This paper examines how Eileen Myles’s poetry serves as a potent mode of political engagement. I analyze two poems, “An American Poem” (1991) and “I always put my pussy” (1993), to explore how poetry becomes a site of resistance. By placing these two poems in dialogue I demonstrate how Myles’s political poetry employs two key strategies: collectivity and embodiment. “An American Poem” subverts national narratives by reimagining Myles’s personal identity within the framework of American aristocracy. In contrast, “I always put my pussy” foregrounds desire as a radical political act, demonstrating how Myles uses embodiment to reimagine national belonging. The analysis of these poems is situated within Myles’s 1992 presidential campaign to illustrate how poetry becomes part of their broader political activism. Myles’s poetry operates as both a critique of hegemonic structures and a visionary act, showing the potential of poetic language to reimagine resistance.

Activating teaching techniques have been increasingly applied in the EFL classroom since they foster motivation, promote independent learning, and add variety to a standard English class. Undoubtedly, learning stations and education escape rooms are representative examples of such techniques. Regarding their beneficial influence on the learning process, their application is an effective way to prepare students for tests and exams. This study attempts to evaluate how English language revision through the application of learning stations constituting one educational escape room influences students’ motivation and engagement. Therefore, to gain insight into the students’ outlook on the motivational impact of this revision, a class was held for 8th grade students that implemented such techniques. The students were carefully observed during the experiment. Subsequently, a questionnaire consisting of 22 questions was carried out among them. The results of the study are overwhelmingly positive in the sense of achieving a great number of positive answers concerning the motivational impact of the class conducted.

This article examines Ahdaf Soueif’s novel, In the Eye of the Sun, to explore the complex dynamics of female agency and sexuality within the context of Arab-Islamic societal norms. Through the lens of anti-sex feminism, particularly the theories of Andrea Dworkin and Catherine Mackinnon, the study scrutinizes the protagonist Asya’s seemingly rebellious actions, such as her premarital sexual relationship with Saif and extramarital affair with Gerald. Contrary to surface interpretations of these acts as defiance, the analysis reveals that Asya’s choices often reinforce rather than subvert patriarchal structures. The article situates Asya’s personal journey within the socio-political and cultural milieu of late-twentieth-century Egypt, highlighting how colonial legacies and societal expectations shape her experiences. By integrating critical perspectives on gender and sexuality, this study underscores the paradox of Asya’s quest for liberation, which ultimately entangles her further within the confines of traditional gender roles. The article concludes by examining Asya’s eventual turn to societal work, suggesting that her actions reflect strategic adaptations rather than genuine autonomy. This nuanced reading challenges simplistic narratives of female emancipation and emphasizes the enduring influence of cultural and religious roots in shaping individual agency.

Joyce Carol Oates’s My Sister, My Love is a fictional memoir inspired by the infamous murder of JonBenét Ramsey. The novel explores the psychological impact of trauma and the complexities of memory as the protagonist, Skyler, grapples with the guilt of potentially being involved in his sister’s death. Through a Ricœurian lens, this paper examines how memory serves both as a tool for understanding and as a means of obscuring the past. The analysis highlights the limitations of memory, its susceptibility to manipulation, and its role in shaping individual narratives. Ultimately, My Sister, My Love presents a poignant exploration of the human psyche, the enduring impact of trauma, and the quest for meaning in the face of tragedy.

The paper analyses imperfect homophony as a source of wordplay, with a view to delineating the way two concepts or only one concept is valid for the discourse. Second, it investigates the source of the contextual information required for the identification of the target expression. The analysis is performed in the light of Sperber and Wilson’s Relevance Theory. It will be demonstrated that the target concept is accessed via activating a search for relevance triggered by the phonetic similarity between two concepts as well as the linguistic context. The findings of a study will demonstrate that puns stemming from imperfect homophony can be divided into those in which two concepts are facilitated and juxtaposed in linguistic context and thus their encyclopaedic entries are fully valid for the overall humorous interpretation and those in which only one novel concept is valid for the ongoing conversation. In addition, the puns under analysis can be categorised according to the criterion of the source of contextual information required for the identification of the target expression. In the paper, the key role of context will be discussed and specified, with the emphasis on the viewer’s perspective. The theoretical proposals are illustrated with imperfect homophony-based puns derived from the sitcom Modern Family.

Growing societal and academic concern regarding environmental damage has led the fashion industry to engage more with sustainability (Li et al., 2024). This paper examines Il Nido di Seta, a small fashion and agricultural cooperative in southern Italy, which has initiated a regenerative silk production program and has recently developed a collaborative project with Gucci. The study investigates Il Nido di Seta’s ecological language, addressing themes related to global fashion, ecotourism, and regional enhancement. Based on a corpus of texts from the cooperative’s website as well as texts from Gucci’s Equilibrium Impact Report 2022 and sections of the Kering Report which refer to their collaboration with Il Nido di Seta, this research analyses ecological discourse and assesses how these topics appear on Il Nido di Seta’s Instagram posts (N=363) from 2019 to 2024. Through corpus linguistics, content analysis, and framing analysis, the study explores term frequency, content alignment, and how ecological messages are conveyed multimodally on social media.

The aim of the present study is to investigate the attitudes of philology students towards bilingualism in a multilingual environment. The research was conducted among students majoring in Hungarian, English, Ukrainian, and German language and literature at the Ferenc Rákóczi II Transcarpathian Hungarian College of Higher Education in Transcarpathia, Ukraine. Data were collected with the help of an online attitude survey (N=185) and three focus group interviews (N=12). Based on the results, philology students have generally positive attitudes towards bilingual language use, code-switching and lexical borrowing. They consider language learning as extremely important nowadays, especially English if someone wants to live or work abroad, while Hungarian–Ukrainian bilingualism is most useful in Transcarpathia. The main problem is that the Ukrainian state language is taught as a first language to ethnic minorities instead of being taught as a foreign language like English. As a result, many Hungarian children cannot speak Ukrainian. Furthermore, most students are not aware of the importance of additive language teaching, which considers the native dialect of learners to be as precious as the standard language variant. Therefore, it would be advisable to introduce the additive approach into the curriculum of all prospective teachers in multilingual environments.

Metonymy and polysemy in academic and popular science texts are useful linguistic phenomena that aid in interpreting complex specialised terms by capturing various meanings in scientific terminology. The relevance of the study is determined by the necessity to clarify the functions and contextual motivation behind the use of metonymy and polysemy in conveying scientific information. The research aims to analyse theories related to metonymy and polysemy, different types of these stylistic figures, and determine which ones are most productive for scientific style. The results of the study revealed that metonymic expressions can be used to condense narratives and convey precise terms and definitions. On the other hand, polysemy assists in selecting the most appropriate among multiple meanings of the same term. The findings of this paper can be beneficial to linguists, teachers, and researchers from various scientific fields who seek to enhance the accuracy and comprehensibility of their scientific work.

Indigenous writing with postcolonial themes foregrounds the erasure and marginalization that result from colonialism. The genre-disrupting, coming-of-age novel Split Tooth (2018) by Inuit author Tanya Tagaq explores the personal and public life of a young Inuk woman from one of the Indigenous communities in the Canadian Arctic region. Split Tooth focuses on themes like the disappearances and deaths of Indigenous women, Inuit cultural settings, sexual assault, precarity, and violence. The novel meanders through emotions such as fear, shame, and grief, and can be analyzed through the theoretical framework of postcolonial affect. Postcolonial affect primarily examines the diverse emotional states of the colonized as indicators of the crisis that arises from colonization. The objective of the analysis is to highlight the delineation of affect in Split Tooth, as Tagaq blends the personal and the political in her narrative. Postcolonial affect is used for the theoretical examination of appropriation and violence that constitute the precarity of Inuit people, particularly women.