IF 4.2 1区文学

Language Teaching Research Pub Date : 2025-07-13 DOI: 10.1177/13621688251345726

Muzaffer Pınar Babanoğlu

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An “Identity Turn” in political communication?: testing the relationship between media use and identity alignment in the United States 政治传播中的“身份转向”？：美国媒体使用与身份认同的关系测试

IF 7.9 1区文学

Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2025-07-13 DOI: 10.1093/joc/jqaf026

Daniel S Lane, Melody Chen, Yifei Wang

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Translanguaging for Empowerment and Equity: Language Practices in Philippine Education and Other Public Spaces

IF 2.8 2区文学

International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism Pub Date : 2025-07-13 DOI: 10.1080/13670050.2025.2530684

Naufal Rangkuti

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Chat groups as local civic infrastructure: A case study of “Solidary neighborhood help” Telegram groups during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany 聊天群作为地方市政基础设施：以德国COVID-19大流行期间“团结邻里帮助”电报群为例

IF 5 1区文学

New Media & Society Pub Date : 2025-07-13 DOI: 10.1177/14614448251349426

Olga Pasitselska, Kilian Buehling, Emilija Gagrčin

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Preventing Violence in the Disability Margins: A Culture-Centered Study in Aotearoa 预防残障边缘的暴力：一项以文化为中心的研究

IF 7.9 1区文学

Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2025-07-13 DOI: 10.1093/joc/jqaf027

Mohan J Dutta, Phoebe Elers, Andee Zorn, Stephen Bray, Selina Metuamate, Venessa Pokaia, Pooja Jayan, Mahbubur Rahman, Shakila Hashim, Jie Liu, Negin Nematollahi, Akbar Shah Bin Mohd Sharif, Christina Teikmata-Tito, Francine Whittfield, Sarah Holdaway, De’Anne Jackson, Bronwyn Kerr, Ihaia Raharuhi

{"title":"Preventing Violence in the Disability Margins: A Culture-Centered Study in Aotearoa","authors":"Mohan J Dutta, Phoebe Elers, Andee Zorn, Stephen Bray, Selina Metuamate, Venessa Pokaia, Pooja Jayan, Mahbubur Rahman, Shakila Hashim, Jie Liu, Negin Nematollahi, Akbar Shah Bin Mohd Sharif, Christina Teikmata-Tito, Francine Whittfield, Sarah Holdaway, De’Anne Jackson, Bronwyn Kerr, Ihaia Raharuhi","doi":"10.1093/joc/jqaf027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqaf027","url":null,"abstract":"Disabled people are overrepresented as victims of sexual violence and family violence, but are often excluded from research and the development of communication campaigns, laws, and interventions. Grounded in the culture-centered approach, we undertook 77 qualitative interviews with predominantly Māori (Indigenous) and low-income disabled individuals to identify primary prevention needs for reducing family and sexual violence. Participants articulated disability as being structural, intersectional, and layered with erasure, contributing to conditions that perpetuate violence. Erasure and the resulting loss of agency were pervasive across diverse disabilities and participant groups, with Māori bearing a disproportionate burden. Emergent in the participants’ narratives were strategies around addressing communication inequalities and grounding prevention resources within local community contexts, set against structural determinants of violence perpetuated by the settler colonial State. This study challenges the hegemonic approach to addressing sexual violence and family violence, revealing a relationship between communicative and material forms of violence.","PeriodicalId":48410,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication","volume":"93 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144612869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Developing the CLIL teacher assessment literacy inventory 开发CLIL教师素养评估量表

IF 4.9 1区文学

System Pub Date : 2025-07-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.system.2025.103776

Jieting Jerry Xin, Yuen Yi Lo

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Cascading activation in spoken word production drives incomplete neutralization: An internet-based study of Mandarin 3rd tone sandhi 口语单词产生中的级联激活驱动不完全中和：基于网络的普通话三变调研究

IF 1.9 1区文学

Journal of Phonetics Pub Date : 2025-07-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2025.101428

Yuyu Zeng , Chang Wang , Jie Zhang

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Cognitive processing in simultaneous interpreting with synchronous captioning: An eye-tracking study of Chinese head-final noun phrases with varied dependency distances 同步字幕同声传译的认知加工：不同依赖距离的汉语头尾名词短语眼动追踪研究

IF 4.9 1区文学

System Pub Date : 2025-07-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.system.2025.103761

Meng Du, Binhua Wang

{"title":"Cognitive processing in simultaneous interpreting with synchronous captioning: An eye-tracking study of Chinese head-final noun phrases with varied dependency distances","authors":"Meng Du, Binhua Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.system.2025.103761","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.system.2025.103761","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Grounded in the pedagogical goals of interpreting training, this study explores the impact of automatic speech recognition technology on cognitive processing in simultaneous interpreting, specifically, how trainee interpreters handle Chinese head-final noun phrases with varying dependency distances, i.e., how they navigate syntactic asymmetry between Chinese and English and capture information focus in simultaneous interpreting with synchronous captioning, with particular emphasis on the effects of highlighting head nouns and dependency distance variations. To examine these factors, an eye-tracking experiment involving 30 Chinese trainee interpreters was conducted, where participants interpreted a speech which contained 16 experimental sentences with controlled dependency distances in noun phrases featuring head nouns highlighted within the captions, in comparison with 16 control sentences without highlighted head nouns. Eye movements in the interpreting process and interpreting performances were analysed. The results indicate that head noun highlighting enhances cognitive processing and information completeness during simultaneous interpreting by facilitating deeper reprocessing and comprehension, particularly for sentences with longer dependency distances. The study reveals that highlighting head nouns lowers omission rates and encourages more structured interpreting output, like prepositional phrases or relative clauses, depending on the dependency distance. Without highlighting, interpreting output tends to be more flexible but less accurate due to incomplete information rendering. These findings underscore the potential of incorporating visual aids, such as head noun highlighting, into interpreter training programs to enhance accuracy and cognitive resource management.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48185,"journal":{"name":"System","volume":"133 ","pages":"Article 103761"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144606094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Assessing L2 writing formality using syntactic complexity indices: A fuzzy evaluation approach 用句法复杂性指标评价二语写作的正式性：一种模糊评价方法

IF 4.2 1区文学

Assessing Writing Pub Date : 2025-07-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.asw.2025.100973

Zhiyun Huang , Guangyao Chen , Zhanhao Jiang

{"title":"Assessing L2 writing formality using syntactic complexity indices: A fuzzy evaluation approach","authors":"Zhiyun Huang , Guangyao Chen , Zhanhao Jiang","doi":"10.1016/j.asw.2025.100973","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.asw.2025.100973","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Addressing the ambiguity in formality standards, this study introduces a cutting-edge Multi-dimensional Connection Cloud Model (MCCM) that leverages syntactic complexity indices to develop a fuzzy assessment model for formality in L2 writing. Employing Elastic Net Regression (ENR), the results revealed that four large-grained indices (mean length of sentence, mean length of T-unit, complex nominals per T-unit and complex nominals per clause), and one fine-grained index (average number of dependents per direct object) were significant in predicting the level of formality in L2 writing. To evaluate the model’s predictive power, 45 essays were used as a validation set. The MCCM model achieved a prediction accuracy of 91.1 % (41 out of 45 cases) in matching human ratings, with connection degrees effectively capturing classification uncertainty and boundary transitions. This pioneering framework effectively navigates the complexities and variable distributions of indicators, offering a more objective solution compared to conventional expert evaluations and introducing a novel methodological approach to assessing formality in academic writing.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46865,"journal":{"name":"Assessing Writing","volume":"66 ","pages":"Article 100973"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144604347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Introduction: discourse at the intersection of digital design and user agency 导论：数字设计与用户代理交叉的论述

IF 2.3 2区文学

Discourse Context & Media Pub Date : 2025-07-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2025.100917

Caroline Tagg, Göran Eriksson, Camilla Vásquez

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