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MLO is a peer-reviewed platform for the Open Access publication of research from across the modern languages to a global audience from @livunipress.bsky.social. Find us at: modernlanguagesopen.org.

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An abstract red graphic of flower petals to the right of the collection title written in white text: 'Dictatorships in Portuguese: Legacies and Repercussions' a special collection from Modern Languages Open.
An abstract red graphic of flower petals to the right of the collection title written in white text: 'Dictatorships in Portuguese: Legacies and Repercussions' a special collection from Modern Languages Open.
An abstract red graphic of flower petals to the right of the collection title written in white text: 'Dictatorships in Portuguese: Legacies and Repercussions' a special collection from Modern Languages Open.
An abstract red graphic of flower petals to the right of the collection title written in white text: 'Dictatorships in Portuguese: Legacies and Repercussions' a special collection from Modern Languages Open.
An abstract red graphic of flower petals to the right of the collection title written in white text: 'Dictatorships in Portuguese: Legacies and Repercussions' a special collection from Modern Languages Open.
An abstract red graphic of flower petals to the right of the collection title written in white text: 'Dictatorships in Portuguese: Legacies and Repercussions' a special collection from Modern Languages Open.
APC waivers for ECRs publishing with MLO Find out more about how MLO and Liverpool University Press are supporting Early Career Researchers
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A blue banner graphic with the article title written in white: Navigating Platform Economies in Afrofuturist Publishing in Brazil: Editora Kitembo, Hip-Hop, and Literatura Marginal by Victoria Adams
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APC waivers for ECRs publishing with MLO. Find out more about how MLO and Liverpool University Press are supporting Early Career Researchers
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A purple banner to the left which reads 'The Digital Lives of Greater South Languages' with the MLO logo in white. This is next to artwork of a translucent glass dome with tiny people below stood observing the orb surrounded by a black spiky cage. The artwork is by Abel Tilahun titled “Chrome” (2019). This image is available via Creative Commons license, and was originally commissioned for the chapter: Zaugg, Isabelle (2019). “Imagining a Multilingual Cyberspace: How the Internet damaged linguistic diversity and what you can do to fix it,” in Finding CTRL: Visions for the future internet.
A purple banner to the left which reads 'The Digital Lives of Greater South Languages' with the MLO logo in white. This is next to artwork of a translucent glass dome with tiny people below stood observing the orb surrounded by a black spiky cage. The artwork is by Abel Tilahun titled “Chrome” (2019). This image is available via Creative Commons license, and was originally commissioned for the chapter: Zaugg, Isabelle (2019). “Imagining a Multilingual Cyberspace: How the Internet damaged linguistic diversity and what you can do to fix it,” in Finding CTRL: Visions for the future internet.
A purple banner to the left which reads 'The Digital Lives of Greater South Languages' with the MLO logo in white. This is next to artwork of a translucent glass dome with tiny people below stood observing the orb surrounded by a black spiky cage. The artwork is by Abel Tilahun titled “Chrome” (2019). This image is available via Creative Commons license, and was originally commissioned for the chapter: Zaugg, Isabelle (2019). “Imagining a Multilingual Cyberspace: How the Internet damaged linguistic diversity and what you can do to fix it,” in Finding CTRL: Visions for the future internet.
A purple banner to the left which reads 'The Digital Lives of Greater South Languages' with the MLO logo in white. This is next to artwork of a translucent glass dome with tiny people below stood observing the orb surrounded by a black spiky cage. The artwork is by Abel Tilahun titled “Chrome” (2019). This image is available via Creative Commons license, and was originally commissioned for the chapter: Zaugg, Isabelle (2019). “Imagining a Multilingual Cyberspace: How the Internet damaged linguistic diversity and what you can do to fix it,” in Finding CTRL: Visions for the future internet.
A purple banner to the left which reads 'The Digital Lives of Greater South Languages' with the MLO logo in white. This is next to artwork of a translucent glass dome with tiny people below stood observing the orb surrounded by a black spiky cage. The artwork is by Abel Tilahun titled “Chrome” (2019). This image is available via Creative Commons license, and was originally commissioned for the chapter: Zaugg, Isabelle (2019). “Imagining a Multilingual Cyberspace: How the Internet damaged linguistic diversity and what you can do to fix it,” in Finding CTRL: Visions for the future internet.
A purple banner to the left which reads 'The Digital Lives of Greater South Languages' with the MLO logo in white. This is next to artwork of a translucent glass dome with tiny people below stood observing the orb surrounded by a black spiky cage. The artwork is by Abel Tilahun titled “Chrome” (2019). This image is available via Creative Commons license, and was originally commissioned for the chapter: Zaugg, Isabelle (2019). “Imagining a Multilingual Cyberspace: How the Internet damaged linguistic diversity and what you can do to fix it,” in Finding CTRL: Visions for the future internet.
A purple banner to the left which reads 'The Digital Lives of Greater South Languages' with the MLO logo in white. This is next to artwork of a translucent glass dome with tiny people below stood observing the orb surrounded by a black spiky cage. The artwork is by Abel Tilahun titled “Chrome” (2019). This image is available via Creative Commons license, and was originally commissioned for the chapter: Zaugg, Isabelle (2019). “Imagining a Multilingual Cyberspace: How the Internet damaged linguistic diversity and what you can do to fix it,” in Finding CTRL: Visions for the future internet.
A purple banner to the left which reads 'The Digital Lives of Greater South Languages' with the MLO logo in white. This is next to artwork of a translucent glass dome with tiny people below stood observing the orb surrounded by a black spiky cage. The artwork is by Abel Tilahun titled “Chrome” (2019). This image is available via Creative Commons license, and was originally commissioned for the chapter: Zaugg, Isabelle (2019). “Imagining a Multilingual Cyberspace: How the Internet damaged linguistic diversity and what you can do to fix it,” in Finding CTRL: Visions for the future internet.
A purple banner to the left which reads 'The Digital Lives of Greater South Languages' with the MLO logo in white. This is next to artwork of a translucent glass dome with tiny people below stood observing the orb surrounded by a black spiky cage. The artwork is by Abel Tilahun titled “Chrome” (2019). This image is available via Creative Commons license, and was originally commissioned for the chapter: Zaugg, Isabelle (2019). “Imagining a Multilingual Cyberspace: How the Internet damaged linguistic diversity and what you can do to fix it,” in Finding CTRL: Visions for the future internet.
A purple banner to the left which reads 'The Digital Lives of Greater South Languages' with the MLO logo in white. This is next to artwork of a translucent glass dome with tiny people below stood observing the orb surrounded by a black spiky cage. The artwork is by Abel Tilahun titled “Chrome” (2019). This image is available via Creative Commons license, and was originally commissioned for the chapter: Zaugg, Isabelle (2019). “Imagining a Multilingual Cyberspace: How the Internet damaged linguistic diversity and what you can do to fix it,” in Finding CTRL: Visions for the future internet.
'Multilingual Locals and Significant Geographies: For a Ground-up and Located Approach to World Literature' by Karima Laachir, Sara Marzagora, and Francesca Orsini.
'Planetary Figurations: Intensive Genre in World Literature' by Florian Mussgnug
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'MLO is one of the most important initiatives for modern language research in the past decades. It transforms the nature of publishing, explicitly encouraging interdisciplinarity, ensuring that high-quality and original work is published in a timely way...'
'La Sierra and La Costa: Socially Motivated Intra-Speaker Variation in Peruvian Vowel Spaces' by Alden McCollum
'Odessa, Vienna and Jerusalem: Zionism, Performative Nationhood and Multinational Empires' by Alex Marshall written in white text on a series of light blue and mid blue banners atop the MLO grey transparent line drawing of classical human figures. The MLO logo is at the bottom right with an Open Access orange lock logo.
'Minoritised Languages and Travel' written in white on a teal background with an image in black and white to the right - ATTRIBUTION for the illustration which introduces the collection: Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru - The National Library of Wales . Title: Foreign correspondent that specializes in broadcasting visiting Caernarfon. Author: Charles, Geoff 1909-2002. License: http://creativecommons.org/licences/by-nc-nd/2.0/uk/.
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'Bodies of Evidence: The Depiction of Violence Against Female Characters in Late Imperial Russian Crime Fiction' written on a light blue banner with the authors names on a blue banner beneath: Claire Whitehead and Grace Docherty.
'Language and Education in the Lusophone Countries: Theory and Practice – Língua e educação nos países lusófonos: teoria e prática' written in white text on a blue background with a child's illustration of the alphabet featured to the right.
'Slavic Studies Goes Public: Who? What? Why? Where? When?' written in white overlaying a photograph of seven people stood on a cloudy beach.
'Investigating the Canon: The Reader as Detective in Reworkings of Madame Bovary and Jane Eyre' by Katie Jones on a purple and lilac banner.
UNMASKING THE RED DEATH: A special collection from Modern Languages Open written in white over a red tinted surrealist image of a girl floating on a theatre stage with red floating lampshades.
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Divergent: A Corpus-assisted Semantic/Semiotic Study of Eresia, “Heresy”, in Contemporary Written Italian' by Caterina Guardamagna is written in white text on top of a purple and blue set of horizontal banners.
'Ethnography and Modern Languages' by Naomi Wells, Charles Forsdick, Jessica Bradley, Charles Burdett, Jennifer Burns, Marion Demossier, Margaret Hills de Zárate, Saskia Huc-Hepher, Shirley Jordan, Thea Pitman, and Georgia Wall on a series of light and mid blue banners.
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'Becoming Musicomic: Music and Comics in Resonance' by Armelle Blin-Rolland written in purple and blue banners with the MLO banner at the bottom of the graphic.
'“Second Generations” and Identity in Andrea Cotti’s Luca Wu Series: An Opportunity for a Fruitful Intercultural and Transnational Dialogue in Italian Crime Fiction' by Marco Paoli is written in white text on a light and mid blue banner.
'Navigating the Public Sphere in an Era of Misinformation' by Jessica Zychowicz on a blue and purple background banner.
'Extended Reality Language Research: Data Sources, Taxonomy and the Documentation of Embodied Corpora' by Abdulrahman A. A. Alsayed in blue banners.
'The English Way to Italian Socialism: The PCI, ‘Red Bologna’ and Italian Communist Culture as Seen through the English Prism' by Marzia Maccaferri on a blue and pink banner.
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'Contemporary British Travel Writing on Italy and British Broadsheets: Tobias Jones, John Hooper and Tim Parks' by Kate Willman
A purple blue and pale blue series of banners with the article title written on top in white 'The Media Intertextuality of “Que Tiro Foi Esse”: Tracking the Circulation of (Stray) Bullets in and through a Brazilian Internet Meme.'
'Miners’ Stories from Eastern and Western Ukraine: In Search of Identity' on a blue background.
'Warriors and Weavers: The Poetics and Politics of Indigenous Appropriations of New Media Technologies in Latin America' by Thea Pitman on a purple background.
The article title 'Rethinking the UK Languages Curriculum: Arguments for the Inclusion of Linguistics' on a blue background.
'Enhancing Language Inclusivity in Digital Humanities: Towards Sensitivity and Multilingualism: Includes interviews with Erzsébet Tóth-Czifra and Cosima Wagner' by Aliz Horvath
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This article offers a corpus-assisted lexical semantic/semiotic analysis of the noun eresia “heresy” in contemporary written Italian.
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