“Migratory Bird” Local Managers: English Proficiency, Social Identification, and Early Turnover
ABSTRACT Local managers with high proficiency in English are valuable resources for foreign subsidiaries of multinational enterprises, as they help mitigate language barriers between expatriate and local managers. However, such linguistically competent local managers often leave foreign subsidiaries within the first few years of employment.
Naoki Ando +2 more
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Uncovering How Social Cognitive Representations of Bilingualism in the United States Can Result in Psychological Shame and Linguistic Homelessness for Transnational Youth: Reorienting Bilingualism-as-Problem to a Resource and a Right. [PDF]
Przymus SD +2 more
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Abstract Limited engagement between Black Americans and wildlife is often treated as cultural disinterest rather than the outcome of historical exclusion, racialized trauma, or persistent structural barriers. This perspective obscures the long‐standing relationships Black communities have had with land, agriculture, and conservation, and constrains ...
Maya Walker +2 more
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Metaphorical perceptions of secondary school students regarding the concept of generative artificial intelligence. [PDF]
Özbay Ö.
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Abstract Business schools are often criticized for reproducing growth‐oriented norms, but alternative pedagogies remain difficult to normalize. Drawing on Butler's theory of subversive performativity, this study examines how art‐based pedagogy enables academics to challenge growth logics in business schools by transforming their identities over time ...
Sylvain Bureau +3 more
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Grammatical metaphor studies: historical review and outlook. [PDF]
Yu Y, Wang T.
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In June 2023, the Laje River, located in the traditional territory of the Wari’ Indigenous people in Rondônia, Brazil, was declared a legal entity, an earth being, with rights, following the co‐ordinated action of an indigenous councillor and non‐indigenous activists.
Aparecida Vilaça
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Metaphorical construction of the belt and road initiative in German media: a transnational study based on critical metaphor analysis. [PDF]
Qiu H.
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This essay introduces the themed cluster of articles, ‘Towards a linguistic anthropology of AI’. The advent of artificial intelligence (AI), especially in large language models capable of producing coherent discourse mimicking conversational interaction, is exerting unprecedented pressure on prevailing concepts of language, personhood, and the human ...
Webb Keane, Constantine V. Nakassis
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Cognitive linguistics approach to the representation of knowledge contents in college English textbooks. [PDF]
Zhang L, Mo Z.
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