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Opaque Social Instruments: A Cultural Evolutionary Approach to Pleistocene Symbolic Artifacts
Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, Volume 35, Issue 2, June 2026.ABSTRACT Prehistoric “symbolic” artifacts remain incompletely explained by semiotic models, which emphasize representational meaning but offer limited insight into how such materials emerged and spread across Pleistocene populations. This article develops a cultural evolutionary framework that reconceives early ornaments, pigments, figurines, and ...
Corijn van Mazijk
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O signo linguístico e as modalidades lógicas aristotélicas
Fórum Linguístico, 2014 O presente trabalho, que realiza uma análise epistemológica e lógica do estatuto do signo linguístico em Saussure e em Benveniste, faz parte de um projeto maior, cujo objetivo é o de verificar a possibilidade do fechamento do quadrado das modalidades ...
Fábio Tfouni
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Refusal and Aporia: At the Limits of Anthropological Knowledge
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 2, Page 339-348, June 2026.ABSTRACT As anthropologists increasingly take up refusal, opacity, and other forms of resistance to surveillance and subjugation, this paper questions what implications this has for the discipline in practice. Considering anthropology's enduring centrality in defining what it means to be human, including the various ways that this category has been ...
Cory‐Alice André‐Johnson
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Gesturing While Writing: An Alternate Perspective on Mimetic Prosody
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Paul Magee
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World Englishes and applied linguistics: Theoretical and applied perspectives
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 356-365, June 2026.Abstract This article examines the evolving relationship between world Englishes (WE) and applied linguistics (AL), tracing AL's historical development from its Anglo‐American origins in the mid‐20th century, grounded in “linguistics applied” to its contemporary status as a multidisciplinary field concerned with social justice and equity. It highlights
Kingsley Bolton
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Effective Visual Communication in Higher Education: Intercultural and Cross‐Cultural Design
International Journal of Art &Design Education, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 492-508, May 2026.Abstract This paper examines how undergraduate design students develop cultural sensitivity through a live brief by the Illegal Money Lending Team (IMLT), focusing on global‐local tensions in their responses. While prior studies address global‐local dynamics, few explore intercultural pedagogy in the United Kingdom live briefs.
Samantha Williams +2 more
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Language machines: Toward a linguistic anthropology of large language models
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.Abstract Large language models (LLMs) challenge long‐standing assumptions in linguistics and linguistic anthropology by generating human‐like language without relying on rule‐based structures. This introduction to the special issue Language Machines calls for renewed engagement with LLMs as socially embedded language technologies.
Siri Lamoureaux +2 more
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Pragmatic Issues in Discourse Analysis
Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines, 2007 Starting from the problems raised by the notion of ‘discourse’ and its definition, this paper takes issue with the views that consider discourse as an object of study observable and describable as a ‘whole’ static structure, and which meaning is richer ...
Louis de Saussure
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Journal of Applied Toxicology, Volume 46, Issue 4, Page 1151-1163, April 2026.ABSTRACT The expanding demand for platinum group elements (PGEs) in industrial and medical applications has led to their increasing accumulation in aquatic sediments. However, their ecological impacts remain poorly understood, particularly for sediment‐dwelling invertebrates. This study assessed the toxicity of platinum (Pt) and palladium (Pd) across a
Alice Carle +3 more
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