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Skilled for Whom? Immigration Policy, Racial Capitalism, and the Reproduction of Inequality in Britain

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the UK's 2025 Immigration White Paper as a critical site for understanding how immigration policy functions as an instrument of racial capitalism. Drawing on Critical Race Theory, the theory of social reproduction, and intersectionality, it interrogates how the state's construction of the ‘skilled migrant’ operates as a ...
Muhammad Abdul Aziz, Muhammad Umar, Deborah Hamer‐Acquaah   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Weaponization of ESG Infrastructures and the Future of Green Finance

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The trillion‐dollar green finance industry faces growing pushbacks from a range of actors. While criticisms vary—from portraying ESG as part of a “woke” agenda to highlighting risks of greenwashing—we now see mass departures from climate–finance initiatives, with asset managers coming under fire from regulators over ESG policies and activist ...
Annika Stenström
wiley   +1 more source

The adjective “ unique”

Ibérica, 2020
This paper examines the role of the adjective “unique” in car manufacturers’ websites. The presence of adjectives is generally acknowledged to be a significant feature of advertising texts; however, analyses often focus on issues relating to the ...
Marisa Díez Arroyo
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From the Pragmatics of Language Violence to the Violence of Language in Ahmadou Kourouma’s Allah n’est pas obligé [PDF]

Uirtus
This article analyzes the discursive manifestations of violence in Ahmadou Kourouma’s Allah n’est pas obligatoire (Allah Is Not Obliged), using Critical Discourse Pragmatics (CDP), Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), and Linguistic Pragmatics.
Béli Mathieu Daïla, Oboussa Sougué, Michel Nanema   +2 more
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Turkish preschoolers show an advantage in their understanding of their own representational change over others' false belief

British Journal of Developmental Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent studies suggest that Turkish preschoolers exhibit a different pattern of theory of mind development than Western samples, particularly with respect to understanding the diversity of beliefs and knowledge acquisition. The present study posits that such differences extend to distinctions between understanding others' false belief and one ...
Mesut Saçkes, Sonnur Işıtan, Kathy Cabe Trundle, David M. Sobel   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Investigative Child Interviews Within Child Welfare Services and Children's Voices About Violence and Fear

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores structured investigative child interviews developed to be used in the context of child welfare risk assessments: the ‘iRiSk’ structured risk and safety interviews for children subjected to violence in the family. The aims were to study how children manage leading elements of structured interview questions and if this ...
Maria Eriksson, Clara Iversen
wiley   +1 more source

Speech, language, social communication, and communication assessments in Rett syndrome: A systematic review

Developmental Medicine &Child Neurology, EarlyView.
This systematic overview highlights communication impairment as a defining feature of Rett syndrome, with expressive language consistently affected more severely than receptive language and social ability. Across the literature, most studies rely on caregiver‐reported measures, with relatively few employing direct or objective measurements of speech ...
Lucas N. Raniolo, Ruth O. Braden, Jana von Hehn, John Christodoulou, David N. Lieberman, David J. Amor, Adam P. Vogel   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Organisational dehumanisation: Authoritativeness as remedy

European Management Review, EarlyView.
Abstract According to orthodoxy, the human relations movement was a watershed in rehumanising scientifically managed workplaces. In the wake of such purported reform, pundits (theorists and practitioners alike) have typically taken for granted that 21st century approaches to workplace superintendence, birthed in the wake of the Hawthorne Studies and ...
Jean‐Etienne Joullié, Anthony M. Gould, Jeffrey Muldoon   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond study abroad: Korean English as a foreign language learners who choose to stay

Foreign Language Annals, EarlyView.
Abstract Research on study abroad (SA) has focused on students who leave their home institutions, often treating at home (AH) learners as a reference group. This study reverses that perspective by centering AH learners and using SA learners for comparison.
Yunjung (Yunie) Ku, Cristina Sanz
wiley   +1 more source

DISCOURSE WORLD AS PROJECTIVE MACROREALITY IN BRITISH ADVERTISING: COGNITIVE-SEMANTIC ANALYSIS

Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2015
Advertising discourse is analyzed from projectivity perspective: with regard to the construction of the global discourse meaning known as “discourse world” as mental macroreality exposed to marketing laws.
S. L. Kushneruk
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