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Evictability—A Relational Comparison: Fears, Manoeuvres and Regimes of Housing Insecurity in Rapidly Urbanising Cities

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
Short Abstract This article develops the concept of ‘evictability’—the potential of eviction—as a lens for relational comparison of housing insecurity in cities undergoing rapid urbanisation. ‘Evictability’ has advantages over ‘displaceability’, we argue, because it does not meld residents' fears of coerced loss of home with presumptions about ruptured
JoAnn McGregor   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The impact of audio versus audiovisual stimuli with or without face masking on judgements about different varieties of Asian English

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract This study explores ways in which multilingual English listeners react to and rate three varieties of Asian English in three presentational modes: audio only, audiovisual and audiovisual with a face mask. Using a speech intelligibility framework, the study examines the extent to which presentational mode affects intelligibility and listener ...
Jette G. Hansen Edwards, Mary L. Zampini
wiley   +1 more source

Applied Linguistics, sociolinguistics and world Englishes

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract The world Englishes perspective, especially as expressed within Kachru's formulation of the Inner, Outer and Expanding Circles of Englishes, provides a flexible and coherent model of the historical spread of English. While the model has had a profound influence on various subfields of applied linguistics, variationist sociolinguistics ...
Andrew Moody
wiley   +1 more source

From Monolingualism to Plurilingualism: Multimodal Arts‐Based Cultural Probes as Catalysts for Linguistic Justice in an Afterschool Literacy Program

open access: yesThe Reading Teacher, Volume 79, Issue 6, May/June 2026.
ABSTRACT Afterschool programs in Anglophone Canada often reinforce monolingual English norms, marginalizing multilingual students' linguistic and cultural resources. In a research project conducted over three 16‐week cycles at two schools, we selected relevant books and actively engaged parents and students with multimodal, arts‐based cultural probes ...
Guofang Li   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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