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Creaky Voice in Chilean Spanish: A Tool for Organizing Discourse and Invoking Alignment
This study relies on an interactional, conversational–analytic approach to elucidate what meanings Chilean Spanish speakers convey via creaky voice quality in informal conversations.
Mariška Bolyanatz
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Homophobic slurs and public apologies: the discursive struggle over fag/maricón in public discourse [PDF]
A handful of recent incidents hints at an ideological struggle over the use of the English word fag(got) and the Spanish word maricón in public discourse. This article examines the discursive and ideological struggle over the terms through the comparison
Cashman, Holly R.
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Humor production in children’s narratives in Spanish
The aim of this paper is to analyze children’s production of humor from a linguistic perspective. Our research focuses on linguistic aspects of humor production and appreciation analyzed through a corpus of 148 narratives in Spanish about the same ...
Leonor Ruiz-Gurillo
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The Artfictions dataset documents 961 contemporary novels in Spanish and Portuguese that engage with artistic and visual creativity. Titles were identified through systematic bibliographic research conducted across 30 countries, drawing on library ...
Carlos Garrido Castellano +5 more
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Motherhood in crisis in Lucrecia Martel’s Salta Trilogy
The films of Argentine director Lucrecia Martel are among a number of recent works directed by women which, in the words of one critic, ‘operate according to their own stubbornly private rules, logic, timing, sense of space’ (Jones 2005).
Fiona Clancy
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Production of Acoustic Correlates of Stress by L2 Spanish-Speaking Immigrants to Spain
Little work has examined the L2 acquisition of Spanish stress, and especially the production of its acoustic correlates, and the work that has is largely limited to inexperienced learners.
Timothy L. Face
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ABSTRACT Introduction Neuroblastoma (NB) with central nervous system (CNS) metastases is rare at diagnosis, but occurs more often during relapse/progression. Patients with CNS metastases face a dismal prognosis, with no standardized curative treatment available.
Vicente Santa‐Maria Lopez +13 more
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Analysing motivation to do medicine cross-culturally : the international motivation to do medicine scale [PDF]
Vaglum, Wiers-Jensen & Ekeberg (1999) developed an instrument to assess motivation to study medicine. This instrument has been applied in different countries but it has not been studied cross-culturally.
Dixon, Diane +5 more
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Experiences in the Decision-Making Regarding the Place of Care of the Elderly: A Systematic Review
The objective of this review was to understand how participants experience the decision-making process regarding the place of care for the elderly. Therefore, we conducted a systematic review of qualitative studies.
Gema Serrano-Gemes +2 more
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Illness Severity among Non-English, Non-Spanish Speaking Patients in a Public Emergency Department [PDF]
Background: Patients with limited English proficiency (LEP) have poor health outcomes compared to English proficient patients. Most studies on language proficiency and health disparities focus on Spanish.
Dirvonas, Tyler, M.D. +4 more
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