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Smuggling Sovereignty: Trade, Transgression, and State Authority
Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Global supply chains are saturated with transgressions—corruption, smuggling, document forgery, and other practices that blur the line between legality and illegality. States do not merely endure these practices; they actively shape the conditions for them, producing the very illegal systems they then claim to police.
Dejana Kostić
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Teanga: The Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics, 2019 This paper looks at idioms drawn from a corpus of soap opera and compares their communicative functions to those performed by idioms in corpora of naturally-occurring conversation.
María Palma Fahey
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IDIOMS IN THE PROSE WRITINGS OF TURKISH AUTHORS FROM NORTH MACEDONIA
Trakia Journal of SciencesOver centuries, the Macedonian language, influenced by Turkish, has absorbed not only Turkish words and phrases but also numerous idioms. Some of these idioms were translated word for word, some were adapted by translating a single word ...
H. Skuka
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Who gets redeployed? Inventor characteristics and resource redeployment decisions
Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary While the literature highlights the benefits of internally redeploying resources, there is less empirical guidance on which resources are most likely to be redeployed. We examine the relationship between inventor characteristics and redeployment decisions, motivated by the tension between costs and benefits of keeping a ...
Kyungsoo Kim, Isin Guler, Samina Karim
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What Program for Love in the 21st Century? Thinking With and Beyond Luhmann
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT From a sociological perspective, the paper examines how normative frameworks for intimate relationships have changed since the publication of Luhmann's Love as Passion (1982). Building on Luhmann's notion of a program for love, we discuss his claim that late 20th century love semantics were organized around a program of understanding. We argue
Chiara Piazzesi, Martin Blais
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Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.What happens when stories refuse coherence? This article examines ambiguous loss among mothers of combat soldiers, focusing on how prolonged waiting and uncertainty infiltrate everyday life, eroding sensemaking. Drawing on ethnographic interviews, it explores how mothers experience the contraction of time and space—manifested in suspended routines ...
Shirly Bar‐Lev +2 more
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Previous research demonstrated that communication anxiety reduces L2 learners' willingness to communicate and communication frequency, but left unexplored its impact on performance. The current mixed‐methods study investigated factors impacting L2 communication skills.
Debra M. Hardison
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Linguo-pragmatic features of non-equivalent idioms of biblical origin in russian and english
Russian Language Studies, 2015 This article is devoted to the contrastive phraseological analysis of idioms of biblical origin in the Russian and English languages. Biblical idioms are regarded as precedent phenomena and means of speech influence. In particular, the article focuses on
E Vladimirovna Reunova
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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 +2 more
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