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Selling sex under socialism: prostitution in the post-war USSR (2022)
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Hearne, S. (2022). Selling sex under socialism: prostitution in the post-war USSR. European Review of History, 29(2), 290-310. https://doi.org/10.1080/13507486.2021.1937952

The existence of prostitution was embarrassing for the Soviet government. This was especially true after the end of the Second World War and the death of Josef Stalin, when the Cold War and global processes of decolonization were in full swing and th... Read More about Selling sex under socialism: prostitution in the post-war USSR.

Note-taking effort in video remote interpreting: effects of source speech difficulty and interpreter work experience (2022)
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Kuang, H., & Zheng, B. (2023). Note-taking effort in video remote interpreting: effects of source speech difficulty and interpreter work experience. Perspectives, 31(4), 724-744. https://doi.org/10.1080/0907676x.2022.2053730

This paper reports on an investigation of the interactions between source speech difficulty, interpreters’ work experience and their note-taking behaviour in video remote interpreting. 20 professional interpreters and 29 student interpreters consecut... Read More about Note-taking effort in video remote interpreting: effects of source speech difficulty and interpreter work experience.

Dante, Peter of Trabibus, and the ‘Schools of the Religious Orders’ in Florence (2022)
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Dell'Oso, L. (2022). Dante, Peter of Trabibus, and the ‘Schools of the Religious Orders’ in Florence. Italian Studies, 77(3), 211-229. https://doi.org/10.1080/00751634.2022.2040866

Based on Dante’s declaration that he attended ‘the schools of the religious orders’ and the ‘disputations of the philosophizers’ (Cvo II. xii. 7), this article sheds light on the unedited disputations of a Franciscan theologian, Peter of Trabibus, in... Read More about Dante, Peter of Trabibus, and the ‘Schools of the Religious Orders’ in Florence.

Can the gap get any wider? How the new GCSE curriculum will make progression to university more challenging and less inclusive (2022)
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Cazzoli, M. A. (2022). Can the gap get any wider? How the new GCSE curriculum will make progression to university more challenging and less inclusive. The Language Learning Journal, 50(2), 268-272. https://doi.org/10.1080/09571736.2022.2046382

The latest reforms to the GCSE Subject Content attempt to bring languages in line with other subject areas through a quantification of the material that needs to be learnt and a focus on the linguistic system, to the detriment of the broader communic... Read More about Can the gap get any wider? How the new GCSE curriculum will make progression to university more challenging and less inclusive.

Sanitising Sex in the USSR: State Approaches to Sexual Health in the Brezhnev Era (2022)
Journal Article
Hearne, S. (online). Sanitising Sex in the USSR: State Approaches to Sexual Health in the Brezhnev Era. Europe-Asia Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2022.2032607

This article examines Soviet approaches to sexual health in the Brezhnev era (1964–1982), specifically venereal diseases (VD). After the death of Stalin, the Soviet leadership adopted new methods for regulating the behaviour of Soviet citizens based... Read More about Sanitising Sex in the USSR: State Approaches to Sexual Health in the Brezhnev Era.

The Discourse of Xinmin: Mindset Remodelling and Nation-Building in Early Twentieth Century China (2022)
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Cao, Q. (2022). The Discourse of Xinmin: Mindset Remodelling and Nation-Building in Early Twentieth Century China. Chinese Language and Discourse. An International and Interdisciplinary Journal, 13(1), 123-143. https://doi.org/10.1075/cld.21032.cao

Focusing on Liang Qichao’s campaign of moral character reform, this article examines the discourse of xinmin (新民) as a social engineering project of people-making as nationbuilding in the 1900s. Drawing on Koselleck’s conceptual history, it analyse... Read More about The Discourse of Xinmin: Mindset Remodelling and Nation-Building in Early Twentieth Century China.

And the Marble Ass saw the second coming of Tito: Želimir Žilnik’s cinematic representations of a transitional society through the revolutionary carnivalesque (2022)
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Juricic, T. (2023). And the Marble Ass saw the second coming of Tito: Želimir Žilnik’s cinematic representations of a transitional society through the revolutionary carnivalesque. Studies in Eastern European Cinema, 14(2), 154-167. https://doi.org/10.1080/2040350x.2022.2041368

The violent disintegration of the federation at the beginning of the 1990s transformed the Yugoslav sphere into a landscape plagued by its complicated shared history and the arduous process of transition. Coinciding with Milošević’s tendencies toward... Read More about And the Marble Ass saw the second coming of Tito: Želimir Žilnik’s cinematic representations of a transitional society through the revolutionary carnivalesque.

Comparability of difficulty levels of translation tasks in CET-6 parallel test forms: evidence from product and process-based data (2022)
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Liu, Y., & Zheng, B. (online). Comparability of difficulty levels of translation tasks in CET-6 parallel test forms: evidence from product and process-based data. The Interpreter and Translator Trainer, https://doi.org/10.1080/1750399x.2022.2036938

This study investigates the comparability of three parallel translation tasks selected from a College English Test Band-6 (CET-6) and explores the major linguistic features contributing to translation difficulty. Data obtained from the participants’... Read More about Comparability of difficulty levels of translation tasks in CET-6 parallel test forms: evidence from product and process-based data.

Grey Humour: The Comedy of Tedium in Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio's El Jarama (1955) (2022)
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Hilborn, M. (2022). Grey Humour: The Comedy of Tedium in Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio's El Jarama (1955). Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 99(1), 81-111. https://doi.org/10.1080/14753820.2021.2020004

This article presents an innovative reading of humour within the classic Spanish postwar novel, El Jarama by Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio (1955), typically deemed dispassionate, solemn, and deadly serious. Grounding its interpretation in Humour Studies, i... Read More about Grey Humour: The Comedy of Tedium in Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio's El Jarama (1955).

Multistability and Derrida’s Différance: Investigating the Relations Between Postphenomenology and Stiegler’s General Organology (2022)
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Pavanini, M. (2022). Multistability and Derrida’s Différance: Investigating the Relations Between Postphenomenology and Stiegler’s General Organology. Philosophy & Technology, 35(1), https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-022-00501-x

In this paper, in the first place, I aim to enquire into Bernard Stiegler’s critical appropriation of his mentor Jacques Derrida’s notion of différance, emphasizing how Stiegler’s philosophy of technology stems from an original interpretation of the... Read More about Multistability and Derrida’s Différance: Investigating the Relations Between Postphenomenology and Stiegler’s General Organology.

Time pressure in translation: Psychological and physiological measures (2022)
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Weng, Y., Zheng, B., & Dong, Y. (2022). Time pressure in translation: Psychological and physiological measures. Target: International Journal of Translation Studies, 34(4), 601-626. https://doi.org/10.1075/target.20148.wen

Translators may experience significant psychological and physiological responses to time pressure. This study examines such responses with the aim of identifying valid indicators of time pressure in written translation. Forty-five postgraduates parti... Read More about Time pressure in translation: Psychological and physiological measures.

Impact of translation directions on information processing and translation quality: A triangulated study using eye-tracking and screen-recording（翻译方向对信息加工过程及质量的影响——基于眼动和屏幕记录等数据的多元互证） (2022)
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Wang, X., Wang, L., & Zheng, B. (2022). Impact of translation directions on information processing and translation quality: A triangulated study using eye-tracking and screen-recording（翻译方向对信息加工过程及质量的影响——基于眼动和屏幕记录等数据的多元互证）

From Harmony to E-Harmony: Fourier, Social Science, and the Management of Love (2021)
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Hsiung, H. (2021). From Harmony to E-Harmony: Fourier, Social Science, and the Management of Love. Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society, 112(4), 786-794. https://doi.org/10.1086/716883

This essay examines techniques of amorous matching in the work of the “utopian socialist” Charles Fourier (1772–1837), recovering the practices and the institutions he proposed for the management of love, as well as his political arguments for their... Read More about From Harmony to E-Harmony: Fourier, Social Science, and the Management of Love.

Production of Uniform Cloth and Military Uniforms in Russia (1698–1762) (2021)
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Ivleva, V. (2021). Production of Uniform Cloth and Military Uniforms in Russia (1698–1762). Textile History, 52(1-2), 101-121. https://doi.org/10.1080/00404969.2022.2041993

This article studies a corpus of state decrees aimed at regulating production of uniform cloth and military uniforms in Russia in the period between the reign of Peter I (1682–1725) and Peter III (1762). It discusses developments and challenges faced... Read More about Production of Uniform Cloth and Military Uniforms in Russia (1698–1762).

Per il nazarenismo in scultura: Karl Hoffmann in Inghilterra (2021)
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Cracolici, S. (2021). Per il nazarenismo in scultura: Karl Hoffmann in Inghilterra. Studi di scultura (Periodico), 3, 65-99

Dopo aver elencato una serie di opere ascrivibili su base documentaria allo scultore nazareno Karl Hoffmann (Wiesbaden, 1816 – Frascati, 1872), Peter Bloch concludeva un suo pionieristico contributo sul fantomatico maestro della tomba di Friedrich Ov... Read More about Per il nazarenismo in scultura: Karl Hoffmann in Inghilterra.