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A speech act analysis of status updates on Facebook: The case of Ghanaian University students (2013)
Journal Article
Nartey, M. (2013). A speech act analysis of status updates on Facebook: The case of Ghanaian University students. Language in India, 13(12), 114-141

In the last half a decade, social network sites (SNSs) have wrought a tremendous impact on interpersonal communication across the world to the extent that it can be postulated, arguably, that such sites/platforms represent the commonest new media in... Read More about A speech act analysis of status updates on Facebook: The case of Ghanaian University students.

A scopophiliac fairy tale: Deconstructing normative gender in Angela Carter’s “The Bloody Chamber” (2013)
Journal Article
Sivyer, C. (2013). A scopophiliac fairy tale: Deconstructing normative gender in Angela Carter’s “The Bloody Chamber”. Gender Forum, 44, 45-61

Angela Carter’s short story collection The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories is a reworking of traditional fairy tales, or as she suggested “stories about fairy stories.” Carter takes up the flexible structure of the fairy story in order to communicat... Read More about A scopophiliac fairy tale: Deconstructing normative gender in Angela Carter’s “The Bloody Chamber”.