Let me tell you at the outset of my appreciation of the great honour you have done me in asking me to deliver the first Lawson Wilkins Memorial Lecture. I accepted this invitation with eagerness because I cherish any link that binds Lawson Wilkins' life and work to mine. I often turn to the page in the second edition of his great textbook in which he proudly listed the 31 Associates and Fellows...

The purpose of this article was to identify how intertextuality in the novel “Small Island” (2004) by British writer Andrea Levy (1956–2019) contributes representation postcolonial issues. To solve research problems, we applied cultural-historical, comparative, biographical methods literary analysis. considers appeal poem “Daffodils” William Wordsworth allows contemporary criticise anglicised s...

While bartering is arguably the world’s oldest form of trade there are still many instances where it surprises us. One such case is the remarkable story of Kyle MacDonald who, by means of a sequence of bartering exchanges between July 2005 and July 2006, managed to trade a small red paperclip for a full sized house in the town of Kipling Saskatchewan. Although there are many factors to consider...

Adaptationism is a research strategy that seeks to identify adaptations and the specific selective forces that drove their evolution in past environments. Since the mid-1970s, paleontologist Stephen J. Gould and geneticist Richard Lewontin have been critical of adaptationism, especially as applied toward understanding human behavior and cognition. Perhaps the most prominent criticism they made ...

I am not a lawyer, but I am not just an ordinary citizen either. I am a citizen of the free world. Citizens of the free world have powers that ordinary ones do not. I am a volunteer. There is great job security when you volunteer. A guy who lives like this should be married to someone like my wife, that sweet woman, Martha—a woman who will not throw you out of the house for plowing the family f...

The article investigates the phenomenon of semantic dominant a literary text, central focus being given to its definition, typology and means expression. provides an overview works addressing above issues, defines key tools for identification, evaluates results text analysis performed establish relationship various types repetitions which, in terms meaning rhythmic organization, express ideas i...