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Who Holds the Power? Gendered Experiences of Involuntary Singlehood in the Age of Online Dating*

open access: yesSociological Inquiry, EarlyView.
Although singlehood is a desired lifestyle for an increasing number of heterosexual women and men, many are involuntarily single, struggling to find a partner. Meanwhile, popular debates about dating are sharply polarized along gendered lines. While “incels” see themselves as victims on a dating market ruled by women, relatively mainstreamed feminist ...
Lena Gunnarsson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Detecting gender bias in Arabic text through word embeddings. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS One
Mourad A, Abu Salem FK, Elbassuoni S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Language perception in the East Midlands in England [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Baugh   +13 more
core   +1 more source

Handling Everyday Life: An Analysis of Ordinary Acting

open access: yesTheoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What does it mean to shape one's own everyday life and to be the author of one's ordinary acting with all its repetitions, anchored habits and well‐known practices? In this paper, I argue that moral philosophy should pay more attention to human agency in quotidian contexts.
Johannes Müller‐Salo
wiley   +1 more source

Sweet as – The [ADJ + as] intensifier construction in Māori English/Aotearoa English

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract We introduce the Waikato Māori English Conversation (MEC) corpus, which consists of 43 dyadic conversations between 49 young adults who self‐recorded informal conversations with close friends, in their own homes, with no topic of conversation specified (83 hours of dialogue; nearly 800,000 words).
Andreea S. Calude, Hēmi Whaanga
wiley   +1 more source

World Englishes, heterodoxy, and applied linguistics

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract It is understandable that many people find it challenging to adopt a positive moral position with regard to English and its role in the world. The language is used in many contexts and situations to prop up systems of discrimination and inequality, leading to negative material and symbolic outcomes.
Christopher Jenks
wiley   +1 more source

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