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Traditional linguistic fieldwork runs the risk of obscuring what is linguistically relevant to the consultants. I encountered this situation in my fieldwork In Karachi, where Hindko speakers intercepted my requests for word lists and translations with the presentation of long-fo…

A crucial issue for research on rabbinic literature is the interaction between speech and writing as modes for creating and transmitting early rabbinic tradition. Whereas the chirographic aspects of early rabbinic manipulation and transmission of tradition have been championed b…

This thesis gathers four American fiction writers from thegroup labelled as blank fiction writers during the 1980s - LynneTillman, Kathy Acker, Joel Rose and Catherine Texier - to suggestthat their work does more than represent the flat, stunned proseattributed to blank fiction.…

What does it mean to read today, now that close reading methods are joined not only by various forms of ‘posthermeneutic’ reading, ranging from media archaeology to the digital humanities, but by the many machine reading processes involved in digitizing text? What relationships …