“I'm a Good Guy Who Deserves Better, Yet Nobody Wants to Give me Better”: The Accounts of Nice Guys
Within Western popular culture and online discourse, a “Nice Guy” is someone who enacts niceness for which they believe they are owed, deserving of, or entitled to something in return—especially the romantic or sexual attention of women. In this study, we examine the use of accounts in personal narratives told in an anonymous online discussion forum ...
Brooke Weinmann, Dennis D. Waskul
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A geometric semantic model and Parts-of-Sense Inference annotation framework. [PDF]
Pala K +3 more
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Abstract Considering applied linguistics as a problem‐centered discipline, we address an enduring challenge in the field: the need to ensure that research provides findings that can contribute to solving everyday challenges faced by language practitioners.
Hyun‐Bin Hwang, Matthew D. Coss
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Is L2 Learners' Metaphorical Competence Essentially Cognitive, Linguistic, or Personal?-A Meta-Analysis. [PDF]
Chen Z, Guan L, Zhou X.
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Teaching Through Trauma: English Teachers Navigating Affective Regimes in Post‐Earthquake Türkiye
Abstract This study explores how English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers in post‐earthquake Türkiye narrated their experiences of loss, survival, and teaching within state‐imposed affective regimes. Drawing on an affective–discursive analysis of Ministry of National Education (MoNE) documents and media texts, the study first investigates how ...
Merve Özçelik
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Embodied metaphors and interpersonal synchrony in the digital age: the case of remote working. [PDF]
Magni G +3 more
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Abstract This article reports on a qualitative study of the way instructors and students understand and respond to traumatizing events in a Sri Lankan university. It shows how the attitudes and practices in the society at large are carried over to classrooms even though local institutions do not have a programmatic trauma‐informed pedagogy.
Suresh Canagarajah +1 more
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Metaphor as a cognitive and relational tool for self-narrating experience of addiction: a qualitative-quantitative analysis. [PDF]
Altavilla D +8 more
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Exploration of new wildlife surveying methodologies that leverage advances in sensor technology and machine learning has led to tentative research into the application of seismology techniques. This, most commonly, involves the deployment of a footfall trap – a seismic sensor and data logger customised for wildlife footfall.
Benjamin J. Blackledge +4 more
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"Trigger the Mind, Target the Gold": Development and Validation of an ACPT (Acceptance and Commitment Performance Training) for Elite Shooters. [PDF]
Hwang S, Han W, Yi ES.
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