New Horizons in English Studies

09/09/2024

Explore Izabela Olszak's article, The Impact of Service-Learning on English Education. A Socio-Cultural Project as an Attempt to Increase Cultural Awareness, which highlights how Service-Learning (SL) fosters active student engagement and enhances cultural awareness in English education. This insightful study examines the benefits and challenges of integrating SL into university curricula, demonstrating its value in bridging theoretical knowledge with practical application for future English teachers. https://journals.umcs.pl/nh/article/view/15486 phot. freepik

06/09/2024

Check out the article "English Language Skills for Islamic Economic Students: Expectation versus Reality" to explore the gap between what students and instructors view as essential English skills in Islamic Economics. This study highlights the need for a revised curriculum, as students prioritize speaking and writing, while instructors emphasize reading and grammar, offering valuable insights for improving English for Specific Purposes (ESP) courses. https://journals.umcs.pl/nh/article/view/15613

04/09/2024

Dive into this insightful article that contrasts Hungarian and Bulgarian banking terminology, highlighting unique linguistic patterns and metaphorical frameworks. Discover how Hungarian relies on native expressions, while Bulgarian incorporates foreign loanwords, reflecting different cognitive perspectives in financial language.
https://journals.umcs.pl/nh/article/view/14564 phot. from freepik

19/07/2024

Explore the critical discourse analysis of Fox News' partisan reporting during the COVID-19 pandemic, revealing biases and discursive strategies, in issue no. 8 of New Horizons in English Studies. Dive into the detailed examination of "Fox and Friends" transcripts to understand the motivations behind Fox’s reporting style. Don't miss the full article by Petr Hans! Photo by Anna Shvets. https://journals.umcs.pl/nh/article/view/15682

17/07/2024

Discover how conceptual metaphors reveal intentions to deceive in narratives by Elizabeth Holmes and Sabrina Butler in the latest issue of New Horizons in English Studies. This insightful study explores linguistic cues to dishonesty and offers new perspectives on the characteristics of truthful versus deceptive speech. Read Eszter Éva Skrobák's article at: https://journals.umcs.pl/nh/article/view/14707 Photo by Markus Winkler.

15/07/2024

Explore the intriguing interplay of universal and cross-cultural conceptualizations of the "cold heart" metaphor in the latest study featured in issue no. 8 of New Horizons in English Studies. Discover how bodily experiences and cultural perspectives shape our understanding of abstract concepts. Don't miss out on this fascinating read! https://journals.umcs.pl/nh/article/view/14560 Photo by OĞUZHAN YAVUZ.

12/07/2024

Let's hear from one of our authors, lias Ben Mna about his fascinating article titled "Ghostface Needs a Hug – Self-care and the Return of the Repressed in Scream (2022)! :D

"In my article, I explore how the combination of sequel and reboot in the 2022 horror movie “Scream” informs personal strategies for dealing with trauma. Building on the psychoanalytical concept of the “return of the repressed”, I argue that the individualistic self-care strategies pursued by protagonist Sam Carpenter are doomed to fail, as they do not address the collective dimension of the trauma visited upon her family and the town of Woodsboro. This plays into the cyclical format of the Scream franchise and allows for a subtle critique of neoliberal and gendered conceptions of self-optimization. Through this analysis, I outline the contours of a society in perpetual crisis mode, which can only resolve its underlying issues by both remembering and moving on from the past collectively."

Read the full article for free at https://journals.umcs.pl/nh/article/view/15714

22/02/2024

Now let's hear from Neli Dömötöri-Radenkova, our contributor who wrote an article about Conceptual metaphors in Hungarian and Bulgarian banking terminology.

"In my article, I explored Hungarian and Bulgarian banking terminology from a cognitive linguistic perspective through public documents of the Hungarian OTP Bank and its subsidiary in Bulgaria – DSK Bank. My goal was to detect conceptual metaphors in the two languages and to spot possible similarities and differences. I investigated the mental images related to certain financial operations and monetary transactions. I wanted to find out how English as a global language has influenced the banking terminology of Hungarian and Bulgarian. The latter seems to be heavily affected by English economic vocabulary."

Read the full article here: https://journals.umcs.pl/nh/article/view/14564

20/02/2024

Let's hear from one of our contributors, Shan Zhang:

"In my article, I wanted to offer a nuanced analysis of “cold heart” metaphors in Chinese and English, rather than simply categorizing cold-related terms as solely “cold”. I believe that varying degrees of coldness signify the intensity of emotions. This research aims to prove that the cultural backgrounds impact the perspectivization of certain conceptual metaphors. Investigating body metaphors is a way to approach cultural diversities."

You can read the full article in open access here: https://journals.umcs.pl/nh/article/view/14560

20/02/2024

Exciting news! 🤩Starting this week we'll be publishing a series of posts featuring blurbs written by our dear Contributors. In the meantime, take a look at our latest issue available in
https://journals.umcs.pl/nh/issue/view/863/showToc

20/02/2024

Aww, is someone feeling stabby? Ilias Ben Mna gets to know Sam Carpenter from SCREAM (2022) and posits that "engaging traumatic memory is also nested w/in a larger communal consciousness." His essay for New Horizons in English Studies is .
https://journals.umcs.pl/nh/article/view/15714

23/12/2023

🎄✨ While we're aware Christmas is fast approaching, we simply couldn't wait to tell you this: The newest issue of New Horizons in English Studies has arrived, just in time to add a dash of intellectual delight to your festive season. Unwrap 12 thought-provoking articles designed to captivate and inspire your curiosity.

We extend warm wishes of Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to our incredible contributors, dedicated editorial team, and our cherished readers. Your support and enthusiasm light up our journey—thank you for being part of our scholarly community. 📚🌟
https://journals.umcs.pl/nh/issue/view/863 Anna Bulanda-Bendrat

13/08/2023

📢 Calling all language aficionados and linguistic explorers! 🗣️📚

🌐 We're thrilled to unveil the Call for Papers for New Horizons in English Studies Vol. 9/2024 - Linguistics Section! If you have a passion for unraveling the intricacies of language, this is your chance to contribute to the discourse. 📖

📌 Section: "LINGUISTICS"
🔍 Scope: From Conceptual Metaphor to Language Change

📆 Submission Deadline: January 31, 2024

🗨️ This edition aims to shed light on the diverse facets of linguistics. Whether you're delving into the fascinating world of conceptual metaphor and metonymy, exploring the interplay between language and multimodal meaning construal, or engaging in critical discourse analysis and metaphor analysis, we want to hear from you! 🌍

💡 Additionally, we invite research on cognitive grammar, grammaticalisation, subjectification, and the dynamic landscape of language change. Discover how cognitive linguistic theories can be applied to translation and didactics, or explore the captivating realms of cultural linguistics and sociolinguistics.

📖 For those passionate about contemporary linguistic challenges and innovative didactic approaches, this is an opportunity to contribute to the broader understanding of linguistics in today's world. 🌟

🌏 While English remains the language of publication, we encourage submissions that explore languages beyond English, fostering a rich cross-cultural exchange of ideas.

🔗 To access our previous volumes and learn more about New Horizons in English Studies, visit our website: https://journals.umcs.pl/nh

📮 Have questions or eager to submit? Reach out to us at [email protected] .

Mark your calendars! 🗓️ The deadline for article submissions is January 31, 2024. Let's embark on this linguistic journey together! 🚀🔊

13/08/2023

📢 Calling all scholars, researchers, and enthusiasts of English Studies! 📚🌍

We're thrilled to announce the Call for Papers for the upcoming issue of New Horizons in English Studies, Vol. 9/2024. 🎉📖

📌 Section: "LITERATURE, MEDIA AND CULTURE HERE AND NOW"

New Horizons in English Studies, indexed in MLA International Bibliography and ERIH+, invites you to contribute your insights and research to the dynamic field of literary, media, and cultural studies. 🌟

🔍 Explore a wide range of subjects, including:

Understanding and responding to major contemporary challenges
Rethinking individualism, identity, and human agency in the Anthropocene
Engaging questions of technology, progress, and their relationship to culture
Unveiling novel modes of imagination in public discourse, education, and criticism
Reinventing the intersections of arts, digital realms, and popular culture
Investigating cross-cultural connections through languages and intertextuality
Challenging genre norms and embracing hybrid forms in literature, media, and culture

📚 To get a taste of our previous volumes, visit our website: https://journals.umcs.pl/nh

📆 Deadline for Article Submissions: January 31, 2024

For inquiries and more information, please reach out to us at [email protected].

Let's embark on this intellectual journey together and expand the horizons of English Studies! 🚀📝

11/02/2023

Today let's hear from Hanne Nijtmans: "In my essay, I explored how The Intercept's fictional podcast Evening at the Talk House made use of podcast affordances to create a dystopian narrative that critiques twenty-first century US empire. More precisely, Talk House raises questions about the complicity of regular citizens in enabling "murder programs" (drone strikes and endless wars). At the same time, I consider how The Intercept's funding model that depended on tech billionaire Pierre Omidyar seems to create a blind spot, as Talk House fails to adequately address the role of capitalism for maintaining US empire."

See the full article under this link: https://journals.umcs.pl/nh/article/view/13404

31/01/2023

Let's hear from our authors, Rayna Morel and Colby Miyose:
"In our writing, we sought to conceptualize trends in depicting the cancer experience from available films on the popular streaming service, Netflix, via textual analysis. Three films that we analyzed are, Then Came You (2019), Irreplaceable You (2018), and Her Only Choice (2018), which all belong to the comedy/drama genre. Three themes emerged including stigmatized sympathy and disgust, caretaking and domesticity, and cancer mantras of “live like you are dying” versus “fight to live.” While these types of films may bring awareness or hope to a prevalent health condition, the problem of romanticizing cancer remains."
https://journals.umcs.pl/nh/article/view/13313

29/01/2023

Let's hear from one of our authors, Oliver J Hancock: "My article reads Rikki Ducornet’s The Stain and Kathy Acker’s Blood and Guts in High School through the lens of literary child studies and postmodern theory. These texts can usefully demonstrate the ways in which postmodernist literature relies on depictions of childhood to interrogate language and culture acquisition, analogised in terms of parental, pedagogical and institutional control. Ducornet and Acker’s novels, in particular, use a young girl’s voice—to borrow a phrase from Acker, a kind of ‘child-drag’—to explore themes of control and female sexuality, and to demonstrate the broader difficulty of achieving some “authentic” identity, when “identity” is so often viewed as violence submitted from without. In conjunction with poststructuralist and feminist theories of identity-making, this article explores how both Ducornet and Acker use the form of the bildungsroman to explore how a self-effacing girlhood can try to transform itself—through a characteristically postmodernist disassembly of language—into a new and more authentic language of the self."

29/01/2023

A few words from our dear contributors T. Neuhaus & N. Thomas: "In our article we explore the marketing strategies employed by the NBA (and associated companies) to sell predominantly Black athletes to a chiefly white audience. Through historical contextualization and critical analysis, the NBA’s development from a non-profitable and scorned circus to a multi-faceted and multi-billion-dollar global attraction is examined. We analyze the NBA’s history with regard to its management of race and race-related stigma. The depiction of Michael Jordan as a highly marketable Black Superhero serves as a prime example for corporate colonization of black bodies – a concept which will be outlined in the paper. Considering the Malice in the Palace (2005) and the following corporate responses, our article re- and deconstructs the strategic illustration of Black athletes."

Interested? Read the full article linked below: https://journals.umcs.pl/nh/article/view/12258

29/12/2022

Are you currently working on an article that you would like to share with the academic world? Great news! We are now accepting submissions for our next issue. See the CFP below. The publication is free of charge and in so please spread the word! 🙂

29/12/2022

Welcome back! We are more than happy to announce that we have just published our latest issue🎉 Big congrats to all of our contributors. In the following weeks we'll be introducing each of the wonderful articles on our socials so stay with us!
https://journals.umcs.pl/nh/index

01/03/2022

Thank you for all the wonderful articles you have submitted!

04/02/2022

Just a friendly reminder that you can also submit academic book reviews to our upcoming issue of New Horizons in ! Extended deadline: Feb 28th!
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2021/11/29/call-for-articles-for-new-horizons-in-english-studies-open-access-peer-reviewed?fbclid=IwAR2kT-As0kvcnNPYmPgyUEmGG14tEexGI95D-xNlyy3EVWtWLQ-jHQ6XJkY

04/02/2022

Thank you for all the amazing submissions! Don't worry if you didn't manage to submit your article, you may still send it to us until February 28th!!! https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2021/11/29/call-for-articles-for-new-horizons-in-english-studies-open-access-peer-reviewed?fbclid=IwAR2kT-As0kvcnNPYmPgyUEmGG14tEexGI95D-xNlyy3EVWtWLQ-jHQ6XJkY

31/01/2022

Hello and scholars working on English/American language, media, and cultures! Please be reminded that our submission deadline is TONIGHT! 🙈 https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2021/11/29/call-for-articles-for-new-horizons-in-english-studies-open-access-peer-reviewed?fbclid=IwAR2kT-As0kvcnNPYmPgyUEmGG14tEexGI95D-xNlyy3EVWtWLQ-jHQ6XJkY The publication is free of charge and in so please spread the word!

27/01/2022

Deadline for article submission is approaching really soon! Check our CFP & send your article to us by January 31st '22. https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2021/11/29/call-for-articles-for-new-horizons-in-english-studies-open-access-peer-reviewed?fbclid=IwAR2kT-As0kvcnNPYmPgyUEmGG14tEexGI95D-xNlyy3EVWtWLQ-jHQ6XJkY The publication is free of charge and in so please spread the word!

19/01/2022

Did you know that our CFP can also be found at https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2021/11/29/call-for-articles-for-new-horizons-in-english-studies-open-access-peer-reviewed?fbclid=IwAR2kT-As0kvcnNPYmPgyUEmGG14tEexGI95D-xNlyy3EVWtWLQ-jHQ6XJkY ? Deadline for article submission: January 31st 2022. The publication is free of charge and in so please spread the word! 🙂

New Horizons in English Studies (https://journals.umcs.pl/nh, indexed in MLA International Bibliography and ERIH+) invites submissions to the 7/2022 issue, welcoming previously unpublished research papers and reviews in the broadly understood field of literary, media and cultural studies (L, M & C)....

19/01/2022

https://journals.umcs.pl/nh/article/view/11865 Today let's hear from Emilia Nodżak: "Has it ever struck you how women in your favorite primetime dramas use clothing to demonstrate their occupational identity? In my article, I analyze the sartorial choices made by female characters in different professions, both traditional and non-traditional, and identify major strategies that serve to convey the specific identities of working women. Click to read if you are interested in the interplay between gender and professional identities as seen on American television in the early 21st century."

Dressed for Work: The Sartorial Representations of Working Women in Early 21st-Century American Primetime Dramas

23/12/2021

Everyone at New Horizons in English Studies wants to wish Happy Holidays and a prosperous New Year to our Readers and Contributors. PS: Remember that we're still accepting articles for our upcoming issue. Deadline for submission: January 31st '22.

21/12/2021

Don't forget to submit your article before January 31st! :)

Are you currently working on an article that you would like to share with the academic world? Great news! We are now accepting submissions for our next issue. See the CFP below. The publication is free of charge and in so please spread the word! :)

21/12/2021

Naima Sahli about her review article: "In my review article, I want to call practitioners to read the book by Elsner, Helff and Viebrock on the importance of equipping the students with multiliteracy competencies. This edited book provides a range of insightful accounts from various fields including; films, graphic novels and visuals respectively. Every chapter situates the students at the centre of inquiry to develop their competencies to effectively respond to the requirements of the 21st century." Read Naima Sahli's article in at https://journals.umcs.pl/nh/article/view/12903