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Pandemic Geographies of Home: Domestic Thresholding in Response to COVID‐19

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
Short Abstract With the home at the forefront of political and public health responses to COVID‐19, the thresholds between domestic space and the world beyond acquired a new significance in people's everyday lives. This paper introduces the concept of ‘thresholding’ to explore the ways in which internal and external thresholds are understood and ...
Alison Blunt   +7 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

Alternation of must, have to, and need to in English as a lingua franca

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract This study explores the grammatical variability of modal auxiliary verbs in English as a lingua franca. Focusing on the ongoing change must, have to, and need to, this research utilizes two spoken corpora: the Vienna–Oxford International Corpus of English (VOICE) and the Asian Corpus of English (ACE).
Chunyuan Nie   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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