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Queer-religious symbol analysis (QRSA): A semiotic method for reframing Hindu iconography. [PDF]
Ac PS, Gk C.
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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
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Social Threat as Motivation for Phonetic Divergence: Evidence From Nonbinary Participants
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
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Dialogical Structure of the Brain and the Ternary System of the Mind: The Neurosemiotics of Yuri Lotman. [PDF]
Sanna M.
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That sinkin’ feeling: Environmentally induced distress on a disappearing island
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
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Engaging the stuff of words: language materiality and symbolic power. [PDF]
Thurlow C.
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Deep dialogism, inner voices, and mental health
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
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Mystics at war: Padre Pio and Ludwig Wittgenstein. [PDF]
Galofaro F.
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The semiotic muddle of contemporary culture
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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