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Describing smell: A comparative analysis of active smell lexicon in Estonian and German 描述气味：爱沙尼亚语和德语中活跃气味词汇的比较分析

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Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-01-24 DOI: 10.1515/opli-2022-0268

Karin Zurbuchen, Ene Vainik

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Informed decision making in translating assessment scales in Physical Therapy 翻译物理治疗评估量表的知情决策

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Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-01-08 DOI: 10.1515/opli-2022-0258

Mihai Robert Rusu

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The pitfalls of near-mergers: A sociophonetic approach to near-demergers in the Malaga /θ/ vs /s/ split 近合并的陷阱：马拉加 /θ/ vs /s/ 分裂音中的近合并音的社会语音学方法

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Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-12-29 DOI: 10.1515/opli-2022-0249

Álvaro Molina García

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Address forms in Tatar spoken in Finland and Estonia 芬兰和爱沙尼亚的鞑靼语地址格式

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Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-12-26 DOI: 10.1515/opli-2022-0243

Orsolya Sild

{"title":"Address forms in Tatar spoken in Finland and Estonia","authors":"Orsolya Sild","doi":"10.1515/opli-2022-0243","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2022-0243","url":null,"abstract":"Tatar minorities have lived in Finland and Estonia as a multilingual diaspora for more than a century. This study explores how the different generations of Tatars living in Finland and Estonia perceive polite forms of address, focusing on the choice of informal and formal second-person pronouns and the use of kinship terms. The research material includes 7 h 20 min of semi-structured interviews conducted with nine Tatars from Finland and ten Tatars from Estonia. The results suggest a parallel tendency of variation in the address forms among the Finnish and Estonian Tatar minorities. Specifically, the Tatars in Finland are more likely to use sin, the second-person singular form (T-form), than the Estonian Tatars. This is similar to Finnish, where the T-form is more extensively used than in Estonian and Russian, which are the main contact languages of Tatar in Estonia. The results also propose that Finnish and Estonian Tatar diaspora members use kinship terms less as a polite form of address and accept being addressed by their first name. However, in standard Tatar, it is perceived to be impolite to address the interlocutor by only their first name without a kinship term or title. Many of the participants were also aware of these pluriareal differences in the use of T-forms and the use of Sez, the second-person plural form (V-form), and kinship terms in Tatar, suggesting the existence of meta-linguistic awareness among Tatar speakers in terms of polite language use.","PeriodicalId":43803,"journal":{"name":"Open Linguistics","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139055277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Multilingualism in the Romanian translation of C. N. Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus: Sociolinguistic considerations C. N. Adichie 的《紫色木槿花》罗马尼亚文译本中的多语言问题：社会语言学思考

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Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-12-22 DOI: 10.1515/opli-2022-0255

Mona Arhire

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Theoretical implications of the prefixation of Polish change of state verbs 波兰语状态变化动词前缀的理论意义

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Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-12-22 DOI: 10.1515/opli-2022-0250

Anna Malicka-Kleparska

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The effects of recalling and imagining prompts on writing engagement, syntactic and lexical complexity, accuracy, and fluency: A partial replication of Cho (2019) 回忆和想象提示对写作参与度、句法和词汇复杂性、准确性和流畅性的影响：对Cho（2019）研究的部分复制

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Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-12-22 DOI: 10.1515/opli-2022-0259

Syed Muhammad Mujtaba, Barry Lee Reynolds, Yang Gao, Rakesh Parkash, Xuan Van Ha

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Introduction to Lexical constraints in grammar: Minority verb classes and restricted alternations 语法中的词法限制简介：少数动词类和限制性交替词

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Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-12-20 DOI: 10.1515/opli-2022-0271

Katherine Walker, Pegah Faghiri

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“You are certainly my best friend” – Translating adverbs of evidential certainty in The Picture of Dorian Gray "你肯定是我最好的朋友"--翻译《道林-格雷的画像》中的证据确凿的副词

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Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-12-20 DOI: 10.1515/opli-2022-0269

Daria Protopopescu

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Source and target factors affecting the translation of the EU law: Implications for translator training 影响欧盟法律翻译的来源和目标因素：对译员培训的影响

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Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-12-19 DOI: 10.1515/opli-2022-0266

Mihaela Cozma

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