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Creating a ‘new space’: code-switching among British-born Greek-Cypriots in London [PDF]
, 2013 This paper, located in the traditions of Interactional Sociolinguistics (Gumperz 1982) and Social Constructionism (Berger and Luckmann 1966), explores code-switching and identity practices amongst British-born Greek-Cypriots.
Finnis, Katerina
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From Systems Metaphors to Project Manager Intelligence: Fostering Stakeholder Relationships
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper combines systems metaphors with Gardner's multiple intelligences theory to develop a comprehensive model for managing stakeholder relationships. By incorporating various systemic perspectives—machine, organism, cultural/political, societal/environmental and interrelationships—the model provides a holistic framework that positions ...
Alicia Gilchrist, Seyed Ashkan Zarghami
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Erving Goffman at 100: A Chameleon Seen as a Rorschach Test within a Kaleidoscope
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.The 100th anniversary of Erving Goffman's birth was in 2022. Drawing on his work, the Goffman archives, the secondary literature, and personal experiences with him and those in his university of Chicago cohort, I reflect on some implications of his work and life, and the inseparable issues of understanding society.
Gary T. Marx
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Mark My Words! Linguistic Style Accommodation in Social Media
, 2011 The psycholinguistic theory of communication accommodation accounts for the general observation that participants in conversations tend to converge to one another's communicative behavior: they coordinate in a variety of dimensions including choice of ...
Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Cristian +2 more
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract The presence of gender disparities, marked by a shortage of male teachers, has been a longstanding concern within the TESOL profession. Drawing on the concept of human flourishing, which advocates for equality and respect beyond gender and social standing, this research seeks to challenge gender stereotyping in foreign language teaching ...
Natalia Wright
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, 2001 The speech community (SpCom), a core concept in empirical linguistics, is at the intersection of many principal problems in sociolinguistic theory and method.
Patrick, Peter L
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Examining the relationship between language divergence and word-of-mouth intentions [PDF]
, 2014 More than half the countries in the world are multilingual, and more than half the world’s consumers speak more than one language. Thus, bilingual consumers often receive services provided in a second or nonnative language.
Holmqvist, Jonas, Van Vaerenbergh, Yves
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American Ethnologist, EarlyView.Abstract Since ending conscription in 1963, Britain has fought its “small wars” with professional soldiers from deprived areas of the country, many recruited under the age of 18. During the 21st‐century war on terror, these personnel were deemed vulnerable, at heightened risk of psychosocial harms, and entitled to more protection.
Alexander Edmonds
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Employing geographical principles for sampling in state of the art dialectological projects [PDF]
, 2013 The aims of this paper are twofold: First, we locate the most effective human geographical methods for sampling across space in large-scale dialectological projects.
Allen +47 more
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Thinking Complexity with Harrison White: Towards Social Emergence via Indexical Language
SociologicaHarrison C. White, a founding giant of the relational turn in Sociology, has left us a monumental model of social emergence based on the interplay of three primitives (identity, control, switching) and two principles (self-similarity, dispersion) of ...
Jorge Fontdevila
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