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Memes, Communities and Continuous Change Chinese Internet Vernacular Explained
By Hua Nie (China University of Political Science and Law) A pioneering digital ethnography of language varieties and practices on Chinese internet as a holistic sociolinguistic phenomenon. "Chinese Internet Vernacular," a complex of novel language varieties associated with the Chinese internet, is usually thought to consist of an increasing host of linguistic memes currently or once virally spread. This book attempts to account for the different dimensions and aspects that contribute to the memes' meaning and function variations, based on the quantitative and qualitative data meticulously collected by following and recording the various memes' diffusions on Chinese social media over four years. BR IDGE 2 1 P U B L I C AT I ON S Paperback • 9781626430181 • July 2021 • £60.00 230 pages • b/w and colour illus. | eBook available: 9781626430778
"Who Knows What We'd Make of It, If We Ever Got Our Hands on It?" The Bible and Margaret Atwood
Edited by Rhiannon Graybill and Peter Sabo Assembles cutting-edge literary and critical readings of Atwood and the Bible. In the nightstands of hotel rooms, kept under lock and key, in the poetry of a pre-apocalyptic environmental cult, and quoted by children, atheists, and murderers alike–the Bible is omnipresent in the work of Margaret Atwood. This volume explores what happens when Atwood, and we as readers, take the Bible into our own hands. BIBLICA L I N T ERS EC T I ON S | G ORG IAS PRESS Paperback • 9781463242589 • November 2020 • £49.00 437 pages
Poems without Poets Approaches to Anonymous Ancient Poetry
Edited by Boris Kayachev (University of Oxford, UK) An examination of a wide array of anonymous Greek and Latin poetry from Homeric hymns to Virgilian pseudepigrapha. The canon of classical Greek and Latin poetry is built around names like Homer and Virgil, but many ancient poems survive without a firm ascription to such authors. This negative category, anonymity, ties together texts as different as the orally derived Homeric Hymns and the Helen episode in Aeneid 2. This collection of essays attempt to disentangle the historically accreted misconceptions that affect such anonymous texts. CA M BRI D G E C L AS S I C A L JOU RN AL SU PPLEMEN TS | CAMBR IDGE PHILOLOGICAL SOCIE TY Hardback • 9781913701406 • March 2021 • £60.00 230 pages • 3 b/w illus.
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