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Prejudicial but not unduly so? Addressing the epistemic and non‐epistemic dangers of rap evidence
Journal of Law and Society, Volume 53, Issue 2, Page 335-358, June 2026.Abstract Recent years have seen mounting concern about the use of rap music as evidence in criminal proceedings, alongside an ever‐increasing number of cases involving ‘rap evidence’. Yet, while rap music is widely recognized to be highly prejudicial as evidence in court, little is known about how ‘prejudicial effect’ is, or should be, conceptualized ...
ABENAA OWUSU‐BEMPAH
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Old Skool Spinning and Syncing: Memory, Technologies, and Occupational Membership in a DJ Community
Journal of Management Studies, Volume 63, Issue 4, Page 1807-1836, June 2026.Abstract We show how technology and its temporal instantiations act as material‐relational mnemonic devices that provide temporal anchors for collective remembering in occupations and form the basis of what we call an 'occupational mnemonic community'.
Hamid Foroughi +2 more
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The Paradoxes of the Spiritual Self: Disidentification as a Marker of Identity
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 427-438, June 2026.ABSTRACT This study examines how practitioners of self‐spirituality conceptualize their spiritual identity. On the basis of 62 in‐depth interviews with secular Jewish Israelis engaged in various spiritual practices, we find that spiritual identity is constructed through a distinctive cultural logic we term disidentification—a systematic resistance to ...
Nurit Zaidman, Michal Pagis
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Humanities & Social Sciences CommunicationsSound symbolism refers to the non-arbitrary relationship between phonemes and specific perceptual attributes. Few studies have focused on the sound symbolic associations between Mandarin phonemes and multiple perceptual dimensions, including social ...
Yi Li, Xiaoming Jiang
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Geopower, Geos and the Colonisation of Palestine
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 2, June 2026.ABSTRACT While the majority of geographical work on colonialism in Palestine centres on territory and land, this article foregrounds geopower and geos in the making of spatial relations. Three arguments are made over three corresponding sections. The first draws on recent writing on geopower and geos (primarily that by Elizabeth Grosz, Elizabeth ...
Mark Griffiths
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Ideophones and sound symbolism in Northern Amis (Austronesian)
Linguistic Typology at the CrossroadsThis is a study of ideophones in Northern Amis, an East Formosan, Austronesian language of Taiwan. Ideophones depict sensory experiences, and they generally have the same phonological and phonotactic properties as other lexemes; however, some ideophones ...
Isabelle Bril
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How do we process the segmental and suprasegmental iconicity occurring in the same speech stimuli?
Language and CognitionFace-to-face communication often involves multiple iconic cues (gestural, suprasegmental and segmental) to convey meaning. Previous research shows that gestural and suprasegmental iconicity cues, as well as gestural and segmental iconicity cues, often co-
Lari Vainio +3 more
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Names with /i/ Suit Positive Faces: The Naming Paradigm
Journal of CognitionFeatures of word form (e.g., the vowel i as in meet) are associated with word meaning (e.g., positive valence), termed sound symbolism. Experimentally, sound symbolism is predominantly examined using pseudo-words.
Anita Körner +2 more
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SOUND SYMBOLISM AS A NBIC TECHNOLOGY: PRAGMATICS OF SOUND SYMBOLISM OF VOWELS AND CONSONANTS
PNRPU Linguistics and Pedagogy Bulletin, 2019 openaire +1 more source