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The Meritorious ‘Other’: The Interconnection of Merit and Race in EU Migration and Asylum Law
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Adopting a law‐in‐context approach, this article suggests that merit‐based migrant selection in the European Union (EU) is implicitly shaped by racial dynamics. With a focus on EU law and more specifically on cases from the Netherlands and Germany, it argues that the growing emphasis on merit enables a limited number of ‘racialised others’ to ...
Sarah Ganty +3 more
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The (trans)national Russian religious imagination in exile: Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977)
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract The article offers a case study of how Russian Orthodox who migrated from the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 reimagined their religious identity and their church in a transnational setting. Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977) was a Russian aristocrat who fell victim to the Stalinist purges but survived the Soviet prison system ...
Ruth Coates
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Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Evaluative adjectives are gradable. The standard for falling under a gradable adjective “F” is either context‐relative or absolute. Some philosophers have recently used general linguistic tests to argue that “rational” and (moral) “good” are maximum‐degree absolute gradable adjectives: Only what's perfectly morally good strictly counts as ...
Pekka Väyrynen
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VALUE AS A PHILOSOPHIC AND LINGUISTIC CATEGORY
Sovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem, 2018 Purpose. The article considers the evolution of the concept “value” in domestic and foreign scientific tradition. The so-called “umbrella” nature of the modern linguistics gives an opportunity of versatile and multidimensional study of this phenomenon ...
Khaibat Magomedtagirovna Kadachieva +1 more
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Subaltern Strategies and Agency: How South Asian American Youth Rework the Model Minority Stereotype
Anthropology &Education Quarterly, Volume 57, Issue 3, September 2026.ABSTRACT This study examines how South Asian American youth, as epistemically marginalized or “subaltern” actors, navigate racialized school experiences. It focuses on how South Asian American boys employ the model minority stereotype through finessing, a strategy of agency that counters exclusionary labels like perpetual foreigner and nerd while ...
Joan J. Hong
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Axiological characteristics of the concept of cruelty in modern English-language humorous discourse
Вестник Самарского университета: История, педагогика, филология, 2022 This article is devoted to the study of the features of the comic objectification of the concept of cruelty in terms of axiological linguistics. The concept of cruelty is considered as a value of modern English humorous discourse.
A. I. Bochkarev
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Constellations, technicality, iconisation and Eskom: A case from South Africa’s Business Day
, 2022 This article uses Legitimation Code Theory (LCT) and systemic functional linguistics (SFL) to explore interactions between various resources for building economic and political knowledge in a 2015 article from Business Day, a South African newspaper ...
Adendorff, Ralph D, Siebörger, Ian
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Fraying the Edges of Literacies: What Do Post‐Philosophies Produce for Early Childhood Literacies?
Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 3, July/August/September 2026.Paper skateboard park and worms' house; is it literacy? We invite a discussion on how post‐philosophies have, and could, open up possibilities for thinking about early literacies. By fraying the edges of certainty and legitimacy around what counts as literacy and who is viewed as literate (according to humanist logics), post‐philosophical concepts ...
Abigail Hackett, Candace R. Kuby
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“There Are Places Full of Beauty”: Desettling High School Students' Scientific Writing
Science Education, Volume 110, Issue 4, Page 1018-1042, July 2026.ABSTRACT This study contributes to desettling and expanding expectations about the forms of scientific language that belong in students' scientific writing. The primary empirical focus is the analysis of 52 high school student abstracts articulating community‐based investigations, submitted as part of their participation in a student conference in a ...
Alejandra Frausto Aceves
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Revista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas, 2009 In this paper we intend to map out some of the dominant values in print advertisements announcing different types of environmentally friendly products and services from energy (oil, electricity, etc.) and heavy industry corporations.
Ángel Felices Lago +1 more
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