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Linguistics and semiotics in indigenous and non-indigenous people's training and performance in nursing. [PDF]

Rev Esc Enferm USP
Castro NJC, Gavião PL, Santos ALPD, Paes FT.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Interactional Fluency and Turn‐Managing Gestures Across Second Language Proficiency Levels: A Multimodal Analysis

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract Whereas L2 fluency research has focused on monologic speech, interactional fluency (IF), particularly during turn transitions, remains underexplored. This study investigates how turn‐managing gestures (TMGs) contribute to L2 IF, drawing on 60 dyadic interactions from Taiwanese learners in the International Corpus Network of Asian Learners of ...
Yen‐Liang (Eric) Lin, Shu‐Ting Huang, Renia Lopez‐Ozieblo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Humans 40,000 y ago developed a system of conventional signs. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Bentz C, Dutkiewicz E.
europepmc   +1 more source

Second Language Interactional Competence in Roleplay: Comparing Generative Artificial Intelligence and Human Interlocutors

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract This study explores the potential of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) as an alternative to human interlocutors for assessing interactional competence (IC) in a second language (L2). Thirty L2 English speakers completed a 6‐item roleplay task designed to elicit refusals of requests, invitations, and offers, interacting with both a ...
Yunwen Su, Xi Chen
wiley   +1 more source

How Good Is the Machine at the Imitation Game? On Stylistic Characteristics of AI-Generated Images. [PDF]

J Imaging
Deliège A, Marlot J, Van Droogenbroeck M, Dondero MG.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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

Medical 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

Communicative roles in human-anchored and AI-presented news commentary short videos: a multimodal intertextuality analysis. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Li X, Wang X.
europepmc   +1 more source

Deep dialogism, inner voices, and mental health

Mind &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

Multi-layer network analysis of ACG color semantic hierarchies in digital cultural communication. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Zhao Q, Chen X.
europepmc   +1 more source

Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract With the end of Communism in Russia, non‐materialist contexts were enthusiastically restored to Mikhail Bakhtin's globally famous ideas of carnival, dialogism, and polyphony. This essay surveys Rowan Williams's 2008 study Dostoevsky: Language, Faith + Fiction as a major contribution to this effort, concentrating on those general philosophical ...
Caryl Emerson
wiley   +1 more source