Taming the duality of disability. Critical cultural-historical tools to disrupt equity paradoxes by Alfredo J. Artiles

“…For instance, disability’s potential to oppress tends to target already marginalized groups, such as racialized people and students from nondominant linguistic, socioeconomic or ethnic backgrounds. Thus, a concept available to safeguard vulnerable groups (i.e., disability) can be deployed to segregate or deny educational opportunities. …”
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Reimagining South African political campaigns through indigenous language posters in the 4IR: A political communication perspective by Fulufhelo Oscar Makananise

“…The study was underpinned by a theory of communication in political campaigns to ascertain the importance of communication or linguistic features in political campaign posters. A phenomenological qualitative research method and exploratory research design were employed to address the research problem and objectives of the study. …”
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Montreal Cognitive Assessment Hearing Impairment (MoCA-H): cross-cultural adaptation to Brazilian Portuguese by Rochele Martins Machado, Karina Carlesso Pagliarin, Fernanda Soares Aurélio Patatt

“…Results Cultural and linguistic adaptations were made to the instrument as well as changes to administration procedures to improve respondent comprehension. …”
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Attitudes Toward Dialectal Variations in Saudi Arabic: A Case Study of King Abdulaziz University Students by Saeed Ali Al Alaslaa

“…The findings underscore the importance of promoting linguistic awareness and inclusivity to mitigate the negative effects of dialect-based stereotyping and bias.…”
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Understanding intercultural virtual exchange through a translanguaging lens in Chinese as a foreign language by Guo Zhiyan, Xu Xinyue

“…The students leveraged a range of linguistic, semiotic and multimodal resources to navigate through communication with their partners. …”
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Language shift in Aceh: The sociolinguistic situation of post-conflict society by Teuku Muhammad Ridha Al-Auwal, Robert Amery, Ian Green

“…Since the 1970s and 1980s, an emerging phenomenon of Indonesian intergenerational transmission has emerged. This linguistic phenomenon then became more and more common among Acehnese families in the 2000s and peaked after the tsunami and peace agreement. …”
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Investigating the Role of Pragmatics in Cross-Cultural Communication: A Comparative Analysis of Speech Acts in Different Cultures by Rasha Hussan

“…The study conducts a comparative analysis of speech acts—such as requests, apologies, compliments, and directives—across American and British cultural contexts, examining how cultural norms, values, and linguistic conventions shape their expression and interpretation. …”
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Enhancing EFL writing skills for adult Deaf and hard of hearing individuals by Marta Chomicz, Marta Chomicz

“…Moreover, the study highlights the creative strategies D/HH learners use to overcome linguistic challenges, such as employing simple and direct language, imaginative storytelling, and using visual imagery. …”
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Conceptualizing the notions of human-being and human-person in terminal discharge by Jackson Coy

“…The paper picks one of the controversial bioethical moral issues that are always raised in end-of-life decisions; ‘the distinction between human beings and human-person’ and analyzes it through linguistic categories of Kiswahili language. From the reflections on the semantic charge of human beings (binadamu in Kiswahili) and human-person (mtu in Kiswahili), it is possible to infer that their distinction holds to moral criterion that may influence terminal discharge in Tanzania. …”
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Risk analysis of public-private partnership waste to energy projects: A systematic literature review by Kurnia Raharja Arif, Hadiyanto Hadiyanto, Maryono Maryono

“…The review identifies financial, technical, environmental, and social risks and highlights the importance of advanced risk assessment models like the 2-Dimension Linguistic Environment and Cloud Model and Bayesian Analytics for better decision-making. …”
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Novel Procedures for Evaluating Autism Online in a Culturally Diverse Population of Children: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Pathway Development Study by Venus Mirzaei, Jeanne Wolstencroft, Georgia Lockwood Estrin, Eleanor Buckley, Shermina Sayani, Panos Katakis, Reena Anand, Tessa Squire, Eleanor Short, Paige Frankson, David Skuse, Michelle Heys

“…By addressing geographical and linguistic barriers, this pathway seeks to reduce service costs, shorten waiting times, and promote equity in autism diagnosis. …”
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W.V.O. Quine’s “Indeterminacy Thesis of Radical Translation” and the Logic Problem in the Expression of African Thoughts by Emmanuel Ofuasia (csp)

“…Through the method of conversational philosophy, this research interrogates the linguistic and logical assumptions with which the West quizzed pre-colonial Africans. …”
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In Search of Lost National Epic: Poem Kastītis ir Juraite by Auszra poet Andrius Vištelis by Ieva Kristinaitytė

“…The first part of the article discusses the paradigm of poetic and linguistic reconstruction and its significance for the creative program of one of the initiators of Auszra, thus including Vištelis in the significant field of the romanticism, which was manifested in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, whereas the second part analyses the idea of a new egalitarian society proclaimed in the poem Kastītis ir Juraite in the 19th century through the context of utopias. …”
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Enhancing the Quality of Physical Culture Education: Exploring the Role of Communicative Competence in Physical Culture Teachers by Yurij Vaskov

“…The study concludes that a physical culture teacher's communicative competence includes verbal and non-verbal means, such as silence, with non-verbal means further categorized into linguistic, kinetic, extralinguistic, and proxemic. …”
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Incorporating the Dimensions of Tolerance into Reading Materials-Development in Diverse EFL Classrooms by Dedi Aprianto

“…The study highlights the importance of incorporating both linguistic and social elements into teaching resources, promoting inclusivity and a supportive learning environment. …”
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A CORPUS-BASED ANALYSIS OF CRITICAL STRATEGIES in COVID-19 CORPORA by Ryza Wahyu Muslimah

“…These phenomena summon everyone to conduct the research in a medical perspective or even associate the result in a linguistic perspective. To reach further expanding, mixed method or commonly is used to call as quantitative and qualitative collaboration method. …”
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Fifa world cup 2018 in Russia: implementation of digital technologies by Yu. V. Sinchuk, V. P. Zhuravel, B. E. Vlasov

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Adivasi Marginality and the Vicissitudes of Violence in Rejina Marandi’s Becoming Me by Sayan Chatterjee

“…Their secluded and unique lifestyle has been primarily characterized by geospatial isolation and religious-linguistic divisions. Moreover, the withdrawal of these indigenous people from modern paradigms and values made them stand out as the perennial “other” for both the colonial rulers and mainstream Indian society. …”
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The Story of Writing: From Classical Rhetoric to Rhetoric and Composition by I. B. Korotkina

“…This approach helps visualize academic writing as a wholesome model composed of cognitive and linguistic elements, describe the impact of this model on the rhetorical and publishing conventions of the global academic discourse, and define the problems in knowledge construction as deviations from the model’s unity in various sociocultural contexts. …”
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Preparing teachers of Early Childhood Education to teach a foreign language: the PEPELINO portfolio in practice by Joanna Rokita-Jaśkow, Werona Król-Gierat

“…The data analysis revealed that ‘supporting the linguistic development of children with other first languages than Polish’ gained the least support among the respondents, despite a significant course module devoted to this issue. …”
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