Ted Chiang’s short story, “The Great Silence”, takes the perspective of a parrot living in Rio Abajo forest Puerto Rico, sharing its habitat with Arecibo Observatory. The story first appeared as textual component video installation by Allora and Calzadilla, piece that emphasizes entanglement massive structure telescope). parrot-narrator wonders why humans demonstrate such commitment to possibil...

Researchers as well as speech therapists are interested in the determination of reliable acoustic cues that may be useful for the evaluation of vocal quality as well as for the diagnosis of vocal pathologies and remediation. In this way, experimental phonetics can be useful to clinical practice. This work which tries to connect phonetics and logopedic science, deals with the esthetic quality of...

The COVID-19 pandemic, as an ongoing societal crisis, compounds pre-existing intersectional inequalities. Since the start of this those on margins—women, single parents, LGBTQ+, Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic peoples—and living in precarity poverty found themselves increasingly “othered.” As a group academics who encounter gendered reality disparate ways, we unite through paper to prioritize...

Palace of Desire is an excellent costume TV series directed by Li Shaohong. There are two screenwriters named Zhen Chong and Wang Yao. They used unique writing strategies to narrate the story Princess Tai Ping Empress Wu Zetian who trapped in a delimma power emotion during special period Tang Dynasty, showing confusion women feudal society ancient China. This article will use theory feminist st...

News media have the power to influence public opinion and economic growth. coverage of landmark urban parks may support such parks, potentially increasing However, some been associated with gentrification displacement. implicitly local growth detriment vulnerable residents through uncritical, positive park projects. nature press has scantly studied. This study analyzed news three understand how...

Most popular models of narratives and narrative analyses have been drawn on native stories, yet EFL learners’ narratives have not received due narrative analysis. The present study then aims at scrutinizing the structure of personal English stories as told by EFL learners. To this aim, three hundred narratives were collected through classroom discussions and interviews. Qualitative analysis met...

The reported studies have aimed to investigate whether informational masking in a multi-talker background relies on semantic interference between the background and target using an adapted semantic priming paradigm. In 3 experiments, participants were required to perform a lexical decision task on a target item embedded in backgrounds composed of 1-4 voices. These voices were Semantically Consi...