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Risk Attitudes, Investment Behavior, and Linguistic Variation [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Human Resources, 2021
This study explores the relationship between linguistic variation and individual attitudes toward risk and uncertainty. We propose an innovative marker that classifies languages according to the number of nonindicative moods in the grammatical contexts involving uncertainty.
Juliana Bernhofer   +2 more
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Tourists’ attitudes towards linguistic variation in Scotland [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper joins studies of linguistic variation (e.g. Labov 1972; Dubois & Horvath 2000) and discourse (e.g. Jaworski & Lawson 2005; Jaworski & Pritchard 2005; Thurlow & Jaworski 2010) that consider the intersection between language and tourism.
Hall-Lew, Lauren   +2 more
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Young children's perspectives of time: New directions for co‐constructing understandings of quality in ECEC

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Children's relationship with time in preschools is an under‐researched area. Young children rarely know how to measure time using a clock, but their experiences of time may contribute to understanding children's well‐being and debates about quality in preschools.
Kristín Dýrfjörð   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Linguistic Metaphors Shape Attitudes towards Immigration

open access: yes, 2021
Immigration policy has been one of the top concerns of American voters over the last decade and has attracted some of the most heated rhetoric in politics and news media across the world. Much like other political language, talk about immigration is suffused with metaphor.
Chkhaidze, Ana   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Teachers’ Linguistic Attitudes and Their Approach to Lithuanian Language Education During Lessons in all Subjects

open access: yesActa Paedagogica Vilnensia
Linguistic attitudes of teachers in different subjects are one of the main factors shaping the school’s linguistic environment. This paper analyses teachers’ linguistic attitudes and their attitudes towards pupils’ Lithuanian language education across ...
Laimutė Bučienė
doaj   +1 more source

You-attitude: A Linguistic Perspective

open access: yesDiscourse and Writing/Rédactologie, 2001
You-attitude is a pedagogically convenient cover term that subsumes considerable complexity, both with respect to the text effects it may include and the text charac teristics that create these effects. Some of the insights on politeness, tact, and def erence found in the work of Brown and Levinson, Leech, and Fraser and Nolen can help provide ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Perceptions of EFL and non-EFL teachers about EFL teacher’s code switching

open access: yesRevista de Lenguas Modernas, 2017
The following article addresses the topic of code switching among English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers. This article aims to understand the perceptions EFL teachers and non-EFL teachers have toward the frst group’s usage of code switching. Though 
Cynthia Alexandra Miranda Chacón   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Quali sono i fattori di successo delle famiglie multilingue? La relazione tra atteggiamenti linguistici e dinamiche familiari e di comunità

open access: yesNarrare i Gruppi, 2020
What are the success factors of multilingual families? The relationship between linguistic attitudes and family and community dynamics ----- Abstract --- The article focuses on the emotional, cognitive, and social climate in which multilingual ...
Cinzia Novara   +3 more
doaj  

Digital Multilingualism: Hungarian University Students in Romania between Multilingualism and Mother Tongue Use in the Digital Space [PDF]

open access: yesActa Universitatis Sapientiae: Social Analysis
This study explores the digital language practices of Hungarian university students in Romania, focusing specifically o n t heir u se o f the mother tongue in digital environments and the factors influencing its occurrence.
Gyöngyvér Erika TŐKÉS
doaj   +1 more source

Multimodal Human–Robot Interaction Using Human Pose Estimation and Local Large Language Models

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
A multimodal human–robot interaction framework integrates human pose estimation (HPE) and a large language model (LLM) for gesture‐ and voice‐based robot control. Speech‐to‐text (STT) enables voice command interpretation, while a safety‐aware arbitration mechanism prioritizes gesture input for rapid intervention.
Nasiru Aboki   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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