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Pronoun Drop as an Instrumental Variable

Kyklos, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A growing literature in comparative economics uses linguistic structure in empirical work to explain differences in culture and economic behavior, through the theoretical mechanism of linguistic relativity (or the “Sapir–Whorf hypothesis”). This paper explores the usage of one of these variables, pronoun drop, which denotes whether or not a ...
Ryan H. Murphy
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“Nowhere else to go”: Slow abandonment and (en)closures of long‐term care in Los Angeles

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Residential long‐term care facilities, known in California as “board and care” homes, have been closing rapidly in the last decade. Proponents assert these provide vital forms of housing and care to the poor and must be saved, while critics contend they perpetuate the institutionalization of people with disabilities and should be abolished ...
Maxwell A. Hellmann
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Genesis and evolution of the sonnet (chahar-pare) composing in Iran [PDF]

Literary Arts, 2015
Persian "Sonnets" (chahar-pare) or "continuous quatrains" are already mentioned briefly here and there but the emergence, evolution and the influence of the modern ottoman poetry on the inclination of Persian poets to this new poetic form have not been ...
Bbagher Sadrinia
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James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”

The Muslim World, EarlyView.
Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
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Notation in Early Modern Language Teaching

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the use of musical notation as a pedagogical tool in early modern language teaching, focusing on Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and briefly, Turkish. While musical notation is typically associated with performance and composition, the sources discussed here demonstrate its broader application as a visual and conceptual system for ...
Elisabeth Giselbrecht
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Generative AI and the Future of Musical Diversity

Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract I argue that the current proliferation of generative artificial intelligence (AI) represents a new stage in a longer historical process of distancing humans from their unique individual psyches and of reducing participation and cultural diversity in music. The argument consists of six parts: (1) reiterating the uniqueness of individual psyches,
Dor Shilton
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Introduction

Lagoonscapes, 2022
The articles collected in this special issue devoted to what we are calling “Arboreal Ecocriticism” exhibit tree-consciousness in a variety of cultural, linguistic, and national traditions, including Australian Aboriginal poetry, Moroccan fiction ...
Slovic, Scott, Chou, Shiuhhuah Serena
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Beyond Confessional Cultures: Identity and the Role of Silence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Interventions

Gender, Work &Organization, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 1456-1467, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper interrogates the confessional foundations of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) work, which have emerged predominantly from Global North traditions rooted in Christian understandings of subjectivity. In such traditions, identity is asserted through self‐declaration, visibility, and vocal articulation of difference, what we term ...
Claudia Eger, Mustafa F. Özbilgin
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Podoby zobrazenia Turka a tureckých reálií v slovenskej literatúre 16. a 17. storočia

Bohemica Litteraria, 2013
This article deals with the literary portrayal of a turk as a hero and with the thematization of turkish battles and turkish life in Slovak literature of the 16th and 17th century.
Zuzana Kákošová
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Multilingualism and Poetry: A Cognitive Analysis of Shahriar’s Poems [PDF]

Matn/Pizhūhī-i Adabī
This article is to examine multilingualism and its relation to poetry in Shahriar’s works. In the theoretical framework, I have benefited from cognitive linguistics - Anastassiou (2020), Ervin-Tripp (1967, 1964, 1954) and Pavlenko (2012, 2007)- for poems
Mostafa Shahiditabar
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