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The Impact of English on Other Languages and Linguistic Justice
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the implications of English's role as a global lingua franca for other languages, with a particular focus on the transformations these languages undergo due to English influence. Such changes are most evident in the lexical domain, where they are typically examined under the framework of lexical borrowing or Anglicisms ...
Sabine Fiedler
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The Indian English Complaint Tradition: ‘Old Chestnuts’ and New Perspectives
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT English usage in India has been the target of a linguistic complaint tradition ‘which has taken the form of complaint about so‐called mis‐use of language and linguistic decline’ since the 19th century. The Indian English (IndE) complaint tradition in the 21st century has shifted from colonial to postcolonial in that IndE usage is now targeted ...
Claudia Lange, Sven Leuckert
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Dead Ends and Policy Change in Chinese Experimental Governance
Governance, Volume 39, Issue 4, December 2026.ABSTRACT Not all policy change is expansive, yet non‐expansive trajectories remain underexamined. This article introduces the concept of dead ends: a stage of the policy process in which initiatives cease to develop or be implemented in their existing form, structuring subsequent policy change such as rollback, redirection, or termination.
Vincent Brussee
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Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 3, December 2026.Abstract This article traces the social life of medieval Persian poetry as it is repurposed within Los Angeles's Iranian diaspora. Based on 5 years of immersive ethnography in private erfān classes and mystical assemblies, I argue these gatherings function as contemporary diasporic courts, mobilizing core texts within a spiritual marketplace structured
Zia Khoshsirat
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The enregisterment and social meaning of fresas on the Texas border
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 3, December 2026.Abstract The fresa characterological figure is widely recognizable in Mexico and has been considered to be performable through a variety of semiotic markers. By viewing fresas as a meta‐sign, their performance consists of three main behavioral practices: linguistic behavior, physical appearance, and inhabited space.
Natalie Rangel
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Real and Apparent Deviations From Rational Choice
Kyklos, Volume 79, Issue 4, Page 1153-1178, November 2026.ABSTRACT This paper offers a taxonomy of real and apparent deviations from rationality. The taxonomy is based on three axes of divides—whereas the axes are successive refinements. The outermost‐axis divide delineates “anxiety‐based choices” from “anxiety‐free choices.” Anxiety‐based choices are real deviations such as the Allais and Ellsberg paradoxes ...
Elias L. Khalil
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Stress tests in banks: A bibliometric review
Review of Financial Economics, Volume 44, Issue 4, October 2026.Abstract This study presents a bibliometric and content‐based review of the literature on stress testing in banking, documenting its evolution from a crisis‐response mechanism during the global financial crisis to a core supervisory tool for prudential supervision and systemic risk assessment.
Dimitrios Karakostas +3 more
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A qualitative assessment of quantitative easing sentiment
Economic Inquiry, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 1230-1259, October 2026.Abstract This mixed‐method study undertakes a comprehensive inquiry of the public discourse on social media surrounding quantitative easing (QE) across the US, the UK, and the European Union. Utilizing a unique tweet dataset, we reveal the sentiment polarity toward QE policy to be strongly negative, at 71.27%, with positive sentiment a mere 4.25 ...
Niamh Wylie, Martha O’Hagan‐Luff
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Vernacular Futurism: How Persian Language Users Imagine AI
AI &Innovation, Volume 1, Issue 2, September 2026.ABSTRACT Public discourse about artificial intelligence increasingly unfolds through compressed forecasts, moral warnings, and everyday speculation circulating at platform speed. This study examines how Persian language users on X construct and contest AI futures, analyzing a corpus of 4741 posts collected between January 2023 and December 2025, with ...
Arthur Asa Berger, Ehsan Shahghasemi
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NorthEuraLex: a wide-coverage lexical database of Northern Eurasia. [PDF]
Lang Resour Eval, 2020 Dellert J +12 more
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