retrospective study.

Visualizing Elemental Ontology in the Livre des propriétés des choses (2020)
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Sunderland, L. (2020). Visualizing Elemental Ontology in the Livre des propriétés des choses. Romanic Review, 111(1), 106-127. https://doi.org/10.1215/00358118-8007978

This essay offers an encounter with Bruno Latour’s account of ontological pluralism by way of a close reading of the Livre des propriétés des choses, Jean Corbechon’s fourteenth-century French translation of Bartholomaeus Anglicus’s encyclopedia. Eng... Read More about Visualizing Elemental Ontology in the Livre des propriétés des choses.

The Transnational/Translational in Italian Studies (2020)
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Burdett, C., Havely, N., & Polezzi, L. (2020). The Transnational/Translational in Italian Studies. Italian Studies, 75(2), 223-236. https://doi.org/10.1080/00751634.2020.1744869

Playing on Apter’s ‘translational transnationalism’ and on the tension between the national and global, this article asks what it means to think translationally and transnationally in the context of Italian studies. The three authors explore both the... Read More about The Transnational/Translational in Italian Studies.

‘Y dice que adora piedras’: Poma de Ayala y la construcción discursiva de la materialidad de las idolatrías indígenas (2020)
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Leon Llerena, L. (2020). ‘Y dice que adora piedras’: Poma de Ayala y la construcción discursiva de la materialidad de las idolatrías indígenas. Letras (Lima), 91(133), 233-252. https://doi.org/10.30920/letras.91.133.10

Este ensayo analiza las estrategias narrativas de Guaman Poma de Ayala para abordar las ideas de materialidad en la cultura andina. Este trabajo se concentra en el sistema descriptivo y clasificatorio desplegado en la Nueva corónica y buen gobierno p... Read More about ‘Y dice que adora piedras’: Poma de Ayala y la construcción discursiva de la materialidad de las idolatrías indígenas.

Tracing Squiggles: Laurence Sterne, E. T. A. Hoffmann, and Honoré de Balzac (2020)
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Dickson, P. (2020). Tracing Squiggles: Laurence Sterne, E. T. A. Hoffmann, and Honoré de Balzac. Comparative Literature, 72(1), 53-67. https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-7909972

This article examines the figure of an undulating line, or “squiggle,” printed initially in Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy and copied by two nineteenth-century writers: first, by the German E. T. A. Hoffmann, in a little-known fragment, and, secon... Read More about Tracing Squiggles: Laurence Sterne, E. T. A. Hoffmann, and Honoré de Balzac.

Translation and (Counter-)Intelligence: The Interpenetration of Social-Systemic Boundary Phenomena (2020)
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Tyulenev, S. (2021). Translation and (Counter-)Intelligence: The Interpenetration of Social-Systemic Boundary Phenomena. Perspectives, 29(3), 339-353. https://doi.org/10.1080/0907676x.2020.1726977

Translation and (counter-)intelligence are two social-systemic boundary phenomena. Translation acts on the outside of the boundary, ectohomorously; (C)I acts on the inside, endohomorously. This article describes the complex interaction between them.... Read More about Translation and (Counter-)Intelligence: The Interpenetration of Social-Systemic Boundary Phenomena.

The religious field in a Russian Muslim village: A Bourdieusian perspective on Islam (2020)
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Yusupova, G. (2020). The religious field in a Russian Muslim village: A Bourdieusian perspective on Islam. Ethnicities, 20(4), 769-792. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468796820904208

Research on Islam in Russia has been growing in recent years. Despite the variety of perspectives adopted by scholars in the field, attention has focused mostly on responses to emerging globalised trends of Islamic orthodoxy in traditionally Muslim a... Read More about The religious field in a Russian Muslim village: A Bourdieusian perspective on Islam.

Revoir rouge et (dé)faire les tapisseries avec Annette Messager: du genre au musée (2020)
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Barnet, M. (2020). Revoir rouge et (dé)faire les tapisseries avec Annette Messager: du genre au musée. French Studies, 74(2), 240-258. https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knaa009

This article argues that the work of the internationally renowned French artist Annette Messager renews the deconstruction of the representation of women in order to break down stereotypes about sexuality and gender, revisiting the problematic questi... Read More about Revoir rouge et (dé)faire les tapisseries avec Annette Messager: du genre au musée.

Catalanidad in the Kitchen: Tourism, Gastronomy and Identity in Modern and Contemporary Barcelona (2020)
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Mercer, L., & Rosi Song, H. (2020). Catalanidad in the Kitchen: Tourism, Gastronomy and Identity in Modern and Contemporary Barcelona. Bulletin of Spanish Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/14753820.2020.1699346

Catalonia has, from the nineteenth century to the present day, promoted a distinct culinary tourism. Travel and tourism practices have, as early as the eighteenth century, worked as powerful agents of Spanish nation-building and self-identification.... Read More about Catalanidad in the Kitchen: Tourism, Gastronomy and Identity in Modern and Contemporary Barcelona.