OPERA AND ITALIAN IDENTITY: THE LONG VIEW by Stefano CASTELVECCHI

“…Operatic practice can be seen as an element of social, linguistic and cultural integration across the Italian peninsula. …”
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Teaching english for professional purposes: methodological and organizational issues by Natalia V. Burenina

“…In order to improve the qualityof the English language education of non-linguistic students via up-dating methodological component, areas in which teachers need professional improvement were defined. …”
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Non-linear development in statistical learning of visual orthographic regularities by Rujun Duan, Qi Sun, Xiuhong Tong

“…Abstract Statistical learning is a core ability for individuals in extracting and integrating regularities and patterns from linguistic input. Yet, the developmental trajectory of visual statistical learning has not been fully examined in the orthographic learning domain. …”
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Recent origin and cultural reversion of a hunter-gatherer group. by Hiroki Oota, Brigitte Pakendorf, Gunter Weiss, Arndt von Haeseler, Surin Pookajorn, Wannapa Settheetham-Ishida, Danai Tiwawech, Takafumi Ishida, Mark Stoneking

“…The Mlabri have no mtDNA diversity, and the genetic diversity at Y-chromosome and autosomal loci are also extraordinarily reduced in the Mlabri. Genetic, linguistic, and cultural data all suggest that the Mlabri were recently founded, 500-800 y ago, from a very small number of individuals. …”
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Global Use, Adaptation, and Sharing of Massive Open Online Courses for Emergency Health on the OpenWHO Platform: Survey Study by Jamie Sewan Johnston, Nadine Ann Skinner, Anna Tokar, Elham Arabi, Ngouille Yabsa Ndiaye, Matthew Charles Strehlow, Heini Utunen

“…Learners in LMICs indicated greater accessibility challenges due to technological and linguistic barriers. ConclusionsLearners commonly share content from MOOCs about public health emergencies; this is especially true in low-income countries and LMICs. …”
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Referential Choices and Specific Language Impairment: Sensitivity to Contrast Levels and Grammatical Role by Maja Stegenwallner-Schütz, Flavia Adani

“…We examine the referential choices of children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI), in order to differentiate between the linguistic and pragmatic abilities involved in the selection of appropriate referring expressions. …”
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La classification de la diversité de maïs des Mixtèques et des Chatines de la Sierra Sur, Oaxaca Mexique by Quetzalcóatl Orozco-Ramírez, Stephen Brush

“…Following those results, we concluded that maize diversity and maize population differentiation between Mixtec and Chatino municipalities is maintained and reinforced by the cultural and linguistic separation.…”
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« Je ne suis pas un zéro ». Pour une distinction entre absence d’article et article zéro en anglais contemporain by Florent Moncomble

“…Most interpretations of the absence of marked determiners in English are monolithic, insofar as they contend that all uses can be grouped under one heading, generally “zero article”. Some linguists argue that the expression “absence of article” would be more appropriate, yet do not question the validity of the monolithic approach.In this article, we support the idea that a number of structures involving the absence of a marked determiner are indeed cases where no determination whatsoever occurs. …”
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“Being an Instance of the Norm”: Women, Surveillance and Guilt in Richard Yates’s Revolutionary Road by Vavotici Francesca

“…The semiotics of female identity that surrounds the character of April will be examined to show how this ostracisation is not only an external process of separation form society, but becomes an internalised action that leads to a fracture in the female consciousness that can only be overcome through the adoption of an alternative, extra-linguistic semiotics.…”
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« This » comme marqueur privilégié du genre : le cas des résumés de thèses by Geneviève Bordet

“…The application of this classification to a corpus of abstracts in the fields of mathematics education and materials science highlights an array of rhetorical strategies depending on the writer’s disciplinary and linguistic origin. We argue that the mastering of the interpretive space provided by the use of “this” helps the PhD candidate to demonstrate his/her legitimacy and authority, therefore contributing to his/her admission inside the academic community.…”
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La question de l’efficience d’un enseignant débutant en classe by Sophie Baconnet

“…The article questions of the process of development of competences in the teaching profession. It studies the linguistic didactic gestures of a trainee, observed within the setting up of an innovative teacher training. …”
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Enseigner-apprendre l’orthographe, des interactions langagières pour articuler gestes professionnels et gestes d’étude by Martine Champagne-Vergez, Maryse Rebière, Martine Jaubert

“…We study the language interactions and analyse what is common and what is different between the devices, trying to follow the thread of a genesis of knowledge, between epilinguistic and metalinguistic verbalizations, in order to capture linguistic phenomena at work and in particular scenarios and their appropriation.…”
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RELATIVIZATION STRATEGIES OF APPLICATIVE ARGUMENTS RELATION IN BELITONG by I Nyoman Pasek Darmawan, Vindi Kaldina

“…The data analysis process proceeded by employing qualitative data techniques and a careful linguistic typological approach, RG. The results of this study showed that: (1) A gap strategy is employed in direct relativization, and it accommodates the revaluation of core arguments (S and O), (2) indirect relativization allows the application of the passivization strategy on object properties of applicative constructions. …”
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The Role of Traditional Environmental Knowledge in Taytnapam Toponyms by Eugene S. Hunn, Richard H. McClure Jr.

“…A majority of descendants are now citizens of the Yakama Nation and the Cowlitz Indian Tribe. The linguist Melville Jacobs published a detailed inventory of Taytnapam place names dictated to him in 1927 by two elderly consultants in the local Ichishkíin (Sahaptin) dialect. …”
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L’Empathie comme base de réflexion sur l’identité des marqueurs HAVE et WANT by Philippe Muller

“…In the wake of previous papers from French linguists who used the word “empathy” to describe the operators AVOIR and HAVE, it is suggested that this notion should be conceived of as an interpretation process connected with the localization operation as defined in enunciative theories. …”
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Iterativity, agency, and feminism in the Hindu Tij songs of Nepal by Basanti Timalsina, Victoria L. Bergvall

“…Tij songs of Nepal provide an opportunity to consider the interacting forces of iterativity (repetition, yet with purposive changes), agency (both social and linguistic), and women’s empowerment in Nepal (whether it falls under the label “feminism” or not). …”
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The Head Pendant from the Marchetti Collection: Phoenicio-Punic Glass or Modern Forgery? by Elisabetta Malaman, Cinzia Bettineschi, Ivana Angelini, Monica Salvadori

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AI and Uncertain Motivation: Hidden allies that impact EFL argumentative essays using the Toulmin Model by Abdullah Al Fraidan

“…However, a temporary decline was noted early in the study, attributed to the learning curve associated with both AI and the Toulmin model.Writing argumentative essays poses significant linguistic and cognitive challenges for EFL learners. …”
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La Revelatio ecclesiae sancti Michaelis et son auteur by Pierre Bouet

“…But he shows a certain critical insight in his appreciations and even a genuinely scientific precision in his detailed references to the geology, the geography and the historical evolution of the Mont. A linguistic analysis of the Latin text leads us to date its writing at the beginning of the 9th century and to link it with the considerable movement of canonic reform undertaken byemperor Louis the Pious from 816 onwards. …”
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Sociocultural Competence as a Quality Indicator in the Professional Training of Specialists by E. E. Shishlova

“…“Sociocultural competence” is interpreted by the author as a broader concept than professional competence which cannot be reduced to linguistic competence formed in the process of students’ language preparation for intercultural communication. …”
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