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Language use and attitudes of prospective teachers: A comparison of the Basque and Friulian multilingual contexts
(Taylor & Francis, 2022-12-25)
Since educators play a decisive role in the formation of language attitudes, this study analyses perceived competence, habits of language use and attitudes towards three languages in contact harboured by prospective teachers. ...
When minoritized languages encounter MT: perceptions and expectations of the Basque community
(IUED Institute of Translation and Interpreting, 2024)
Machine translation (MT) is improving even for low-resource minoritized languages such as Basque, for which free online engines are available. However, the level of adoption and common practices involving the technology ...
The Forest Haven Episode: How Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’s Hautdesert Shaped The Lord of the Rings’ Caras Galadhon
(Oxford University Press, 2020-12-05)
J. R. R. Tolkien’s long professional involvement with Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (c. 1400) was at its peak during the writing of The Lord of the Rings (composed between 1937-1949, revised until c. 1954 and published ...
Addenda: One Middle English Manuscript and Four Editions of Medieval Works Known to J. R. R. Tolkien and What They Reveal
(Taylor & Francis, 2021-06-27)
This article proposes the addition of four items to “Section A” of Oronzo Cilli’s Tolkien’s Library: An Annotated Checklist (2019) and the inclusion of complementary information to two other entries after demonstrating J. ...
The Unpublished ‘Mód Þrýþe Ne Wæg’ by C.S. Lewis: A Critical Edition
(Edinburgh University Press, 2024-04)
As the title of this edition indicates, it provides a critical apparatus for a holistic understanding of this alliterative epistolary poem by C.S. Lewis, which has never appeared in print before. With this in mind, all ...
Tolkien’s Lost Chaucer, by John M. Bowers
(Taylor & Francis, 2021-08-27)
Review of Tolkien's Lost Chaucer by John M. Bowers.
Sir Orfeo as the Source for the Medieval Romance Topoi of Abduction and Otherworld Rampant within The Hobbit’s Mirkwood
(Taylor & Francis, 2021-08-25)
In view of Jason Fisher’s (2011) principles for a rigorous study of J. R. R. Tolkien’s sources, this paper aims to demonstrate that the relationship between Sir Orfeo (c.1330) and The Hobbit (1937) is of influence and not ...
Tolkien, Shakespeare, Trees, and The Lord of the Rings
(Taylor & Francis, 2024-04-09)
J. R. R. Tolkien maintained an ambivalent attitude toward William Shakespeare throughout his life. As Tom Shippey succinctly affirms, Tolkien read Shakespeare’s works with both interest and disapproval. Shakespeare’s plays, ...
Conjunction and Disjunction in Annie Proulx's Post-West: An Affective Critical Approach
(2023-10-26)
I came across Annie Proulx's books as a reader, long before even considering ever carrying out any scholarly work on her. Her readings always took me back to a place about which I thought I knew a lot yet I did not: the ...
What has changed over 18 years? Future teachers’ language use and attitudes towards multilingualism in the Basque Autonomous Community
(Taylor & Francis, 2022-09-19)
Attitudes are learned and one’s personal experience and social environment play a role in shaping them. Teachers in particular exert a significant impact on the formation of students’ language attitudes.
This study targets ...