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Wrestling Voices: Amplifying Patriotism and Ethnic Stereotypes in 1980s American Professional Wrestling

open access: yesThe Journal of American Culture, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 19-29, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines the use of promotional interviews (“promos”) in American professional wrestling of the 1980s. I argue that promos introduced a vocal modality into a form of sports entertainment that, as Roland Barthes ([1957] 1972) showed in Mythologies, had always been dominated by visual spectacle. I then undertake a focused linguistic
Jens Kjeldgaard‐Christiansen
wiley   +1 more source

Wibana: How Bobonaza Runa and Forest Animals Know and Live With Each Other

open access: yesThe Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Runa women living along the Bobonaza river in the Ecuadorian Amazon raise captured forest animals, in a practice called wibana. Runa women are attentive to the particular ways the wiba (raised) animals interface with the world, and learn the wibas’ communicative repertoires and are able to “read” what wibas sense in the forest, including ...
James Beveridge
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Translanguaging silence and humor: Registering, resisting, and reconstructing identities in an English‐medium classroom in the United States

open access: yesThe Modern Language Journal, Volume 110, Issue 1, Page 240-266, Spring 2026.
Abstract This article adopts a translanguaging and flows perspective to explore how a graduate course instructor constructs a “quiet student” identity through a historical speech event to explain academic concepts in an English‐medium‐instruction (EMI) classroom in the United States.
Gengqi Xiao
wiley   +1 more source

A framework connecting vision and depiction. [PDF]

open access: yesVis cogn
Wijntjes MWA, van Middelkoop C.
europepmc   +1 more source

Shared Neural Codes for Emotion Recognition in Emoji and Human Faces

open access: yesPsychophysiology, Volume 63, Issue 3, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Facial expressions are critical social signals that support human communication. In digital contexts, emojis serve as a primary surrogate for nonverbal cues such as facial expressions; however, little is known about the extent to which emoji expressions are processed using neural mechanisms similar to those engaged by real human faces.
Madeline Molly Ely   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bottled Water and the Social Sciences: A Review and Agenda for Future Research

open access: yesSociology Compass, Volume 20, Issue 3, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Social sciences approach the steady rise of bottled water consumption at the beginning of the 21st century from four analytical vantage points: political economy, semiotics and lifestyle, political ecology, and materiality‐centered. Each analytic has crucial methodological and conceptual contributions to make, as well as zones of potential ...
Liviu Chelcea
wiley   +1 more source

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