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Gesturing While Writing: An Alternate Perspective on Mimetic Prosody
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Paul Magee
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Political Psychology, Volume 47, Issue 2, April 2026.Abstract Over the past decade, large‐scale protests have been pivotal in shaping institutional dynamics and triggering societal change. Despite increased academic attention, the understanding of participants' experiences remains limited. This paper argues for adopting an actor‐centered perspective to gain novel insights into protest dynamics ...
Cristina Pradillo‐Caimari
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Onomatopoeia Types and Translation Strategies
SALEETranslating webtoon poses a challenge for the translator. However, many research focus on the application of comic translation instead of webtoon translation.
Vanesa Kho +3 more
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Exploring the Perceptual Span of Japanese Among Second Language Learners
Applied Cognitive Psychology, Volume 40, Issue 2, March/April 2026.ABSTRACT How much information do readers process within a single fixation during sentence reading? This perceptual span underlies reading theories and eye‐movement research. In the present study, we focused on Japanese, where sentences are written using a combination of three types of scripts, namely Kanji, Hiragana, and Katakana.
Yuqi Hao +3 more
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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 1, Page 168-199, March 2026.Abstract This study investigates the lexicographical potential of Medieval Latin documentation from the Venetian area of the Italo‐Romance domain, highlighting the need for a systematic approach to bridge Latin and vernacular linguistic developments. The project MEDITA – Medieval Latin Documentation and Digital Italo‐Romance Lexicography.
Jacopo Gesiot
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Arts, 2020 Linking interdisciplinarity and multimodality in translation studies, this paper will analyse the diachronic translation of English ideophones in Italian Disney comics. This is achieved thanks to the compiling of a bi-directional corpus of sound symbolic
Pier Simone Pischedda
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Do Great Apes Use Iconic Gestures?
WIREs Cognitive Science, Volume 17, Issue 1, January/February 2026.Iconicity is increasingly recognized as a core property of language, raising the evolutionary question of whether great apes use iconic gestures. This article challenges current theories of ape gesturing, arguing that many ape gestures are homologous to human iconic gestures, indicating a crucial role for iconicity in language evolution.
Marcus Perlman
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Relative Chaoticity of Natural Languages
Complexity, Volume 2026, Issue 1, 2026.This paper presents a novel approach to analyzing and grouping natural languages based on the degree of their chaoticity. It clusters 52 languages from 18 language families, according to the value of the entropy–complexity pair, to reveal the chaotic properties of semantic trajectories.
Assel S. Yerbolova +6 more
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Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment, Volume 47, Issue 2, December 2025.ABSTRACT This article investigates how the changing value of food due to the transition from famine to abundance after industrialization in the 1960s generated a shift in sociality and ways of being together in the Arbëreshë community, who immigrated to Molise during the sixteenth century.
Elisa Pastorelli
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Chinese Verb Frames in Primary Education: From Basic Communication to Cognitive Complexity
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 2301-2316, November 2025.ABSTRACT This article investigates text complexity in Chinese‐language textbooks for primary school students (Grades 1 to 6) in Hong Kong. Our analysis, based on verb frames in Mandarin VerbNet, shows a developmental shift in the linguistic input in first language (L1) education: Students begin with a focus on core frame elements in lower grades and ...
Tianyuan Cai +2 more
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