Paula Ghintuială
List of John Benjamins publications in which Paula Ghintuială is involved.
Articles
2025 “The twain is crossing”: Overlapping ontologies in Gerwig’s Barbie (2023) Journal of Language and Pop Culture 1:1, pp. 109–140 | Article
The storyworld presented in the 2023 fantasy-comedy film Barbie is predicated upon a simple ontological binary: there is the Real World, in which humans reside, and Barbie Land, populated by plastic dolls, and it is roundly accepted that “never the twain shall cross”. However, throughout the… read more
Mapping sleep is a journey in the train sleep stories of the Calm meditation app Narrative Inquiry: Online-First Articles | Article
Sleep problems, including difficulties related to falling and staying asleep, are pervasive and, increasingly, people are turning to mindfulness-based interventions to support sleep routines as well as overall mental wellbeing. A widely used meditation app, Calm, offers a genre of audio-based… read more