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Language revitalization through a social movement lens: grassroots Galician language activism
In this article, a social movement lens is applied to examine the dynamics of an urbanbased language revitalization movement in the Autonomous...
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Aspectual properties of Ukrainian verbal action nouns
This article presents research conducted on aspectual semantics in verbal nouns expressing action or state. The state of the art in the paradigmatic...
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Community Studies and Action Research
It could be argued that anyone can be practical researchers—the scholar who investigates politeness academically, and the lay speaker who becomes an...
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Enhancing School-Wide Multilingualism Through Student-Led Action Projects
The Language Diversity Project (LDP) curriculum described in this chapter details a student-led approach to bringing multiple languages and cultures...
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Lockdown Experiences of Social Reading
This chapter examines a number of related issues and findings concerned with the social aspect of reading and how the pandemic may have altered the...
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Tools of Action Research in Undergraduate Teacher Education: Experiences from Brazil
The worldwide shortage of professionally trained teachers shows the general necessity to find sustainable forms of teacher education and...
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Irony as a Complex Social Phenomenon
Despite studying the phenomen of irony extensively, pragmatics has not reached a definitive understanding of its definition and functions. Irony...
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Lawyer Evaluation in Action: Negotiating Justice
This chapter investigates how the rational discourse of lawyer evaluation performs its function in relation to legal dispute resolution or criminal...
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Rat Ultrasonic Vocalizations as Social Reinforcers—Implications for a Multilevel Model of the Cognitive Representation of Action and Rats’ Social World
RatsRats are social animals. For example, ratsRats exhibit mutual-reward preferences, preferring choice alternatives that yield a reward to...
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Ecophobia and Social Class Identity: An Ecocritical Approach to the Nature/Culture Divide in Oscar Wilde’s Fairy Tales “The Young King” and “The Star Child”
This article applies an ecocritical approach to the analysis of the nature/culture divide in Oscar Wilde’s “The Young King” and “The Star-Child”....
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The Online Communication of Social Support: Structure and Content
Social support in online self-help groups has been found to benefit participants with emotional instability or mental illness. Many studies have...
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Relationships between self-regulation, social skills and writing achievement in digital schools
Students’ social and emotional development matters to their educational success. Ubiquitous digital use in schooling creates new contexts for...
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“Where All the People are Fantastical and Magical”—and Hurting: Intergenerational Trauma and Social-Emotional Learning in Encanto
This essay argues that, together with presenting a multigenerational family, Disney’s Encanto explores the issue of intergenerational trauma. The...
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Teasing in Identity Work on Chinese Social Media: Forms and Functions
Research related to transgender identity in psychology usually involves interviews which are designed to find out how these marginalized people...
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Community Interpreting as a Socially and Cognitively Situated Activity: Speech Action Patterns and Underlying Knowledge Structures in Interpreter-Mediated Medical Interactions
Community and medical interpreting have been described as socially situated interactions. This paper introduces a situated cognition and...
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The Emergence of Language Policy as Practice in Transient Social Configurations
This chapter explores how language policies as practice emerge in two transient multilingual communities. Drawing on micro-longitudinal video data...
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Enhancing Social Presence Through Textual Action: Virtual Performatives as a Relatability Strategy
The chapter examines ‘virtual performatives’ in publicly visible original tweets that are not explicitly directed to particular others. The focus is...
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Body, Emotion, and Semiosis: Translating Emotion into Action
One of the key dimensions of emotion is its mode of manifestation. Affect may have effects and consequences, even if it is not manifested; but one...
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Discursive Mediation in Action
This chapter brings my theoretical contemplation of mediation to an observation of the actual realization of mediation in the translation process. It...
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Action research to explore argumentative writing projects supported with online simulation for develo** conceptual knowledge and motivation to learn
Non-science majors often lack motivation to take science courses required for their graduation, because these courses are usually taught in a lecture...
