Language

A group of 90 World Trade Organization (WTO) members are negotiating a new global agreement on e-commerce rules at the WTO. After close to 7 years of discussions, they are …

future are couched in general and best-endeavour language, potentially weakening their usefulness for developing …

Invisible Lives chronicles cycles of dysfunction and domestic violence. Using experimental hybrid poetry, Cristalle Smith breaks generational silence in lyric resonance, reflecting on a childhood rife with upheaval and poverty, …

beach. Books in binding, thick pages smell of language. Carries the weight74 of heavy black ink. I hear … dysfunction are expressed through metaphorical language that enlivens the page with spirit, heart, meaning … temperature changes. Questions How do poetry and lyric language sort trauma into meaningful pieces of discourse …

Resistant Practices in Communities of Sound explores the ways that sonic practices (speaking, listening, recording, etc.) serve as forms of aesthetic and political dissent throughout the literary, artistic, and academic …

hear the voice’s muscularity as it grapples with language. However, the thought of doing so brings us back … unyielding referent that resists description in language. In trying to capture Scott’s performance in … in writing, we are reminded of the paucity of language for describing sound: our limited vocabularies … interpretation, and also the ways that language – particularly poetic language – embraces uncer- tainty, multiplicity … sonic, and musical approaches to making through language. Yet, even though we are seeing more Black, Indigenous …

Western modernity is characterized by instrumental relations between humans and nature, as well as between humans themselves, that have caused irreversible environmental and social exploitation and degradation. Many policy documents, …

thoughtful and careful comments. With respect to language I am grateful to Leah Sardais, and to Alex Chambers … convergence: though most pol- icy researchers eschew the language of ontology, many agree with or even promote … a clear position on this schism: it deems the language of the ‘post- human’ problematic, but it would … ethics guiding the development of the argument. A language to discuss issues of political ethics with regard … formulated. One further methodological remark: I follow language stud- ies in holding that translations are never …

Les catholiques en Nouvelle-France ont transmis et modifié, voire réinventé les modes d’expression associés à la Réforme catholique à la française. Regards sur l’âme en Nouvelle-France explore la manière dont …

imperial expansion, colonial life, culture, language, law, science, religion, and the environment …

An Accidental History of Canada explores accidents, their causes, consequences, and afterlife, in colonial, Indigenous, and urban contexts, from the 1630s to the 1970s. These investigations make plain that accidents …

minerals from the earth. We see evidence in the language used by Canadian economic historians who extend … gain new insights on how the pervasiveness and language of accidents shaped communities and worldviews … worldviews. This chapter analyzes the Finnish-language socialist press, commu- nity histories, and life-writing … socialist worldviews but ultimately in personal ways. Language provides a unique frame to reflect on how accidents … this chapter, I have pri- marily utilized Finnish-language sources produced by Finnish migrant- settlers …

The Poetics of Translation challenges our pragmatic understanding of translation through the discipline’s use in contemporary innovative writing practices, highlighting translation’s ability to create meaning, celebrate uncertainty, and interpret rather …

of Translation The language of poetry is a language of inquiry, not the language of a genre. Lyn Hejinian … Hejinian, The Language of Inquiry The buried speech that creates a soundless gap between languages is at … lenges to finding the meaning of a word in one language and then in another; there are ways of exploring … emergence and discovery of a new relationship to language(s). All these readings of in-betweenness are fascinating … literary practice, which is as much a space of language and poetic licence as it is a the- oretical and …

Friendless or Forsaken? is the story of child emigration agencies operating in North West England from 1860 to 1935. The book traces the imperial relationships, transnational economy, religious networks and …

and to situations where they did not speak the language (in French-speaking regions such as Quebec)? Finally … yet this directly con- tradicted the moralising language of “salvation” deployed by emi- gration agencies … abuse was often communicated using a different language histori- cally, it is vital to recognise that … Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, &c. Drunkenness, foul language, immorality, want, and cruelty have been famil- … he chose to couch the emigration process in a language of ‘transportation’ rather than transformation …

From Trench Town to the top of the world — one man's inspiring fight for meaning, dignity, and respect. Tiga’s Tale chronicles the remarkable life of world champion boxer Barrington …

brothers and cousins and me. Sure, we heard similar language on a daily basis from the rude boys asserting … people speaking monotone English or some other language altogether. But no mat- ter. It didn’t take long …

The story of the audacious showman who built the greatest carnival dynasty in North America.Enter the realm of the carnie king, Patty Conklin, the flamboyant founder of what would become …

which 1,000 strikers sang their own songs in one language. Over 15,000 attended the event and it led to …