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Introduction: Address Terms in World Englishes
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This special issue explores variations in English address terms across world Englishes, highlighting how globalization and digital communication continue to shape their use. While Western Englishes like British and American English show a decline in hierarchy‐stressing terms (e.g.
Anke Lensch +2 more
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Kinship Terms and Person Address in the English‐Speaking Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the impact of migration, globalization and digitalization on the use of nominal address terms in the English‐speaking Sri Lankan Tamil (SLT) diaspora community by undertaking a corpus analysis of English fiction authored by diaspora members with SLT heritage. In the 40 years since the outbreak of the Sri Lankan civil war,
Anke Lensch
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The Plant Genome, Volume 19, Issue 4, December 2026.Abstract One strategy for increasing the genetic diversity of upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) involves the introgression of beneficial alleles from related and wild tetraploid species. Progress in this area has been limited due to undesirable outcomes associated with whole genome interspecific hybridization. To minimize genetic influences from other
Ganesh Pinnika +4 more
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Kinship Values and the Production of ‘Locality’ in Pre-Colonial Cameroon Grassfields (West Cameroon)
Suomen Antropologi, 2010 Igor Kopytoff introduced the concept of the ‘African frontier’ in the mid 80s, providing scholars of Africa with a powerful tool which helped to overcome scientific and political objections posed by concepts such as ‘tribe’ or ‘ethnic group’, though in ...
Emile Tsékénis
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I stumbled when I saw: Fieldwork, fallibility, and the politics of being wrong
Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 2, December 2026.Abstract What does it mean for an anthropologist to be wrong? This essay takes the question seriously in two registers at once: the everyday mistakes of fieldwork, from mistranslating a greeting to misreading a shaved head as a sign of mourning, and the deeper entitlement through which our discipline claimed authority over other people's languages and ...
Mark Turin
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“Playing Tetris”: Domestic Infrastructures of Labor Participation in Spain's Transport Sector
Anthropology of Work Review, Volume 47, Issue 2, December 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines how women drivers in Malaga's private passenger transport sector sustain paid work while holding primary responsibility for domestic labor and care. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2020 and 2021 with women taxi and platform‐based drivers (Uber and Cabify), it explores the everyday arrangements that ...
Belén Martínez Caparrós
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The conceptual building blocks of kinship terminologies
LinguaKinship terminology was once a major focus of structural linguistics, yet the arcane symbols and notations of structural linguistics cannot plausibly represent the cognitive realities of speakers, and therefore hold little appeal for today's cognitive linguists. This study seeks to put kinship semantics back on the cognitive linguistics agenda.
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Psychology in the Schools, Volume 63, Issue 11, Page 1614-1630, November 2026.ABSTRACT An estimated 5.1 million children in the United States have experienced parental incarceration (Annie E. Casey Foundation 2016). Only recently has research begun considering protective factors in mitigating negative school‐based outcomes associated with this experience. Parental educational involvement is a critical factor in student outcomes,
Elizabeth L. Shaver +2 more
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Journal of Clinical Nursing, Volume 35, Issue 11, Page 5016-5028, November 2026.ABSTRACT Aim To explore perspectives of older patients, family members, and healthcare professionals regarding patient and family engagement in medication management across transitions of care. Design A qualitative study utilising semi‐structured interviews with patients aged ≥ 65, family members and healthcare professionals.
Grace Marconi +5 more
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Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in Distant Kinship Inference and Forensic Genetic Genealogy. [PDF]
Int J Mol SciBecerra-Loaiza DS +5 more
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