{"title":"Educational Equality","authors":"L. Matson","doi":"10.7146/lev.v0i5.115494","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7146/lev.v0i5.115494","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the impact of linguistic discrimination on learner’s academic performance in the context of teaching English as a second or foreign language (TESL/TEFL). Standard English ideology has permeated the education system in a way that affects many facets of English language teaching and learning. Three learner affective factors related to anxiety, motivation and self-confidence will be discussed to illustrate ways in which students are impacted by linguistic discrimination. In light of the evidence that linguistic discrimination is detrimental to learner’s academic performance, two methods will be discussed as ways in which linguistic discrimination can be mitigated. These methods, anti-racist education and plurilingualism, have been selected based on their potential to address linguistic discrimination at a more systemic level. ","PeriodicalId":213915,"journal":{"name":"Leviathan: Interdisciplinary Journal in English","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121489700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Semitic Stereotypes","authors":"M. R. Porsgaard","doi":"10.7146/lev.v0i5.115496","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7146/lev.v0i5.115496","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines how Jewish characters speak, look and act on the American comedy cartoons South Park and Family Guy. Through analyses of relevant episodes, a correlation is established between being a Jewish stereotype, speaking a distinct ‘Jewish English’ dialect and being a negative character on both shows. The analyses are based on 6 key characters from the two shows who are all Jewish, and while the 3 negative and stereotypical characters use certain features associated with the ‘Jewish dialect’ defined by Sarah Bunin Benor, as well as look and act according to classic Hollywood stereotypes of Jews, the 3 non-stereotypical positive/neutral characters do not. The consequences of associating certain dialects with negative characters in popular media are then discussed and it is argued that it can have serious consequences for real people.","PeriodicalId":213915,"journal":{"name":"Leviathan: Interdisciplinary Journal in English","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128265243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Diversity Dissected","authors":"Emilie Snedevig Hoffmann","doi":"10.7146/lev.v0i5.115493","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7146/lev.v0i5.115493","url":null,"abstract":"Based on comparative, intercategorical intersectional analyses of Aladdin (1992), Mulan (1998), and The Princess and the Frog (2009), I find that Disney’s intersectional representations and socialization messages tied to gender and race/ethnicity have not changed noticeably from the release of Aladdin to that of Princess. Rather, they continue to be problematically postfeminist because they hide heteronormative and patriarchal sentiments behind images of girl power. They are also sinisterly stereotypical because they negatively portray the Other and valorize Western values. Although Disney socializes different intersectional groups of children in a racialized way that distinguishes between people of color living within or outside of the United States by only encouraging the latter group to attempt to achieve relative whiteness, all three films socialize their target child audience according to heteronormative, patriarchal, and white privilege affirming values. As such, I argue that the films may be harmful to the socialization of all children.","PeriodicalId":213915,"journal":{"name":"Leviathan: Interdisciplinary Journal in English","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125366115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mísa Hejná, Sune Borkfelt, M. Eaton, Ken Ramshøj Christensen, Mathias Clasen, Antoinette Fage-Butler, Anna Jespersen, Ushma Chauhan Jacobsen, Jens Kjeldgaard‐Christiansen, Anne Schjoldager, Matthias Stephan, M. Sørensen
{"title":"Interdisciplinary: To Be or Not to Be?","authors":"Mísa Hejná, Sune Borkfelt, M. Eaton, Ken Ramshøj Christensen, Mathias Clasen, Antoinette Fage-Butler, Anna Jespersen, Ushma Chauhan Jacobsen, Jens Kjeldgaard‐Christiansen, Anne Schjoldager, Matthias Stephan, M. Sørensen","doi":"10.7146/lev.v0i5.115491","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7146/lev.v0i5.115491","url":null,"abstract":"This article introduces student readers to the realm of the interdisciplinary, with a primary focus on the humanities. We first introduce interdisciplinarity and other related terms as concepts. We then present eight specific examples, on which we illustrate interdisciplinary research. Finally, we address the question of when one should be interdisciplinary.","PeriodicalId":213915,"journal":{"name":"Leviathan: Interdisciplinary Journal in English","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127444839","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cause and Effect","authors":"Majbritt Kastberg Grønbæk","doi":"10.7146/lev.v0i5.115495","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7146/lev.v0i5.115495","url":null,"abstract":"At the turn of the 20th century, parts of the peaceful suffragists had grown frustrated with the lack of progress that had been made towards women’s suffrage. From this frustration new organisations were established that turned to more radical and, at times, violent strategies to draw attention to their cause. This paper focuses on the militant part of the fight for women’s suffrage and the effect the militancy had on the contemporary view of the women’s rights movement. The paper argues that despite creating a negative view of the women’s suffrage movement, the militant efforts weren’t entirely wasted since it created publicity for the movement and helped restart the discussion on women’s suffrage.","PeriodicalId":213915,"journal":{"name":"Leviathan: Interdisciplinary Journal in English","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116888443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lakoff and Women’s Language","authors":"A. Svendsen","doi":"10.7146/LEV.V0I4.112651","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7146/LEV.V0I4.112651","url":null,"abstract":"In Language and Woman’s Place (1973), Robin T. Lakoff argues that women’s subordinate position in society is manifested in and maintained by their tentative speech style. Since the publication of the study, this claim has achieved great attention in the field of language and gender, and various scholars have examined the features of Lakoff’s ‘women’s language’ empirically. This article creates a critical overview of four studies investigating specific features of tentative language, primarily tag questions, and discusses to what extent their findings support Lakoff’s thesis. While all the studies find that women employ more tentative features than men, they also observe that tentative language serves facilitative functions in interaction. Thus, tentative language cannot be understood exclusively as a deficient contrast to assertive language. A nuanced understanding of tentative language requires a functional perspective that recognizes the efficient social functions of the speech style. ","PeriodicalId":213915,"journal":{"name":"Leviathan: Interdisciplinary Journal in English","volume":"37 14","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113942852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"One-Substitution and Noun Ellipsis in English and Danish","authors":"M. Dahl","doi":"10.7146/LEV.V0I4.112693","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7146/LEV.V0I4.112693","url":null,"abstract":"When a speaker of English does not want to repeat the same noun too many times, one-substitution is often used: \"She would rather have a big house than a small one\" (i.e., a small house). An alternative construction of an elliptical noun phrase is to simply leave out the noun, as when a Danish speaker says: Jeg vil hellere have et stort hus end et lille: \"I would rather have a big house than a small\". Beginning with observations about one-substitution in English, this paper outlines and discusses one-substitution and noun ellipsis in Danish. With some reservations, the paper supports the argument presented by Günther (2018) that differences between languages regarding one-substitution are based on the inflectional properties of the languages. \u0000 ","PeriodicalId":213915,"journal":{"name":"Leviathan: Interdisciplinary Journal in English","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115089037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“The Frailty of Everything”","authors":"J. Ladefoged","doi":"10.7146/LEV.V0I4.112680","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7146/LEV.V0I4.112680","url":null,"abstract":"In Cormac McCarthy’s post-apocalyptic novel The Road, a man and boy roam a desolate, grey landscape. They are witnesses of an unknown catastrophe, forced to inhabit the remnants of a world once known. The man and boy are rooted in different pasts, and the paper examines the differences between the two characters with particular focus on language, memory and meaning in the post-apocalyptic world. The boy and man are significant for understanding the interconnections between past and present, but the novel in its entirety is also a necessary and inevitable component in understanding the paradox of language and memory. The paper argues that The Road, in its encounter with readers, becomes an ironic work, because readers subconsciously induce their own memory, experiences and connotations to make sense of the post-apocalyptic world, although the post-apocalyptic world is foreign and in many ways incompatible with the world that readers know.","PeriodicalId":213915,"journal":{"name":"Leviathan: Interdisciplinary Journal in English","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125555679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Popular Science Articles and Academic Reports on the Topics of Cultural Commodification and Institutionalised Racism","authors":"Katherina C. P. Vowles-Sørensen","doi":"10.7146/LEV.V0I4.112681","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7146/LEV.V0I4.112681","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines two aspects within cultural studies, namely that of cultural commodification and institutionalised racism. These are explored through a review style article discussing the commodification and appropriation of indigenous Australian food items on the television cooking programme Masterchef Australia, and in an ‘op-ed’ style piece considering the systemic racism represented by the blackface character of Zwarte Piet (Black Pete) in the Dutch festive tradition of Sinterklaas (St. Nicholas). These two articles are followed by case study reports which analyse how the theories were applied. The arguments in the reports conclude that Masterchef Australia has a responsibility to better represent indigenous Australian culture, and that the tradition of Zwarte Piet clearly exemplifies institutionalised racism and discrimination.","PeriodicalId":213915,"journal":{"name":"Leviathan: Interdisciplinary Journal in English","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116255135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Philosophy of ‘Fish’","authors":"Helena Hastings-Gayle","doi":"10.7146/LEV.V0I4.112678","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7146/LEV.V0I4.112678","url":null,"abstract":"Animals occupy a unique form of experience relative to our own. Our encounters with them often lead to contemplations of human perspective and identity. This essay analyses the human-animal encounter in D.H. Lawrence’s poem ‘Fish’ and the speaker's approaches in comprehending the other. The essay extrapolates this to explore ideas of knowledge and identify the poem's challenges to anthropomorphic perspectives and Christian principles","PeriodicalId":213915,"journal":{"name":"Leviathan: Interdisciplinary Journal in English","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126474136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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