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Into­na­tion in lan­guage con­tact: The case of Span­ish in Cat­alo­nia
The intense lan­guage con­tact between Span­ish and Cata­lan in Cat­alo­nia has led to cross-lin­guis­tic influ­ence at all lin­guis­tic lev­els, but its effect on the prosody of these lan­guages has received lit­tle atten­tion to date. Based on semi-spon­ta­neous and read speech data from 31 Catalan–Spanish bilin­guals, this book pro­vides a com­pre­hen­sive analy­sis of the into­na­tion of Span­ish and Cata­lan as spo­ken in Girona, with a focus on the speak­ers’ bilin­gual­ism. These con­tact vari­eties share numer­ous into­na­tion­al prop­er­ties, with dif­fer­ences main­ly in the fre­quen­cy of spe­cif­ic tunes in cer­tain con­texts. How­ev­er, they also exhib­it sig­nif­i­cant vari­a­tion, often linked to extralin­guis­tic fac­tors such as the bilin­guals’ lan­guage dom­i­nance. Over­all, the into­na­tion of these con­tact vari­eties results from sub­stra­tum trans­fer and whole­sale con­ver­gence between the prosod­ic sys­tems of Span­ish and Cata­lan.
The book is par­tic­u­lar­ly rel­e­vant to schol­ars research­ing prosody, lan­guage con­tact, vari­a­tion, and mul­ti­lin­gual­ism.
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Unself­ing: Glob­al French Lit­er­a­ture at the Lim­its of Con­scious­ness
Altered states of con­scious­ness – includ­ing expe­ri­ences of depri­va­tion, pain, hal­lu­ci­na­tion, fear, desire, alien­ation, and spir­i­tu­al tran­scen­dence – can trans­form the ordi­nary expe­ri­ence of self­hood.
Unself­ing explores the nature of dis­rup­tive self-expe­ri­ences and the dif­fer­ent shapes they have tak­en in lit­er­ary writ­ing. The book focus­es on the ten­sion between rival con­cep­tions of unself­ing as either a form of pro­duc­tive self-tran­scen­dence or a form of alien­at­ing self-loss.
Michaela Hul­styn explores the shapes and mean­ings of unself­ing through the frame­work of the glob­al French lit­er­ary world, encom­pass­ing texts by mod­ernist fig­ures in France and Bel­gium along­side writ­ers from Alge­ria, Rwan­da, and Moroc­co. Togeth­er these diverse texts prompt a re-eval­u­a­tion of the con­se­quences of the loss or the tran­scen­dence of the self. Through a series of close read­ings, Hul­styn offers a new account of the eth­i­cal ques­tions raised by altered states and shows how philoso­phies of empa­thy can be test­ed against and often chal­lenged by lit­er­ary works. Draw­ing on cog­ni­tive sci­ence and phe­nom­e­nol­o­gy, Unself­ing pro­vides a new method­ol­o­gy for approach­ing texts that give shape to the fringes of con­scious expe­ri­ence.
Unself­ing offers an account of the ways that glob­al French writ­ers have tried to cap­ture expe­ri­ences when the ordi­nary sense of the self as a source of uni­ty, sta­bil­i­ty, and author­i­ty has been rad­i­cal­ly altered.
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