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From passion to illegality: Understanding succulent consumers' decision to participate in the illegal online wildlife trade

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract The illegal wildlife trade represents a significant threat to biodiversity. Limited research has examined the illegal trade in succulents, plants characterized by their ability to store water in their leaves, stems or roots. The growing popularity of succulents has contributed to the emergence of illicit consumer practices.
Léanne Vincendon   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

“There Are Places Full of Beauty”: Desettling High School Students' Scientific Writing

open access: yesScience Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study contributes to desettling and expanding expectations about the forms of scientific language that belong in students' scientific writing. The primary empirical focus is the analysis of 52 high school student abstracts articulating community‐based investigations, submitted as part of their participation in a student conference in a ...
Alejandra Frausto Aceves
wiley   +1 more source

Information Structure Affects the Resolution of the Subject Pronouns Er and Der in Spoken German Discourse

open access: yesDiscours, 2013
Two visual-world eye-tracking experiments were designed to investigate the resolution of ambiguous German pronouns, the personal pronoun (er) and the d-pronoun (der) in spoken discourse.
Miriam Ellert
doaj   +1 more source

ОСОБЛИВОСТІ ФУНКЦІОНУВАННЯ ЗАЙМЕННИКА IT В СУЧАСНІЙ АНГЛІЙСЬКІЙ МОВІ (The peculiarities of the functioning of the pronoun IT in the modern English) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Стаття присвячена дослідженню особливостей функціонування займенника it в англійській мові. З’ясовано, що займенник it в англійській мові може виступати в ролі особового, вказівного, емфатичного та ввідного займенника, а також як особовий займенник в ...
Войналович, Л. (L. Voinalovych)
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Expanding Possibilities for the Use of Writing Genres in Early Elementary Science: Investigating First‐Graders’ Multimodal Sequential Explanations

open access: yesScience Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the outcomes of the implementation of a first grade unit incorporating multiple modes of representation and genre‐based pedagogy to support writing instruction in the genre of sequential explanations. At the end of a 6‐day unit investigating the structure and functions of carnivorous plants, 47 first graders completed a
Rachel E. Wilson, Leslie U. Bradbury
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of deixis in the article selected from the Jakarta Post [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This paper reports on the findings of a study investigating the deixis in the article selected from the Jakarta post. It was applied descriptive qualitative using content analysis to analyze the deixis found in the article selected from the Jakarta post.
Miftah, M. Z.
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Proposing a Framework to Center Justice in Ambitious Science Teaching

open access: yesScience Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Though educators and researchers have developed shared theory and language for priorities necessary to disrupt the status quo toward more equitable science education, we lack a tool that organizes sets of teaching practices across an instructional unit to support enactment and rehearsal.
April Luehmann   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Who Is to Believe When You Bet: on Non-Referential Indexical Functions of the Pronoun You in English [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Using English-language material this paper presents an account of a number of functions of the pronoun you that are not directly related to reference.
Hrisonopulo, Katherine
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“I'm a Good Guy Who Deserves Better, Yet Nobody Wants to Give me Better”: The Accounts of Nice Guys

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Within Western popular culture and online discourse, a “Nice Guy” is someone who enacts niceness for which they believe they are owed, deserving of, or entitled to something in return—especially the romantic or sexual attention of women. In this study, we examine the use of accounts in personal narratives told in an anonymous online discussion forum ...
Brooke Weinmann, Dennis D. Waskul
wiley   +1 more source

Intersentential Anaphoric Use of Personal Pronouns in English Discourse

open access: yesKalbotyra, 2005
The present article is concerned with the determination and descriptive analysis of the basic patterns of intersentential anaphoric use of personal pronouns in J. Galsworthy’s The Man of Property.
Darija Bartkutė
doaj  

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