A journalist, Vatanen, rescues an injured hare that his car hits in the outback of Finland. This seemingly random act of kindness triggers a lifechanging experience and Vatanen sets out on an increasingly farcical adventure leaving behind his job, his wife and worldly possessions. A liberating and popular European novella confirming Finns have a well-developed sense of humour. NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR

The relationship between English Literature and Politics has, historically, been understated underexplored in academia. This article recognises the value of this relationship, significantly contributing to field through original research which explores political appropriation literature. Using politicians’ references George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four parliamentary debate as a precedent, show...

In this paper we discuss the usage of corpora in the validation of WordNets and we present the exploitation of the Greek version of George Orwell ́s Nineteen Eighty-Four for the construction and validation of the Greek WordNet, which is currently under development in the framework of the BalkaNet project. In particular, we focus on the description of tools that were developed and used for the al...

Using a critical discourse analytic model of translation criticism, the present study attempts to explore the effect of ideology and idiosyncrasy on the lexical choices in translation studies. The study employed a descriptive approach to answer two research questions: Is there any relationship between ideology and idiosyncratic features of translators' lexical choices? And if yes, can it be ana...