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Is Time Travel Possible? Accidental Signs as Sociolinguistic “Wormholes”
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sociolinguistics primarily focuses on deliberately staged public signs, while relatively less attention has been given to ephemeral and non‐deliberate signs in urban environments. This study investigates “ accidental signs,” which are hidden historical texts suddenly exposed by unpredictable events.
Ge SONG (宋歌)
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Heritage Science, 2018 Tie luo (affixed hanging) was an expressive form of traditional Chinese calligraphy or paintings, and popular in the imperial palaces for interior decorations in Qing Dynasty (1644–1911 C.E.).
Le Wei +9 more
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Effects of Learning Context and Program Length on L2 Skill Development
The Modern Language Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigated the effects of learning context (study abroad versus at home) and program length (summer versus semester) on the development of four language skills among learners of Chinese as a second language (L2). A total of 725 L2 Chinese learners completed standardized proficiency tests before and after participating in their ...
Yuan Lu, Chuanren Ke
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Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract With the end of Communism in Russia, non‐materialist contexts were enthusiastically restored to Mikhail Bakhtin's globally famous ideas of carnival, dialogism, and polyphony. This essay surveys Rowan Williams's 2008 study Dostoevsky: Language, Faith + Fiction as a major contribution to this effort, concentrating on those general philosophical ...
Caryl Emerson
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The Sixth Scroll: The Ritualization of Israel's Declaration of Independence
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the ritualization of Israel's Declaration of Independence (2011–2025) as part of broader efforts by Israeli Jewish renewal organizations to craft a national counter‐narrative. It argues that reframing the Declaration as a quasi‐sacred text—situated within the Jewish traditional corpus and recited with Biblical ...
Adi Sherzer
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Alevi Spatial Politics: Placemaking and the Negotiation of Visibility Across Diaspora and Homeland
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines Alevi spatial politics by analysing how space is produced, practised and negotiated across diaspora and homeland. Drawing on multi‐sited ethnographic research conducted among British Alevis in London and in Alevi villages in the Afşin–Elbistan region of Turkey, it focuses on cemevis (cem houses) as key sites of religious ...
Hayal Hanoğlu
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The Scholar Imprisoned: Young‐Bok Shin's Decolonial Thought Against (Sub) Imperialisms in East Asia
Sociological Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article reads Young‐Bok Shin (1941–2016) as a decolonial thinker who theorized transformative worldmaking from the standpoint of the oppressed, rooted in the historical experiences of East Asia. Against the (sub)imperial “logic of sameness” that structures colonial modernity in his social world, Shin advances gongbu (studying) as a ...
Veda Hyunjin Kim
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Calligrapher Sâmi Efendi in the Light of State Archives Documents
, 2022 Sami Efendi, 1838-1912 yılları arasında yaşamış ünlü bir hattattır. Küçük yaşlarda aldığı devlet memurluğu görevini 58 yıl sürdürmüş, her kesimden insanın dikkatini çekmiş, gerek yazılan kaynak eserlerde gerekse kaleme alınan makalelerde övgüye mazhar
KANBAŞ, MAHMUT SAMİ
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Hussain Faizhanov’s Ideas on Reforming the Muslim Education as a Sign of Time
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2016 The author analyses the activity of such a bright personality as H. Faizhanov – an outstanding Tatar public figure, teacher, historian, orientalist-turcologist, specialist in the study of early texts, calligrapher that came from Nizhny Novgorod Tatar ...
Kostenyuk Nadezhda Vasilyevna
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The SIR Model in a Moving Population: Propagation of Infection and Herd Immunity
Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics, Volume 79, Issue 11, Page 2375-2429, November 2026.ABSTRACT In a collection of particles performing independent random walks on Zd$\mathbb {Z}^d$ we study the spread of an infection with SIR dynamics. Susceptible particles become infected when they meet an infected particle. Infected particles heal and are removed at rate ν$\nu$.
Duncan Dauvergne, Allan Sly
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