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Making fun of the standard tongue: Enregisterment, social difference, and Kurdish language humor
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 35, Issue 3, December 2025.Abstract This article analyzes how humor around contrasts between standard and non‐standard Northern, i.e., Kurmanji, Kurdish spoken in Turkey contributes to the enregisterment of standard Kurdish, arguing that Kurdish language jokes promote the recognition and, to different degrees, uptake of standardized linguistic repertoires among differently ...
Patrick C. Lewis
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Function of the Absurd in the Speech Sphere of Characters (Vladimir Sorokin Голубое сало)
Polilog: Studia Neofilologiczne, 2020 This work is devoted to violations in the speech sphere of the characters in the novel Голубое сало by Vladimir Sorokin. The characters of the novel suff er from mental disorders, which are manifested in their letters and dialogues. V.
Ботагоз Байжигит
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Efficiency in reading of Cyrillic and Latin text [PDF]
Psihologija, 2004 Readability of visual units is not only identification of single letters.The success in reading of a text is result of the interaction between different factors.A one of the most important being phonological structure of sequence. The research is done on
Pašić Milena
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Predicative Possession in Ukrainian and Intra‐Slavonic Language Contact1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 428-459, November 2025.Abstract Ukrainian has two inherited syntactic forms for possessive have: a transitive one with a lexical have‐verb, and an intransitive, originally locative be‐construction. On the basis of four corpus studies, the article establishes their relative frequency in Middle Ukrainian writing (17th and 18th c.), Modern Ukrainian dialects (20th c.), and ...
Jan Fellerer
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Capital Gains: Effects of Word Class and Sentence Position on Capitalization Use Across Age
Child Development, Volume 96, Issue 6, Page 2233-2246, November/December 2025.ABSTRACT Learning to capitalize in English requires identifying a word's type and sentence position. In two cloze studies (2021–2022), Australian students of all genders (95% White, monolingual) spelled words with one and two capitalization cues (proper nouns, sentence‐initial words) and no‐cue control words.
Emilia Hawkey +2 more
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Linguistic Hauntings at the Margins of China
Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 29, Issue 4, Page 237-249, September 2025.ABSTRACT This study examines emotional and material traces lingering in the aftermath of forced linguistic landscape transformations in Inner Mongolia following the implementation of a new assimilationist national language policy in 2022. Drawing on ethnographic and linguistic landscape data, the study specifically examines how the multilingual signs ...
Gegentuul Baioud
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Teksty Polaków pisane grażdanką w syberyjskiej wsi Wierszyna
Acta Baltico-Slavica, 2015 Polish texts in Cyrillic alphabet used by the speakers of the Polish dialect in the village of Vershina The article analyzes Polish texts in Cyrillic alphabet used by the speakers of the Polish dialect in the village of Vershina, Bokhan Region near ...
Natalia [Наталия, Nataliia] Ananiewa [Ананьева, Anan’eva]
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Comparison of ChatGPT‐4, Copilot, Bard and Gemini Ultra on an Otolaryngology Question Bank
Clinical Otolaryngology, Volume 50, Issue 4, Page 704-711, July 2025.ABSTRACT Objective To compare the performance of Google Bard, Microsoft Copilot, GPT‐4 with vision (GPT‐4) and Gemini Ultra on the OTO Chautauqua, a student‐created, faculty‐reviewed otolaryngology question bank. Study Design Comparative performance evaluation of different LLMs. Setting N/A. Participants N/A.
Rashi Ramchandani +7 more
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When Everything Old Was New Again: Reclaiming Ethnonational Tradition in Post‐Soviet Buryatia
The Russian Review, Volume 84, Issue 3, Page 443-461, July 2025.Abstract Why greet your family in Buryat rather than Russian? What does it matter how many times you fold the dough of a meat dumpling? How should one celebrate a holiday? In early twenty‐first‐century Buryatia, the Buryat Buddhist New Year, Sagaalgan, emerged as an important domain within which such small practices were reified as expressive of Buryat
Kathryn E. Graber
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Psychology &Marketing, Volume 42, Issue 6, Page 1456-1475, June 2025.ABSTRACT The marketing literature has examined extensively consumer preferences between global and local brands. However, there remains a dearth of research on the topic in the context of vulnerable consumers with insecure self‐identities. Children largely embody insecure identities and, thus, there are several factors that can influence their global ...
Jelena Filipovic +2 more
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