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Discussion paper on Irish language radio broadcasting
(NUI Galway and Mary Immaculate College, UL, 2018-01)
This discussion paper presents the findings of the first phase of an ongoing study into the use of Irish language on the country s radio stations, other than those that broadcast exclusively in Irish. Under broadcasting ...
Migrating myths: From Greece to Nicaragua, Mexico and Ireland
(Society for Irish Latin America Studies (SILAS), 2018)
Michèle Najlis is a Nicaraguan poet associated with the
Sandinista Revolution; her 1991 collection of poems Cantos de Ifigenia
(Songs of Iphigenia) has had a deep and lasting impact on my academic
and creative work. ...
The Metastasio moment: language, music and translation
(Palermo University Press, 2018)
The production, circulation and reception of translations are deeply embedded in the historical circumstances of the society that chooses to translate such texts. According to Lawrence Venuti, changing interpretations of ...
An Gael agus an raidió: Craoltóireacht na Gaeilge tar éis bhunú an stáit
(Comhar, 2018-09)
Léiríonn an caidreamh idir an chraoltóireacht agus an Ghaeilge san 20ú Aois go leor idé-eolaíochtaí casta maidir leis an gcainteoir dúchais agus leis an bhfoghlaimeoir, agus faoin gceangal idir tógáil na féiniúlachta agus ...
The place-names of Co. Roscommon
(Geography Publications, 2018)
Roscommon is one of five counties comprising the province of Connacht, bounded to the west by the counties of Galway and Mayo, by Sligo and Leitrim at all points to the north, and by Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath to the ...
Audiovisual translation in language teaching and learning
(Routledge, 2018-09-06)
This chapter explores the use of AVT in language teaching and learning. It begins with a historical overview exploring the benefits of presenting language students with subtitled video material, and experimenting with ...
Dragging up the past: subversive performance of gender and sexual identities in traditional and contemporary Irish culture
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
This chapter places contemporary drag performance in Ireland within a historical context
of dissident, subversive elements of Irish popular culture. The practice of drag, as a
performative and political strategy with the ...
Using an example: Denis Sauvage, Philippe de Commynes and the ‘Vieil Exemplaire’
(Brill, 2018-03-20)
Philippe de Commynes was part of a community of writers in the fifteenth century who referred to their work as Mémoires, but readers did not recognize this as a generic marker and first editions of his work were published ...
Impact of prosodic training on Italian as L2 by Hiberno-English speakers: the case of polar questions
(International Speech Communication Association, 2018-06-13)
This paper aims at investigating the efficacy of a perceptionproduction training on the production of Italian-L2 yes/no
questions by Hiberno-English learners. Our hypotheses are
that an intensive prosodic training improves ...
Intonation in Liguria and Tuscany: checking for similarities across a traditional isogloss boundary
(Associazione Italiana Scienze della Voce (AISV) and Officinaventuno, 2018)
The present work investigates the intonation systems of two varieties of Italian spoken in Liguria,
namely in La Spezia and Imperia, with the aims of 1) extending the existing knowledge on the
intonation systems of ...