Category: Linguistics
Perceived proficiency shapes emotions and speech fluency
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in LinguisticsStudy examining how Chinese EFL learners’ perceived English proficiency influences task anxiety, enjoyment, boredom, and resulting speech fluency in oral tasks.
Autobiographical account of Bierwisch’s linguistic work and life
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in LinguisticsAutobiographical account of Manfred Bierwisch’s linguistic contributions and the political circumstances shaping his research in Germany.
African multilingualism conflicts with imported language theories
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in LinguisticsDecolonising African linguistics: critiquing Global North frameworks, exposing research extraction, and reclaiming multilingual realities distorted by colonial legacies
Aksumite-era spelling matches in early Geez manuscripts
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in LinguisticsExplore early Geez orthography in ʔAbbā Garimā Gospels and Aksumite epigraphs. Radiocarbon analysis and guttural-sibilant spelling patterns confirm manuscript dating to Aksumite period.
Manx new speakers disagree on “good” language use
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in LinguisticsAnalysis of language ideologies and attitudes toward morphosyntax among new speakers of Revitalized Manx, examining beliefs about linguistic correctness in minoritized language revitalization.
Newspapers use speech acts to frame immigration differently
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in LinguisticsCorpus analysis of speech acts in U.S. newspaper immigration coverage reveals how constatives, directives, and commissives shape public opinion differentially across liberal and conservative outlets.
Neoliberal multilingualism shapes mixed-language online practices
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in LinguisticsExamine how Chinese-English code-mixing and translingual practices on social media reflect neoliberal multilingualism, gender, race, and regional positioning while revealing tensions between.
Metadiscourse use differed in two dissertation disciplines
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in LinguisticsComparative study of metadiscourse in dissertation discussion chapters reveals discipline-specific rhetorical patterns in applied linguistics and sociology, with implications for doctoral writing.
Article argues for case-control methods in corpus down-sampling
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in LinguisticsCase-control down-sampling methodology for corpus research: methodological transfer from health sciences with terminological clarification and design principles.
Narrative writing patterns differed by institution and scoring links
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in LinguisticsComparative analysis of writing assessment and linguistic patterns in narratives from public and private Mexican universities using automated analysis and SISAT scoring.
