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An Outline of a Theory of Play

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Play is often dismissed as trivial, yet it is a fundamental and adaptive aspect of human and mammalian life. This paper develops a sociological theory of play, treating it as a total social fact that spans biological, psychological, and social dimensions.
Seth Abrutyn
wiley   +1 more source

Identity Impermanence as a Generic Social Process: The Malleability of Gender in Transgender and Nonbinary People's Lives

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Drawing on 40 in‐depth interviews with transgender and nonbinary people, we found that respondents' gender identities or displays shifted day‐by‐day and audience‐by‐audience. The first describes respondents shifting their identities and displays based on feeling their way through gender while the latter describes feeling out an audience.
Stef M. Shuster, Andrew Kirks‐Cler
wiley   +1 more source

When Time Stands Still: The Destructive Experience of Ambiguous Loss among Mothers of Combat Soldiers

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
What happens when stories refuse coherence? This article examines ambiguous loss among mothers of combat soldiers, focusing on how prolonged waiting and uncertainty infiltrate everyday life, eroding sensemaking. Drawing on ethnographic interviews, it explores how mothers experience the contraction of time and space—manifested in suspended routines ...
Shirly Bar‐Lev   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

“Who Is Watching me?”: Recovering the Grammar of Stigma in Interaction

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
This article offers a praxeological respecification of stigma. I argue that the term “stigma” is a category term and glossing device, used to gather together and stand in for a diverse range of interactional experiences, including, but not limited to, degradation, discrediting, discrimination, marginalization, and being demeaned.
Phil Hutchinson
wiley   +1 more source

Acoustic and perceptive analysis of esophageal and tracheoesophageal voice [PDF]

open access: yesSpecijalna Edukacija i Rehabilitacija, 2017
Total laryngectomy is a radical surgery where the larynx is completely removed. Each type of surgical treatment has an impact on voice quality and speech intelligibility.
Šehović Ivana   +2 more
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Unveiling the “Gray Zone”: Characterizing Young People's Moderate STEM Identities

open access: yesJournal of Research in Science Teaching, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Understanding how students identify with STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) is crucial for fostering broader and more equitable participation within these fields. While existing research has focused on students who either strongly identify with STEM or disengage from it, this study explores the moderate STEM identities of ...
Carme Grimalt‐Álvaro   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Speech intelligibility in various spatial configurations of background noise

open access: yesArchives of Acoustics, 2005
This study is concerned with the influence of spatial separation of disturbing sources of noise on the speech intelligibility. Spatial separation of speech and disturbing sources without changing their acoustic power may contribute to the ...
J. Kociński, A. Sęk
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The Influence of Audio Information Manipulation on the Perceived Atmosphere in Telepresence Systems for Remote Work

open access: yesIEEJ Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, EarlyView.
Remote work, which enables employees to work from home, has emerged as a prominent working style in recent years. However, unlike traditional office environments where the ‘atmosphere of the space’ is naturally shared, remote work relies on screen‐based communication, making it challenging to convey this atmosphere.
Ariyasu Ando   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

“Your English Sounds Almost British”: Everyday Linguicism and Racialized Subjectivity of an International Student in Hong Kong

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how everyday linguicism and racism shape the academic and social experiences of international students in Hong Kong, focusing on the racialized subjectivity of a South Asian graduate student. Although research on international students has mainly focused on Western higher education, little attention has been paid to the ...
Pramod K. Sah
wiley   +1 more source

Retained primitive reflexes and their relation to speech intelligibility in a sample of Egyptian children

open access: yesThe Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology
Introduction Primitive reflexes are sensory motor reflexes that serve as the foundation of early motor milestones; their persistence indicates a lag in the maturation of higher cortical functions.
Ghada Tarek Orabi   +3 more
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