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“I Suspect That the Pictures Are Stolen”: Romance Fraud, Identity Crime, and Responding to Suspicions of Inauthentic Identities

open access: yesSocial science computer review, 2021
Romance fraud impacts the lives of thousands of people globally. Financial losses exceed millions of dollars each year and are steadily increasing annually.
Cassandra Cross, Rebecca Layt
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La motivación de los alumnos polacos para el aprendizaje del español como lengua extranjera

open access: yesStudia Romanica Posnaniensia, 2016
Over the past several years the number of students learning Spanish as a foreign language has doubled in Poland. The present article is an attempt at answering the following questions: Why is Spanish so popular in Polish schools and what are the reasons ...
Małgorzata Spychała-Wawrzyniak   +1 more
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Multimodal metapragmatics of German advertising discourse

open access: yesВісник Харківського національного університету імені В. Н. Каразіна. Серія Іноземна філологія. Методика викладання іноземних мов, 2023
The article analyzes metacommunicative utterances in German advertising discourse, which proves the possibility of integrating metapragmatics with multimodal pragmatics. Metapragmatics studies metacommunication, i. e.
Liliia Bezugla   +2 more
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Microvariation and Change in the Romance Left Periphery

open access: yesProbus: International Journal of Latin and Romance Linguistics, 2022
Despite the vast literature which has accrued on the fine structure of the Romance left periphery, there exists no diachronic account of the emergence of the considerable microvariation between Romance varieties today.
S. Wolfe
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Acquiring French Intonation against the Backdrop of Heritage Bilingualism: The Case of German–Turkish Learners

open access: yesLanguages, 2022
This paper investigates the intonation of L3 French, produced by six bilingual learners (ages: 15–17) who speak Turkish as a heritage language (HL) along with German and six same-aged monolingual German learners. We examined of a corpus of read speech in
Jonas Grünke, Christoph Gabriel
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Jagged Love: Narratives of Romance on Dating Apps during COVID-19

open access: yesSexuality & Culture, 2021
The romance plot is one of the most pervasive narratives in Western society. It is a cultural masterplot: a story with which almost everyone is familiar, which can deeply and intrinsically shape the way we think about how we live.
Lisa Portolan, J. McAlister
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Quo Vadis: el español y el Hispanismo en Sudáfrica

open access: yesArbor: Ciencia, Pensamiento y Cultura, 2001
Nuestro objetivo en este ensayo es presentar la situación del español y del hispanismo en el complejo mundo que ha sido y sigue siendo Sudáfrica. Con el fin de entender el papel que desempeña el español en el África austral, se traza la historia socio ...
Cathy Maree, Carmen Sánchez Martín
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Home and School Language Practices and Their Effects on Heritage Language Acquisition: A View from Heritage Italians in Germany

open access: yesLanguages, 2021
This paper intends to provide some speculative remarks on how consistency and continuity in language use practices within and across contexts inform heritage language acquisition outcomes.
Irene Caloi, Jacopo Torregrossa
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In Praise of Friendship… Among Other Things

open access: yesEidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture, 2021
Preview: /Review: Michał Herer, In Praise of Friendship (Alresford, UK: Zero Books, 2021), 112 pages./ In this article I will try to discuss some thoughts presented by Michał Herer in his book In Praise of Friendship.
Barbara Brzezicka
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