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by Tao Peng Why Do Chinese Readers Like Wang Zengqi? During Wang Zengqi’s (1920–1997) lifetime, his works were not yet bestsellers in bookstores across China as they are today, nor were there as many academic articles discussing their literary value.…
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by Reem Bassiouney When my monograph Arabic Sociolinguistics was published in 2008, it provided an overview of a growing, but still not widely recognized field of research. In the years that elapsed until 2020 (when the second edition of the…
by Emmanuel Ngué Um The main challenge facing Digital Humanities research in Africa is the race to catch up with a global trend, where digitization is increasingly present at the intersection of knowledge and society. This race is taking place…
In this extract from the introduction of his new book Linguist on the Loose, Lyle Campbell explores why and how linguists work with endangered languages. by Lyle Campbell In my mind I have always been a country boy; I grew…
In this exclusive interview, renowned linguist Lyle Campbell discusses his career in linguistic fieldwork, the topic of his new book, Linguist on the Loose: Adventures and Misadventures in Fieldwork. Tell us a bit about Linguist on the Loose, why did…