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Thickness Is More Than Affective Valence: Evaluative Language Through the Lenses of Psycholinguistics

open access: yesCognitive Science, Volume 50, Issue 2, February 2026.
Abstract Thick terms like “courageous,” “smart,” and “tasty” combine description and evaluation, contrasting with purely evaluative terms like “good” and “bad,” and descriptive terms like “Italian” and “green.” Thick terms intuitively constitute a special class of evaluative language; but we currently do not know whether the psycholinguistic effects of
Giovanni Cassani, Matteo Colombo
wiley   +1 more source

Swahili in Academic Writing

open access: yesNordic Journal of African Studies, 2003
Swahili, an important indigenous language of wider communication in Eastern and Central African countries, has been and continues to be used effectively in specialist communication for almost three decades now.
H. J. M. Mwansoko
doaj   +1 more source

Examining Stroke Symptom Messages Implemented Globally: A Need for Contextually Relevant Stroke Symptom Messaging

open access: yesJournal of Nursing Scholarship, Volume 58, Issue 1, February 2026.
ABSTRACT Background Stroke is a global health concern. A timely response to a stroke can help reduce morbidity and mortality. However, barriers to timely response include poor recognition of stroke symptoms. Stroke symptom messages are designed to increase stroke recognition and encourage individuals to seek urgent medical assistance.
Hardeep Singh   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tathmini ya Kamusi Tano za Kiswahili

open access: yesNordic Journal of African Studies, 2002
Makala hii inaeleza mbinu za kikompyuta za kutathmini kamusi, na inatoa pia matokeo ya tathmini ya kamusi tano za Kiswahili. Kamusi hizo ni: Kamusi ya Kiswahili Sanifu (TUKI), Kamusi ya Maana na Matumizi (OUP), Modern Swahili - Modern English Dictionary
Arvi Hurskainen
doaj   +1 more source

Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer with Meta Learning

open access: yes, 2020
Learning what to share between tasks has been a topic of great importance recently, as strategic sharing of knowledge has been shown to improve downstream task performance.
Augenstein, Isabelle   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Reclaiming Our Subjugated Truths—Using Hip Hop as a Form of Decolonizing Public Pedagogy: The Case of Didier Awadi [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This paper explores how Senegalese Hip Hop pioneer, Didier Awadi, uses Hip Hop as a form of decolonizing public pedagogy that renders the contributions of Pan-African leaders visible to Africa and the world, contributions that are often omitted and ...
Da Sylva, Joanna D
core   +1 more source

Drew Conroy Professor, TSAS, travels to Sub-Saharan Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
In June and July, I spent 3 weeks in five countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. These included Kenya, Rwanda, The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Tanzania and Namibia.
Conroy, Andrew B.
core   +1 more source

Revisiting Lemma Lists in Swahili Dictionaries

open access: yesLexikos, 2017
When compiling a dictionary, a lexicographer has a set of decisions to make — starting with drawing up a lemma list to such issues as formatting a dictionary entry. Relying on corpus data while designing a lemma list and describing entries is standard in
Beata Wójtowicz
doaj   +1 more source

Kijiti [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
The Swahili song Kijiti, whose text was composed by the famous taarab artist Siti binti Saad (1898-1950) to express her anger about the abuses committed against women that often remained unpunished.
Merolla, Daniela
core  

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