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Exploring the EMCA Community: Strengths, Challenges, and Opportunities

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
This work explores the professional experiences, challenges, and collective identity of scholars within the Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis (EMCA) community. Through the analysis of survey data from 43 participants, semi‐structured interviews with 10 scholars, and the examination of relevant community documents, this research uncovers how ...
Mehmet Ali Icbay
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Thinking Complexity with Harrison White: Towards Social Emergence via Indexical Language

Sociologica
Harrison C. White, a founding giant of the relational turn in Sociology, has left us a monumental model of social emergence based on the interplay of three primitives (identity, control, switching) and two principles (self-similarity, dispersion) of ...
Jorge Fontdevila
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Researching TESOL Professionalism: A Practitioner‐Led Agenda for Reimagining Pedagogy and Policy

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article interrogates the fragmentation of professionalism in TESOL, focusing on how practitioner knowledge, pedagogical aims, and research legitimacy are shaped under global market pressures. Drawing on collaborative inquiry through the London TESOL Research Forum (LTRF), a network of teacher educators and researchers from more than 15 ...
London TESOL Research Forum
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Ontological polyglossia: the art of communicating in opacity* Polyglossie ontologique : l'art de communiquer dans l'opacité

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
What do communicating with a baby, with an animal, and with an ancestor have in common? In all three cases, people engage in opaque communication that is far from the standard psycholinguistic model of transparent interaction based on shared intentionality.
Charles Stépanoff
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Contact and Language Change: Using the Present to Explain the Past1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Although we may know the outcome of language changes that could have resulted from language contact in the past, we are unlikely to know how and why these changes occurred unless we also know about the individual speakers who came into contact and the nature of their interactions—information that all too often is impossible to uncover.
Jenny Cheshire
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Considerações relevantes sobre definições de ‘comunidade de fala’ = Relevant considerations concerning some definitions of “speech community”

Acta Scientiarum: Language and Culture, 2009
O objetivo deste texto é fazer uma breve revisão de literatura acerca do debate sobre a definição de ‘comunidade de fala’ para a Sociolinguística. Tal conceito advém da necessidade de analisar e sistematizar as variantes utilizadas por indivíduos que ...
Aline Aver Vanin
doaj  

The Integration of Norse‐Derived Terms in English: Effects of Formal Similarity1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Language change arising from language contact is a complex phenomenon. Peter Matthews encouraged researchers to consider it as firmly grounded in the behaviour of individual speakers. We apply this perspective to investigate the integration of Norse‐derived terms into medieval English, testing for the effect of their phonetic similarity to ...
Sara M. Pons‐Sanz, Seán Roberts
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Surprise and the singular plural

American Ethnologist, EarlyView.
Abstract Bodymind diversity, disability scholars argue, contributes to community and to ideals of human flourishing. Phenomenologists like Nancy and Arendt, meanwhile, foreground our human pluralism. But what does it mean to inhabit (and invent) a plural “we” across significant bodily difference? And why is the experience of surprise important to it? A
Cheryl Mattingly
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When property becomes rent

American Ethnologist, EarlyView.
Abstract For millions of working‐class Mexicans, property has turned into rent. This transformation has fundamentally dislocated social reproduction in Mexico by eroding households’ ability to envision themselves as holders of patrimony and as lasting social formations. To understand how and to what effect property turned into rent, we must look to the
Inés Escobar González
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Outsmarting sanctions

American Ethnologist, EarlyView.
Abstract In 2012 the UN Security Council and the European Union bolstered US economic sanctions on Iran, disembedding the country's economy from financial markets. Since then, the sanctions have radically devalued Iran's currency, leading Iranians to seek a viable standard of value elsewhere. They have done so through ghachagh (fugitive) configurations
Emrah Yıldız
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