{"title":"Book Review: Transcultural Things and the Spectre of Orientalism in Early Modern Poland–Lithuania by Tomasz Grusiecki GrusieckiTomasz, Transcultural Things and the Spectre of Orientalism in Early Modern Poland–Lithuania, Manchester University Press: Manchester, 2023; 264 pp., 44 b/w illus., 1 map; 9781526164360, £85.00 (hbk); 9781526164353, £80.00 (ebook)","authors":"Paul Hulsenboom","doi":"10.1177/02656914251325052e","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914251325052e","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"70 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143884354","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Artificial intelligence in the training of public service interpreters","authors":"Laura Parrilla Gómez , Encarnación Postigo Pinazo","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.04.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.04.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Great advances achieved in recent years in artificial intelligence (AI) have made it possible to address the huge challenges posed in the field of education. Indeed, thanks to the development of innovative practices, Sustainable Development Goal 4 has been enhanced. This goal is one of the 17 global goals established by the United Nations in 2015 as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It consists of ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and of promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all.</div><div>Over the last decade, new applications and digital tools have allowed future interpreters to access training materials in the field of Public Service Interpreting (PSI) and to develop their skills during their training. The full potential of these AI tools, however, have yet to be fully explored in the field of Translation and Interpreting, and specifically in the Public Service sector.</div><div>Transcription and audio recognition tools have been analysed (Ünlü, 2023; Parrilla Gómez and Postigo Pinazo, 2023), as well as the tools to support preparation phases such as terminology management (Braun, 2019). But the use of the different AI options available on the market require further analysis to verify their validity for training purposes.</div><div>Given the important role of new technologies in the training of interpreters, and the need to upskill interpreters working in the public sector, we explored the potential of AI technologies to help ensure quality training and the attainment of the 2030 Education Agenda. The research questions were thus as follows: What are the ethical and pedagogical implications of AI for the training of Public Service interpreters? How can educators, researchers and future interpreters benefit from these tools? And lastly: Which tools could adequately replace the real materials which are lacking? In order to answer these questions, three AI tools (Chat GPT, Twee, and ElevenLabs) have been analysed to assess their effectiveness in generating material for the bilateral interpreting classroom in the context of public services, and then to analyse the students‘ and teachers’ opinion of these materials.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"103 ","pages":"Pages 86-107"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143879221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Post-imperial Encounters: Transnational Designs of Bessarabia in Paris and Elsewhere 1917–1922 by Svetlana Suveica SuveicaSvetlana, Post-imperial Encounters: Transnational Designs of Bessarabia in Paris and Elsewhere 1917–1922, De Gruyter Oldenbourg: Berlin, 2022; 509 pp., 6 colour illus., 6 line drawings, 2 maps; 9783111166339, £50.00 (hbk)","authors":"James Koranyi","doi":"10.1177/02656914251325052p","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914251325052p","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143884301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Remembering 1989: Future Archives of Public Protest by Anke Pinkert PinkertAnke, Remembering 1989: Future Archives of Public Protest, University of Chicago Press: Chicago, IL, 2024; 360 pp., 38 illus.; 9780226835327, $115.00 (hbk); 9780226835334, $35.00 (pbk)","authors":"Anna Saunders","doi":"10.1177/02656914251325052l","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914251325052l","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143884347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Maniera Greca in Europe’s Catholic East: On Identities of Images in Lithuania and Poland (1380s–1720s) by Giedrė Mickūnaitė MickūnaitėGiedrė, Maniera Greca in Europe’s Catholic East: On Identities of Images in Lithuania and Poland (1380s–1720s), Amsterdam University Press: Amsterdam, 2023; 238 pp., 56 illus.; 9789462982666, €122.00","authors":"Tomasz Grusiecki","doi":"10.1177/02656914251325052j","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914251325052j","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143884353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fascist Internationalism: From a Vanished Institution to a Failed Concept?","authors":"Daniel Hedinger","doi":"10.1177/16118944251331427","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/16118944251331427","url":null,"abstract":"During the early 1930s, a number of fascist international organisations emerged in Europe and East Asia. Italy's ambition to universalise fascism led to the establishment of the Action Committees for the Universality of Rome (Comitati d’Azione per l’Universalità di Roma, CAUR) in mid-1933. Meanwhile, some months earlier, Japan's continental expansion and the founding of Manchukuo brought about the creation of the Greater Asia Association (Dai Ajia Kyōkai). For a moment, it seemed that the time had come for a proper fascist international aimed at an ultranationalist revision of the League of Nations and at fighting the Comintern on a global level. During the 1930s, fascist internationalism was the ideology-driven motor beyond such projects. However, by the latter half of the decade, all of them had failed. In Europe, heightened competition between Germany and Italy left little space for a pan-European fascist organisation. In Asia, the colonial context of the region and Japan's expansion placed almost insurmountable obstacles in the way of an East Asian fascist international, and it turned out that the connection between the two centres of gravitation in Asia and Europe would not be established through any kind of fascist international organisation. This article discusses how and why the fascist internationals of the early 1930s vanished, stressing that, in the end, the rising Axis alliance was much more driven by transimperial radicalisation. In other words, Italy, Germany and Japan did not rely on a proper fascist international institution to plunge the world into a new world war. Nonetheless, as this article shows, the manner of the failure and vanishing of fascist internationalism is essential in understanding the scope and nature of global fascism in the interwar years.","PeriodicalId":44275,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern European History","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143884357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: History and Myth in Pictorial Narratives of the Russian ‘Patriotic War’, 1812–1914 by Andrew M. Nedd NeddAndrew M., History and Myth in Pictorial Narratives of the Russian ‘Patriotic War’, 1812–1914, Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, 2024; 273 pp., 50 illus.; 9783031603341, £109.99","authors":"Robert Justin Goldstein","doi":"10.1177/02656914251325052k","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914251325052k","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"53 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143884358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: ‘Nit on meines Capitels Wissen’. Praktiken des Informations- und Wissensmanagements in der Verwaltung und Herrschaft des Bamberger Domkapitels, 1522–1623 by Oliver Kruk KrukOliver, ‘Nit on meines Capitels Wissen’. Praktiken des Informations- und Wissensmanagements in der Verwaltung und Herrschaft des Bamberger Domkapitels, 1522–1623, Ergon Verlag: Baden-Baden, 2024; 437 pp., 10 illus.; 9783987401145, €114.00 (hbk)","authors":"Daniel Pfitzer","doi":"10.1177/02656914251325052g","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914251325052g","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"70 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143884303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eveliina Salmela , Merja Koskela, Henna Syrjälä, Liisa Kääntä
{"title":"Guilt and innocence – Emotional discourses in online discussions on climate change and housing","authors":"Eveliina Salmela , Merja Koskela, Henna Syrjälä, Liisa Kääntä","doi":"10.1016/j.dcm.2025.100887","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.dcm.2025.100887","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper explores the discourses of guilt and innocence represented in Finnish online communication in different platforms. Guilt and innocence represent emotional reactions, which are discursively constructed and connected to values and social norms. We pose two research questions to our study: how are the nuances of guilt and innocence presented in online discussions, and how are self- and other-centered discourses constructed in different platforms. The data of the study consists of online discussions concerning people’s mundane housing in relation to climate change appearing in the comments on blogs and in the discussion threads on an anonymous online discussion forum. By combining Greimas’ semiotic square with discourse analysis, we show how the categories of guilt and innocence as well as not guilty and not innocent highlight the nuanced ways in which polarizing perspectives to self- and other-centered discourses appear on different platforms. Our research contributes to the discussion on environmental communication by revealing more than just two opposing poles; our analysis shows the fine-tuned differences intertwined with gendered discourses constructed in discussions on different platforms. While feeling guilty or not innocent in the blogs is mostly connected with the participant’s own actions of not doing enough, assigning guilt to someone else seems to be common on the anonymous discussion forum. Still, the analysis indicates that while community norms and expectations shape the discourses they do not determine how the discourses turn out.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46649,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Context & Media","volume":"65 ","pages":"Article 100887"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143883000","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Stalin vs Gypsies: Roma and Political Repressions in the USSR by Elena Marushiakova and Vesselin Popov MarushiakovaElena and PopovVesselin, Stalin vs Gypsies: Roma and Political Repressions in the USSR, Brill: Leiden, 2024; 664 pp., 27 b/w illus., 8 colour illus.; 9783506790965, €139.25 (hbk)","authors":"Anna G. Piotrowska","doi":"10.1177/02656914251325052h","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914251325052h","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143884356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}