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Testing What’s at Stake: Defending Stakes Effects for Testimony [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This paper investigates whether practical interests affect knowledge attributions in cases of testimony. It is argued that stakes impact testimonial knowledge attributions by increasing or decreasing the requirements for hearers to trust speakers and ...
Croce, Michel, Poenicke, Paul
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IMAGINATIVE SPECIFICATIONS OF LOOK IN MONGOLIAN LANGUAGES

open access: yesSAD The Journal of Siberian Studies, 2013
The article examines figurative words of Mongolian languages, which characterize the glance and appeared in result of verbalization of visual perception. The author applies semantics of figurative words to the meanings of so called basic words of obscure etymology, particularly the verbs of seeing.
openaire   +2 more sources

Leaders' Functional Specialization and Responses to Institutional Shifts during Crises: Evidence from the Pandemic

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Prior studies on crisis management often highlight the adaptiveness of generalist leaders, whose diverse functional experiences allow for flexible and innovative responses. However, we propose that in situations where crises lead to abrupt shifts in dominant institutional pressures, leaders with specialized functional backgrounds potentially ...
Yidi Guo, Danqing Wang, Shuo Chen
wiley   +1 more source

The Mental Health of the Young in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

open access: yesReview of Development Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We report on the wellbeing of the young in twenty‐eight countries located in Eastern Europe and Central Asia including fifteen post‐Soviet countries. We find no evidence of the decline in the mental health of the young relative to older people, which characterizes Western Europe and English‐speaking advanced economies. The mental health of the
David G. Blanchflower, Alex Bryson
wiley   +1 more source

Rethinking ‘Hill‐Valley Divide’ in Darjeeling District, India: An Autoethnographic Approach to Highland Identities

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research examines the Hill‐Valley divide in Darjeeling district, West Bengal, India, where Nepali‐speaking hill communities coexist with Bengali‐speaking valley populations. It argues that this division is a colonial construct, shaped by British policies that romanticised the hills as a ‘mini‐England’ while separating them from the valley
Yalember Dewan
wiley   +1 more source

The Scholar Imprisoned: Young‐Bok Shin's Decolonial Thought Against (Sub) Imperialisms in East Asia

open access: yesSociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reads Young‐Bok Shin (1941–2016) as a decolonial thinker who theorized transformative worldmaking from the standpoint of the oppressed, rooted in the historical experiences of East Asia. Against the (sub)imperial “logic of sameness” that structures colonial modernity in his social world, Shin advances gongbu (studying) as a ...
Veda Hyunjin Kim
wiley   +1 more source

The Mongolian Script in the Baikal region at the Present Stage: a Course for Revitalization?

open access: yesМонголоведение
This paper aims to provide an analysis of the development of the Mongolian script in the sociocultural context of the Baikal region in modern times. The main purpose of this article is to characterize the key trends in society from the point of view of ...
Innokenty G. Aktamov   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Global Policy Fellows Program: Lessons Learned [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Describes IHEP's program to create a global network of higher education policy analysts and researchers to address issues of access for underserved populations.
Alisa F. Cunningham
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First Knowledging, First Languaging: Australian Teacher Education

open access: yesTESOL Journal, Volume 17, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Colonial policy and practices in Australia have led to the current situation of economic and social disadvantage for First Nations peoples. These policies were also instrumental in the demise of their traditional languages, from approximately 250 to now only 12 being learnt as a first language.
Sender Dovchin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

What Difference Does Language Make? Comparing Systematic Evidence Reviews of Vietnamese and English Language Literatures on Climate Change and the Health of Outdoor Workers

open access: yesArea, Volume 58, Issue 2, June 2026.
Short Abstract This paper compares two systematic literature reviews—one in English and one in Vietnamese—to examine how language shapes the production and framing of knowledge on climate change and health. It highlights significant differences in methods, assumptions and policy framings, and argues that linguistic boundaries are not just technical ...
Anh Ngoc Vu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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