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Making moral selves through comparison: Narratives of moral decline and the modern virtuous self among middle‐class older adults in Nepal

open access: yesEthos, Volume 53, Issue 3, September 2025.
Abstract During fieldwork among older adults in middle‐class families in the city of Bhaktapur (2018–2019), I recurrently came across comparative narratives of moral decline, depicting a stark contrast between the present time and a mythical past where ageing parents were treated “as gods.” In this paper, I analyze how, through acts of comparisons ...
Paola Tinè
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Translanguaging in a culturally and linguistically diverse Mandarin FLES program

open access: yesForeign Language Annals, Volume 58, Issue 3, Page 556-579, Fall 2025.
Abstract This study explores translanguaging practices in a K‐5 Mandarin Foreign Language in Elementary School (FLES) program in the United States. Using an ethnographic case study approach, it examined how a Mandarin teacher enacted translanguaging practices in two fourth‐grade Mandarin classrooms and explored the affordances these practices provided
Xinyue Lu, Zhongfeng Tian
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“You Taught Me Language; and My Profit on't.” Translation, Differential Authorship, and Frictions as champurria Collaborations in Indigenous and Anthropological Writing

open access: yesThe Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 30, Issue 3, September 2025.
ABSTRACT Building on an ongoing dialogue with co‐editors Claudio Alvarado Lincopi and Roberto Cayuqueo Martínez, this article explores the process that redefined roles and relationships with and through writing. It investigates multivocal representations and collaborative writings, interrogating the possibilities and challenges of divergent ...
Olivia Casagrande
wiley   +1 more source

Awareness of Grammatical Variability in Language Contact: The Case of Mano and Kpelle in Guinea

open access: yesJournal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 29, Issue 4, Page 268-284, September 2025.
ABSTRACT This paper contributes to research on the awareness of grammatical variability through a study of variation in reflexivity marking in Mano under the influence of Kpelle, both indigenous languages of Guinea. The speakers of these languages are found to be sensitive to contact‐induced grammatical variation in reflexivity, which manifests via ...
Maria Khachaturyan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Linguistic Hauntings at the Margins of China

open access: yesJournal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 29, Issue 4, Page 237-249, September 2025.
ABSTRACT This study examines emotional and material traces lingering in the aftermath of forced linguistic landscape transformations in Inner Mongolia following the implementation of a new assimilationist national language policy in 2022. Drawing on ethnographic and linguistic landscape data, the study specifically examines how the multilingual signs ...
Gegentuul Baioud
wiley   +1 more source

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