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‘Gen Z Language? Y'all Mean AAVE’: The Appropriation of African American Vernacular English as ‘TikTok Language’

open access: yesJournal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sociolinguistic research has long documented the appropriation of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) across media including film, music and advertising. In this article, we add to this body of work by exploring the digital recontextualisation of a subset of AAVE features as ‘TikTok/internet language’.
Christian Ilbury, Rianna Walcott
wiley   +1 more source

Influence of urban forests on residential property values: A systematic review of remote sensing-based studies. [PDF]

open access: yesHeliyon, 2023
Ewane EB   +16 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Is It a Southern Thing? Linguistic Stereotyping in Earwitnesses’ Descriptions of Italian Accents

open access: yesJournal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how linguistic stereotypes affect hearer perceptions of different speakers’ accents focusing on two Italian regional varieties: one from the South and one from the North. Three studies explored the effects of selective attention, confirmation bias, and cultural context.
Clara Loiacono, Luuk Lagerwerf
wiley   +1 more source

‘I want to give myself the opportunity and be adopted’: the production of subjects and meanings in adoption processes in the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires (Argentina)

open access: yesVibrant: Virtual Brazilian Anthropology
Based on the biographical accounts of young women who were adopted when they were children or adolescents, this work analyses the management techniques that are deployed in institutional care devices located in the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires ...
Carolina Ciordia
doaj   +1 more source

The psychiatric fix

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article draws on four years of ethnographic fieldwork in Los Angeles’ (LA) jail mental health facility to describe the interrelated crises of rising numbers of people declared incompetent to stand trial and the recurrent failure of managing madness in jail.
Jeremy Levenson
wiley   +1 more source

Identity and Space on the Borderland between Old and New in Shanghai: A Case Study [PDF]

open access: yes
China's urban geography has been dramatically altered over the past three decades. The co-presence of splinters in urban fabric-contrasting and continuously changing in terms of condition, use, and socio-cultural consistency-is symptomatic for ...
Iossifova, Deljana
core  

Social media for academic programs & departments [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Social media for organizations, such as an academic department or a degree program, consist of a range of web-based applications that allow anyone to disseminate information to online communities.
Fung, Cadi, Lew, Alan A.
core  

“Nowhere else to go”: Slow abandonment and (en)closures of long‐term care in Los Angeles

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Residential long‐term care facilities, known in California as “board and care” homes, have been closing rapidly in the last decade. Proponents assert these provide vital forms of housing and care to the poor and must be saved, while critics contend they perpetuate the institutionalization of people with disabilities and should be abolished ...
Maxwell A. Hellmann
wiley   +1 more source

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