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Making fun of the standard tongue: Enregisterment, social difference, and Kurdish language humor
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 35, Issue 3, December 2025.Abstract This article analyzes how humor around contrasts between standard and non‐standard Northern, i.e., Kurmanji, Kurdish spoken in Turkey contributes to the enregisterment of standard Kurdish, arguing that Kurdish language jokes promote the recognition and, to different degrees, uptake of standardized linguistic repertoires among differently ...
Patrick C. Lewis
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Users characteristic influence on the efficiency of typographic design [PDF]
, 2013 This paper investigates the efficiency of typographic design using Bertin’s variables, both individually and combined. A user study was con-ducted in which two types of map users had to perform a search task.
De Maeyer, Philippe, Deeb, Rasha
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Assessing the Veracity of Methods for Extracting Place Semantics from Flickr Tags [PDF]
, 2013 The volume and potential value of user generated content (UGC) is ever growing. Multiply sourced, its value is greatly increased by the inclusion of metadata that adequately and accurately describes that content – particularly if such data are to be ...
Chaudhry, Omair, Mackaness, William
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Madagascar's grassy biomes, from Holocene to Anthropocene
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 7, Issue 6, Page 1555-1558, November 2025.Madagascar's grassy biomes cover 80% of the island and are central to Malagasy history, culture and ecology. The research community continues to debate the extent to which these biomes are ancient ecosystems or products of human‐driven deforestation and the implications for ecosystem management.
Jan Hackel +5 more
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ΘÛµις in the Mycenaean Lexicon and the Etymology of the Place-Name *ti-mi-to a-ko [PDF]
, 2000 Reassessing work by Spanish scholars Martín S. Ruipérez and Mercedes Aguirre de Castro, this paper examines words in the Linear B texts that have been connected with the later Greek word themis.
Palaima, Thomas G.
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Capturing place semantics on the GeoSocial web [PDF]
, 2014 Massive interest in geo-referencing of personal resources is evident on the web. People are collaboratively digitising maps and building place knowledge resources that document personal use and experiences in geographic places.
Abdelmoty, Alia, ElGindy, Ehab
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Toward Scientific Clarity in the Evolutionary Puzzle of Austropotamobius Crayfish
Journal of Biogeography, Volume 52, Issue 11, November 2025.ABSTRACT Aim Illuminating the evolutionary history of Austropotamobius crayfish by uncovering patterns of biodiversity and biogeographical processes, thereby providing a foundation for accurate taxonomy and targeted conservation strategies. Location Europe. Time Period Miocene to present. Major Taxa Studied The crayfish genus Austropotamobius.
Lucian Pârvulescu +14 more
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MapAffil: A bibliographic tool for mapping author affiliation strings to cities and their geocodes worldwide [PDF]
, 2015 Bibliographic records often contain author affiliations as free-form text strings. Ideally one would be able to automatically identify all affiliations referring to any particular country or city such as Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Torvik, Vetle I.
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Audio‐Visibility in a Guinean Trial: Sexual Justice and the Procès 28 Septembre
PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Volume 48, Issue 2, November 2025.ABSTRACT What does it mean to be audible and visible before the law and the public? Whose rights are preeminent? Who decides? In this article, I examine two moments of testimony from rape victim–witnesses in a high‐profile criminal trial in the Republic of Guinea.
Nomi Dave
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Geoscience Data Journal, Volume 12, Issue 4, October 2025.SCIBA is a geo‐dataset of damaging rainfall‐related landslides and floods that occurred throughout 113 years in a Mediterranean study area. It aims to support the Disaster Risk Reduction community by providing extensive data for testing cause‐effect models that predict rainfall thresholds preceding landslide and flood events.
Olga Petrucci +2 more
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