Address Terms of Brotherhood in the Indian Online Gaming Community
ABSTRACT Indian gamers are part of the Indian society as well as a globalised gaming community. To navigate this cultural dissonance, they can use address terms to reflect and create their double or divided identities. This article investigates forms and functions of kinship terms that are connected to the concept of brother ‘male sibling’, for example,
Linnea Garlepow
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Gender Assignment Based on Mannequin Anatomy. [PDF]
Kwon D, Mackay K, Brew C, Hartland J.
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Introduction: Address Terms in World Englishes
ABSTRACT This special issue explores variations in English address terms across world Englishes, highlighting how globalization and digital communication continue to shape their use. While Western Englishes like British and American English show a decline in hierarchy‐stressing terms (e.g.
Anke Lensch +2 more
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Interview strategies for gender-diverse patients: Moving beyond "Men, women, or both?" [PDF]
Seitz RM, Harris MS, Jarman A.
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Address between power and solidarity in audiovisual material in the case of Grey's Anatomy
ABSTRACT This study investigates cross‐linguistic variation in forms of address by examining the American prime‐time television series Grey's Anatomy, comparing the original English version and the German dubbing in season 1 (2005) and season 20 (2024).
Lisa‐Christine Altendorf
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Address Terms in Communication Between Fashion Companies and Their Customers on Instagram
ABSTRACT This article investigates the ways in which three global fashion brands, Princess Polly (Australia), Adore Me (United States) and Cider (China), address customers in their Instagram comments and captions during a 3‐month period in 2022. The analysis focuses on positive politeness markers such as the use of first names, nicknames and friendship/
Minna Nevala, Hanna Limatius
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Personality's voice: how personality traits shape verbal processes in collaborative problem-solving. [PDF]
Buseyne S, Depaepe F, Raes A.
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Sir and Guys in 20th‐ and 21st‐Century American English
ABSTRACT This paper examines the diachronic development of formal and informal address and reference terms in American English as an effect of democratization using the COHA corpus (1900–2020). In focus are two address/reference terms with especially drastic frequency trends in the timespan investigated: the honorific sir, which declines sharply from ...
Hanna Bruns, Svenja Kranich
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Non-inclusive language in human subjects questionnaires: addressing racial, ethnic, heteronormative, and gender bias. [PDF]
Hernandez I +20 more
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The Indian English Complaint Tradition: ‘Old Chestnuts’ and New Perspectives
ABSTRACT English usage in India has been the target of a linguistic complaint tradition ‘which has taken the form of complaint about so‐called mis‐use of language and linguistic decline’ since the 19th century. The Indian English (IndE) complaint tradition in the 21st century has shifted from colonial to postcolonial in that IndE usage is now targeted ...
Claudia Lange, Sven Leuckert
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