Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.Abstract Native speakerism in English language teaching (ELT) has become associated with Whiteness. However, how this association is sustained in everyday practices within China's unique socio‐cultural‐political context remains underexplored. This study examines the raciolinguistic construct of Mubai, a central recruitment criterion in China's ELT ...
Shuling Wang, Raviv Litman
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Minority identity and social structures shape diffusion dynamics of minority languages: a combined macro and micro approach. [PDF]
R Soc Open SciGao Y, Liu W.
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Narrative formatting, chronotopic orderings, and moralization in ex‐gay stories
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.Abstract Formatted stories rely on spatiotemporal cues to evoke recognizability through linearity, which prescribes a particular template for meaning‐making. This article examines stories narrated by ex‐gay members of a Christian organization in Singapore and considers how chronotopes within the stories are ordered to regiment ways of feeling for ...
Vincent Pak
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The phoenix of phonaesthetics: the rise of an old-new research paradigm on the beauty of language sound. [PDF]
Front PsycholNemestothy L, Kogan VV, Reiterer SM.
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Record the track and track the record: On the call‐and‐response dynamics in Hip Hop practice
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.Abstract Call‐and‐response has primarily been studied in Black Atlantic artistic traditions. We transpose call‐and‐response dynamics to the writing and recording process of a Hip Hop studio session. Combining collaborative autoethnography with formal analysis and using Communication Accommodation Theory's conceptual parameters of conscious and ...
Dastan Abdali, Steven Gilbers
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Sign, Signifier and Signified in Schrödinger's box. [PDF]
MethodsXParveen A, Radhakrishnan V.
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Mother tongue instruction as a sticky object: The making of a register of denunciation
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.Abstract This article examines the making of a political register to denounce mother tongue instruction (MTI) in Sweden. Nationally mandated since 1977, MTI is a state‐sponsored, curriculum‐stipulated subject for minority pupils of over 187 languages other than Swedish.
Scarlett Mannish, Linus Salö
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Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.Abstract Nurses working in emergency departments in the United States are increasingly managing obstetric emergencies, yet they receive no guidance from hospital administrators about how to adapt this care to the abortion bans that have recently become law in many states.
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Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.Abstract Marvel's 2022 blockbuster film Black Panther: Wakanda Forever was marked by the death of lead actor Chadwick Boseman in 2020, resulting in the cinematic death of his character T'Challa. For US Black audiences, the imagined nation of Wakanda served as more than entertainment, but a diasporic “home” at a time of deepening anti‐Blackness and ...
Marissa Smith Morgan
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A cross-sectional study of how linguistic landscape shapes students' foreign language outcomes: the mediating role of language learning efficacy and the moderating role of language policy clarity. [PDF]
BMC PsycholLi R, Yang Y.
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