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Stigma, self‐styling and ‘forced accents’ among English L2 speakers in Spain

World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 3, Page 468-484, September 2026.
Abstract This paper examines the relationship between shame, stigma and accent for non‐native English speakers in Spain. The low English competence of the Spanish population frequently constitutes a source of individual and collective stigma – which includes the apparent undesirability of Spanish‐sounding English.
Eva Codó, Carly Collins
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“I Had Dual Feelings”: (Re)Storying With a Rural South Korean English Teacher

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 36, Issue 3, Page 2144-2154, August 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes (or re‐stories) intrapersonal ideological tensions of a rural South Korean English teacher, Yeonghyeon1, as she negotiates competing discourses across local, national, and global scales within the context of a semi‐structured interview.
Ian Schneider
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of pragmatics awareness instruction (PAI) in enhancing EFL learners’ communicative competence

Cogent Education
This study investigated the effects of pragmatics awareness instruction (PAI) in enhancing EFL learners’ communicative competence. The PAI metalanguage and metapragmatic description tasks and activities play a pivotal role in enhancing EFL learners ...
Mihretu Yihunie Yalew, Dawit Amogne, Birhanu Simegn Chanie   +2 more
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Delomization, or the esoteric Nechung kang so, the Dalai Lama, and exilic imaginings of a Tibetan community

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, August 2026.
Abstract I propose the concept of delomization, the process whereby a sign comes to be understood as a symbol. I term such signs delomes. With rhematization and dicentization, delomization completes the triplet that linguistic anthropologists derive from Charles Sanders Peirce's third trichotomy.
Urmila Nair
wiley   +1 more source

Metapragmatic Evaluation of Verbal Irony by Speakers of Russian and American English [PDF]

, 2012
The paper discusses metapragmatic assessment of verbal irony by speakers of Russian and American English. The research combines ideas from metapragmatics, folk linguistics and corpus linguistics. Empirical data are drawn from the Russian National Corpus (
Shilikhina, Ksenia
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Etymology and entomology: The semiotics and ethics of multispecies gene nomenclatures

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, August 2026.
Abstract This article examines controversies surrounding gene names that are perceived as humorous in the context of fruit flies but are considered rude in the clinical context of human medicine. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in insect laboratories, interviews with entomologists and geneticists, and an analysis of scientific and clinical ...
Colin M. E. Halverson
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Domesticating robots, domesticating language: The hylomorphic paradox of “openness” in large language models

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, August 2026.
Abstract This article examines how openness is interpreted in human–LLM interaction through an ethnographic study of a robotics experiment. Focusing on an episode in which a robot produced an unexpected utterance, I analyze how engineers classify the output as inconsequential noise.
Raffaele Andrea Buono
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Palatal violence: Sonic gatekeeping and enemy‐making in wartime Ukraine

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, August 2026.
Abstract Within 2 days of Russia's full‐scale invasion of Ukraine, a single word—palianytsia, a Ukrainian round loaf—became a phonetic test separating Ukrainians from Russians. The article traces how a culinary term was enregistered as a wartime shibboleth that structurally marks the very citizens it was meant to protect as enemies.
Anatoli Ulyanov
wiley   +1 more source

Cognitive Metapragmatic Awareness in Kurdish Language

This Research, entitled "Cognitive Metapragmatic Awareness in the KurdishLanguage" aims to investigate the relationship between cognitivemetapragmatic awareness (the ability to use language pragmatically in anappropriate manner) and the Kurdish language,
Shahen Salar Muhammed, Avesta Kamal Mahmood   +1 more
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Serendipitous ritualization: dynamics of lay connectivity in Chinese Buddhist temples and beyond Ritualisation fortuite : dynamique de la connectivité des laïques dans les temples bouddhistes chinois et au‐delà

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 390-411, June 2026.
This article contributes to rethinking the dichotomy between informal sociality and ritual formality by examining the occasional ritual encounters surrounding spirit‐tablet inscription in Chinese Buddhist temples. Rather than viewing rituals as enactments of established orders, it presents ritual engagement as a contingent process of relational ...
Yang Shen
wiley   +1 more source