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Un simple survol du répertoire des personnages tirés des tragédies et des opéras baroques révèle la présence de divinités et de héros mythologiques d’une part, et de grandes figures historiques d

Un simple survol du répertoire des personnages tirés des tragédies et des opéras baroques révèle la présence de divinités et de héros mythologiques d’une part, et de grandes figures historiques d

This lecture discusses the recent rhetorical fixation on blood within Donald Trump’s political discourse and the resonance of the term among his right-wing followers and supporters.

During this talk, I question the significance or relevance of using the different methodologies and epistemologies of the three “waves” of sociolinguistic research (following Eckert (2012)’s

This paper aims to discuss the competing frameworks of grammaticalization and Diachronic Construction Grammar (henceforth DCxG) by examining which framework would better account for the development of

In this presentation, I report the first large-scale corpus study of double modal usage in Australian and New Zealand Englishes, based on a multi-million-word corpus of geolocated automatic speech

This talk aims to explore the development of a set of modal constructions of necessity and strong obligation, namely must, have to, (have) got to, gotta, need to, and better, in the contact variety

The study of New English contact dialects has often referred to extensive borrowings from substrate languages, which include discourse markers, a category that Heine (2018: 43) referred to as amongst

Since pronoun sharing has been associated with different political stances from virtue signaling to trans liberation, it is clear that they transport more information than simply how a person asks to

In this talk, I wish to give a quick overview of the quite recent ‘pronoun sharing’ trend from a linguistic and pragmatic perspective, going through the new collocations and semantic shifts of the

Queerly reshaped pronouns, forms and narrative strategies are flourishing in contemporary non-binary, trans and queer literature. From singular ‘they’ to ‘it’ to neopronouns to the collective voice of

Our paper aims to explore pronoun practices and flexibility among Swiss non-binary individuals, by elucidating the factors influencing the pronoun usage of Swiss non-binary people, discerning the

Specialist of Lancashire radical culture in the early 19th century, Robert Poole provides context to and explanation of the events that took place in Manchester on 16th August 1819. Eighteen people

Dans le cadre de la Journée d’Études "Protest Movements in Britain in the 19th and early 20th centuries : debates and perspectives".

Dans le cadre de la Journée d’Études "Protest Movements in Britain in the 19th and early 20th centuries : debates and perspectives".

Dans le cadre de la Journée d’Études "Protest Movements in Britain in the 19th and early 20th centuries : debates and perspectives".

Dans le cadre de la Journée d’Études "Protest Movements in Britain in the 19th and early 20th centuries : debates and perspectives".

I talk to Matthew Roberts, a historian of Chartism at Sheffield Hallam University, about the Chartist rising which took place in Newport, South Wales, in November 1839, just after Parliament had

In this episode, the focus is on the ‘Luddite’ movement of 1811-12 when machine-breaking actions proliferated in the English cloth-making counties of Nottinghamshire, Lancashire, Cheshire and

This episode looks in depth at the Gordon riots which took place in London in June 1780. What has often been seen as an anti-Catholic protest, occurring when Britain was fighting to retain its prized