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Ameliorating Linguistic Anchors of Oppression
ABSTRACT The words we use to represent the world shape how we interpret and respond to it; language frames what it represents. In some cases, these frames can have prejudicial effects; for example, ‘workplace flirting’ versus ‘sexual harassment’. This article examines how specific words and phrases (i.e.
Emilia L. Wilson
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Teachers’ dialect use and the newly arrived learner in a technical VET programme in Norway
For new speakers of Norwegian, oral comprehension in school is significantly challenged by teachers’ use of dialect in oral communication. It can be argued that this is especially pronounced in vocational education and training (VET), where oral skills ...
Unni Soltun Andreassen, Irmelin Kjelaas
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Psychometric Analysis of Scores on the GAD‐7 With University Students
ABSTRACT This study explored the psychometric characteristics of the Generalized Anxiety Disorder seven‐item screener (GAD‐7) scores. The 568 US university student participant responses yielded a unidimensional factor structure with mostly excellent fit statistics.
Elizabeth L. Sweeting +5 more
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A Kind of Pupon in Kazakh: “Orteke”
Moldir ILGISHEVA +1 more
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This article is dedicated to investigation of literature, language, dialects of Oyrats of Xinjiang-Uyghur autonomous region of PRC and Kalmyks of Russia, also problems of translating, which are related with it.
Utnasn Osorin
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Linear Versus Centred Colouring via Pseudogrids
ABSTRACT A centred colouring of a graph is a vertex colouring in which every connected subgraph contains a vertex whose colour is unique and a linear colouring is a vertex colouring in which every (not‐necessarily induced) path contains a vertex whose colour is unique. For a graph G $G$, the centred chromatic number χ cen ( G ) ${\chi }_{\text{cen}}(G)$
Prosenjit Bose +4 more
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We present Algerian Dialect, a large-scale sentiment-annotated dataset consisting of 45,000 YouTube comments written in Algerian Arabic dialect. The comments were collected from more than 30 Algerian press and media channels using the YouTube Data API.
Zakaria Benmounah, Abdennour Boulesnane
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The Geographic Origin of Romanian [PDF]
Romanian shares phonetic, morphological, derivational, lexical innovations with a narrow area of Western Lombard and Vivaro-Alpin Occitan. These many arguments suggest that Romanian comes from the dialectalized Latin spoken in this area.
Dan Ungureanu
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THE FOURTH OFFICIAL LANGUAGE IN SWITZERLAND - PAST AND PRESENT [PDF]
The article examines the Rhaeto-Romance language ("Bündnerromansch", "Romansch") as part of the linguistic diversity in the Swiss Confederation, which has reached the status of an official language in the country, although it is currently spoken by ...
Zlatka Gerginova
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Chronic stigmatisation and social exclusion of neurodivergent people have resulted in poorer quality of life and adverse health outcomes. Language has been weaponised and has furthered their suffering and isolation. With this paper, we propose some considerations of optimal communication interactions in healthcare with neurodivergent people, in general,
Ben Potts +14 more
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