Literature Compass
Rehearsing Words and Gestures in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde
Literature Compass, Volume 21, Issue 10-12, October-December 2024.
International Journal of Cultural Studies
Materializing storyworld, battles of transmedia storytelling: Trans-fandom cultures of The King’s Avatar on Chinese social media platform
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print. Transmedia storytelling and the storyworld are intersubjective communicative constructs imagined and shaped collaboratively by multiple authors and readers, independent of any specific medium. …
Literature Compass
Islamic Medievalism and Mobility in Mathias Énard’s Street of Thieves
Literature Compass, Volume 21, Issue 10-12, October-December 2024.
Discourse & Communication
Educating Dora: Teaching a conversational agent to talk
Discourse &Communication, Ahead of Print. Many organisations are witnessing the introduction of automated systems to mediate between them and their clients, often designed as dialogic user interfaces which are conversational in nature. Despite call…
Convergence
Reconstituting the ‘good woman’: Gendered visual politics on social media during 2021 state election in West Bengal, India
Convergence, Ahead of Print. This paper explores the visual politics of gender in electoral politics in West Bengal (WB). We examine how women political candidates visually construct their non-verbal political performance on social media, and how such …
Discourse & Society
Taboo language in a sample of Egyptian op-eds: A corpus-based socio-cognitive study
Discourse &Society, Ahead of Print. There is an extensive body of work on taboo language, including metaphor and metonymy, but particular attention needs to be paid to (i) serious genres (and especially op-eds) and (ii) non-English speaking (or non…
Discourse & Communication
Reported speech and gender in the news: Who is quoted, how are they quoted, and why it matters
Discourse &Communication, Ahead of Print. News stories have a well-defined generic structure, consisting of components such as headline, lede, and body, with reported speech a prominent feature, especially in hard news stories. Reported speech serv…
Discourse & Communication
The virus and an enemy within: Construction of an invidious news discourse by the mainstream press in India
Discourse &Communication, Ahead of Print. Human rights organizations and media watchdogs have expressed concerns about COVID-19 news coverage in the Global South, particularly by the Indian mainstream media, due to the Islamophobic discourse it gen…
Convergence
Dialectics of training: A critique of recommendation engines’ aesthetic judgment
Convergence, Ahead of Print. In this article, we evaluate the politics of recommendation engines by focusing on an indispensible feature of their operation: training. We use the notion of training as a key word which helps us link three bodies of knowl…
Convergence
‘The glowing fireflies’: Invisible activism under China’s queer necropolitics
Convergence, Ahead of Print. In China, the escalating repression of gender and sexual diversity has given rise to ‘queer necropolitics’. ‘Queer necropolitics’ – a concept we build on – refers to the hegemonic ability to determine who is allowed to suff…