A Reserve of Light: Photography, Ethnography, and Lucid Memory in Contemporary Chile
The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 2, June 2026.ABSTRACT This article takes shape as a shared inquiry between an ethnographer and a photographer, in continuity with the photographic archive of Luis Poirot. Through sustained encounters with his images and archival practices, the text does not position itself outside the archive that motivates it, but unfolds from within it.
Cristóbal Bonelli, Luis Poirot
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Spoken language and attitudes in Hong Kong: English leads in prestige, mandarin rises in employability, and Cantonese faces challenges. [PDF]
PLoS OneMan Cheung L, Teng X.
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Cross‐Linguistic Suffix Preference: Typological or Cognitive Bias?
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1560, Issue 1, June 2026.Languages can be shaped by pre‐existing cognitive machinery that makes certain properties more processable. Such properties are more frequent across world languages. Most languages prefer suffixes to prefixes for grammatical meanings. Whether such typological bias is shaped by cognitive bias is debated.
Mikhail Ordin +2 more
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Discursive construction of the 'scholar' identity: a critical genre analysis of chinese and english academic biographies. [PDF]
Front PsycholLiu S.
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WE, ELF and ELT: Perspectives on English and applied linguistics
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 209-218, June 2026.Abstract In a paper which originally set the scene for WE study, Braj Kachu argued that the ‘global diffusion of English’ called for a new paradigm of enquiry which recognized the independent status of varieties of English used by communities other than those of Inner Circle native speakers.
Henry Widdowson
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The impact of English on local languages: The case of Catalan universities
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 309-322, June 2026.Abstract This article deals with the somehow complex equilibrium of languages used in Catalonia, with a particular analysis of the role of English vis‐a‐vis the national language (Spanish) and the regional official language (Catalan). A discussion of the supremacy of standard languages over local ones in modern history, followed by an account of the ...
Enric Llurda
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Validating explicit rating tasks for measuring pronunciation biases: A case study of ING variation. [PDF]
Behav Res MethodsLi A, Tamminga M.
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Applied Linguistics, sociolinguistics and world Englishes
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 232-246, June 2026.Abstract The world Englishes perspective, especially as expressed within Kachru's formulation of the Inner, Outer and Expanding Circles of Englishes, provides a flexible and coherent model of the historical spread of English. While the model has had a profound influence on various subfields of applied linguistics, variationist sociolinguistics ...
Andrew Moody
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Orientation towards the vernacular and style-shifting as language behaviours in speech of first-generation Polish migrant communities speaking Norwegian in Norway. [PDF]
Front PsycholMalarski K +4 more
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