Trading Zones Between Thick and Thin: Anthropological Description as Scaffold or Mosaic
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 1, Page 159-170, March 2026.ABSTRACT Referring to the work of historian of science Peter Galison, I argue that anthropology requires thin description as an essential counterpart for thick description. Thin accounts provide the scaffolding within which thick descriptions sit. Galison uses the idea of a “trading zone” connecting different communities who, despite their differences (
David Zeitlyn
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Explaining register and sociolinguistic variation in the lexicon: Corpus studies on Dutch [PDF]
, 2012 Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, 15 oktober ...
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ANALYZING THE WORD CHOICE IN RELATION TO THE SEMANTIC ADJUSTMENT IN THE ENGLISH-INDONESIAN TRANSLATION OF DISNEY’S DONALD DUCK SERIAL COMIC BOOK. [PDF]
, 2012 This paper is a qualitative study of the word choice in relation to the semantic adjustment in the Indonesian translation of a Disney’s Donald Duck serial comic book entitled “Misteri Anggrek Rawa” (Mystery of the Swamp Orchid).
Nurwanti, Dahlya Indra
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Wibana: How Bobonaza Runa and Forest Animals Know and Live With Each Other
The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 1, March 2026.ABSTRACT Runa women living along the Bobonaza river in the Ecuadorian Amazon raise captured forest animals, in a practice called wibana. Runa women are attentive to the particular ways the wiba (raised) animals interface with the world, and learn the wibas’ communicative repertoires and are able to “read” what wibas sense in the forest, including ...
James Beveridge
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Managing multilingualism in a tourist area during the COVID-19 pandemic. [PDF]
J Pragmat, 2023 Ferenčík M, Bariová D.
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Fashion Register in Femina Magazine: A Sociolinguistic Analysis
, 2023 Kristianto Setiawan +2 more
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LANGUAGE MAINTENANCE AND SHIFT: HOW JAVANESE PRESERVED AND SHIFTED IN INDUSTRIAL AREA [PDF]
, 2013 As one of some big companies, Nikomas has more than 30 thousands population for its workers and it is spread within 26 companies. Most of the workers come from central and east Java, whereas the rest come from some districts in Banten Province: Serang,
Suharsih, Siti
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A Guide to Build (ING) GLMM Trees in Canadian Maritime English: Part 2, Linguistic Factors
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 20, Issue 2, March/April 2026.ABSTRACT This second paper in a two‐part methodological guide demonstrates how Generalised Linear Mixed Model (GLMM) tree analysis can be used to explore linguistic conditioning in sociolinguistic variation. Building on Part 1, which introduced the dataset and illustrated how GLMM trees reveal social patterning in (ING) variation, Part 2 focuses on the
Matt Hunt Gardner
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From Signs to Stigma: Enregisterment and Platformed Racism in TikTok Comments
Kajian Linguistik dan SastraThis article investigates how stigma around so-called “gang hand signs” is produced, circulated, and negotiated in TikTok comments. Drawing on a case-bounded corpus of 675 comments posted under five videos from the account TopNotch Idiots (posted in 2023;
Moh Ramadhan, Muziatun, Fahria Malabar
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THE RHETORICAL STRUCTURE AND COMMUNICATIVE STRATEGIES OF THESTUDENTS’ REQUESTS IN THE WEB DISCUSSION FORUM [PDF]
, 2012 This paper is to describe the rhetorical structure and the communicative strategies that students use in the web discussion forum of Ma Chung University.
Ginting, Daniel
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