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ItemTransgressing Literary Norms in Véronique Tadjo’s En compagnie des hommes(Brill, 2020-07-01)
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ItemResistance and Rebellion in Gisèle Pineau’s Paroles de terre en larmes(Lexington Books, 2022-10)
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ItemCommunity-Led Documentation of Nafsan (Erakor, Vanuatu)(SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG, 2022)We focus on a collaboration between community members and visiting linguists in Erakor, Vanuatu, aiming to build the capacity of community-based researchers to undertake and sustain documentation of Nafsan, the local indigenous language. We focus on the technical and procedural skills required to collect, manage, and work with audio and video data, and give an overview of the outcomes of a community-led documentation after initial training. We discuss the benefits and challenges of this type of project from the perspective of the community researchers and the external linguists. We show that community-led documentation such as this project in Erakor, in which data management and archiving are incorporated into the documentation process, has crucial benefits for both the community and the linguists. The two most salient benefits are: a) long-term documentation of linguistic and cultural practices calibrated towards community’s needs, and b) collection of larger quantities of data by community members, and often of better quality and scope than those collected by visiting linguists, which, besides being readily available for research, have a great potential for training and testing emerging language technologies for less-resourced languages, such as Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR).
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ItemRodolfo Kusch: La Negación Como Apertura y Desprendimiento.(Universidad de La Serena; Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, 2022)
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ItemTrust and Cooperation through Social Media: COVID-19 translations for Chinese communities in Melbourne(Routledge, 2022-01-01)A pandemic calls for behaviour-change communication: The ethical aim is to have the receiver voluntarily adopt cooperative actions for the wider good of the community. In the case of superdiverse cites, this entails significant translation and mediation across languages and media, since cooperative actions are to no avail if they do not occur in all sections of society. Messages thus have to attract high degrees of trustworthiness. Social media are sites of particular turbulence in this respect for several reasons: (1) They are privileged media for the circulation of dissent; (2) social-media users have high indices of media-comparison behaviour, judging information on one medium in terms of another, thus exhibiting low levels of initial trust; and (3) linguistically diverse communities have electronic media in their first language coming from outside the immediate community, potentially entering into conflict with officially generated and translated information. Here we look at social media use in Melbourne in order to identify instances of trust and distrust in translated pandemic information across several media. We assess the consequences for cooperative behaviour.
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ItemFrequency Effects in Chinese Learners’ Acquisition of the English Article Construction(Springer Nature Singapore, 2022)The current study, built on the usage-based approach to language, investigated frequency effects in Chinese learners’ acquisition of English articles. We carried out type and token frequency analysis of article usages in academic written essays sourced from a written English corpus of Chinese learners. We adopted an existing usage-based article cue coding scheme, which allowed us to implement a refined frequency analysis of all form-function mappings in learner texts. Our findings suggested that learners’ article usage follows the Zipfian distribution in terms of token frequency. Learners show a heavier reliance on a very limited number of high-frequency cues than native speakers. Non-definites (indefinite article and zero article) outnumber definite articles in terms of token and type frequency in learner texts. Yet definite articles show a significantly higher type/token ratio than non-definites, suggesting that learners develop a more complex and heterogeneous profile of definite article usage. We argue for more research and pedagogical attention to frequency and complexity effects in the acquisition of articles.
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ItemThe M Word. O del perché alcune parole vadano lasciate alla storia(Universitas Studiorum, 2022)
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ItemAn LFG approach to Icelandic reciprocal constructions(Oxford University Press, 2021)
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ItemHistorical Pedagogy and the Lute: Education to Match Aspirations(Deutsche Lautengesellschaft and Lute Society of America, 2021-11-11)Explores the history of institutional lute learning in Europe since 1900; explores the nineteenth-century pedagogy used in conservatorium and university practical tuition and its limitations for teaching early music, and presents an alternate pedagogical methodology based on sixteenth-century Spanish theorist Juan Bermudo.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableVirtual Exchanges and Gender-Inclusive Toponymy: An Intercultural Citizenship Project to Foster Equality(Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, 2021)This paper focuses on a virtual exchange project between the University of Virginia, United States, and an upper-secondary school in Pavia, Italy. Centred on the question of gender equality, the project has been designed to take place over three years (2018-21), and with direct reference to the transnational model of virtual exchange for global citizenship education proposed in 2019 by Robert O’Dowd. As an integrated part of the language learning curriculum, the project creates a virtual space which parallels the space-time of traditional class tuition, and which students can inhabit with a significant degree of autonomy. The project aims to foster gender equality and help students to reflect on the sociocultural evolution of the language and how it can be used to address issues of identity, diversity and inclusion.