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Language comprehension and the rhythm of perception

open access: yesMind &Language, EarlyView.
It is widely agreed that language understanding has a distinctive phenomenology, as illustrated by phenomenal contrast cases. Yet it remains unclear how to account for the perceptual phenomenology of language experience. I advance a rhythmic account, which explains this phenomenology in terms of changes in the rhythm of sensory capacities in both ...
Alfredo Vernazzani
wiley   +1 more source

Transnational literacy experiences and chronotopic identity work: A duoethnography of returnee English language teachers in China

open access: yesThe Modern Language Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This duoethnographic study explores how two nonnative returnee English teachers in China negotiate their professional identities through chronotopically layered transnational literacy experiences. Drawing on the concept of the chronotope—the interconnectedness of time, space, and personhood—the analysis identifies three chronotopic ...
Shan Chen, Luping Sun
wiley   +1 more source

Stigma, self‐styling and ‘forced accents’ among English L2 speakers in Spain

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines the relationship between shame, stigma and accent for non‐native English speakers in Spain. The low English competence of the Spanish population frequently constitutes a source of individual and collective stigma – which includes the apparent undesirability of Spanish‐sounding English.
Eva Codó, Carly Collins
wiley   +1 more source

Historical phonology of Mataguayan

open access: yes
This book discusses the phonological history of Mataguayan, a language family that includes no less than four distinct languages – Maká, Nivaĉle, Chorote, and Wichí – spoken by ca. 65.000 individuals in the Southern Chaco region in Argentina, Paraguay, and Bolivia.
Nikulin, Andrey, Carol, Javier
openaire   +3 more sources

Nigerian English research: Developments and directions

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract This article describes the progress made by scholars over a period of more than five decades in the field of Nigerian English studies. It will thus serve as a useful tool for those researching in this field; and apparently there has been no such attempt to date to review the research landscape of Nigerian English in order to show its key ...
David Jowitt, Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi
wiley   +1 more source

National identity and the ownership of English in Nigeria

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract It has been argued that, especially in non‐Inner Circles of English, whether or not speakers consider language to be a harbinger of national identity affects their positioning as owners of that language. A plethora of prior studies have also demonstrated that language is of central importance regarding the ways in which people enact their ...
Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi, Robert M. Mckenzie
wiley   +1 more source

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