Department of Ethnology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University cordially invites you to cycle of public lectures and screenings by dr. Iivi Zájedová. The central objective of the course is to give a comprehensive overview of Estonian folklore festivals process and role of festivals since the 19th century until today. Estonian language and folklore is at the […]
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Peter Kosta (Universität Postdam): Animacy, Gender and Agreement in Typologically and Genetically Cognate and Non-Cognate Languages – Explorations into the Syntax-Semantic Interfaces of Human Language Faculty
The following project goes back to our research on grammatical categories with special reference to syntax and semantics of Slavic languages compared to a small set of typologically and genetically non-cognate languages usually referred to as indigenous languages. This kind of comparison aims at discovering overt and hidden properties of human mind encoded as grammatical categories […]
Hilde Hasselgård (Univerzita Oslo): Corpus-based contrastive analysis: some methodological issues and a talking case study
Hilde Hasselgård Professor, English language, Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages, University of Oslo „Corpus-based contrastive analysis: some methodological issues and a talking case study“
Benjamin C. Fortna (University of Arizona): Researching the History of Marginality in the Ottoman Context: An Introduction to ‘Outcasts and the State in the Late Ottoman Empire’
Please note that this talk is part of the Conference “Outcasts and the State in the Late Ottoman Empire”.
Robbie Love: The Spoken BNC2014: design, compilation and… bad language
Robbie Love is a PhD Research Student, ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS), Lancaster University „The Spoken BNC2014: design, compilation and…bad language“
Mikel J. Koven (University of Worcester): Paul Wegener’s Das Golem (1920) as Folk Horror
Mikel Koven is the author of Blaxploitation Film (2010), Film, Folklore & Urban Legends (2008) and La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film (2006); he co-edited Folklore/Cinema: Popular Film as Vernacular Entertainment (2007) and a special issue of Western Folklore on the topic of “Folklore & Film”. He was formerly Editor of the journal […]
Mikel J. Koven (University of Worcester): Mythic Cinema and Contemporary Biblical Epic
Mikel Koven is the author of Blaxploitation Film (2010), Film, Folklore & Urban Legends (2008) and La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film (2006); he co-edited Folklore/Cinema: Popular Film as Vernacular Entertainment (2007) and a special issue of Western Folklore on the topic of “Folklore & Film”. He was formerly Editor of the journal […]
Mikel J. Koven (University of Worcester): Found Footage Horror Cinema and the Rhetoric of Truth and Legend
Mikel Koven is the author of Blaxploitation Film (2010), Film, Folklore & Urban Legends (2008) and La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film (2006); he co-edited Folklore/Cinema: Popular Film as Vernacular Entertainment (2007) and a special issue of Western Folklore on the topic of “Folklore & Film”. He was formerly Editor of the journal […]
