Abstract
Applied anthropology, Social Policy
0001. Bira, T.G., & Hewlett, B.S. (2023). Cultural learning among pastoralist children.
Children acquired most pastoral skills and knowledge in early childhood. Children were most likely to learn from parents and non-parental adults.
0002. Croux, F., De Donder, L., Claes, B., Vandevelde, S., & Brosens, D. (2023). Peer support as a bridge for participation in prison activities and services: A qualitative study with foreign national prisoners.
Peer support seems to be a “form of survival” for foreign nationals to overcome barriers experienced in accessing prison activities and services.
0003. D’Souza, N., & Shapland, J. (2023). The exclusion of serious and organised offenders and their victims from the offer of restorative justice: Should this be so and what happens when the offer is put on the table?
Inequities in the way that police implemented restorative justice codes could block opportunities for closure, social integration, and reduced re-offending.
0004. Ellis, J.R. (2023). Social media, police excessive force and the limits of outrage: Evaluating models of police scandal.
Individual transgressions can be linked to a macro, “chronic” scandal of police excessive force, diminishing scandal’s conceptual and practical purchase.
0005. Fumba, B., & Magadze, T.O. (2022). Factors influencing housebreaking: Narratives from ex-offenders and community leaders at Ntabankulu Local Municipality in the Eastern Cape (South Africa).
Socio-economic factors such as poverty, inequality, substance abuse, and unemployment, and intra- and interpersonal factors such as low self-control, peer pressure, and greed exist.
0006. Kammersgaard, T., Søgaard, T.F., Haller, M.B., Kolind, T., & Hunt, G. (2023). Community policing in Danish “ghetto” areas: Trust and distrust between the police and ethnic minority youth.
We shed light on the emotional, organizational, and practical challenges involved in doing community policing in marginalized neighborhoods.
0007. Malik, T.H., & Huo, C. (2023). National cultural moderates the link between work stress and depression: An analysis of clinical trial projects across countries.
Power distance and individualism decrease the link between work stress and depression, while masculinity, uncertainty avoidance, and long-term orientation increase it.
0008. Martens, J.P. (2023). Communism’s lasting effect? Former Communist states and COVID-19 vaccinations.
All samples except Africa found support for an association between historical communism and lower COVID-19 vaccination rates.
0009. Modise, J.M., & Raga, R. (2022). Policing protests (riots): An investigation and analysis of crowd management strategies.
The studies are narrative analyses of protest events and are not grounded in any hypothetical ideals.
0010. Obioha, E.E. (2022). Are we telling ‘our own story’ in criminological pedagogy? Reflections on the scope of ‘local content’ infused in the teaching of criminology in South African universities.
While local authored materials and sources are favored for methodology, assessments and examinations, the opposite is the case for theory.
0011. Phillips, A.R. (2022). Exploring the influence of exposure to school-based criminogenic risk factors in a sample of youth detainees in the Northern Cape Province.
Crime-inducing factors include academic failure, truancy, dropping out of school, weakened attachment to school, gang violence, and substance abuse.
0012. Prinsloo, J. (2022). An application of the measures of criminal activities and attitudes scale (MCAA) to identify learners at risk in secondary schools.
A restorative justice approach could serve to facilitate the process of change whereby young people at risk learn from their behavior.
0013. Quinn, K. (2023). Dispositions that matter: Investigating criminalized women’s resettlement through their (trans)carceral habitus.
Prisoner resettlement is framed in terms of public health, safety, economic prudence, recidivism, social justice, or humanitarianism.
0014. Robinson, C. (2023). The anticipation of an investigation: The effects of expecting investigations after a death from natural causes in prison custody.
I reveal consequences for the care of prisoners, their families and prison staff, which are arguably unintended by the investigating bodies.
0015. Rossner, M., & Tait, D. (2023). Presence and participation in a virtual court.
We find that a distributed court can communicate equality and produce a shared experience of remote participation.
Arts (Dance, folklore, graphic arts, music)
0016. Akwetteh, L. (2022). ‘The road is blocked’: Notions of sound and silence in the Ga Hɔmɔwɔ festival, a Teshie perspective.
I explore from a Teshie perspective the notions of the code and how it impacts the music performances of the Hɔmɔwɔ festival.
0017. Dor, G.W.K. (2022). Honouring Christopher Kobla Dewornu. Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa, 19(1–2), 15 –37. https://doi.org/10.2989/18121004.2022.2153446
Dewornu had to navigate his ethnic, professional, and religious identities to strategically shape his public musical life.
0018. Endong, F.P.C. (2022). The westernization of the African zombie in Nollywood films.
How are Western myths about zombies informing or reflected in selected Nollywood films?
0019. Gbagbo, D.K. (2022). Texts and contexts: The case of jàmá songs among the youth in Ghana.
I analyze selected jàmá songs, situate the song texts within their contexts, and illustrate the creative devices performers use.
0020. Ligeti, L. (2022). Artistic innovation through African concepts: Education for art music composers based on African traditions.
I address a curricular innovation in tertiary art music composition pedagogy: experimental music composition based on concepts from African music traditions.
0021. Lorea, C. (2022). Sonic matters: Singing as method and the epistemology of singing across Bengali esoteric lineages.
Can the epistemology of singing coexist with hegemonic sensory epistemologies in a postcolonial South Asia?
0022. Obodo, E., Odoh, G.C., Udeh, K., Odoh, N.S., . . . Onuora, C. (2022). Measuring the impact of visual multimedia on awareness, alertness and behavioural intention towards kidnapping prevention measures among young secondary school students in Nigeria.
Respondents in the visual multimedia group did not significantly differ from their counterparts in the non-visual multimedia group on security awareness.
0023. Osei-Owusu, E. (2022). Indigenisation of orchestral music in Ghana: The Pan-African Orchestra in perspective.
I investigate the indigenization of Western orchestral music in Ghana by focusing on the Pan-African Orchestra.
0024. Pinto de Almeida, F. (2022). The drive-in and the desegregation of cinemas in apartheid Cape Town.
As spaces that contrasted with the homogeneity of walled cinemas and their urban audiences, the drive-in became a symbol of segregation.
0025. Sandler, F. (2022). Matters of notational practice in the works of Ephraim Amu (1899–1995).
I outline 215 newly engraved performance-ready scores, followed by a discussion of four problem areas encountered with music notation.
Cultural Ecology
0026. Aceves-Bueno, E., Miller, S.J., Cornejo-Donoso, J., & Gaines, S.D. (2020). Cooperation as a solution to shared resources in territorial use rights in fisheries.
Partial cooperation can improve yields even with an unequal distribution of shared benefits and asymmetric carrying capacity.
0027. Boschetti, F., Babcock, R.C., Doropoulos, C., Thomson, D.P., . . ., Vanderklift, M.A. (2020). Setting priorities for conservation at the interface between ocean circulation, connectivity, and population dynamics.
Nonlinearity in network dynamics means connectivity a poor representation of yearly variations.
0028. Ceccarelli, D.M., Evans, R.D., Logan, M., Mantel, P., . . . Williamson, D.H. (2020). Long-term dynamics and drivers of coral and macroalgal cover on inshore reefs of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.
Proactive management actions that effectively reduce chronic stressors at local scales should contribute to improved reef resistance and recovery potential.
0029. Çıplak, E. (2022). The mediating role of the future time perspective in the relationship between global climate change awareness and hope for the prevention of climate change.
The future time perspective should be taken into account in interventions to increase the awareness and hope of individuals.
0030. Edgar, B.A., Matshidze, P.E., & Lee, K.S. (2022). Exploring Vhavenda indigenous methods of water conservation and management in Tshidzivhe Village, Limpopo Province, South Africa.
Cultural beliefs, taboos, and understanding of the surrounding natural environment have influenced the promotion of African indigenous knowledge methods of water conservation.
0031. Ngqula, Z.N. (2022). uMama wekhaya: Local subjectivities, water infrastructures and grounded perceptions of development in Agnes Rest, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
I analyze how points of water infrastructure are generative sites of engagement that connect and differentiate people and construct social spaces.
0032. Pradhan, R. (2022). Natural resources and violent conflicts: Water and energy in Kyrgyzstan.
The impoverished upstream countries are attempting resource nationalism to accrue benefits using the precious waters.
0033. Reniko, G. (2022). Integration of traditional ecological knowledge and western science in natural resources management in the Okavango Delta, Botswana.
Formal education and religion significantly affected the utilization of traditional ecological knowledge in the management of resources.
0034. Rilov, G., Fraschetti, S., Gissi, E., Pipitone, C., . . ., Katsanevakis, S. (2020). A fast-moving target: Achieving marine conservation goals under shifting climate and policies.
While the novel global Blue Growth approach may jeopardize previous marine conservation efforts, it can also provide new conservation opportunities.
0035. Wingfield, M. (2022). “Working time” in environmental activism: Engaging “slow violence” in the Philippi Horticultural Area.
I apply Ahmann’s concept of “working time” to the activist landscape and examine how organizations can mobilize how a crisis is framed to their benefit.
Economics (Theory, technology, political economy, colonialism, development)
0036. Appiah-Opoku, S., McWhorter, W., & Weber, J. (2022). Health impacts of small-scale gold mining in Kenyasi, Ghana.
The miners seem unaware of safe operating procedures and the health implications of the mining processes.
0037. Barreñada-Bajo, I. (2022). Autonomy and natural resources: The self-determination process in New Caledonia as a counter-lesson for western Sahara.
Morocco has deployed an autonomist rhetoric and a new model of economic development in the south, but nothing has effectively materialized.
0038. Daniels, R.C., & Casale, D. (2022). The impact of COVID-19 in South Africa during the first year of the crisis: Evidence from the NIDS-CRAM survey.
We discuss employment, income support, hunger, schooling, early childhood development, mental health, and vaccine hesitancy.
0039. Englund, L. (2022). The implicated subject in four South African autobiographical texts.
Since the end of apartheid, writers often are seeking to explore personal and collective implications and guilt.
0040. Espi-Sanchis, G., Leibbrandt, M., & Ranchhod, V. (2022). Age, employment and labour force participation outcomes in COVID-era South Africa.
Youth experienced the largest employment-to-population ratio increase, while older adults suffered the largest decrease in employment.
0041. Irwin, R.L. (2022). Terrains of legality and sovereignty: Adjudicating the ownership of Western Sahara’s phosphate in South Africa.
We must attend to jurisdictional histories and contexts in order to consider the scope of new political possibilities for decolonization struggles.
0042. Kabonga, I., & Zvokuomba, K. (2022). Challenges faced by community volunteers in community development: Voices from volunteers in Chegutu District, Zimbabwe.
Major challenges affecting community volunteers are poverty and vulnerability, burnout, too much work, and lack of community appreciation of volunteerism.
0043. Köhler, T., & Hill, R. (2022). Wage subsidies and COVID-19: The distribution and dynamics of South Africa’s TERS policy.
We find evidence of a significant, positive relationship between Temporary Employer-Employee Relief Scheme receipt and job retention.
0044. Li, H., Kopiński, D., & Taylor, I. (2022). China and the troubled prospects for Africa’s economic take-off: Linkage formation and spillover effects in Zambia.
We provide empirical evidence showing that Chinese investment brings little in terms of linkage formation and spillover effects.
0045. López-Ruiz, S., & Grande-Gascón, M.L. (2022). Pension funds: Guarantors of international legality in Western Sahara? Evidence from Norway and Sweden.
Investments that follow ethical trade guidelines play a key role in pressuring companies to modify objectionable behaviors.
0046. Naili, M. (2022). Defeating illegal trade in Western Sahara: Corporations under pressure from NGOs.
Civil society and various solidarity movements outside the country have vowed to prevent the king and his government from trading away peace.
0047. Ojeda-García, R. (2022). The role of non-state actors in the exploitation of Western Sahara’s natural resources.
I analyze the actions of non-state actors, the frames they employ, and the levels where they operate.
0048. Osman, G.A. (2022). Greater Horn of Africa’s dilemma in achieving Sustainable Development Goals.
Job creation is failing to raise the living standards due to low family disposable incomes due to unemployment.
0049. Uzodigwe, A.A., Obi, K.O., Egwuatu, R.C., & Unegbu, P.I. (2022). Economic distance and cross-country spillovers among African economies: Implication for growth and development.
Following the Says law that increasing production will naturally result in proportionate increase in demand.
0050. van der Berg, S., Patel, L., & Bridgman, G. (2022). Food insecurity in South Africa: Evidence from NIDS-CRAM wave 5.
Strict lockdown regulations also reduced employment and income from informal economic activities.
Ethnohistory
0051. Awinsong, M.D. (2022). The making of a nation: The Northern Territories and the colonial discourse of nationhood in the Gold Coast, 1897–1950.
Gold Coast was a product of colonial discourse merging varying interests into a multicultural nation.
0052. Coetzee, C. (2022). The myth of Oxford and Black counter-narratives.
A powerful way to relativize and decenter the institution is to document and emphasize histories and accounts of Black marginalization, failure, and disconnection.
0053. Holl, A.F.C. (2022). Emergent complexity and political economy of the Houlouf polity in North Central Africa (1900 BCE-1800 CE).
I examine the concomitant changes in site-location, flows, distribution, consumption of long-distance traded items, and patterns of craft specialization.
0054. Kumalo, V. (2022). Obliterating history through undesired monuments, contestations, and the post-apartheid national unity: The case of the General Barry Hertzog Memorial in Bloemfontein.
If we continue to ignore our apartheid heritage, we will have an incomplete comprehension of the forces that shaped South African history.
0055. Makau, K.L., & Liebenberg, I. (2022). Revolutionary ideals, mass action, concrete realities, and transition to democracy: Theoretical notes on the mass democratic movement (MDM) during the last phase of the struggle for liberation in South Africa.
Maoist and other revolutionary theories explore the role of the MDM within the contemporary political context.
0056. Martínez-Navarro, D., Amate-Fortes, I., & Guarnido-Rueda, A. (2022). The Kuznets curve hypothesis checked out on up-to-date observations in African countries.
Kuznets’ curve hypothesis on inequality and development showed there is still a palpable heritage of European colonization.
0057. Mudiwa, R. (2022). Timing as tactic: The wildcat strikes during the transition from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe, March 1980.
Reconciliation centered on gradualism and moderation, while transformation emphasized the rapid change of extant colonial institutions.
0058. Rabe, L. (2022). The Augustson manuscript, microhistory, memoir, and memory.
Augustson’s memoir is read from a composite metatheoretical construct consisting of aspects of microhistory combined with the French Annales movement.
0059. Rich, J. (2022). Unsteady is the cross: Catholic missionaries, marriage, and Fang Communities in the Gabon Estuary, ca. 1914–1945.
Male catechists often violated the marital ideals of the missionaries, but they also successfully promoted Catholic conversions.
0060. van Eeden, E.S., & Motumi, K.T. (2022). Valuing memory and legacy in and around the Parys (Fezile Dabi) Region: A broadened historical and community perspective.
Exploring the local and regional experience of these communities also slots seamlessly into South Africa’s master narrative.
0061. van Vollenhoven, A.C. (2022). An investigation of an Anglo-Boer War site in Barberton, Mpumalanga.
Cultural artifacts were found at a British blockhouse from the Anglo-Boer War.
0062. van Zÿl, J., Oelofse, M., & Wessels, A. (2022). Bethulie concentration camp, 1901–1902: New child deaths’ statistics.
We pay attention to the establishment and relocation of the camp, origin of diseases, causes of deaths, and the impact on children and families.
0063. van Zyl-Hermann, D., & Verbuyst, R. (2022). ‘The real history of the country’? Expropriation without compensation and competing master narratives about land (dis)possession in South Africa.
The Afrikaner interest group AfriForum deploys discourses of expertise, rationality, and impartiality to legitimize their representations of the past.
0064. Venter, L., & Wessels, A. (2022). British soldiers’ Anglo-Boer War experiences as recorded in their diaries.
Their off-duty experiences, including leisure, sport, and hunting activities, and their impressions of medical care, food, and drink.
Kinship (Family organization, marriage)
0065. de Munck, V.C., Korotayev, A., & Ustyuzhanin, V. (2023). Love, marriage, family organization and the puzzle of neolocality in non-industrial societies: A cross-cultural study.
Non-neolocality rather than neolocality to be correlated with love as a basis for marriage.
0066. Evans, D., Trahan, A., & Laird, K. (2023). Shame and blame: Secondary stigma among families of convicted sex offenders.
Justice system reforms are needed to ensure that family members are shielded from the harms of incarceration and registration.
0067. Gazso, A. (2023). Managing more than poverty when living with addiction: Parents’ emotion and identity work.
In family relations I consider addiction and poverty: welfare dependency; intensive mothering; and families as a safe haven.
0068. Geçer, E., & Yıldırım, M. (2023). Family communication and psychological distress in the era of COVID-19 pandemic: Mediating role of coping.
Those who have better family communication highly engage in approach coping which leads to better psychological health in face of adversity.
0069. Hlalele, D., & Matsumunyane, K. (2022). Sexual diversity: Peer and family rejection or acceptance in Lesotho?
We revealed peers and parental support as key to living positively as LGBTQI.
0070. Jiang, Y., Tan, Y., Wu, D., Yin, J., & Lin, X. (2023). The double-edged impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Chinese family relationships.
Peoples’ knowledge of the COVID-19, neuroticism, optimism, emotion regulation, and negative emotional reactions were related to family relationships.
0071. Justiniano Medina, A.C., & Valentova, M. (2023). The effects of intermarriage on wages for immigrant women in Italy.
Although immigrant women who marry natives have higher wages, this is due to their observable and unobservable characteristics.
0072. Kolancali, P., & Melhuish, E. (2023). Effects of migration on the language and literacy practices of Turkish parents in England.
A high degree of social integration was associated with more frequent language and literacy activities at home.
0073. Limbers, C.A., & Pavlov, C.L. (2023). Mothers’ preferences for their children’s format for return to school during the Coronavirus Disease-2019 pandemic: Are there differences between full-time employed mothers and mothers who are not employed?
Concerns about child health during the COVID-19 pandemic influence maternal preferences for their children’s educational format.
0074. Matte-Gagné, C., Turgeon, N.R., Bernier, A., & Cyr, C. (2023). Toward a better understanding of the associations among different measures of father involvement and parenting alliance.
Time diaries and questionnaires tap into different aspects of father involvement that can have distinct correlates and determinants.
0075. May, I., Awad, S., May, M.S., & Ziegler, A. (2023). Parental stress provoked by short-term school closures during the second COVID-19 lockdown.
Family conflicts significantly increased, social isolation was feared, and powerlessness and helplessness ascended.
0076. Oláh, L.Sz., Karlsson, L., & Sandström, G. (2023). Living-apart-together (LAT) in contemporary Sweden: (How) does it relate to vulnerability?
Women and the elderly (aged 70+) are more likely to engage in LAT by choice and appreciate their non-residential partnerships.
0077. Reynolds, J., & James, K. (2023). Blessing or burden: Transitions into eldercare and caregiver mental health.
Women with low social support who became main caregivers for resident parents experience declines in mental health.
0078. Shepherd, D., & Mohohlwane, N. (2022). A generational catastrophe: COVID-19 and children’s access to education and food in South Africa.
Household hunger combined with a lack of access to free school meals is indicated to contribute to significantly greater levels of caregiver anxiety.
Medical anthropology
0079. Daniali, H., & Flaten, M.A. (2022). Experiencing COVID-19 symptoms without the disease: The role of nocebo in reporting of symptoms.
A nocebo effect occurs when inactive factors lead to worsening of symptoms or reduce treatment outcomes.
0080. Ekström, S., Andersson, N., Lövquist, A., Lauber, A., . . . Bergström, A. (2022). COVID-19 among young adults in Sweden: Self-reported long-term symptoms and associated factors.
Smoking may have decreased during the pandemic, while snuff use may have increased.
0081. Eli, K., & Lavis, A. (2022). Material environments and the shaping of anorexic embodiment: Towards a materialist account of eating disorders.
We call for consideration of how interventions can better take account of eating disordered embodiment as shaped by material environments.
0082. Eyraud, B. (2022). Capacity trajectory in the context of dementia: A case of exercising rights in troubled civil life.
I intend to empirically shed light on how rights and legal capacity are exercised in situations of vulnerability.
0083. Genre, N., & Panese, F. (2022). Merging care and prevention: Preventive properties of antiretroviral drugs and HIV chronification in the case of Switzerland.
We highlight how therapeutic strategies of treatment and prevention currently shape the process of HIV chronification and its experience for people concerned with antiretroviral therapy.
0084. Graber, N. (2022). Vaccinal chronicity: Immunotherapy, primary care, and the temporal remaking of lung cancer’s patienthood in Cuba.
I analyze the experience of lung cancer chronicity under a type of immunotherapy in Cuba.
0085. Gugushvili, A., & Mckee, M. (2022). The COVID-19 pandemic and war.
COVID-19 may have reduced the intensity of conflicts in some places, but it also may have contributed to anti-government protests.
0086. Heinsen, L.L., Wahlberg, A., & Petersen, H.V. (2022). Surveillance life and the shaping of ‘genetically at risk’ chronicities in Denmark.
We show how ‘genetically at risk’ chronicities take shape as persons come to terms with a disease that possibly awaits them leading them to recalibrate familial bonds.
0087. Mæland, S., Bjørknes, R., Lehmann, S., Sandal, G., . . . Thore, L. (2022). How the Norwegian population was affected by non-pharmaceutical interventions during the first six weeks of the COVID-19 lockdown.
The non-pharmaceutical interventions were perceived as manageable by the majority of the adult general population in Norway at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
0088. Meili, K.W., Jonsson, H., Lindholm, L., & Månsdotter, A. (2022). Perceived changes in capability during the COVID-19 pandemic: A Swedish cross-sectional study from June 2020.
In the capabilities of financial situation, political resources and health, the proportions of perceived negative change were highest.
0089. Mueller, K.L., Blomkalns, A.L., & Ranney, M.L. (2022). Taking aim at the injury prevention curriculum: Educating residents on talking to patients about firearm injury.
We must commit to consistently and conscientiously framing injuries from guns not as “gun violence” but rather as “firearm injuries.”
0090. Rizzi, S., Søgaard, J., & Vaupel, J.W. (2022). High excess deaths in Sweden during the first wave of COVID-19: Policy deficiencies or “dry tinder”?
Non-pharmaceutical interventions adopted by Sweden have been milder compared to those implemented in Denmark.
0091. Rosén, M., Stenbeck, D., & Stenbeck, M. (2022). The one-sided explanations of a multifactorial coronavirus disease. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 50(1), 19–21. https://doi.org/10.1177/14034948211026540
Housing and social conditions as well as travel patterns are equally important but neglected aspects of the COVID-19 development.
0092. Rydström, L.-L., Ångström-Brännström, C.B., Brayl, L., Carter, L., . . . Olinder, A.L. (2022). How children in Sweden accessed and perceived information during the first phase of the Covid-19 pandemic. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 50(1), 144–151. https://doi.org/10.1177/14034948211051884
School children could explain how to act to protect themselves and others from becoming infected by the virus.
0093. Siddique, K., Malik, R., Usman, A, Ishfaq, K., & Qadir, M. (2022). Self-care behaviors and glycemic control among older Type 2 diabetes mellitus patients in low-income families in Southern Punjab, Pakistan. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 32(1), 67–76. https://doi.org/10.1080/10911359.2020.1851843
Few older Type 2 patients managed their better glycemic control in low economic status.
Minorities (Ethnicity, class differentials, sex roles)
0094. Burden, M. (2022). The dream of building a South African nation: Abandoned or alive?
A large variety of cultures, ethnicities, and languages forms the nation, because they share citizenship.
0095. Chopra, D. (2021). The resistance strikes back: Women’s protest strategies against backlash in India.
The use of physical, digital, and figurative space became the hallmark of women organizing this protest.
0096. Haider, J., & Loureiro, M. (2021). Visible outside, invisible inside: The power of patriarchy on female protest leaders in conflict and violence-affected settings.
We find the intersection of patriarchy, identity politics, and social structures playing a key negative role on Hazara women’s influence.
0097. Kanakam, N. (2022). Therapists’ experiences of working with ethnic minority females with eating disorders: A qualitative study.
Creative solutions to address this include adapting the patient care pathway, referral guides, and cultural reflective practice.
0098. Kennedy-Macfoy, M., Gausi, T., & King, C. (2021). When a movement moves within a movement: Black women’s feminist activism within trade unions.
The intersection of gender, race, social class, migration status, and age exposes Black women workers to the harms of racist, capitalist patriarchy.
0099. Khan, A., Jawed, A., & Qidwai, K. (2021). Women and protest politics in Pakistan.
Protest strategies are complemented by advocacy with government, court petitions, engagement with formal politics, and alliance with feminist leaders.
0100. Mahpara, P. (2021). Unpacking Bangladesh’s ‘women’s leadership paradox’ through the Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Act of 2010.
Female leadership did play a role in policy adoption, but they do not have the same strength in policy implementation.
0101. May, P. (2022). Canada: The standard bearer of multiculturalism in the world? An analysis of the Canadian public debate on multiculturalism (2010–2020).
Unlike in other Western democracies, there was no increased criticism of the term “multiculturalism” over time in Canadian public debate.
0102. Pereira, B., & Aguilar, M. (2021). ‘Nenhum passo atrás’ (Not a step back): Brazilian Black women’s resistance in the era of Bolsonaro’s far-right government.
Engaging with different forms of activism and strategies of resistance is a key strength of the Black women’s movement.
0103. Piscopo, J.M., & Och, M. (2021). Protecting public health in adverse circumstances: Subnational women leaders and feminist policymaking during COVID-19.
Women leaders relied on science, co-ordinated community outreach, and attended to the needs of marginalized groups.
0104. Qazzaz, H. (2021). Fighting all demons: Feminist voices on popular protests in Lebanon and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
The popular protests made feminists in the region realize more than ever the importance of having a trans-generational, intersectional, and diverse movement.
0105. Ricoy, A.L. (2021). South–South symbolic transnationalism: Echoing the performance ‘A Rapist in Your Path’ in Latin America.
The spread of the performance A Rapist in Your Path is analyzed as an instance that showcases a novel type of symbolic transnationalism.
0106. Vijeyarasa, R. (2021). Women’s movements under women presidents: Bringing a gender perspective to the legal system.
When women lead, women’s movements employ particular strategies to catalyze the passage of ‘women-friendly’ legislation.
Political structure and process, Law
0107. Aniche, E.T., Iwuoha, V.C., Alumona, I.M., & Okwueze, F.O. (2022). When all hands are not on deck: Intergovernmental relations and the fight against COVID-19 pandemic in the Nigerian federation.
We examine how the conflicting nature of intergovernmental relations is implicated in the level of implementation of containment policies/strategies towards COVID-19.
0108. Chavula, H.K. (2022). Malawi’s Third Republic: Towards a democratic developmental state?
Despite experiencing some episodes of high growth rates, the country has been marred by autocratic tendencies, rampant corruption, and nepotism.
0109. Everatt, D., & Pieterse, M. (2022). Outsourcing governance: Local government and the future of democracy in South Africa.
At a political level, however, the future of local government is treacherous, given the loss of faith among voters.
0110. Fredericks, J., & de Jager, N. (2022). An analysis of the historical roots of partisan governance within the ANC: Understanding the road to state capture.
Governance based on partisanship was established together with the blurring of lines among party, government, and state.
0111. Krautwald, F. (2022). Genocide and the politics of memory in the decolonisation of Namibia.
I demonstrate the ways in which remembering the first colonial occupation shaped the emergence of modern Namibian political discourse.
0112. Lamour, C. (2022). A radical-right populist definition of cross-national regionalism in Europe: Shaping power geometries at the regional scale beyond state borders.
The antagonism this type of leader can structure to organize territorial, symbolic, and institutional claims is associated with a specific cross-national region.
0113. Matshaka, C., & Wielenga, C. (2022). Who is being served? How competing norms and values shape the transitional justice agenda in Zimbabwe.
A nuanced approach to transitional justice captures the history, culture, and other dynamics that shape a country’s politics.
0114. Nattrass, N., & Seekings, J. (2022). High modernist hubris and its subversion in South Africa’s Covid–19 vaccination roll-out.
The objective of the vaccination roll-out ‘plan’ was not simply to vaccinate people, but to build key foundations of the proposed ‘national health insurance’ system.
0115. Ochieng’-Springer, S. (2022). Governance and public administration during the COVID-19 pandemic: Issues and experiences in Kenya’s health system.
I evaluate the extent to which the two-tiered devolved governance structure affected the COVID-19 pandemic response.
0116. Zenn, J. (2022). Rebel rivals: Reinterrogating the movement for unity and jihad in West Africa and the roots of Al-Qaeda-Islamic State infighting in the Sahel.
Local conditions and international alliances affected ISGS and JNIM’s conduct of their insurgencies and dialogue with both each other and state actors.
Psychological anthropology
0117. Crookes, A.E., Warren, M.A., & Meyer, S. (2022). When threat is imminent, does character matter for climate action? Exploring environmental concerns, well-being, and character strengths in the Pacific Island countries.
The character strengths approach likely provides a bridge between emotional engagement and active allyship in some individuals.
0118. Dey, N.E.Y., Oti-Boadi, M., Malm, E., Selormey, R.K., & Ansah, K.O. (2022). Fear of COVID-19, perceived academic stress, future anxiety, and psychological distress of Ghanaian university students: A serial mediation examination.
High psychological distress is associated with increased fear of COVID-19 and perceived academic stress.
0119. Emmanuel, S., Jephias, M., John, B., Tendai, S., & Manford, G. (2022). In their own voices- understanding GBV in Zimbabwe: Evidence from a survivor’s perspective.
Gender based violence against women is a prevalent public health challenge that poses a serious threat to women’s physical, social, and mental health.
0120. Hendy, K. (2022). What can the chemical hold?: The politics of efficacy in the psychedelic renaissance.
I explore political tensions between two sources of efficacy within psychedelic therapy: the self and the chemical.
0121. Lawal, A.M., Idemudia, E.S., Karing, C., & Bello, B.M. (2022). COVID-19 context and job insecurity among casual employees: The predictive value of education, financial stress, and coping ability.
Gender, age, and number of years of work experience of casual employees had no effect on their perceptions of job insecurity.
0122. Liao, J., Sun, X., Mai, X., Du, Y., & Li, F. (2022). Mindfulness and mental health in medical staff in the COVID-19 period: Mediating role of perceived social support and sense of security.
More humanistic care and material resources should be provided to medical staff in high-risk departments.
0123. Mason, H.D., Craven, A., & Fredericks, M. (2022). Learning and studying during the pandemic: A comparison between students’ learning and study strategy orientations before and during the COVID-19 period.
Student development services should provide targeted support interventions addressing these learning and study strategy risks to students.
0124. Panter-Brick, C. (2022). Energizing partnerships in research-to-policy projects.
I highlight why and how biocultural work generates fluency in multiple forms of evidence to guide mental health interventions and shared scientific purpose.
0125. Pederzoli, L., Tressoldi, P., & Wahbeh, H. (2022). Channeling: A non-pathological possession and dissociative identity experience or something else?
Channeling experiences offer a unique opportunity for a scientific investigation and in particular, the origin of the information received by the channelers.
0126. Snyman, A.M. (2022). Predictors of staff retention satisfaction: The role of the psychological contract and job satisfaction.
Black African, females, employed as academic personnel, and those with shorter tenure were significantly more satisfied with their psychological contracts and the organization’s retention practices.
0127. Toros, E., Maslakçı, A., & Sürücü, L. (2022). Fear of COVID-19 and job insecurity among hospitality industry employees: The mediating role of happiness.
Work happiness played a mediating role in this relationship, lowering levels of fear and insecurity.
0128. Ujoatuonu, I.V.N., Kanu, G.C., Okafor, C.O., & Okeke, C.S. (2022). Work method control of Nigerian armed forces personnel: Roles of psychological detachment and conscientiousness.
Conscientiousness, rather than work detachment, explained the military organization’s sense of work method control.
0129. Woods, A., Hart, A., & Spandler, H. (2022). The recovery narrative: Politics and possibilities of a genre.
There has been little critical investigation of how recovery narratives are constituted and mobilized, and with what consequences.
0130. Zhou, J. (2022). Correlates of lived career calling: The role of perceived calling and organisational cultural identity among police cadets.
College reputation, employment opportunity, and self-improvement negatively predicted perceived calling.
Sociocultural change (Culture contact, migration, modernization)
0131. Açıkalın, Ş.N., Eminoğlu, C., & Erçetin, Ş.Ş. (2022). Effects of COVID-19 on integration of women refugees into Turkish society.
Language barriers faced by refugee women created significant challenges and obstacles.
0132. Bogdan, L. (2022). Human trafficking, information campaigns and public awareness in Moldova: Why do anti-trafficking organizations operate under inaccurate assumptions?
Anti-trafficking institutions’ asymmetry leads to inaccurate assumptions and eventually can lead to flawed policies.
0133. Cornish, G.E., Pearson, J., McNamara, K.E., Alofa, P., & McMichael, C. (2022). Experiences of i-Kiribati with labor mobility schemes.
Lessons were learned from the experiences of i-Kiribati workers and their families of circular labor mobility.
0134. Deinla, I.B., Mendoza, G.A.S., Mendoza, R.U., & Yap, J.K. (2022). Emergent political remittances during the pandemic: Evidence from a survey of overseas Filipino workers.
We discuss overseas Filipinos’ experiences of successful pandemic management and aid distribution in host countries.
0135. Grange, K. (2022). Imaginaries and expulsion: How 1,000 temporary accommodation units for refugees in the City of Gothenburg became 57.
I outline in the article how different techniques of expulsion can be used to create spatial and temporal estrangement.
0136. Harrap, B., Hawthorne, L., Holland, M., McDonald, J.T., & Scott, A. (2022). Australia’s superior skilled migration outcomes compared with Canada’s.
Early strategies are designed to enhance foreign credential recognition and a heightened role for employers including through two-step migration.
0137. Jung, Y.M. (2022). Pathways of aging in migration and their association with the quality of life.
We identified elements of quality of life particularly meaningful to specific groups.
0138. Kaida, L., Stick, M., & Hou, F. (2022). Changes in selection policy and refugee welfare use in Canada.
In 2002 Canada shifted its refugee selection criteria from adaptability to vulnerability.
0139. Kim, M., Koo, H.-G., & Jang, J. (2022). Financial capabilities and financial behavior of overseas Filipino workers in South Korea.
Migrant workers with high financial self-efficacy in the Philippines were likely to have more positive financial behavior.
0140. Kjøllesdal, M., Skyrud, K., Gele, A., Arnesen, T., . . . Indseth, T. (2022). The correlation between socioeconomic factors and COVID-19 among immigrants in Norway: A register-based study.
Immigrant groups living in disadvantaged socioeconomic positions are important to target with preventive measures for COVID-19.
0141. Kuah, A. (2022). Aspiring to citizenship: African immigrant youth and civic participation in Cape Town, South Africa.
Civic participation through community engagement allows African immigrant youth to dream and access citizenship.
0142. León-Pérez, G., Patterson, E.J., & Coelho, L. (2022). Legal status history, gender, and the health of Latino immigrants in the US.
Women who were previously documented reported better follow-up self-rated health than their illegal counterparts.
0143. Mendola, D., & Pera, A. (2022). Vulnerability of refugees: Some reflections on definitions and measurement practices.
We outline the basis for alternative responses by the agencies engaged in vulnerability assessment practices.
0144. Mendoza, C. (2022). Illuminating the shadows of skilled migration: Highly qualified immigrants from Latin America in Spain.
Human capital hardly explains this migration since it is not associated with upward career movement despite higher wages.
0145. Mensah, J., & Owusu Ansah, A. (2022). Reflections on return migration: Understanding how African immigrants in Canada contemplate return.
Immigrants who perceived the level of racism in Canada to be high were more likely to have return intentions.
0146. Rajan, S.I., & Pattath, B. (2022). Distress return migration amid COVID-19: Kerala’s response.
We explore the circumstances of return migration since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic by focusing on a case study of Kerala.
0147. Ward, P., & Denney, S. (2022). Welfare chauvinism among co-ethnics: Evidence from a conjoint experiment in South Korea.
We discuss migration and welfare states to better consider non-Western societies with high levels of co-ethnic migration.
0148. Weinmann, M. (2022). Barriers to naturalization: How dual citizenship restrictions impede full membership.
The requirement of giving up one’s original citizenship for naturalization impedes immigrants’ naturalization decisions.
Symbol systems (Religion, ritual, world view)
0149. Andreson, J.L. (2022). African territoriality in Brazilian cultural heritage policies.
Religious racism, land speculation, economic precarity, and environmental destruction continue to marginalize Candomblé temples.
0150. Chinyena, E. (2022). Religious faith traditions tussle with rampant corruption toward sustainable development: Search for the missing links in light of ubuntu.
I analyze how the church can influence the state apparatus in the fight against corruption.
0151. Furiasse, A. (2022). Madagascar’s green gold: Nature religion, biotechnology, and the global race against Covid-19.
This government garnered international media attention for their herbal remedy to COVID-19, made from the Artemisia plant, called “Covid-Organics.”
0152. Greene-Hayes, A. (2022). Shots of deliverance: Mother Estella Boyd’s healing hands and global Black Pentecostal reach.
Even as Boyd never physically left the United States, her legacy transcended the U.S. nation-state, particularly through Bynum’s contemporary global Black Pentecostalism.
0153. Iheanacho, V.U. (2022). Christianity and medical science: A historical quest for remedy in time of epidemics.
Reason dictates what needs to be done in terms of practical and necessary measures to alleviate pain and suffering while waiting for divine intervention.
0154. Kasstan, B. (2022). “A free people, controlled only by God”: Circulating and converting criticism of vaccination in Jerusalem.
Christian activists attempt to engender ethical and moral opposition to vaccination among American Orthodox Jews.
0155. Louw, D.L. (2022). Living wounds (anfechtungen) or blacksmithing of the human soul? The pastoral art of marvellous exchange (mirifica commutatio) in spiritual well-being.
We consider divine substitution in a pastoral approach of “double switching”, while facing the factuality of the irreversibility of Anfechtungen (spiritual dread and anguish) and human imperfection.
0156. Natoor, M., & Shoshana, A. (2022). The phenomenology of ‘solved’ reincarnation stories among Druze in Israel: Private self, symbolic type and daily life.
We argue that Notq can be perceived as a cultural idiom providing unique psychological and cultural resources.
0157. Ogunnaike, O. (2022). From theory to Theoria and back again and beyond: Decolonizing the study of Africana religions.
I explore how best to represent, translate, and teach Sufism and Ifá in the context of undergraduate and graduate education in “Western” academia.
0158. Peter Yikwab, Y., & Tade, O. (2022). How farming communities cope with displacement arising from farmer-herder conflict in north central Nigeria.
Reported coping strategies included job switching, relocation to a safer place, formation of a vigilance group, and trusting in God.
0159. Suhr-Sytsma, N. (2022). Forms of interreligious encounter in contemporary Nigerian fiction.
Fiction raises fundamental questions not only about the relation of text to reality but also about the making and crossing of religious boundaries.
0160. Weaver, L.J., Krupp, K., & Madhivanan, P. (2022). The hair in the garland: Hair loss and social stress among women in South India.
Generations of Indian scholars have debated hair’s significance as a symbol of womanhood, fertility, and spiritual morality.
Theoretical, Methodological, and General
0161. Aubinet, S. (2022). Meaning or presence? Ways of knowing of the Sámi yoik.
I offer a counternarrative to both semiotic and logocentric understandings of knowledge and human/nonhuman relationships.
0162. Casale, D., & Shepherd, D. (2022). The gendered effects of the Covid-19 crisis in South Africa: Evidence from NIDS-CRAM waves 1–5.
Gender inequality in South Africa has risen, undoing some of the gains of the last two decades.
0163. Daniels, R.C., Ingle, K., & Brophy, T.S.L. (2022). Employment uncertainty in the era of COVID-19: Evidence from NIDS-CRAM and the QLFS.
We find that much of the differences in estimates of labor force states including employment, unemployment, and not economically active, are due to different initial conditions.
0164. Garza, A.P.G. (2022). The intimacy of the gift in the economy of sex work. American Anthropologist, 124(4), 767–777. https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13782
Tracing gift exchanges in sex work offers an opportunity to examine the development of relationships that emerge from intimate sexual transactions.
0165. Gil, L. (2022). A fablab at the periphery: Decentering innovation from São Paulo.
I show how lab workers cultivated a diverse range of audiences and creative practices, specifically those of working-class women.
0166. Ihmoud, S., & Cordis, S. (2022). A poetics of living rebellion: Sociocultural anthropology in 2021.
We center the everyday, ongoing, and emergent rebellions of livingness against imbricated structures of anti-blackness and Indigenous erasure.
0167. Kayode, A.E. (2022). The cultural context of naming systems amongst the Yoruba of south west Nigeria.
The name may have its origin in the seasons, important days, critical historical events, and occupation of the child’s relatives.
0168. Lesser, C.N. (2022). Another “education by stone”: An archaeological case study in Brazil’s environmental law.
I studied the social meanings of environmental politics in the Atlantic world, which emerged in the context of the abolition of slavery.
0169. Magaña, M.R. (2022). Multimodal archives of transborder belonging: Murals, social media, and racialized geographies in Los Angeles.
Young people engage in the ethnographic-archival work of telling the stories and revealing the racialized geographies made imperceptible through city planning.
0170. Meskell, L. (2022). Atomic archaeology: Italian innovation and American adventurism.
Nuclear science, tech companies, and private foundations, coupled with the activities of the military and intelligence community, have a deeply entrenched history in archaeology.
0171. Wills, G., & Kika-Mistry, J. (2022). Early childhood care and education access in South Africa during COVID-19: Evidence from NIDS-CRAM.
Early childhood care and education attendance ranged from just before (39%) to during (7%) the COVID-19 pandemic.
Urban Studies
0172. Abdul-Wahab, A.M.M., Bashandy, S.Y.H., & El-Barmelgy, H. (2022). A systematic framework for activating the definition of “regenerative” urban design using “bio-mimicry technology” as a sustainable environmental approach to the Egyptian urbanism.
Biomimicry technology transfers features of biotic and abiotic characteristics of nature to the urban design.
0173. Ali1, E.A., Mahmoud, M.A.S.R., & El-gamil, Z. (2022). Towards activating Universal Urban Design criteria to develop tourist’s heritage urban spaces.
Elephantine Island was chosen as a case study because it has natural and historical components, in addition to the social peculiarity of the Nubian community.
0174. Audikana, A., & Kaufmann, V. (2022). Towards green populism? Right-wing populism and metropolization in Switzerland.
We discuss urban development, housing scarcity, traffic, infrastructure development, energy consumption, pollution, and transformation of the landscape.
0175. Batsani-Ncube, I. (2022). Whose building? Tracing the politics of the Chinese government-funded parliament building in Lesotho.
China used the parliament building project to generate a sustained presence in Lesotho’s political and diplomatic orbits.
0176. Creţan, R., Kupka, P., Powell, R., & Walach, V. (2022). Everyday Roma stigmatization: Racialized urban encounters, collective histories and fragmented habitus.
We focus on the micro manifestations of stigmatization, racialized urban encounters, and their neglected longer-term affects for the Roma.
0177. El-kholei, A.O., & Abido, M.S. (2022). Bring nature back to the city; Keep invasive species out.
Cities are the drivers of economic growth, but pollute the environment and deplete natural resources.
0178. Elsabagh, H.A.E., Bashandy, S.Y.H., Elaziz, N.M.A., & El Aziz, N.A.A. (2022). The impact of 3d public art on improving visual image and identity of urban spaces. Journal of Urban Research, 46(1), 76–102. https://doi.org/10.21608/jur.2022.119740.1087
The new 3D public art design improved the space visual image, attracted more users at nighttime, and fulfilled most of the design criteria.
0179. Friendly, A. (2022). Insurgent planning in pandemic times: The case of Rio de Janeiro.
I highlight the need for planning to account for the role of insurgent planning as a response to populist contexts in cities of the global South.
0180. Gomaa, A.A., & Fouad, F.M. (2022). Evaluating the quality of life in urban environments in new cities in Egypt.
We present an effective measuring tool to increase the quality of life and help planners build and develop urban communities more effectively.
0181. Spocter, M. (2022). A comparison of security in city and small-town gated developments in the Western Cape province, South Africa.
Small-town gated developments reveals high security levels in towns where tourism is the mainstay of the local economy.
0182. Turok, I., & Visagie, J. (2022). The divergent pathways of the pandemic within South African cities.
Communities that were already the most vulnerable have been hit hardest by the pandemic, triggering hardship, hunger, and social unrest.
Linguistics
Historical linguistics
0183. Afreen, A., & Norton, B. (2022). Bangla and the identity of the heritage language teacher.
The identity of the heritage language teacher could be expressed as a transcultural identity that resists binaries and embraces hybridity.
0184. Bauer, B., & Krivoshchekova, V. (2022). Definitions, dialectic and Irish grammatical theory in Carolingian glosses on Priscian: A case study using a close and distant reading approach.
The origin can be traced back to Hiberno-Latin grammatical commentaries of the eighth and ninth centuries.
0185. Elfaki, E.K.O. (2022). Morphological characteristics of English football language.
Football morphological elements surfaced by the researcher include affixation, compounding, clipping, eponymy, and loans (borrowings).
0186. Espinosa Ochoa, M. (2022). Germination, early development, and creativity in the acquisition of the Yucatec Maya deictic system.
When children become productive, they overextend functions, which demonstrate a reanalysis of the system before acquisition is complete.
0187. Font-Santiago, C., Johnson, M., & Salmons, J. (2022). Reallocation: How new forms arise from contact.
We observed a shift from looking at dialect contact to language contact as a trigger of reallocation.
0188. François, A. (2022). Awesome forces and warning signs: Charting the semantic history of *tabu words in Vanuatu.
Semantic maps reveal their full potential as we take a dynamic perspective, and retrace the evolution of *tabu from its original meanings.
0189. Gianninoto, M. (2022). A Chinese textbook of Manchu and its Western translations.
The use of Western and Chinese linguistic categories and terminologies to the description of Manchu is an interesting case of the hybridization.
0190. Ingebretson, B. (2022). “Living fossils”: The politics of language preservation in Huangshan, China.
Intentional or unintentional acts of preemptive eulogization may be quite prevalent in minority language efforts worldwide.
0191. Kupisch, T., & Polinsky, M. (2022). Language history on fast forward: Innovations in heritage languages and diachronic change.
We focus on one of the best-described grammaticalization processes: the formation of articles from demonstratives and numerals.
0192. Ma, A.J. (2022). Medical metaphors, body politic and John Hart’s conceptualisation of orthographic reform.
I demonstrate the religio-political nature of his medical metaphor, and it facilitated communication on spelling reform.
0193. Romano, N., Ranacher, P., Bachmann, S., & Joost, S. (2022). Linguistic traits as heritable units? Spatial Bayesian clustering reveals Swiss German dialect regions.
The spatial trend model outperforms the nonspatial model, suggesting a gradual transition of morphosyntax and supporting the idea of a Swiss German dialect continuum.
0194. Torres, J. (2023). Heritage language learners’ written texts across pair types and interaction mode.
Synchronous computer-mediated communication interactions led to a higher production of syntactic coordination, especially for the heritage-second language pairs.
0195. Whalen, D., DiCanio, C., & Dockum, R. (2022). Phonetic documentation in three collections: Topics and evolution.
Phonetic properties of many language families have been studied, though Indo-European is still disproportionately represented.
0196. Wilson, W.H. (2022). How borrowing led to “Marquesic” and obscured East Polynesian distal.
The influence of Marquesan on other languages can be attributed to the Marquesas being the first high island area colonized in East Polynesia.
Psycholinguistics
0197. Alcaraz Carrión, D., & Valenzuela, J. (2022). Time as space vs. time as quantity in Spanish: A co-speech gesture study.
Differences in gesture realization point to the existence of different construals for the concept of temporal duration.
0198. Anaya-Ramírez, A., Grinstead, J., Nieves Rivera, M., Melamed, D., & Reig-Alamillo, A. (2022). The interpretation of Spanish masculine plural NPs: Are they perceived as uniformly masculine or as a mixture of masculine and feminine?
The speakers’ attitudes toward non-sexist language predict their acceptance of the mixed-gender interpretation of masculine noun phrases.
0199. Bai, B., Yang, C., & Fan, J. (2022). Semantic integration of multidimensional perceptual information in L1 sentence comprehension.
Multiple perceptual information presented simultaneously was processed in an additive manner to a large extent before entering into the final stage.
0200. Bailey, D., & Almusharraf, N. (2022). Calm down: A mediation model on the mitigating effect anxiety has on learner interactions and learning outcome.
Learner/learner interactions increase communication anxiety, consequently decreasing expected learning outcomes.
0201. Bradlow, A. (2022). Information encoding and transmission profiles of first-language (L1) and second-language (L2) speech.
This cross-language comparison establishes low information transmission rate as a language-general, distinguishing feature of L2 speech.
0202. Camblats, A.-M., Gobin, P., & Mathey, S. (2022). The influence of negative orthographic neighborhood in the lexical decision task: Valence and arousal contributions.
People with a higher level of alexithymia are less sensitive to the emotional content of the neighbor.
0203. Choi, W. (2022). Towards a native OPERA hypothesis: Musicianship and English stress perception.
Musical experience enhances stress discrimination even among native listeners.
0204. Cooperrider, K., Slotta, J., & Núñez, R. (2022). The ups and downs of space and time: Topography in Yupno language, culture, and cognition.
We surveyed topographic concepts in Yupno language and culture, showing how they constitute a privileged resource for communicating about space.
0205. Côté, S., Gonzalez-Barrero, A., & Byers-Heinlein, K. (2022). Multilingual toddlers’ vocabulary development in two languages: Comparing bilinguals and trilinguals.
Similar factors contribute to vocabulary development across toddlers regardless of the number of languages being acquired.
0206. Coumel, M., Ushioda, E., & Messenger, K. (2023). Second language learning via syntactic priming: Investigating the role of modality, attention, and motivation.
Participants may be sensitive to the frequency of passives in spoken versus written language during immediate priming.
0207. Deng, W., Chan, K., & Au Yeung, K. (2022). Orthographic effects on L2 production and L2 proficiency in ESL learners with non-alphabetic and orthographically opaque L1.
L2 graphemes were likely to be decoded with incorrect L2 grapheme-to-phoneme correspondences, resulting in intra-orthographic effects.
0208. Díaz, V. (2022). Minds in action: Evidence that linguistic diversity helps children build a theory of mind.
Navigating sociolinguistic environments with agents differing in linguistic knowledge helps bilingual children develop an enhanced understanding of the mind.
0209. Ebadijalal, M., & Yousofi, N. (2023). The impact of mobile-assisted peer feedback on EFL learners’ speaking performance and anxiety: Does language make a difference?
Mobile-assisted oral peer feedback was deemed efficacious in enhancing the participants’ oral proficiency, self-confidence, risk-taking, and engagement.
0210. Finley, S., Charania, S., Lewis, T., Millward, B., & Wang, S. (2022). Gender bias in morphological inferences.
Learning a language with a binary grammatical gender might be influenced by gender stereotypes.
0211. Govindarajan, K., & Paradis, J. (2022). Narrative macrostructure and microstructure profiles of bilingual children with autism spectrum disorder: Differentiation from bilingual children with developmental language disorder and typical development.
Bilingual children with autism spectrum disorder show weaknesses in both macrostructure and microstructure, which can overlap with children with developmental language disorder.
0212. Kałamała, P., Walther, J., Zhang, H., Diaz, M., . . . Wodniecka, Z. (2022). The use of a second language enhances the neural efficiency of inhibitory control: An ERP study.
The event-related potentials modulations suggest that for bilinguals living in an L1 context the use of L2 enhances neural mechanisms related to inhibition.
0213. Kargar, A., & Ahmadi, A. (2023). The effect of a collaborative translation task on the learning and retention of pragmatic knowledge.
Collaborative Translation Tasks appeared to have enabled noticing and deeper processing of both pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic knowledge.
0214. Kašćelan, D., Prévost, P., Serratrice, L., Tuller, L., . . . De Cat, C. (2022). A review of questionnaires quantifying bilingual experience in children: Do they document the same constructs?
By focusing on a subset of overarching constructs (language exposure and use, activities, and current language skills), we observe high variability in how they are operationalized across tools.
0215. Klassen, R., Kolb, N., Hopp, H., & Westergaard, M. (2022). Interactions between lexical and syntactic L1–L2 overlap: Effects of gender congruency on L2 sentence processing in L1 Spanish-L2 German speakers.
The detection of ungrammaticality for sentences containing gender-incongruent nouns only emerges at higher L2 proficiency levels.
0216. Knowland, V., Berens, S., Gaskell, M., Walker, S., & Henderson, L. (2022). Does the maturation of early sleep patterns predict language ability at school entry? A Born in Bradford study.
More night-time sleep relative to day-time sleep does predict better language.
0217. Mizumoto, A. (2023). Calculating the relative importance of multiple regression predictor variables using dominance analysis and random forests.
Multiple regression analysis should always be accompanied by dominance analysis and random forests to identify the unique contribution of individual predictors.
0218. Özkan, D., Küntay, A., & Brouwer, S. (2022). The role of verbal and working memory skills in Turkish-speaking children’s morphosyntactic prediction.
When children’s early productive vocabulary and language production skills were higher, the better and faster they were in predicting the upcoming noun.
0219. Pan, D.J., & Lin, D. (2023). Cognitive–linguistic skills explain Chinese reading comprehension within and beyond the simple view of reading in Hong Kong kindergarteners.
Nonverbal IQ and vocabulary knowledge were associated with reading comprehension through listening comprehension.
0220. Parker, R. (2022). Inhibition and reading comprehension in adolescents with and without histories of language difficulties.
Advancing the understanding of the role of inhibition in executive function, self-regulation, and reading comprehension may support early word identification efforts.
0221. Parrill, F., Hinnell, J., Moran, G., Boylan, H., . . . Zamir, A. (2022). Observers use gesture to disambiguate contrastive expressions of preference.
Gestures indexing abstract ideas are also used during discourse comprehension.
0222. Parrish, A. (2023). Feminisation, masculinisation and the other: Re-evaluating the language learning decline in England.
Overcoming the decline in uptake of modern foreign languages will require reconceptualizing of the problem at policy level.
0223. Piciucco, E., Masia, V., Maiorana, E., Vallauri, E., & Campisi, P. (2022). Information structure effects on the processing of nouns and verbs: Evidence from event-related brain potentials.
The cost associated with information structure processing follows discourse-driven expectations also with respect to the word-class level.
0224. Shi, J., Peng, G., & Li, D. (2023). Figurativeness matters in the second language processing of collocations: Evidence from a self-paced reading experiment.
L2 speakers processed figurative collocations more slowly than literal collocation controls but native speakers did not.
0225. Simone, M., & Galatolo, R. (2023). The situated deployment of the Italian presentative (e) hai. . ., “(and) you have. . .” within routinized multimodal Gestalts in route mapping with visually impaired climbers.
The guide uses (e) hai to progress route mapping and engage the athlete in tactile actions that target specific features of the route.
0226. Smith, S., Leon Guerrero, S., Surrain, S., & Luk, G. (2022). Phonetic discrimination, phonological awareness, and pre-literacy skills in Spanish–English dual language preschoolers.
Phonemic representation begins to emerge driven by lexical restructuring.
0227. Stoehr, A., & Martin, C. (2022). Orthography affects L1 and L2 speech perception but not production in early bilinguals.
Orthography plays a crucial role in the speech system of early bilinguals but does not automatically lead to non-native production.
0228. Tomić, A., & Valdés Kroff, J. (2022). Expecting the unexpected: Code-switching as a facilitatory cue in online sentence processing.
In a visual world study we found that code-switching facilitates the anticipation of lower-frequency words.
0229. Uchihara, T., Webb, S., Saito, K., & Trofimovich, P. (2023). Frequency of exposure influences accentedness and comprehensibility in learners’ pronunciation of second language words.
The number of exposures positively affected measures of form/meaning connection and pronunciation immediately after the treatment.
0230. Valentini, A., & Serratrice, L. (2023). Longitudinal predictors of listening comprehension in bilingual primary school-aged children.
Vocabulary depth and morphological knowledge explained listening comprehension abilities in all types of questions, but not their growth.
0231. Wottawa, J., Adda-Decker, M., & Isel, F. (2022). Neurophysiology of non-native sound discrimination: Evidence from German vowels and consonants in successive French–German bilinguals using an MMN oddball paradigm.
Neither German natives nor French learners of German discriminated the opposition between [ʃ] and [ç], as revealed by the absence of mismatch negativity response.
0232. Yan, M., Warren, P., & Calhoun, S. (2022). Focus interpretation in L1 and L2: The role of prosodic prominence and clefting.
Prosodic prominence was more effective than clefting as a cue to focus in L1 Mandarin.
0233. Yi, W., Man, K., & Maie, R. (2023). Investigating first and second language speaker intuitions of phrasal frequency and association strength of multiword sequences.
Neither L1 nor L2 speakers demonstrated accurate intuitive judgments of phrasal frequency and association strength.
0234. Zhu, J., Franck, J., Rizzi, L., & Gavarró, A. (2022). Do infants have abstract grammatical knowledge of word order at 17 months? Evidence from Mandarin Chinese.
Hearing well-formed NP-V-NP sentences triggered infants to fixate more on a transitive scene than on a reflexive scene.
Sociolinguistics
0235. Alasmari, M. (2022). “His favorite things Mahi Al-hadia” Social functions of code switching in bilingual children’s conversations.
Bilingual children are rational and social actors who choose a given code intentionally to achieve certain social goals in a given interaction.
0236. Alqallaf, A.W., & Ahmed, M.O. (2022). Vocabulary size and depth of knowledge: A study of Bahraini EFL learners.
No relationship was shown between the size of vocabulary and the nature of lexical networking.
0237. Alshihri, A.S., & Mansory, M. (2022). The reality of active learning application in Jeddah schools by English teachers.
Most of the participants responded that they encountered some acute obstacles to implementing active learning in their classrooms.
0238. Álvarez-Mosquera, P., & Coetzee, F. (2022). “A name that recognises you”: Local analysis of semiotic dynamics in semi-informal markets in South Africa.
We draw on the notions of emplacement, spatial scope, and assemblages of semiotics to discuss the significance of mobile phone numbers.
0239. Bai, B., & Wang, J. (2023). The role of growth mindset, self-efficacy and intrinsic value in self-regulated learning and English language learning achievements.
Monitoring and effort regulation, in turn, were significant contributors to the participants’ English language learning achievements.
0240. Barzani, S.H.H., Barzani, I.H.A., & Meena, R.S. (2022). Investigating Kurdish EFL students’ attitudes towards the use of authentic materials in learning English.
The participants believe that authentic materials assist them to learn the language better and faster especially the communicative aspects of the language.
0241. Bilgin, R., & Bilgin, H. (2022). The power of the diegetic paradigm: How the cinematography of “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein” reinforces its pre-text on-camera.
Branagh expresses what he grasps from the novel by creating his own imagery through cinematographic elements such as camera angles and gaffing.
0242. Block, D. (2022). The dark side of EMI?: A telling case for questioning assumptions about EMI in HE.
I present a very critical view of English-medium instruction in higher education, highlighting its more problematic side.
0243. Bojsen-Møller, M. (2022). Fit to provoke fear? Uptakes and textual travels of threatening communications in legal genres.
The court must relay the linguistic evidence of oral threats as accurately and transparently as possible.
0244. Booton, S., Hodgkiss, A., Mathers, S., & Murphy, V. (2022). Measuring knowledge of multiple word meanings in children with English as a first and an additional language and the relationship to reading comprehension.
Polyseme knowledge uniquely contributed to reading comprehension after controlling for age, language status, non-verbal intelligence, time reading in English, and breadth of vocabulary.
0245. Borodkin, K., Orgal, R., & Martzini, N. (2022). Vocabulary learning in a novel language: Is language similarity helpful in bilingual children?
Previously acquired languages may facilitate vocabulary learning in a novel language if they are similar to the novel language.
0246. Bukhari, S.A. (2022). Challenges of the sudden switch from mother tongue instruction to English as a medium of instruction.
Participant content lecturers reported difficulties related to students’ reluctance to speak in English, lack of English terminology, and insufficient lecture comprehension.
0247. Byers-Heinlein, K., Jardak, A., Fourakis, E., & Lew-Williams, C. (2022). Effects of language mixing on bilingual children’s word learning.
Language mixing may sometimes hinder children’s encoding of novel words that occur downstream, but leaves open several possible underlying mechanisms.
0248. Campbell, M., & Tigan, A. (2022). Translanguaging and product-oriented drama: An integrated pedagogical approach for language learning and literacy development.
The integration of translanguaging and product-oriented drama offers a linguistically diverse and embodied pedagogical approach to language education.
0249. Canagarajah, S. (2022). Challenges in decolonizing linguistics: The politics of enregisterment and the divergent uptakes of translingualism.
I analyze the problematic ways in which translingualism is appropriated in the academic, economic, and political contexts in Global North.
0250. Çelik, B. (2022). Can science process skills be a teaching method for students who are not native English speakers?
ELLs can also improve their language functions by sharing their predictions and explanations with each other in the scientific process.
0251. Chandras, J. (2022). Hypothetical reported speech as pedagogical practice in multilingual classrooms in India.
Reported speech is a form of indirect speech used when a speaker quotes another in a way that they voice the other speaker.
0252. Chen, S. (2020). The process of note-taking in consecutive interpreting: A digital pen recording approach.
A higher percentage of English notes was correlated with a worse performance in both directions of interpreting.
0253. Cheung, A., & Hennebry-Leung, M. (2023). Exploring an ESL teachers’ beliefs and practices of teaching literary texts: A case study in Hong Kong.
There is a need to situate the emotions of teachers beyond contextual factors and consider the dynamic nature of their cognition.
0254. Cheung, A.K.F. (2020). Interpreters’ perceived characteristics and perception of quality in interpreting.
Factors other than the features identifiable in an interpretation can influence the perception of quality of interpretation.
0255. Chikaipa, V. (2022). Riding on slogans and mottos: Bicycle taxis as mobile bodies of meaning in Malawi.
The operators use them to express their innermost feelings and ideologically link their identities to specific cultures.
0256. Chimbunde, P., & Kgari-Masondo, M. (2022). The decolonisation of African languages: Insights from Southern Africa.
We seek to identify, describe, and evaluate what has been done in Southern African countries to answer the decolonial call.
0257. Cong, F., & Chen, B. (2022). Parafoveal orthographic processing in bilingual reading.
The identity and position of an internal single letter have little effect on L2 reading compared with the similarity of the whole word in the parafoveal area.
0258. Couture-Matte, R. (2022). Digital games in the elementary classroom: Using Club Penguin Island with Grade 6 ESL students.
Focus-on-form episodes were triggered while carrying out tasks with the game and students were able to negotiate interaction without the help of their instructor.
0259. Daniels, B., & Sterzuk, A. (2022). Indigenous language revitalization and applied linguistics: Conceptualizing an ethical space of engagement between academic fields.
We explore how these research fields can complement each other as well as intersect to create richer interdisciplinary knowledge.
0260. Divita, D. (2023). The gendered semiotics of far-right populism on Instagram: A case from Spain.
I expose the gendered mode of self-presentation that resonates with Abascal’s public.
0261. Dressler, R., & Mueller, K. (2022). Pedagogical strategies to foster target language use: A nexus analysis.
Students quickly picked up the neurolinguistic approach oral modeling sequence structure, which allowed teachers to promote meaningful communication.
0262. du Plessis, T. (2022). The officialisation of South African Sign Language—What is there to gain?
I propose a strategy to overcome the structural limitations regarding language officialization in South Africa.
0263. Dyasi, M.S.H., & Mosito, C. (2022). Application of teachers’ philosophies on literacy teaching and learning in rural schools. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 40(4), 441–455. https://doi.org/10.2989/16073614.2022.2077224
If teachers are made aware of their personal theories and assumptions about teaching literacy, their intuition may become more innovative, creative, and rewarding.
0264. Escamilla, R. (2023). Whose Satan? U.S. mainstream media depictions of The Satanic Temple. Discourse & Society, 34(1), 54–76. https://doi.org/10.1177/09579265221145094
I probe quotation, lexis, and metaphor, and interrogate patterns through the lenses of framing, radial category structure, and Lakoff’s Idealized Cognitive Models.
0265. Faltis, C. (2022). Framing bilingualism within the context of a transnational border: Place-based and place-conscious enactments for two kinds of bilingual youth in Laredo, Texas. Educational Linguistics, 1(1), 179–195. https://doi.org/10.1515/eduling-2022–0003
The teachers’ language orientations and ideologies inform the ways they view the language capabilities differently for each group of students.
0266. Fan, L., & Ma, W. (2022). Thematic progression in economic discourse: A case study of the English-Chinese reports from The Economist. International Journal of English Linguistics, 12(1), 86–97. https://doi.org/10.5539/ijel.v12n1p86
We explore universals and peculiarities of thematic progression in English-Chinese economic discourse.
0267. Fielden Burns, L.V., & Rico García, M. (2022). Intercultural and linguistic competences for engineering ESP classes: A didactic framework proposal through problem-based learning.
Problem-based learning is a method which enables instructors to integrate intercultural and linguistic skills in engineering programs.
0268. Gomes, R.L. (2022). ‘Du er verdens beste pappa’: Affect in parent–child multilingual interactions.
We illustrate the role of home-external contexts in encouraging the parents to use Portuguese with their children in the home.
0269. Gómez, M., & Lewis, M.A. (2022). Identifying the assets of emergent bilingual middle school students’ writing: Opportunities to validate students’ linguistic repertoires and identities.
Emerging bilingual students bring cultural and linguistic knowledge to developing their writing, which are often not part of monolingual English writing rubrics.
0270. Ha, X.V., & Murray, J.C. (2023). Corrective feedback: Beliefs and practices of Vietnamese primary EFL teachers.
Observed discrepancies are interpreted in relation to contextual factors and the influence of different sets of beliefs on practices.
0271. Hashmi, U.M., Almekhlafy, S.S.A., Hashem, M.E., Shahzad, M., . . . Asghar, B.H.A. (2023). Making it internally persuasive: Analysis of the conspiratorial discourse on COVID-19.
Popular socio-religious discourses, hypothetical narratives, personal narratives, personal mental archives, and interpolated arguments are used.
0272. Hennebry-Leung, M., & Xiao, H.A. (2023). Examining the role of the learner and the teacher in language learning motivation.
We found a significant role of personality and teachers’ motivational practice in predicting language learning motivation and self-efficacy.
0273. Hong, J.-C., Lin, C.-h., Tsai, Y.-h., & Tai, K.H. (2023). Confusion and Chinese character learning.
Incorporating well-designed confusing content into teaching Chinese as a heritage language helps learners deepen their learning of the characters.
0274. Hornberger, N. (2022). Researching and teaching (with) the continua of biliteracy.
I discuss South Africa, Sweden, and Peru where the continua of biliteracy have informed bilingual program development and Indigenous and second language teaching.
0275. Huws, C.F., Jewell, R.M., & Binks, H. (2022). A legislative theatre study of simultaneous interpretation in legal proceedings.
We consider the extent to which bilingual participants in the legal process are aware of non-bilinguals’ different experiences.
0276. Iakovina, Z., & Karras, I.D. (2022). Raising students’ cultural awareness and developing their intercultural communicative competence: The case of the Greek State Primary School EFL textbooks.
The vast majority of state EFL teachers in Greece are fervent proponents of an intercultural approach in their teaching practices.
0277. Jerome, C., & Ting, S.-H. (2022). What’s in a message: A systemic functional analysis of cancer prevention messages.
The posters organize and convey their intended messages through the realization of the three strands of meaning or metafunctions: the ideational, the interpersonal, and the textual.
0278. Jin, Y., & Tay, D. (2023). Offensive, hateful comment: A networked discourse practice of blame and petition for justice during COVID-19 on Chinese Weibo.
We focus on the rhetorical strategies that users employ to legitimize their actions as well-founded evidential blame against a norm-breaking act rather than radical extremist speech.
0279. Jones, J. (2022). Profanity and play: Solidarity in the discourse of cyberbullying.
I reveal a high degree of solidarity among the participants expressed through profanity, humor, and play.
0280. Kobayashi, M. (2022). The distributed practice effects of speaking task repetition. International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 32(1), 142–157. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijal.12409
Spaced task repetition may induce lexical variety in post-repetition speech.
0281. Koç, T., Bacanak, K.D., & Ergül, H. (2023). Gaze and other non-verbal resources in student clarification requests: A micro-analytic investigation.
Students incorporate gaze and other non-verbal resources in their requests for the clarifications of L2 vocabulary items.
0282. Köylü, Z. (2023). The ERASMUS sojourn: Does the destination country or pre-departure proficiency impact oral proficiency gains?
The type of the study-abroad context had no significant impact on oral proficiency gains as all participants were found to test better after the semester abroad.
0283. Kurdi, S. M. (2022). Intertextuality: Reinforcing thematic subjects in
I analyze and decode the intertextual layers that the writer has put there as extra meaning to his novel.
0284. Kuroshima, S. (2023). When a request turn is segmented: Managing the deontic authority via early compliance.
The service provider displays commitment to balancing their relative deontic status to the client.
0285. Lenglet, C., & Michaux, C. (2020). The impact of simultaneous-interpreting prosody on comprehension: An experiment. Interpreting, 22(1), 1–34. https://doi.org/10.1075/intp.00032.len
Simultaneous interpreting was found to be more monotonous, to contain a larger number of short and long silent pauses and more hesitations (“euh”).
0286. Leung, C. (2022). Language proficiency: From description to prescription and back?
I explore the ways in which this primarily research-oriented concept has been filtered through a particular set of disciplinary and ideological perspectives.
0287. Levy, H., & Hanulíková, A. (2023). Spot it and learn it! Word learning in virtual peer-group interactions using a novel paradigm for school-aged children.
Successful word learning was predicted by the amount of input in regional and foreign accents, but not by exposure to other languages.
0288. Licoppe, C., & Veyrier, C.-A. (2020). The interpreter as a sequential coordinator in courtroom interaction: ‘Chunking’ and the management of turn shifts in extended answers in consecutively interpreted asylum hearings with remote participants.
The collaborative production of such long answers is affected by the remote placement of the interpreter.
0289. Lie, S.B. (2022). Feeling to learn: Ideologies of race, aurality, and Manouche music pedagogy in France.
Advocacy for an aurally centered approach to music pedagogy becomes a way for speakers to denounce the discrimination Manouches face as racialized subjects.
0290. Liu, Q. (2023). Analysis of governmental open letters mobilizing residents in China during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Moral appeal and political authority were the key elements of legitimation discourse, but lower governments exhibited a trend of de-ideologization.
0291. Luo, J., & Li, D. (2022). Universals in machine translation? A corpus-based study of Chinese-English translations by WeChat Translate.
Certain salient words tend to prime WeChat’s machine translation system to repetitively resort to typical language patterns.
0292. Luukka, E. (2023). Meanings attributed to literature in language education.
Employing literature within the language education paradigm can narrow the gap between foreign language teaching and teaching literature.
0293. Maatouk, Z., & Payant, C. (2022). The pertinence and feasibility of implementing a plurilingual approach in Quebec, Canada: The beliefs of pre-service ESL teachers.
Future teachers were reluctant to implement a plurilingual approach, despite holding positive beliefs towards certain underlying principles of plurilingualism.
0294. Mabena, M.I., & Sobane, K. (2022). Sesotho figurative language: Ineffective conversational strategy in commissions of enquiry.
Figurative language was a conversationally ineffective communicative strategy that withheld information from the commissioners who were not speakers of Sesotho.
0295. Magnusson, S., & Stevanovic, M. (2023). Sexual consent as an interactional achievement: Overcoming ambiguities and social vulnerabilities in the initiations of sexual activities.
We investigate the interactional practices by which sexual activities are presented as consensual.
0296. Mbirimi-Hungwe, V. (2022). Translanguaging pedagogy as seen through a critical literacy lens.
The political situation made those who were in the majority feel more powerful than those in the minority.
0297. McDonough, K., Ammar, A., & Michaud, G. (2022). L2 peer interaction before and after writing: How does each one promote writing development?
Students who carried out pre-writing discussions had higher grammar and lexis ratings at the post-test.
0298. Mohamed, S. (2023). The development of an Arabic curriculum framework based on a compilation of salient features from CEFR level descriptors.
I detail the context and methodology of designing a Arabic curriculum framework.
0299. Monsrud, M.-B., Rydland, V., Geva, E., & Lyster, S.-A.H. (2022). First and second language sentence repetition: A screening measure for dual language learners?
The sentence repetition test is considered as a promising diagnostic tool for detecting language proficiency in monolingual learners.
0300. Moodie, I. (2023). Commitment to the profession of ELT and an organization: A profile of expat faculty in South Korea.
I investigated how commitment relates to their age, sex, teaching experience, and qualifications.
0301. Mumpande, I., & Barnes, L. (2022). Obstacles and challenges confronting Tonga revitalisation in Zimbabwe.
Endangered speech communities are intricate heterogeneous entities in which competing interests may jeopardize the revitalization process.
0302. Ngidi, P., Cekiso, M., & Mandende, P. (2022). A critical discourse analysis of former President Nelson Mandela’s two state of the nation addresses (1994 and 1999).
Former President Mandela used the restoration of human dignity for all South Africans, freedom of the individual, and taking care of the poor.
0303. Nymeyer, K., Dewey, D.P., Eggington, W., & Baker-Smemoe, W. (2022). Factors that affect native English speakers’ comfort levels when communicating with non-native English speakers.
Communicative expectations may be different for Spanish and Chinese speakers.
0304. Ope-Davies (Opeibi), T., & Shodipe, M. (2023). A multimodal discourse study of selected COVID-19 online public health campaign texts in Nigeria.
We adopted a qualitative content analysis approach to analyse on how online posts as multimodal resources amplify the role of social media affordances.
0305. Pack, A., Kiss, T., Barrett, A., & Chen, C. (2022). Towards a non-dichotomous view of motivators and demotivators in language learning.
Motivational factors can serve as both motivators and demotivators as their strength and polarity change according to initial conditioning.
0306. Persici, V., Majorano, M., Bastianello, T., & Hoff, E. (2022). Vocabulary and reading speed in the majority language are affected by maternal language proficiency and language exposure at home: A study of language minority bilingual children in Italy.
Bilingual children show decoding skills on a par with monolingual children despite smaller vocabularies.
0307. Previtali, F., Nikander, P., & Ruusuvuori, J. (2023). Ageism in job interviews: Discreet ways of building co-membership through age categorisation.
The analysis provides evidence of how job applicants resort to age co-membership with recruiters to achieve affiliation.
0308. Rudman, S. (2022). Knowing you, knowing me: Identity, agency and the analyst’s discourse in the context of a South African university classroom.
Student reflections accurately show that individuals as subjects of discourse are able to reposition themselves with regard to influential discourses in their contexts.
0309. Sadowsky, S. (2022). The sociolinguistic speech corpus of Chilean Spanish (COSCACH): A socially stratified text, audio and video corpus with multiple speech styles.
My plan is to provide a blueprint for creating modern, large-scale speech corpora suitable for phonetic, sociophonetic and sociolinguistic research.
0310. Scotto di Carlo, G. (2023). An analysis of self-other representations in the incelosphere: Between online misogyny and self-contempt.
Rather than emphasising the positive traits of the in-group, Incels describe themselves through self-derogative nominations.
0311. Shen, Y., Wang, R., Zhang, F., Barbieri, C.A., & Pasquarella, A. (2022). The effect of early enrollment in dual-language immersion programs on children’s English reading development: Findings from a 5–year longitudinal study.
First-grade teacher judgment was related to children’s initial reading performance but not their reading growth.
0312. Simungala, G., Ndalama, D., & Jimaima, H. (2022). Communicative practices from the margins: The multilingual and multicultural repertoires on university spaces.
We show the emergence of (new) lexical items through the (re-)invention and disinvention of communicative resources.
0313. Smith, C., & Arnott, S. (2022). “French teachers can figure it out”: Understanding French as a second language (FSL) teachers’ work in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Factors influencing teachers’ professional capital reflect common concerns among Canadian educators, alongside those specific to the FSL context.
0314. Smith, C., & Sheyholislami, J. (2022). Current trends in critical discourse analyses of textbooks: A look at selected literature.
Contextual attention and critical utility appear to be given to foundational approaches to critical discourse analysis and textbooks used for English language teaching.
0315. te Riele, K., Stewart, S., & Stratford, E. (2022). Whole school change for literacy teaching and learning: Purposes and processes.
We found the importance of focusing simultaneously on purpose and process, and the necessity of systemic support.
0316. Tsunemoto, A., Trofimovich, P., & Kennedy, S. (2023). Pre-service teachers’ beliefs about second language pronunciation teaching, their experience, and speech assessments.
Pre-service teachers with more experience appeared to be more skeptical about how (easily) L2 pronunciation can be learned.
0317. Uwen, G., & Mensah, E. (2022). Tomorrow may not be yours: Military slang and jargon as linguistic performance in Nigeria.
Situated language practices provide a site for linguistic creativity and the enactment of style that sustain meaningful relationships between personnel in the army.
0318. Villette, J., Burenhult, N., & Purves, R. (2022). Maps meet myths: Understanding Jahai place naming through Geographical Information Systems.
We generate and make suggestions for productive ways of understanding placenames as systems.
0319. Wang, H., & Chao, X. (2022). Language negotiation moments of ethnic Tibetan students in People’s Republic of China: An identity perspective.
They experienced different language negotiation moments in multilingual and monolingual spaces, which further impacts their investment in language learning.
0320. Weber, J. (2022). Disrupting binarized diversity discourses in ASL/English bimodal bilingual deaf education through examining affects within Apple Time, a theatre play.
As deaf nomads, they traverse between the affects arising from intra-actions with humans, animals, earth, and machine.
0321. Wilson, A., & Bishop, D. (2022). A novel online assessment of pragmatic and core language skills: An attempt to tease apart language domains in children.
Pragmatic and core aspects of language are closely related during development, with one area scaffolding development in the other.
0322. Wright, W., Boun, S., & Chan, V. (2022). Implementation of multilingual mother tongue education in Cambodian public schools for indigenous ethnic minority students.
We identify a number of challenges related to the governments’ capacity to further develop and expand multilingual education.
0323. Xin, L. (2020). Pragmalinguistic challenges for trainee interpreters in achieving accuracy: An analysis of questions and their interpretation in five cross-examinations. Interpreting, 22(1), 87–116. https://doi.org/10.1075/intp.00035.liu
We point to the need to enhance pragmatic competence among trainee interpreters, which in turn will require specialized training in legal settings.
0324. Xu, J., & Zhang, S. (2022). Development of EMI teacher language awareness: Does team teaching help?
The English-medium instruction teacher experienced noticeable changes in language awareness and pedagogical practice.
0325. Yung, K.W.H., & Zeng, C. (2022). Parentocracy within meritocracy: Parental perspective on lecture-style English private tutoring in Hong Kong.
We found the subordinating role of parentocracy in a meritocratic curriculum where academic success is largely determined by results in high-stakes examinations.
0326. Zaidi, R., Metcalfe, R., & Norton, B. (2022). Dual language books go digital: Storybooks Canada in French immersion schools and homes.
Storybooks Canada, a free digital platform with 40 dual language books, helps promote literacy engagement and strengthen home-school connections.
0327. Zeilhofer, L. (2023). Mindfulness in the foreign language classroom: Influence on academic achievement and awareness.
Meditative practices may play a role in designing and developing novel pedagogical practices.
Theoretical linguistics
0328. Aikhenvald, A.Y. (2022). On the rise: The expansion of serial verb constructions in Tariana.
The development of recapitulating serial verbs in Tariana can be partly seen as an independent innovation and as an outcome of language-internal pressure to create further serial verbs.
0329. Alabeeky, R.M. (2022). Word stress in Qassimi Arabic: A constraint-based analysis.
Qassimi Arabic word stress rules and their exceptions are translated into conflicting constraints that are ranked relative to one another by the use of constraint-relation tableaux.
0330. Almusharraf, A. (2022). EFL learners’ confidence, attitudes, and practice towards learning pronunciation.
Learners in this study had higher than neutral confidence in their pronunciation and held a highly positive attitude towards English native-like pronunciation.
0331. Badenoch, N. (2022). Silence, cessation and stasis: The ethnopoetics of “absence” in Bit expressives.
Culturally specific conceptions of the meaning of silence can be represented with the marked poetic language of expressives to account for the experience of various forms of absence.
0332. Baek, H. (2022). Prosodic disambiguation in first and second language production: English and Korean.
English uses both boundary marking (pause) and relative word prominence (elevated pitch and intensity) for disambiguation.
0333. Blust, R. (2022). Rare, but real: Native nasal clusters in Northern Philippine languages.
Many Northern Philippine languages contain native lexical items with -NC- giving clear evidence of a Philippine branch of the Austronesian family.
0334. Celata, C., Meluzzi, C., & Bertini, C. (2022). Acoustic and kinematic correlates of heterosyllabicity in different phonological contexts.
Systematic variations in acoustic vowel duration and the kinematics of tongue tip gestures represent the phonetic correlates of the segmental phonological contrast between short and long consonants.
0335. Cornut, C., Mahé, G., & Casalis, S. (2022). L2 word recognition in French–English late bilinguals: Does modality matter?
With both cognate and non-cognate words, the modality effect was even stronger for cognate words and cognate effect depended on modality.
0336. Cotter, W. (2022). The Arabic dialect of Gaza City.
Varieties of Arabic spoken in the Nagab are classified as originating in the Hijaz area of what is today Saudi Arabia.
0337. Crible, L. (2022). The syntax and semantics of coherence relations: From relative configurations to predictive signals.
I investigate the inter-relation between discourse markers and other contextual signals that contribute to the interpretation of coherence relations.
0338. De Haro, A., & Hajek, J. (2022). Eastern Andalusian Spanish.
Cádiz and Huelva in the west are the only Andalusian provinces where vowel lowering before underlying /s/ is not found.
0339. Engemann, H. (2022). How (not) to cross a boundary: Crosslinguistic influence in simultaneous bilingual children’s event construal.
Unidirectional crosslinguistic influence affected French path encoding in the verbal periphery and was predicted by the presence of boundary-crossing.
0340. Erlewine, M.Y., Lim, J., & Branan, K. (2022). Revisiting the form of negation in Pangasinan.
The word aga is an allomorph of ag historically motivated by a disyllabic word minimum requirement.
0341. Farré, M.B., Riesberg, S., & Himmelmann, N.P. (2022). Limited-control predicates in western Austronesia: Stative, dynamic, or none of the above?
Limited-control predicates differ from both stative and dynamic predicates, and constitute a category of their own.
0342. Fehn, A.-M., & Phiri, A. (2022). Juncture-verb constructions in northeastern Kalahari Khoe: A comparative perspective.
Multiverbal predicates constitute a defining feature of the Kalahari Basin linguistic area of southern Africa encompassing the Kx’a, Tuu, and Khoe-Kwadi language families.
0343. Fischer, A., Kleczkowski, N., & Ziegler, A. (2022). Phonetic variation and its spatial distribution in urban Austria: /l/-vocalization as a sociolinguistic marker?
The /l/-vocalization serves as a sociolinguistic rather than a dialect marker indicating regional identity. German /l/-vocalization
0344. Fisher, S. (2022). The status of ain’t in Philadelphia African American English.
Use of ain’t in past/perfective contexts where it varies with didn’t is considered a unique feature of African American English.
0345. Fonteyn, L., & Petré, P. (2022). On the probability and direction of morphosyntactic lifespan change.
We highlight different patterns of intraindividual change: progressive, retrograde, and “mixed.”
0346. Gardner, M., & Roeder, R. (2022). Phonological mergers have systemic phonetic consequences: Palm, trees, and the Low Back Merger Shift.
We provide a unified phonologically motivated explanation for the movement of trap, dress, and kit following the low-back merger in North American English.
0347. Gudmestad, A., & Carmichael, K. (2022). A variationist analysis of first-person-singular subject expression in Louisiana French.
Variationist examinations of endangered and minority languages can provide methodological and theoretical contributions to the study of language variation.
0348. Guérin, V., & Alvanoudi, A. (2022). The role of ale in Mavea narratives.
The ale indexes a change of footing as it closes off direct speech in the narrative.
0349. Hassan, W.N.F.W., Awang, S., & Abdullah, N. (2022). Fillers as communication strategies among English second language speakers in job interviews.
Fillers are useful to L2 speakers by helping them to maintain conversations and prevent communication breakdown.
0350. Howe, P. (2022). Semantics and pragmatics of voice in Central Malagasy oral narratives.
Patterns of anaphoric argument omission show that the pivot position has grammaticalized as the locus of high topicality arguments.
0351. Hundt, M., & Oppliger, R. (2022).
Article use largely depends on the lexical head in German but is constrained by different factors in English (notably modification).
0352. Ip, M.H.K., & Cutler, A. (2022). In search of salience: Focus detection in the speech of different talkers.
We found both speaker variability and listener flexibility in the processing of prosodic focus.
0353. Jiao, D., & Gnevsheva, K. (2022). Dialect proficiency and Mandarin rating in dialect identification: The case of Jiangsu province.
Listeners were able to make distinctions between speakers of Jiangsu province dialect and speakers of non-Jiangsu province dialect.
0354. Kim, H., & Jongman, A. (2022). The influence of inter-dialect contact on the Korean three-way laryngeal distinction: An acoustic comparison among Seoul Korean speakers and Gyeongsang speakers with limited and extended residence in Seoul.
The cue-weighting model of the long term transplants provide empirical evidence that a series of sound changes in Gyeongsang Korean is due to inter-dialect contact.
0355. Lin, H., & Gu, Y. (2022). “Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.” A functional description of time expressions through fingers based on Chinese Sign Language naturalistic data.
There were interconnections between finger representations, numbers, ordering, and time in Chinese Sign Language.
0356. Liu, Y., Zhang, J., & Li, H. (2023). Use of partial information to learn to read Chinese characters in non-native Chinese learners .
Novice students demonstrated limited ability in using partial information to learn to pronounce characters.
0357. Lynch, J. (2022). On the nature of Proto-Oceanic *o in Southern Vanuatu (and beyond).
The default reflex of Proto-Oceanic *o is front or central and unrounded, and not back and rounded.
0358. MacKenzie, L., Bailey, G., & Turton, D. (2022). Towards an updated dialect atlas of British English.
We present a survey of phonological, lexical, and morphosyntactic variation in British English.
0359. Madlome, S., & Hlungwani, C. (2022). Phonological and semantic variations in Tsonga spoken in Zimbabwe and South Africa.
We highlight phonological processes such as labialization versus palatalization, velarization versus labialization, and nasalization versus non-nasalization.
0360. Muylle, M., Van Assche, E., & Hartsuiker, R. (2022). Comparing the cognate effect in spoken and written second language word production.
Total latencies in the written modality were similar for cognates with much cross-linguistic overlap, but longer for ones with less overlap.
0361. Nguyen, B.T.T., & Newton, J. (2022). Production of third-person singular –s and be copula in communication tasks by Vietnamese EFL Learners: Acquisition Order and Learner Orientation to Form.
Vietnamese L1 does not inflectionally mark third-person singular –s although the construction of be copula in Vietnamese and English shares some features.
0362. Pappas, L., & Mawyer, A. (2022). The place of space in Oceanic Linguistics.
The literature reflects a plurality of centering foci, what we have called coupled language-space domains, that guide the disciplinary conversation.
0363. Pellegrino, E., Kathiresan, T., & Dellwo, V. (2022). Vowel convergence does not affect auditory speaker discriminability in humans and machine in a case study on Swiss German dialects.
Listeners’ sensitivity was higher for native than non-native listeners, but comparable for pre- and post-dialogue recordings.
0364. Phillips, A., & Tucker, B. (2022). Context effects on the acoustic realization of stops and affricates in Northern Pwo Karen.
Voice onset time, closure duration, and the voiceless interval are the longest before high and front vowels.
0365. Pratchett, L.J. (2022). When verbs ‘stay (and) go’ together: Pseudo-coordination in Juǀ’hoan and ǃxun.
I describe the polygrammaticalisation resulting from pseudo-coordination, including other multi-verb constructions.
0366. Rathcke, T., & Mooshammer, C. (2022). ‘Grandpa’ or ‘opera’? Production and perception of unstressed /a/ and /əʁ/ in German.
We examine whether differences between these two vowels exist in production and perception of Standard German speakers from the north of Germany.
0367. Recasens, D. (2022). Acoustic characteristics and placement within vowel space of full schwa in the world’s languages: A survey.
Formant frequency data reveal that this vowel is mid central, though somewhat shifted to the mid back unrounded area.
0368. Ross, D., & Lovestrand, J. (2022). Do prior motion serial verbs (go) morphologize? Insights into diachrony from typology.
The source of prior motion morphology is more likely other multiverb constructions, especially those with non-finite verbs.
0369. Sande, H. (2022). The phonology of Guébie.
Guébie has a complex tone system with four contrastive pitch heights, multiple types of vowel harmony, and reduplication in multiple morphosyntactic contexts.
0370. Schaefer, R.P., & Egbokhare, F.O. (2022). Secondary concepts and internal dynamics of Emai serial verb constructions.
Some verbs that code secondary concepts shun serialization and generally take complements that are clausal, truncated, or obliquely marked gerundives.
0371. Snape, S., & Krott, A. (2022). The challenge of relational referents in early word extensions: Evidence from noun-noun compounds.
We found a developmental shift from encoding non-relational aspects (colour) towards relations of compound referents.
0372. Van Gysel, J. (2022). The influence of language shift on Sanapaná vowels: An exemplar-based perspective.
Decreased L1 exposure is the main factor driving language shift-related change in Sanapaná.
0373. Villarreal, D., & Clark, L. (2022). Intraspeaker priming across the New Zealand English short front vowel shift.
The repetition effect responded not to the direction of vowel changes within the short front vowel shift, but rather the peripherality of the tokens.
0374. Yu, A.C.L., Lee, C.W.T., Lan, C., & Mok, P.P.K. (2022). A new system of Cantonese tones? Tone perception and production in Hong Kong South Asian Cantonese.
South Asian Cantonese speakers might have developed a distinct tone system from their ethnic Chinese peers.
0375. Zhang, H., Wang, Y., & Vanek, N. (2022). Negation processing in Chinese–English bilinguals: Insights from the Stroop paradigm and an orientation task.
Language can drive changes when bilinguals process negation, with variations in the bipolar and unipolar contexts.