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Deconstructing the Library of Babel: Analysis of linguistic complexity in Spanish graded readers and literary works 解构巴别塔图书馆：西班牙语分级读者和文学作品的语言复杂性分析

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Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2025-05-12 DOI: 10.1093/applin/amaf017

Inmaculada López-Solà, Leo Wanner, Carmen López-Ferrero

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English-medium instruction in European higher education: Measurement validity and the state of play in 2023/2024 欧洲高等教育英语教学：2023/2024年的测量效度和运行状态

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Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2025-05-12 DOI: 10.1093/applin/amaf020

Peter Wingrove, Beatrice Zuaro, Dogan Yuksel, Marion Nao, Anna Kristina Hultgren

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Enhancing disciplinary voice through feedback-seeking in AI-assisted doctoral writing for publication 通过人工智能辅助博士论文发表的反馈寻求，增强学科话语权

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Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2025-05-03 DOI: 10.1093/applin/amaf022

Baraa Khuder

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Can sentiment analysis help to assess accuracy in interpreting? A corpus-assisted computational linguistic approach 情感分析能帮助评估口译的准确性吗？一种语料库辅助计算语言学方法

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Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2025-05-03 DOI: 10.1093/applin/amaf026

Yujie Huang, Andrew K F Cheung, Kanglong Liu, Han Xu

{"title":"Can sentiment analysis help to assess accuracy in interpreting? A corpus-assisted computational linguistic approach","authors":"Yujie Huang, Andrew K F Cheung, Kanglong Liu, Han Xu","doi":"10.1093/applin/amaf026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amaf026","url":null,"abstract":"This study explores how sentiment analysis, a natural language processing technique, can help to assess the accuracy of interpreting learners’ renditions. The data was obtained from a corpus consisting of 22 interpreting learners’ performance over a training period of 11 weeks and comparable professional interpreters’ performance used as a reference. The sentiment scores of learners’ output were calculated using two lexicon-based sentiment tools and compared to the reference. The results revealed the learners’ limited ability to convey the speaker’s sentiment, which mainly resulted from their omission and distortion of key sentiment words and their intensity. Additionally, statistically significant correlations were found between the learner-reference sentiment gap of a given rendition and its accuracy level as perceived by the human raters, yet the extent of correlation is moderate. This suggests that the predictive power of sentiment analysis as a standalone indicator of accuracy is limited. Overall, the findings of this study have practical implications for the design of automated interpreting quality assessment tools and interpreting training.","PeriodicalId":48234,"journal":{"name":"Applied Linguistics","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143902912","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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Linguistic discrimination and resistance: Puerto Rican youth language ideologies 语言歧视与反抗：波多黎各青年的语言意识形态

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Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2025-05-02 DOI: 10.1093/applin/amaf025

Claudia Matachana López

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AI-textuality: Expanding intertextuality to theorize human-AI interaction with generative artificial intelligence AI-textuality：扩展互文性，将人类与人工智能的互动理论化

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Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2025-04-21 DOI: 10.1093/applin/amaf016

Kok-Sing Tang

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Mobilizing assistance through troubles-complaints in L2 settings 通过在第二语言环境中投诉问题来动员援助

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Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2025-04-21 DOI: 10.1093/applin/amaf019

Bandar Alshammari, Michael Haugh

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The linguicized subject: everyday linguicism and the ‘English-only’ discourse against migrants in Australia 语言化的主题：日常语言和针对澳大利亚移民的“只讲英语”的话语

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Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2025-04-21 DOI: 10.1093/applin/amaf021

Trang Thi Thuy Nguyen, John Hajek

{"title":"The linguicized subject: everyday linguicism and the ‘English-only’ discourse against migrants in Australia","authors":"Trang Thi Thuy Nguyen, John Hajek","doi":"10.1093/applin/amaf021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amaf021","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, we examine how migrants with a language other than English background are exposed to linguistic discrimination in relation to the English-only discourse of their daily life in Australia, labelling such discrimination as everyday linguicism. By engaging in a scholarly conversation on subjectivity, discourse, and power, we conceptualize and make use of the notion linguicized subjectivity as a thinking tool to interpret incidents of linguicism encountered by our participants. While discussing interview-based findings, we explore how the participants were discursively shaped as linguicized subjects in different linguicist situations in various contexts, and how they negotiated such an imposed ‘abnormal’ and ‘Other’ subject position, subordinated to the power of English and English speakers. The linguicism experienced by the participants alerts us to Australia’s monolingualist structure which has linguicized minority people’s subjectivity at different levels of their social participation. Remedies for such English-only linguicism should involve ‘saying enough’ to linguistic oppression and inequality as well as connecting individual agency, collective actions, and social dialogue to facilitate a social transformation where new possibilities of Australia’s multilingual subjectivity are enabled.","PeriodicalId":48234,"journal":{"name":"Applied Linguistics","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143857718","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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“Man, I don’t know anything”: Students insights into Afro-Latinx (re)presentation in Spanish textbooks “伙计，我什么都不知道”：学生对西班牙语教科书中非洲-拉丁裔（重新）表达的见解

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Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2025-04-16 DOI: 10.1093/applin/amaf018

Lillie Padilla, Rosti Vana

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The role of script in Kyrgyz identity: Examining attitudes toward Kyrgyz script, Cyrillic, and Latinization 文字在吉尔吉斯人身份认同中的作用：检视对吉尔吉斯文字、西里尔文和拉丁化的态度

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Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2025-04-04 DOI: 10.1093/applin/amaf013

Loren Sofia Rubio, Adam Charles Roberts, Yoolim Kim

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