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Traces of legal Orientalism: racialized othering and (neo)colonial legacies in R (on the Application of TTT) v. Michaela Community School

Journal of Law and Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This article critiques the controversial decision of the High Court R (on the Application of TTT) v. Michaela Community School (Michaela), where a school's ban on ritual prayers was upheld. Subjecting the case to postcolonial and critical race critique, I contend that Michaela should be understood as a worrying and harmful manifestation of ...
FATIMA MOHAMED AHDASH
wiley   +1 more source

Algorithmic Status Inequality: An Integrative Perspective on AI‐Driven Social Stratification

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This Point introduces algorithmic status inequality that is, enduring disparities in social position, influence, and resource access reinforced by AI systems, as a critical lens for understanding technological stratification in organizations. I develop an integrative model showing how computational beliefs (i.e., cultural assumptions embedded ...
Jie Wu
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding Online Meaning‐Making: Normativity, Polycentricity, and Memetic Communication Through a Chronotopic‐Scalar Lens

Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article investigates memetic interaction as an illustrative example of complex polycentric online communication. Using a chronotopic‐scalar framework, it offers a theorized account of how online (inter)action works, how it is guided by (perceptions of) normativities, and how it is in dialogue with the “offline.” Specifically, I focus on ...
Taraneh Sanei
wiley   +1 more source

Inference from Signs: Ancient Debates about the Nature of Evidence by James Allen [PDF]

Aestimatio, 2004
Joshua J. Reynolds
doaj  

“Not Lower Class, Lazy Class”: Food Loathing as Class Abjection and Distinction via Instagram Comments on Mama J. Rae's Lunchbox‐Packing Video

Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines 4206 Instagram comments on a lunchbox‐packing video posted by Mama J. Rae, who self‐identifies as a “lower middle class wife.” Her excessive use of processed foods and sugary beverages provokes negative responses, many of which explicitly connect her lunchbox‐packing practices to class identity.
Hanwool Choe
wiley   +1 more source

Bridging Sociolinguistics and Trans Studies Through Nonbinary Discourses of Self‐Identification

Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this article, I discuss how nonbinary gender in the West is constructed through discourses of self‐identification, such as refusing to ascribe gender to the body and disregarding the social forces of cisnormative perception. However, both sociolinguistic research on language and identity and transgender studies suggest that nonbinary self ...
Ariana Steele
wiley   +1 more source

Telling Stories of and with the Body: Artistic Tattoos Overwriting Breast Cancer Scars

Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Following recent advances in sociocultural linguistics on body semiosis, this paper analyses artistic tattoos over breast cancer scars as embodied communicative practices inscribing narratives of self. After sketching the ways in which sociolinguistics and the medical humanities conceptualise narratives of different kinds, we investigate the ...
Isabelle Buchstaller, Daniela Vasconcellos da Silva   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

The coloniality of memory and cultural heritage: From copyright exceptions to a right to remember under Article 15 of the ICESCR

The Journal of World Intellectual Property, EarlyView.
Abstract Across former colonies, the question of access to cultural heritage remains contested and constrained by the enduring legacies of colonialism. While physical restitution has been the subject of much debate, comparatively little attention has been paid to the legal structures governing control of cultural memory associated with said physical ...
Jade Kouletakis
wiley   +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

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