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“Migratory Bird” Local Managers: English Proficiency, Social Identification, and Early Turnover

Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Local managers with high proficiency in English are valuable resources for foreign subsidiaries of multinational enterprises, as they help mitigate language barriers between expatriate and local managers. However, such linguistically competent local managers often leave foreign subsidiaries within the first few years of employment.
Naoki Ando, Manami Suzuki, Hidehiko Nishikawa   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ideational Grammatical Metaphor in Merry Shelly’s Frankenstein and its Cinematic Adaptation [PDF]

Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2016
Within Systemic Functional Linguistics, Grammatical Metaphor (GM) is a meaning-making resource lying at the experiential level that extends the meaning potential through cross-stratal re-mappings between the grammar and the semantics, boiling down, in ...
Sholeh Seyedvalilu, Nasser Ghafoori
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Ideational Grammatical Metaphor in English Political Text at Newspaper

Proceedings of the 4th Annual International Seminar on Transformative Education and Educational Leadership (AISTEEL 2019), 2019
This research deals with the realization of ideational metaphor of political text in the local e-newspaper. It aims to identify the types are used in political text, to describe how the ideational grammatical metaphor are found in political text at ...
Wirna Astuti Rajagukguk, S. Ginting, Meisuri   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

‘The biggest conversation in a generation’? A critical discourse analysis of the UK government's national conversation on England's SEND reform

British Journal of Special Education, EarlyView.
Abstract This study was conducted as a rapid response to the UK government's announcement of a ‘national conversation’ on England's special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) reforms, prior to the publication of the English Schools White Paper in early 2026.
Jill Pluquailec, Emma Sadler, Gill O'Connor   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Introduction: Towards a linguistic anthropology of AI Introduction : vers une anthropologie linguistique de l'IA

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This essay introduces the themed cluster of articles, ‘Towards a linguistic anthropology of AI’. The advent of artificial intelligence (AI), especially in large language models capable of producing coherent discourse mimicking conversational interaction, is exerting unprecedented pressure on prevailing concepts of language, personhood, and the human ...
Webb Keane, Constantine V. Nakassis
wiley   +1 more source

Animal translations: AI and the intelligibility of non‐human worlds Traduire l'animal : l'IA et l'intelligibilité des mondes non humains

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Amid the general sense of worry that large language models will soon drown out human voices, some researchers are optimistic that machine learning will allow humans to listen to and understand animal voices to an unprecedented extent. As part of a broader project aimed at interspecies communication, a loosely connected set of animal behaviourists, AI ...
Courtney Handman
wiley   +1 more source

THE ELEMENTS OF IDEATIONAL GRAMMATICAL METAPHOR IN READING TEXTS FOR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH TEXTBOOKS

, 2019
This study investigated ideational grammatical metphor in Senior High School English Textbook. The objectives of the study were to identify what ideational grammatical metaphors were used in Senior High School English Textbooks.
Diemam Ferzhawana, S. Ginting, Z. Zainuddin   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

‘Everything is a signal’: speaking circuits and noisy signs in the making of language‐oriented AI « Tout est signal » : circuits parlants et signes bruyants dans la création de l'IA orientée langage

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Contemporary artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are often presumed to be capable of revealing unmediated truths about the world, including the truths language might hold, echoing the long‐standing assertion that language's primary function is to directly translate reality.
Beth M. Semel
wiley   +1 more source

‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
wiley   +1 more source

Typology of Metaphors: Implications for Translation

Mutatis Mutandis, 2010
There are many different kinds of metaphor, with different grammatical, conceptual and semantic properties. Each of them represents specific problems to the translator. The purpose of this article is to draw attention to these different kinds of metaphor
Michele Prandi
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