We hypothesize that different genres of writing use different adjectives for the same concept. We test our hypothesis on lyrics, articles and poetry. We use the English Wikipedia and over 13,000 news articles from four leading newspapers for the article data set. Our lyrics data set consists of lyrics of more than 10,000 songs by 56 popular English singers, and our poetry dataset is made up of ...

In highly oppressive environments, collective resistance is very costly. Non-collective constitutes a less risky alternative. Focusing on particular oppressed setting, the Occupied Palestinian Territories, I identify everyday forms of non-collective resistance: signaling, persevering, eschewing, and coping. Characterized by low visibility targeting political goals indirectly, these activities h...

Poetry within trauma-informed literacies has been influential to understanding youth writing. As the tendency focus on individual rather than structures of power remains, authors this essay point collective resistance and connect writing other creative texts in their engagement black life, livingness, pedagogical possibilities. Specifically, they draw feminist theories methodologies consider ra...

As for many civilizations, poetry is an essential part of Chinese literature. Poetry has influenced the development of the literature and language of both classical and vernacular Chinese. Certain of the words that we use today can be tracked all the way back to the Shijing (詩經/shi1 jing1/ [1]), c. 1046BC. Research on Chinese poetry is thus instrumental for understanding Chinese culture, and a ...

The research critically evaluates ways of narrating the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Polish secondary-school history textbooks. Based on a repeated critical reading and discourse analysis both Israeli Arab-Palestinian narratives, study focuses choice pro-Palestinian pro-Israeli designations when naming incorporation or silencing and/or voices textbook narratives. Reducing Palestinians to dis...