This study examines the growing use of English in Moroccan television advertisements, a topic that has received very little attention in the existing research. Morocco is a multilingual country where Arabic, French, Amazigh, and increasingly English coexist in everyday life. Most studies on code-switching in Morocco ha...
This paper explores the relationship between the essay and the column—two forms that share important stylistic and conceptual affinities, but differ in several structural and functional aspects. Although the essay is the older and more established form, attempts to define it have proved inconclusive. From Montaigne’s i...
Narrating the visual component of movies is known as audio description. It is a narrative technique designed to enable blind and visually impaired individuals to follow the story. However, it is far more constrained than most narratives: the descriptions not only need to convey the story in the movie, but they must als...
This paper examines how listeners from two regions of England perceive and describe Northern English accents. Using the Salient Language in Context (SLIC) methodology, 94 respondents from two regions of England listened to recorded voices, clicking when they noticed features and providing open‐ended comments. The ana...
English song in the early 1900s was tightly associated with notions of Britishness in the wider context of the development of British art song. The paper, focusing on Ralph Vaughan Williams' On Wenlock Edge, explores the parts played by poetry, landscape, folk influence, modal writing and chamber texture in the creatio...
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