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Two Nationalisms, One City: Official and Diasporic Framings of the 2019 Hong Kong Protests

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study analyses the contested collective memories of the 2019 Anti‐Extradition Law Amendment Bill (Anti‐ELAB) movement, investigating how the Hong Kong government and diaspora construct divergent narratives to shape national identity and nationalism.
Isaac Iu
wiley   +1 more source

Homo Nationalis and the Moralisation of Belonging: Rethinking National Identity in Austria

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how national identity and belonging in contemporary Austria are articulated through moral rather than ideological vocabularies. Analysing presidential, party, media and social media discourse surrounding the 2025 National Day, it conceptualises the homo nationalis as the moral citizen who embodies the nation's virtues of ...
Markus Rheindorf
wiley   +1 more source

Unmarked Emotional States and the Affective Anchoring of Continuity

Sociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Narratives around emotions often foreground remarkable episodes that interrupt situations, producing a “rollercoaster” image of emotional life that leaves its stability underdescribed. To analyze the emotional dimension of social continuity, this article theorizes unmarked emotional states (UES): culturally default, interactionally unobtrusive
Lorenzo Sabetta
wiley   +1 more source

Words and Scents: How Language Shapes and Skews Olfactory Processing

Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Research on language and olfaction presents a paradox. Language appears to support the formation of odor categories, yet it can also hinder odor recognition through verbal interference, highlighting that different olfactory processes get affected in distinct ways.
Norbert Vanek
wiley   +1 more source

Superlative Objoid Constructions in British and American English

World Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates regional variation in Superlative Objoid constructions (SOCs) and their prepositional variant (at‐SOCs). SOCs combine a possessive pronoun with a superlative adjective. These function as manner‐degree modifiers in a context where the possessive is in postverbal position and correlative with the subject, as in they tried
Tamara Bouso, Marianne Hundt
wiley   +1 more source

For an extended definition of lexical collocations

, 2008
In this paper, we address two main problems raised by the classical definitions of restricted lexical collocations: 1) the binary status of collocations; 2) the problem of function words which are often implicitly excluded from the definition of collocationsWe show that collocations are fundamentally argument-predicate structures and that most ternary ...
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Translating Lexical Collocations in Elemental Movie Subtitles

Langkawi: Journal of The Association for Arabic and English
Despite the extensive research on collocation translation, studies examining the influence of translation techniques on translation quality—specifically accuracy, acceptability, and readability—are scarce. This study provides an in-depth analysis of the impact of translation techniques on three aspects of lexical collocation translation quality and ...
Anshori, Sakut, Arbain, Arbain, Kendenan, Esriaty Sega, Zain, Abd. Rahman, Khoshimov, Mukhriddin   +4 more
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English address terms in Australian, British and North American English on Twitter/X

World Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study analyses address terms on Twitter/X across three English‐speaking regions: Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. Using a random sample, we examine the frequency and regional distribution of address forms, including @‐mentions, vocatives, titles, kinship terms and greetings.
Martin Schweinberger, Amir Sheikhan
wiley   +1 more source

Must Can: Double‐Modal Constructions in Hong Kong English

World Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Previous studies have focused on double‐modal constructions (DMs) in Englishes in the Inner Circle at the expense of the Outer Circle. Using data collected from internet forums and corpora, this study aims to narrow the research gap by examining DMs in Hong Kong English (HKE), an English variety in the Outer Circle.
Pun Ho Lui
wiley   +1 more source

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, Hanna Bruns, Martin Schweinberger   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source