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Public Attitudes Toward Compassionate Release of Older People From Prison: Findings From a National Survey in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The rapid increase in older people in prison populations worldwide is generating significant health, cost, and human rights pressures on custodial systems. Compassionate release for older, frail inmates is a potentially effective response, yet little is known about public support for this approach.
Ye In (Jane) Hwang, Natasha Ginnivan, Amanuel Kidane Hagos, Tony Butler   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘The Subversion of Dialects’: Changing Attitudes towards Rural Varieties of Galician

Languages
The gheada and the seseo are the two pronunciations most stigmatised by the top-down standardising tradition of Galician from the mid-19th century. Social stereotypes of peasantry, ignorance, and vulgarity were built on them.
Montserrat Recalde, Mauro Fernández
doaj   +1 more source

Ideology, policy and implementation: Comparative perspectives from two African universities

Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 2014
This paper provides an exposition and interpretation of the language policies of two African universities, namely the University of Yaoundé 1 in Cameroon and the University of the Western Cape in South Africa.
Dyers, Charlyn, Abongdia, Jane-Francis
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Charlotte Pommer: Resistance fighter and female pioneer of German anatomy

Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the biography and unique case of Charlotte Pommer (1914–2004), the only anatomist documented to have left the field during the Nazi period after encountering the regime's victims on the dissection table. While she is known for her resistance activities, newly presented documentation reveals her role as the provisional ...
Tim S. Goldmann
wiley   +1 more source

Translanguaging and language ideologies in education : Northern and Southern perspectives

, 2019
In this chapter we examine language ideologies as part of a translanguaging framework in education. We begin with an overview of the concept translanguaging, from its origins as a term in bilingual education in Wales to its development in research on ...
Paulsrud, BethAnne,, Rosén, Jenny,
core   +1 more source

Hierarchies and coloniality: students' language ideologies and attitudes in Cape Town

Traduction et Langues, 2017
This paper focuses on the ideologies surrounding language that are produced by a cohort of students in their first year at a South African university, in order to investigate how dominant power- discourses are reproduced.
Ellen Hurst
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Developing a critical caste analysis within information science and technology: A research review: An annual review of information science and technology paper

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Caste—an ascriptive social hierarchy in South Asia and its diaspora—is a globalized phenomenon. Recent caste‐based discrimination, particularly in technology companies and anti‐caste efforts to address it, has compelled academia, policy, and the technology industry to better understand contemporary mechanics of caste.
Nayana Kirasur, Britt Paris
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond a number game: Flat team structures improve inclusion and performance in diverse scientific teams

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract The promises and perils about scientific team diversity are still debated in the scholarly literature, partly because the importance of underrepresented groups is not fully recognized or valued. In this paper, we summarize two perspectives on team diversity in science: horizontal differences and vertical disparity. Horizontal differences refer
Huimin Xu, Shujing Sun, Meijun Liu, Chenwei Zhang, Yi Bu, Yi Zhang, Daniel E. Acuna, Eric Meyer, Ying Ding   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Interpreting algorithmic information cues: User sensemaking of search autocomplete moderation

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Autocomplete is a search feature that algorithmically generates information cues for any keywords entered in the search bar. While this feature makes the search process more efficient, it also frequently produces biased, misleading, offensive, or otherwise inappropriate suggestions.
Shagun Jhaver
wiley   +1 more source

Between race and class

Domínios de Lingu@gem, 2019
In this essay, I investigate (socio)linguistic scholarship on African continuities in Brazilian Portuguese to analyze the semiotic ideologies that inform academic literature on this topic.
Marcus Vinicius Avelar
doaj   +1 more source