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We accept original specialized articles on research in the following fields: * Literatures in English in both contemporary and historical perspectives; * Literary Theories and Criticism; * Cultural Studies including Cinema and Media Studies; * Linguistics including theoretical, empirical, historical and applied; * Cognitive and functional approaches; * Discourse and pragmatic studies; * Multimodal Discourse Analysis. We particularly welcome interdisciplinary approaches between fields, such as: * Linguistic tools applied to literary analysis; * The interplay between language and culture; * Language and the analysis of cultural phenomena such as diaspora in different contextual settings; * Literature, language and gender theories / gender theories and literary works. * These are but a few of the many possibilities that an interdisciplinary stance suggests.

     
ISSN   0210-6124
     
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Catherine Belsey, University of Swansea, United Kingdom
Celestino Deleyto, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
Angela Downing, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Dirk Geeraerts, University of Leuven, Belgium
Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina, United States
J.M. Hernández Campoy, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
Pilar Hidalgo, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
John McLeod, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Carmen Muñoz Lahoz, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Susanne Opfermann, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany

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ATLANTIS

Atlantis is the journal of the Spanish Association of English Studies, AEDEAN (Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos). Since 1979 it has been publishing scholarly work in the area of English, covering a broad range of linguistic, literary and cultural topics. The Journal has a decidedly international outlook and encourages contributions from across the world. It is published twice a year, in June and December, and includes articles and book review articles. All proposals are double-blind peer-reviewed by experts and the journal is widely indexed and disseminated through international platforms.

Atlantis is indexed in the Arts and Humanities Citation Index(r) (ACHI), Current Contents(r)/Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences Citation Index(r), Journal Citation Reports(r) (JCR) Social Sciences Edition; Current Contents(r)/Social and Behavioral Sciences (Thomson-Reuters). It is also indexed in SCOPUS (Elsevier), DICE and MLA, and disseminated by JSTOR, Latindex, The Year’s Work in English Studies, as well as by EBSCO and Proquest databases, among other indexing and abstracting services. Atlantis holds the Quality Seal for Excellence in Academic Journals awarded by the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (2014-2018) (Sello de Calidad de Revistas Científicas Españolas, FECYT).

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Jesús Manuel Nieto García, Universidad de Jaén

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Dr. Xavier Díaz Pérez, Universidad de Jaén

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Patricia Bastida Rodríguez, Universitat de les Illes Balears
Yolanda Joy Calvo Benzies, Universitat de les Illes Balears
Javier Ruano García, Universidad de Salamanca

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Mireia Aragay
General Editor
Departament de Llengües i Literatures Modernes i d’Estudis Anglesos
Facultat de Filologia
Universitat de Barcelona
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Email: aragay@ub.edu


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December 2023, Volume 45, Number 2

Glossing with Runes: The Old Northumbrian Gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels


The purpose of this contribution is to offer a thorough examination of the use of the m and D runes in the Old English gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels in the context of the studies of Anglo-Saxon Runica Manuscripta. The book known as the Lindisfarne Gospels is a religious and artistic world treasure and thus has received considerable attention for centuries. In this sense, it is highly regarded by palaeographers, art historians, linguists and collectors alike. From a philological point of view, research within diachronic variation studies has centred on the Old English gloss, and in particular on the analysis of the distinctive dialectal features. Other lines of research have focused on the English dependence of the Old English gloss on the Latin text. However, the glossator's use of runes has never been subjected to exhaustive scholarly study. In this sense, this article constitutes the first in-depth study to examine the runic material in the gloss to the Latin text.

Advances in the Automatic Lemmatization of Old English: Class IV Strong Verbs (L-Y)


The morphological features of an inflectional language like Old English (OE), which also presents generalized spelling inconsistencies, limit the use of lemmatizing and tagging tools that can be applied to natural languages. Consequently, the development of Natural Language Processing (NLP) models, which crucially depend on lemmatized corpora, is slowed down. Against this background, this article develops a lemmatizer within the framework of Morphological Generation that allows for the type-based automatic lemmatization of OE class IV strong verbs (L-Y). The lemmatizer incorporates a set of algorithms to account for features of inflectional, derivational, morphophonological and diatopic variation. The generated forms are automatically compared with Taylor et al. (2003) and Healey et al. (2004) to confirm their attestation and are assigned a lemma. Overall, the research proves successful in setting up form-lemma associations, while highlighting areas of ambiguity and mismatches. The main conclusion of the article is that taking the route of automatic lemmatization with this methodological framework will contribute to the field of OE lexicography by both lemmatizing attested inflectional forms and by identifying areas for manual revision.

International Variables: Translation Problems for the Localization of Web Apps


In localization, international variables refer to source cultural elements that require a certain degree of adaptation in a target culture, such as date, time and number formats, currencies, colours, images, humour elements, etc. Although localization involves the adaptation of a digital product to a specific market, certain aspects of localization projects (i.e., source file formats, translation tools or project specifications) could become an obstacle to achieving that ultimate goal of localization, even giving rise to errors or culturally inappropriate translations. This qualitative, interpretative study analyses a corpus compiled from the online help pages of web applications to identify and describe potential translation problems caused by international variables

De Héroes y Villanos: Semantic and Lexical Borrowings from English into Spanish


The presence of English as a global language in the lexicon of the languages of Europe is undeniable, Spanish being no exception to this general trend. The increasing impact of English on the European Spanish word-stock is evidenced by semantic and lexical borrowings. The aim of the present article is to study such semantic and lexical borrowings from English into European Spanish. In order to carry out the research, examples were retrieved from the sub-corpora of tourism and fashion, both part of the ANGLICOR corpus and its associated database. Following identification, the examples were analyzed qualitatively following Gómez Capuz's classification (2004). The results of this analysis reveal, on the one hand, the fact that semantic borrowings may belong to the category of adjectives as well as the category of nouns. In the case of lexical borrowings, on the other hand, only nouns or noun groups, following various patterns, were recorded.

Contrastive Study of Lexical Profiles of International and U.S. Lectures Delivered in English


International academic contexts where English is used as a lingua franca (ELF) have become ubiquitous. ELF lectures have been studied from a number of perspectives, but they have not been lexically profiled. We depart from the assumption that the lexical profile of academic lectures delivered in international settings may differ from that of lectures delivered in Anglophone contexts, and that these differences have pedagogical implications for the teaching and learning of academic English from an ELF-perspective. We lexically profile a corpus of fifty university lectures delivered in English in five European countries and compare them against sixty-two lectures delivered in English in the U.S. We find that 3,000 words are needed for good listening comprehension in both sets of lectures, while ideal comprehension is reached at 11,000 words for international and 7,000 words for U.S. lectures, which suggests differences between the two in terms of variation in low-frequency vocabulary. Some function words are much more frequent in international than in U.S. lectures. International lectures also feature less high-frequency and more mid-frequency academic vocabulary than U.S. lectures. These differences mostly reflect the use of ELF-specific communicative strategies in international lectures. Focusing on them and potentially making academic ELF-specific word lists may ensure the more efficient teaching of academic English from an ELF-perspective.

Metadiscoursal Realisation of Pragmatic Strategies @ResearchProject Twitter Accounts


To ensure the global communication and visibility of their investigations, international research projects leverage online settings and endorse specific digital academic practices. Twitter as a Social Medium for Research Purposes has become an effective outlet to widely disseminate their project development, knowledge production and research findings. To meet these aims, research groups display pragmatic strategies responding to three overarching communicative intentions -informative, interactional and promotional- as well as metadiscursive markers to establish links through their texts with the audience. This paper analyses these practices by looking into the metadiscoursal realisations of a taxonomy of twenty-seven data-driven pragmatic strategies in ten Horizon2020 research project Twitter accounts. First, we revisit metadiscursive adjustments for the digital environment of Twitter. Then, we identify salient metadiscourse features instantatiating the pragmatic strategies using NVivo. In general, interactional metadiscursive features predominate over interactive ones, being attitude markers, self-mentions and directives characteristic markers in informative, promotional and interactional strategies, respectively. Moreover, some metadiscourse categories are found to rely on non-verbal markers for their realisation. The analysis expands the understanding of complex digital discursive practices developed by researchers to disseminate their results, account for their funding, make themselves visible and engage multiple audiences.

Traumatic Seclusion in M. Night Shyamalan's Garrison Trilogy: Signs (2002), The Village (2004) and The Lady in the Water (2006)


Shyamalan's Signs, The Village and The Lady in the Water turn around the need to find refuge away from violence, in an updated version of Northrop Frye's garrison motif. Absolute safety is, however, threatened by spectral, even fictitious monstrous creatures that can be defined as projections of specific traumatic situations, provoked partly by the terrorist attacks of September 2001 but mostly by Shyamalan's own response to social violence.

"Reader, Take Notice": Aphra Behn's References and Self-Representation in the Epistle to the Reader in The Dutch Lover


Aphra Behn is generally regarded as the first Englishwoman to have lived by the pen, not an easy feat in the competitive world of the literary world of Restoration London. While her early life remains a mystery, her time in London and her allegiances are very well-documented. Throughout her whole career, she crafted a persona that interacted with her readers and the audience in her paratexts; however, the self she presented in the early stages of her career through the references she made has never been fully considered. Investigating these allusions can help fill in the blanks of what is known about her and revisit older conceptions. This study explores and identifies the references she made and the communicative strategies she used in her epistle to the reader printed with The Dutch Lover (1673) and what they mean in terms of the self she crafted.

Ford Madox Ford’s Modernist Trio: A Psychosocial Study of Suicidal Doppelgängers in The Rash Act


As one of the most prolific writers of modernist fiction, Ford Madox Ford shared the period's fascination with suicide. Despite the complementary relationship between the theme of suicide and the double-motif, a concentrated analysis of its significance in Ford's portrayal of the modern world in The Rash Act (1933), his work which most directly focuses on the theme of suicide, has not, to date, been conducted. Accordingly, this article presents a systematic examination of the aforementioned relationship in The Rash Act by applying Anthony Giddens' psychosocial exploration of suicide in "A Typology of Suicide" (1966), which apart from offering an etiological analysis, serves to aptly contextualize the structuring device of suicidal doppelgängers in the modernist milieu of the novel. It will be argued that, through suicide, the protagonist strives to realize his ego-ideal, which is embodied by his double, oblivious to the fact, however, that it ironically entails the annihilation of the identity of the double (ego-ideal) himself, along with the symbolic destruction of the protagonist's own identity. By expunging the embodiment of the ego-ideal rather than the protagonist's undesirable ego, suicide thwarts the actualization of the protagonist's illusory rebirth. The upshot is a trio, in whose liminal space, suicide, the double-motif and the narrative of identity loss correspond to each other's contradictions and indeterminacy, which mirror Ford's literary conception of his age.

"All of our lives have been terribly shaped by what went on before us": History and (Post)memory in Michael Ondaatje's Running in the Family and Anil's Ghost


Michael Ondaatje's fictionalized memoir Running in the Family (1982) and his novel Anil's Ghost (2000) are thematically concerned with a return to the country of birth and a confrontation with the past, both individual and collective. In both the memoir and the novel, the history of the author's native Sri Lanka is not only consciously recorded, but also inscribed on material traces and on the human body, "terribly" and insidiously shaping subsequent generations. The article argues that this unconscious, hidden past involves gradual changes and developments that occur imperceptibly over the long term, including events whose effects are transmitted unconsciously through intergenerational (epigenetic) transfer and imprinted on individuals and communities. In both works, Ondaatje adopts a long-term perspective reminiscent of Fernand Braudel's longue durée to rethink the Sri Lankan past in a way that dismisses a deterministic idea of historical inevitability. As argued by Walter Benjamin and contemporary interpreters of the longue durée, the future is not predetermined. The past holds unrealized potentialities, which may inspire and shape alternative futures. What sustains this way of thinking is a belief in the power of counterfactual thinking to subvert the inevitability of the current order or values.

Stretching the Temporal Boundaries of Postmemorial Fiction: Shades of Albert Camus' Absurd in Biyi Bandele Thomas' Burma Boy


Nigerian-British writer and playwright Biyi Bandele Thomas' novel Burma Boy (2007) is inspired by his father's combat experience in the Burma Campaign of World War Two. This postmemorial re-enactment not only commemorates his father but also the marginalised black African soldiers who participated in that campaign. Critical attention paid to Bandele's work has noted his surrealistic and satirical style, usually in alignment with a post-colonial epistemology. This paper aims to show how the novel evokes the origins of a trauma and the futility of war within an African consciousness, alongside broader ontologies concerning the modern condition. I contend that through an aesthetics of the Absurd, as outlined by Albert Camus, Burma Boy not only evokes the absurdity of war but transcends its temporal wartime boundaries by offering a broad reflection on the fundamental cause of the author's father's wartime trauma: the divorce of humankind from the reality of existence. Thus, I conclude that this post-generational novel leverages an aesthetics of the Absurd to address contemporary political and environmental concerns.

A Virgilian Descent into Gendered Old Age: London katabasis in Margaret Drabble’s The Seven Sisters


This article analyses the katabasis mytheme in Margaret Drabble's The Seven Sisters (2002), laying special emphasis on her contemporary revisionist reimagining of the Aeneid. A dialogue with Virgil's male-centred epic poem becomes both a starting point and a destination when death is just around the corner, intimated and sublimated as it is by London, a city that correlates to the Virgilian Underworld as a dark, damp topos, plagued by grotesque lost souls wandering about its liminal spaces. This close reading of the trope will not only provide a critical insight into Drabble's subversive reworking of Aeneas's descent to the Underworld from a female-centred perspective, but will also explore how the mythical resignification of the London urban landscape mediates an ongoing redefinition of women's old age and its tense power relations with the past, the present and the future.

Gendered Postmemorial Legacy: Lily Brett’s and Elizabeth Rosner’s Poetic Renditions of the Holocaust


This article explores Lily Brett's The Auschwitz Poems (2004) and Elizabeth Rosner's Gravity (2014), two female-authored second-generation poetic renditions of the Holocaust. Examining these works through the lens of postmemory, my goal is to shed new light on the intergenerational transmission of trauma from a gendered perspective, focusing on its connections with poetry. I argue that both anthologies share at the core of their narrative a gender-focused layer of meaning, which penetrates into a postmemorial experience that is to a great extent defined by this social construct. This essay fosters scholarship on postmemory by conceiving it as a double-edged process encompassing both aesthetics and a form of social activism, and informed by feminism, which is mirrored in the reconception and rethinking of both the female body and gender hierarchy.

Politeness Theorizing and Operationalization in Two Less-Examined Settings: Professional Contexts and Internet-Mediated Interactions


Other Issues

, Volume 45, Number 1
, Volume 44, Number 2
, Volume 44, Number 1
, Volume 43, Number 2
, (Volume 43, Number 1)
December 2019, Volume 41, Number 2
June 2019, Volume 41, Issue 1
ALTTEXT, 39,2
, 39, 1
ATLANTIS 38.1, 38.1
Atlantis, 33,1
Atlantis 42.1, Volume 42, Number 1
, Volume 42, Number 2