Categorization and taxonomy are topical issues in intertextuality studies. Instead of increasing the number of overlapping or contradictory definitions (often established with reference to limited databases) which exist even for key concepts such as "allusion " or "quotation", we propose an electronically implemented data-driven approach based on the isolation, analysis and description of a number of relevant parameters such as general text relation, marking for quotation, modification etc. If a systematic parameter analysis precedes discussions of possible correlations and the naming of features bundles as composite categories, a dynamic approach to categorization emerges which does justice to the varied and complex phenomena in this field. The database is the HyperHamlet corpus, a chronologically and generically wide-ranging collection of Hamlet references that confront linguistic and literary researchers with a comprehensive range of formal and stylistic issues. Its multi-dimensional encodings and search facilities provide the indispensable ‘freedom from the analytic limits of hardcopy', as Jerome McGann put it. The methodological and heuristic gains include a more complete description of possible parameter settings, a clearer recognition of multiple parameter settings (as implicit in existing genre definitions), a better understanding of how parameters interact, descriptions of disregarded literary phenomena that feature unusual parameter combinations and, finally, descriptive labels for the most polysemous areas that may clarify matters without increasing taxonomical excess.

Our attempt to describe the state of qualitative research in Switzerland starts out with an impressionist sketch which inevitably is selective, subjective and culturally biased. In order to reach a more objective stance, we gather some facts and figures and present them by means of descriptive statistics. Based on the database of the Swiss Information and Data Archive Service for the Social Sciences (SIDOS), we analyze a sample of qualitative, sociological research projects funded by national science foundations (Swiss, German and French) between 1995-2004. We compare qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods projects and try to find similarities, differences and trends: Has the ratio of qualitative research projects increased over the last ten years? Can we find cultural differences, e.g. a preference of German or French Swiss researchers for either qualitative or quantitative or mixed methods designs? Do different types of institutions, or do men and women have such different preferences? Which methods are prevailing in Swiss qualitative research? In a second data set collected by a survey of our own, we broaden the perspective to other disciplines and try to identify the most commonly used methods and theoretical approaches. But we have also obtained individual portraits of the qualitative researchers in Switzerland with their preferences of theoretical approaches and methods, their expertise, their research and their teaching courses.

The Futurist movement marked a crucial rupture within European literature and art. For all its political and cultural contradictions, Italian Futurism called into question all aspects of literary and artistic production, from the sacrality and eternalness of the work of art to the privileged role of the artist and the passivity of the reader and the spectator.

Since the second half of the 2000s, relations between Russia and Estonia have been steadily declining. This has also had an effect on the relationship between the Estonian majority and the Russophone minority in Estonia. Additionally, the situation is negatively affected by the influence of the Russian media. The Russian-speaking minority, however, is not to be viewed as a mere agent of Moscow in Estonia, but appears as an independent protagonist in a three-cornered relationship.

This study investigates the way Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s corruption case is represented in the leading newspapers in Brazil. In line with theoretical perspective of Hector Borrat (1989; 2006) regarding the influence of newspapers in political systems, and by employing Fairclough’s (1995a) critical discourse analysis model and a number of analytical tools from Richardson (2007), the study examines the news headlines on the issue, published by two major Brazilian newspapers of national circulation, O Globo and Folha de S.Paulo, in order to determine the level of participation of each newspaper in the political conflict and how language is used to reflect specific ideologies. This step-by-step analysis of the case provides a critical review of the fundamental journalistic strategies. This research analyses the journalistic pieces of aforementioned newspapers over 29 months, from the beginning of the accusations against Lula (November 2015) until the definitive arrest of the Brazilian ex-president (April 2018), in interdisciplinary perspective of media and politics. The findings of the study indicate that both newspapers, with less proportion in Folha de S.Paulo, tend to present a negative image of the Brazilian ex-president when covering his conviction case by commenting on the conflict. The results provide evidence to support the idea that newspapers, considered as validators of information, do not simply reflect the social reality as it is, and yet they try to impose their ideologies in representing events.

This article criticizes the role of intellectuals in the process of social and political change in contemporary Georgia.