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Mining Multilingualism's Materiality: 'Re-representing' Linguistic Diversity in Presidential Biography

open access: yesCritical Multilingualism Studies, 2014
This paper engages in a “geo-semiotic” (Scollon and Scollon 2003) analysis of David Maraniss’s 2012 presidential biography, Barack Obama: The Story, and offers an alternative view to how the materiality of global multilingualism is utilized for enhanced ...
Anjali Pandey
doaj   +2 more sources

Disinventing multilingualism: from monological multilingualism to multilingua francas

open access: yes, 2012
Assumptions about the existence of languages and, ipso facto, multilingualism, are so deeply embedded in predominant paradigms of language studies that they are rarely questioned.
Makoni, S, Pennycook, AD
core  

Law and economics of the European multilingualism

open access: yes, 2010
The economics of language applied to multilingualism in the European Union (EU) has only recently come to the fore. Languages economics and Law and Economics disciplines both emerged in the 1960s. However, no study has, hitherto, linked these disciplines.
Portuese, Aurelien   +2 more
core   +1 more source

AI Chatbots Versus Human Agents for Customer Service: A Social Belonging Perspective

open access: yesJournal of Consumer Behaviour, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) has rapidly transformed customer service, leading to the widespread adoption of AI‐driven chatbots. Despite these advances, consumers consistently prefer human agents over AI chatbots, as documented in both academic research and industry reports. This research proposes a Social Belonging Perspective to explain this
Linwan Wu, Chi Zhang, Kai Tian
wiley   +1 more source

Supporting the Shift: Professional Development for Alternative Grading Practices

open access: yesNew Directions for Community Colleges, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Alternative grading (e.g., contract grading, ungrading, specifications grading) practices have emerged as a promising approach to enhance student success, improve students’ sense of belonging, and make higher education more accessible. This study explores the challenges faced by community college faculty when implementing alternative grading ...
Breana Bayraktar, J. Indigo Eriksen
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond the Classroom: How Community College Websites in Texas Communicate Dual Enrollment Information and Student Support Services

open access: yesNew Directions for Community Colleges, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Dual enrollment (DE) has expanded rapidly, yet students’ access to support services remains uneven. This study examined 55 community college websites in Texas to evaluate how clearly and comprehensively they presented DE information and communicated student support services.
JoHyun Kim   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multilingual Large Language Models and Curse of Multilinguality

open access: yesCoRR
Multilingual Large Language Models (LLMs) have gained large popularity among Natural Language Processing (NLP) researchers and practitioners. These models, trained on huge datasets, show proficiency across various languages and demonstrate effectiveness in numerous downstream tasks.
Daniil Gurgurov   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Regulatory Research Priorities for AI Use in the Medicine Lifecycle: A European Perspective with Global Relevance

open access: yesClinical Pharmacology &Therapeutics, EarlyView.
Regulatory bodies play a central role in providing guidance that enables safe and effective use of artificial intelligence tools in medicine development and evaluation. Regulators can also act as catalysts for regulatory science research. To inform these efforts, a European‐wide survey was conducted to solicit stakeholder perspectives on the priority ...
Luis C. Pinheiro   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

The association between multilingualism and cognitive function among literate and illiterate older adults with low education in India

open access: yesAlzheimer’s & Dementia: Behavior & Socioeconomics of Aging
Introduction This study examined whether multilingualism modified the adverse effect of illiteracy on cognition among older Indian adults with low to no formal schooling.
Iris M. Strangmann   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Language of Greenwashing: SDG Omission and Opportunity‐Oriented Environmental Tone as Alert Metrics in Green Bond Disclosures

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Green bonds play a central role in sustainable finance, yet concerns about greenwashing raise questions about the credibility of issuers' sustainability disclosures. Using dictionary‐based methods and domain‐specific BERT transformer models, this paper proposes two greenwashing alert metrics and investigates their performance by analyzing ...
Andrea Nicolodi   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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