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Metalinguistic Awareness in the EFL Classroom and Beyond: Exploring the Potential of Translation Tasks

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Current trends encouraging a move away from monolingual teaching have sparked a renewed interest in the role of translation in language instruction. Yet, there are few theoretically and empirically grounded proposals regarding specific uses of translation in the language classroom.
Monika Bader, Sandra L. Halverson, Christine Möller‐Omrani   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

How Assumptions About Time Divide and Connect Epistemic Communities in Business and Management

British Journal of Management, EarlyView.
Abstract Business and management studies comprise distinct epistemic communities that frequently do not interact or collaborate. While this has been explained as paradigm incommensurability, construct ambiguity or the variance–process, this CrossRoads article sets out a less commonly invoked source of difference: how our theories conceptualize time ...
Stephanie Decker
wiley   +1 more source

Torture and scepticism in Papua New Guinea witch hunts Torture et scepticisme dans les chasses aux sorcières en Papouasie‐Nouvelle‐Guinée

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
For over a century, anthropologists have documented the many institutions that exist to respond to witchcraft and the uncanny that it names: oracles that attempt to produce certainty by naming the witch; moots in which grievances are aired; trials in magistrates’ courts that attempt to satisfy the community while preserving the life of the accused ...
Chloe Nahum‐Claudel
wiley   +1 more source

Cutting freedom down to size Liberté calibrée

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Freedom, as a concept and a value, presents limited prospects for anthropological comparison. The study of enslavement, much neglected in attempts to develop an anthropology of freedom, shows that freedom has been imagined by the enslaved as the opposite of their condition only under particular circumstances.
Harri Englund
wiley   +1 more source

Equal before time: on the sensory suspension of accumulated time in Sichuan, China Égaux devant le temps : suspension sensorielle du temps accumulé au Sichuan (Chine)

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Food and alcohol indulgence, along with tea‐drinking, gambling, and gossip, are integral to a characteristically Sichuanese ethos of ‘life enjoyment’ (xiangshou shenghuo). Beyond mere pleasure, sensory, ludic, and comic experiences temporarily strip participants of both their formal and subjective qualities.
Angel Nayden
wiley   +1 more source

LAMENT PSALMS, THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY AND GOVERNANCE IN CONTEMPORARY NIGERIA

International Studies Journal, 2023
Managing and coping with distress is one aspect of human life that remains a puzzle. Different cultures and traditions have developed means of handling issues of distress.
Uzoma Amos Dike
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Introduction: On the fickleness of friendship Introduction : de l'inconstance en amitié

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In this Introduction to the special section, I provide a brief overview of the anthropology of friendship, particularly from the 1960s to the present, before focusing on the four articles that form the main body of the section. I argue that anthropologists who do not regard themselves as specialists in friendship will still find much to gain from ...
Simon Coleman
wiley   +1 more source

Race Differences in College Attendance in the United States: Two Competing Theories

Canadian Journal of Education
Conflict and functionalist explanations of status attainment may each account for whites’ and blacks’ college attendance. Independent and interactive effects of individual ability and social background factors may show which of these two theoretical ...
Obie Clayton , Rodney Coates , Paula Dressel , Claudette Bennett , Karen Chandler   +4 more
doaj   +6 more sources

Social Entrepreneurship Research – Challenges, Explanations and Suggestions for the Field Development

Problemy Zarządzania, 2016
Employing critical review of the key literature in the area of entrepreneurship and management studies on social entrepreneurship, this paper aims to outline the current challenges this field is facing, also introducing related explanations and ...
Marzena Starnawska
doaj   +1 more source

Not Even Newton's Word: Authority and Resistance in the Royal Society Corpus1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper investigates the historical development of Isaac Newton's proposed distinction between mass and weight in the Principia Mathematica of 1687 and traces its fate in the scientific English of the Royal Society between 1700 and 1920.
Nina Haket
wiley   +1 more source