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A Natural History of ‘Annoyances’: Knowing Weeds and Weeding Knowledge in the Early Royal Society and its ‘Georgicall Committee’

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Seventeenth‐century virtuosi often figured themselves as epistemic weeders, grubbing up rank thickets of accumulated error. In this article, I argue that these metaphors were unnerved by the shifting status of weeds—ostensibly unwanted plants from the margins of cultivated space, unploughed land or the disturbed soils between growing crops—in ...
Francis Taylor
wiley   +1 more source

A NEW COPY OF THE PERSIAN-TURKISH VERSE DICTIONARY CALLED KÂN-I MAʿÂNÎ BY THE 17TH CENTURY AKSARAY DİVAN POET HASAN RIZÂYÎ

open access: yesZEITSCHRIFT FÜR DIE WELT DER TÜRKEN / JOURNAL OF WORLD OF TURKS / TÜRKLERİN DÜNYASI DERGİSİ
Verse dictionaries, one of the subjects of classical Turkish literature, have undertaken important tasks in the transmission, promotion and ultimately adoption of culture. Particularly bilingual Arabic-Turkish, Persian-Turkish and trilingual Arabic Persian-Turkish verse dictionaries have been an important part of education for centuries thanks to the
openaire   +1 more source

Unmarked Emotional States and the Affective Anchoring of Continuity

open access: yesSociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Narratives around emotions often foreground remarkable episodes that interrupt situations, producing a “rollercoaster” image of emotional life that leaves its stability underdescribed. To analyze the emotional dimension of social continuity, this article theorizes unmarked emotional states (UES): culturally default, interactionally unobtrusive
Lorenzo Sabetta
wiley   +1 more source

A cross-cultural concept analysis of healing in nursing: a hybrid model. [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Nurs, 2023
SadatHoseini A   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Use and Functions of English in Egyptian Social Media

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the contemporary functions of English in Egypt through two interrelated lines of inquiry. First, it provides an updated account of the status and roles of English in the country, revisiting and extending Schaub's assessment in light of significant historical, socio‐economic and linguistic developments over the past two ...
Lucia La Causa
wiley   +1 more source

Language Experience Shapes Creative Idea Generation

open access: yesThe Journal of Creative Behavior, Volume 60, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Bilinguals often outperform monolinguals on creative tasks, suggesting a positive link between bilingualism and creativity. However, the inconsistent definitions of both bilingualism and creativity have made it difficult to understand the precise factors driving the association.
Matias Fernandez‐Duque   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring Concepts of Understanding in the Working Practice of Speech and Language Therapists in the UK: A Preliminary Survey

open access: yesInternational Journal of Language &Communication Disorders, Volume 61, Issue 5, September/October 2026.
ABSTRACT Background All communication involves the expression and the reception of information, both of which are considered by speech and language therapists (SLTs) when assessing and planning intervention for language difficulties. Comprehension, or understanding, has to be inferred, whereas expressive behaviours are directly observable.
K. Bunning   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pseudonyms, Propaganda, and Prints: The Life and Political Caricatures of William Dent, 1782–931

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 49, Issue 3, Page 343-373, September 2026.
Abstract ‘Dent was probably an amateur and nothing is known of his life’, state Bryant and Heneage. Despite contributing to caricature's ‘golden age’, William Dent remains overlooked compared to contemporaries like James Gillray. Dent's extensive portfolio (1782–93) and rumoured role as a Pittite propagandist have not secured his place in the canon of ...
Callum D. Smith
wiley   +1 more source

Critical Research Spaces as Scholarship: an Ethnography Lab as an Apparatus for the Experimental, the Imaginary, and the Relational

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 3, Page 469-479, September 2026.
ABSTRACT The creation of critical research spaces, such as ethnography labs, studios, and other collaborative research environments, requires attention and attunement in anthropology to focus on the kinds of imaginative and generative spaces where creative ethnographic research can unfold as scholarship.
Fiona P. McDonald
wiley   +1 more source

Newborns’ Brains Detect Foreign Rhythm in Native‐Language Speech

open access: yesDevelopmental Science, Volume 29, Issue 5, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Humans begin tuning in to the prosody of their native language even before birth. Previous studies with newborns have reported language‐specific processing of forward versus backward speech and of intonational contours, as well as sensitivity to iambic versus trochaic patterns in non‐linguistic tone stimuli.
Martina Dvořáková   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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