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Prosody in Medieval English and Norse
Nelson Goering
This book reconstructs aspects of linguistic prosody from the medieval records of two closely related Germanic languages, English and Norse. Evidence is drawn from a series of case studies on vowel reductions and the metrics of alliterative verse in early Old English, early Middle English, and Old Norse.
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The Right against Rights in Latin America
Leigh A. Payne, Julia Zulver, and Simón Escoffier
From President Bolsonaro’s openly racist, misogynist, and homophobic rhetoric in Brazil, to the politicisation of gender ideology leading to the rejection of a Peace Deal in Colombia, to groups that Latin America is home to right-against-rights movements that have grown in numbers, strength, and influence in recent years.
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Media, Religion, Citizenship: Transnational Alevi Media and Its Audience
Kumru Berfin Emre
This book is about Alevi media and the ways in which it has generated a particular form of citizenship that I call transversal citizenship. Alevis have been struggling for the right of recognition and equal citizenship in Turkey for decades.
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State Communication and Public Politics in the Dutch Golden Age
Arthur der Weduwen
This monograph describes the political communication practices of the authorities in the Dutch Golden Age. It is an in-depth study of early modern ‘state communication’: the manner in which government sought to inform its citizens, publicise its laws and engage publicly in quarrels with its political opponents.
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