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Bas(qu)ing in Difference: the Beauty of the Basque Identity I: The Enigma of Euskera
In the first instalment of her column, European columnist Freya John explores the mystery of Euskera, the language of the Basque Country. From its linguistic background, to its sociopolitical significance, John offers an insightful overview of this minor language.
Secrets of the Steppe IV: The Sociolinguistics of Washing your Hair
In her fourth instalment, Eve Mayes muses on British communicative customs, and how they have become unfamiliar to her as a result of living abroad.
What’s App in Italian Linguistics II - How do we speak when we text?
In her second column, Rebecca Gatti explores specific discourse markers in Italian, demonstrating how they can be used within online communication to mean many different things.
What’s App in Italian Linguistics I - From WhatsApp to Linguistic Research
In her first column of term, Rebecca Gatti introduces a new linguistics project she has helped to work on - a database of Italian words taken from WhatsApp, giving an insight into the way that language is used online
Exploring the Epics I - The Kalevala: Dead Form, Living Song
In her first instalment of term, Columnist Hanna Simojoki shares an insight into the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala - its history, impact on Finnish culture, and relevance today
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- A Day in the Life
- Across Borders and Senses
- Bas(qu)ing in difference: the Beauty of the Basque identity
- Berlin Bulletin
- Between Wars, Between Identities
- Beyond Brave Little Blighty
- Bing and Bao - A Culinary Diary in Taipei
- Cairo Chronicles
- Continental Cambridge
- Deformation as Reformation
- Dialogues with the Dead
- Does Michel Houellebecq still matter?
- East Asia
- Egyptian Soul
- Epilogue to a Travel Blog
- Europe
- Exploring the Epics
- Film Across Borders
- Flâneur bops and flops
- French
- German
- Germanistik: In search of the female writer...
- Germanistik: In search of the female writer…
- Iberia
- Immersion
- Intimate Transgressions
- Italian
- La Femme Française
- Las ideas no se matan: reflexiones sobre la literatura latinoamericana
- Le Nouveau Raz-de-Marée
- Linguistics
- Lockdown alla Veneziana
- Los Niños de la Guerra
- Lusophone Considerations
- Middle East and Africa
- Modern Fiction in Translation
- More than Music
- Musings on Benjamin and Berlin
- Opinion
- Parisistible
- Perché Sanremo è Sanremo
- Portuguese
- Postcards from Vienna
- Representation in British Sign Language
- Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia
- Scenes from an Italian Restaurant
- Secrets of the Steppe
- South America
- Spanish
- The French Dispatch