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World Englishes, applied linguistics, and air traffic control communication

World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 292-308, June 2026.
Abstract Air traffic control (ATC) communication in international aviation is conducted in a variety often referred to as Aviation English. Based on an analysis of the Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPs) defined by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), two specialized sub‐registers of Aviation English are identified in previous ...
Markus Bieswanger
wiley   +1 more source

‘Ought’-contextualism beyond the parochial [PDF]

, 2019
Despite increasing prominence, ‘ought’-contextualism is regarded with suspicion by most metaethicists. As I’ll argue, however, contextualism is a very weak claim, that every metaethicist can sign up to.
Worsnip, Alex
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Collocations of Basic Color Terms and Emotion Terms in Spanish Versus Chinese

Color Research &Application, Volume 51, Issue 3, May/June 2026.
A corpus‐based analysis suggests that emotions are associated to colors differently in Spanish and Chinese, although differences are more quantitative than qualitative in nature. These results parallel findings in human participants and Large Language Models. ABSTRACT Emotions are internal states that can be difficult to describe verbally.
Mingshan Xu, Antonio Benítez‐Burraco
wiley   +1 more source

POLYSEMY IN COMPUTER TERMS

Lite: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, dan Budaya, 2011
The development of computer and information technology results in the development of word meanings. Many terms in computer create multiplicity of meanings of the same words. This also deals with metaphor as the words share some common properties.
Nina Setyaningsih
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Human tests for machine models: What lies “Beyond the Imitation Game”?

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract Benchmarking large language models (LLMs) is a key practice for evaluating their capabilities and risks. This paper considers the development of “BIG Bench,” a crowdsourced benchmark designed to test LLMs “Beyond the Imitation Game.” Drawing on linguistic anthropological and ethnographic analysis of the project's GitHub repository, we examine ...
Noya Kohavi, Anna Weichselbraun
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Narrative formatting, chronotopic orderings, and moralization in ex‐gay stories

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract Formatted stories rely on spatiotemporal cues to evoke recognizability through linearity, which prescribes a particular template for meaning‐making. This article examines stories narrated by ex‐gay members of a Christian organization in Singapore and considers how chronotopes within the stories are ordered to regiment ways of feeling for ...
Vincent Pak
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ARABIC POLYSEMY

International Journal For Innovative Engineering and Management Research, 2020
The word as a spiritual unit has lexical and grammatical semantics. Lexicology considers a word as a unit of the lexical content of a language, making lexical semantics, the basic unit of the lexical meaning of a word, its main object of study. The lexical semantics of a word refers to the relativity of a word to certain events in reality, taking into ...
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Going Beyond Correlations: Experimental Methods for Investigating the Role of Executive Functions in the Development of Academic Skills

Mind, Brain, and Education, Volume 20, Issue 2, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Substantial effort has been dedicated to understanding the role of executive functions (EFs) in children's academic achievement. However, to understand how EFs, including working memory, inhibitory control, and cognitive flexibility help with academic skills, we need more experimental rather than correlational approaches.
Joanne Eaves
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Moderate Holism: Answering to Criticism and Explaining Linguistic Phenomena [PDF]

, 2018
In this paper I present a version of meaning holism proposed by Henry Jackman (1999a, 1999b, 2005 and 2015) entitled "moderate holism". I will argue that this moderate version of holism, in addition to responding to much of the criticism attributed to ...
Estrela, Kênio
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Transformers, Contextualism, and Polysemy

Ergo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy
The transformer architecture, introduced by Vaswani et al. (2017), is at the heart of the remarkable recent progress in the development of language models, including widely-used chatbots such as Chat-GPT and Claude.
Jumbly Grindrod
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