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Transnationalizing Raciolinguistics: An Intersectional Analysis for Understanding Chinese International Students’ Language Ideologies Across Contexts

open access: yesJournal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study adopts a transnational raciolinguistic perspective to examine how Chinese international students (CISs) navigate language, race, and identity across borders and contexts. Based on semistructured interviews with 14 CISs, the study highlights that pre‐migration socialization in China influences how CISs perceive and interpret their ...
Gengqi Xiao, Hailing Wang, Jing Yu
wiley   +1 more source

Social Threat as Motivation for Phonetic Divergence: Evidence From Nonbinary Participants

open access: yesJournal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether nonbinary speakers’ imitation of extended voice onset time (VOT) in word‐initial English /p, t, k/ is impacted by whether they believe they are listening to a nonbinary or binary model speaker. Forty‐five nonbinary American English speakers participated in an online VOT shadowing task, and the results find that ...
Jack Rechsteiner
wiley   +1 more source

That sinkin’ feeling: Environmentally induced distress on a disappearing island

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Residents of Tangier Island, Virginia, a subsiding island in the Chesapeake Bay, embody psychosocial dimensions of environmental change. Analysis of ethnographic data shows islanders’ experiences and articulations of anxiety, panic, and despair as “that sinkin’ feeling,” resulting from the stress of living with the long‐term threat of imminent
Jonna Yarrington
wiley   +1 more source

Deep dialogism, inner voices, and mental health

open access: yesMind &Language, EarlyView.
The idea that cognition involves dialogic interchange between mutually influencing “voices” has long featured in psychology and philosophy. While dialogic structure is most explicit in inner speech, some authors have argued that other types of mental activity can be (or always are) dialogic. We introduce two dimensions of dialogism, strength and depth,
Sofiia Rappe, Sam Wilkinson
wiley   +1 more source

The semiotic muddle of contemporary culture

open access: yes, 2007
Recently, a call for the “return of the subject” has gained increasing influence. This article argues that today’s search for cultural identity, in the context of the rise of new forms of the spirituality derived from a new metaphysical faith, is a risky enterprise for us, the contemporaries.
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