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Gaining and Gauging Trust Through Small Stories in the Interaction Between Guardians and Unaccompanied Minors

open access: yesJournal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the lead‐up to their asylum interviews, unaccompanied minors often struggle to disclose the highly sensitive and personal narratives of their migration journeys to their guardians. Instead, they may resort to “thin stories”: generic, rehearsed stories of suffering, which risk being qualified by the authorities as “inauthentic” or even ...
Lotte Remue
wiley   +1 more source

Esempi di multilinguismo in Europa. Inglese lingua franca e italiano lingua straniera. La contrastività nella codificazione linguistica

open access: yes, 2007
Esempi di multilinguismo in Europa. Inglese lingua franca e italiano lingua straniera Il XIII e il XIV incontro sono stati dedicati alla situazione presente degli insegnamenti linguistici nelle facoltà economiche italiane ed europee.
L. Schena, C. Preite, L.T. Soliman, S. Vecchiato, F. Sabatini, M. Benedetti, M.T. Prat Zagrebelsky, R. Salvi, B. Cambiaghi, K. Katerinov, P. Diadori, G. Garzone, E. Turra, C. Schwarze, A. Hornung, S. Ruggia, D. Mangano, C. Désoutter, M. Carrera Diaz, F. Matte Bon   +3 more
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Morphosyntactic variation in spoken English as a lingua franca interactions

open access: yes, 2017
This chapter recognizes the fluidity of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) as a resource employed primarily by multilingual speakers who perform in "transient multilingual communities".
Björkman, Beyza,, Beyza Björkman
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Understanding Online Meaning‐Making: Normativity, Polycentricity, and Memetic Communication Through a Chronotopic‐Scalar Lens

open access: yesJournal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article investigates memetic interaction as an illustrative example of complex polycentric online communication. Using a chronotopic‐scalar framework, it offers a theorized account of how online (inter)action works, how it is guided by (perceptions of) normativities, and how it is in dialogue with the “offline.” Specifically, I focus on ...
Taraneh Sanei
wiley   +1 more source

Lingua franca, italiano come

open access: yes, 2011
Si analizzano le documentazioni principali relative alla cosiddetta lingua franca mediterranea, e se ne descrivono i tratti ...
MINERVINI, LAURA
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30 Years of Enamel Matrix Derivative (EMD): Biological Foundations and Systematic Review With Meta‐Analyses Across Multiple Clinical Indications

open access: yesJournal of Periodontal Research, EarlyView.
EMD is one of the few biological agents with human histologic evidence supporting periodontal regeneration. This is reflected in improved clinical outcomes when used in regenerative surgery for intrabony defects. Despite its biological plausibility for broader therapeutic applications, further high‐quality randomized clinical trials are needed to ...
Richard J. Miron   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Differential Effects of Age, Linguistic Distance, Gender, and Education on English Proficiency: A Comparative Crosslinguistic Study of Immersion and Nonimmersion Learners

open access: yesLanguage Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract Do immersion and nonimmersion learners’ English grammaticality judgment test (GJT) scores reflect the same underlying processes in language learning? Drawing on data from Chen and Hartshorne's (2021) study, we argue that they do not. Using generalized additive mixed models (GAMMs), we found that age of onset was the strongest predictor of GJT ...
Frans van der Slik, Roeland van Hout
wiley   +1 more source

Diet and leishmaniasis in the Ecuadorian Amazon

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In Ecuador's Amazon, Indigenous communities affected by leishmaniasis often modify their diets as part of their health‐seeking practices. Drawing on qualitative research with sixty‐eight participants from seven Indigenous groups, this study explores how and why patients’ diets shift in pursuit of healing from leishmaniasis.
Veronica Cristina Vargas Roman
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of Learning Context and Program Length on L2 Skill Development

open access: yesThe Modern Language Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigated the effects of learning context (study abroad versus at home) and program length (summer versus semester) on the development of four language skills among learners of Chinese as a second language (L2). A total of 725 L2 Chinese learners completed standardized proficiency tests before and after participating in their ...
Yuan Lu, Chuanren Ke
wiley   +1 more source

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