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Exploring machine translation use by precarious migrant workers in Thailand Digital Translation: Online-First Articles | Article
The growing use of machine translation (MT) among migrants highlights a crucial area for investigation. This article explores findings from focus groups with precarious migrant workers in Thailand to assess their use of MT and evaluate the impact of this technology on their employment… read more
Controlled openness: Conditional belonging and the limits of tolerance in labour’s 2024–2025 migration discourse Journal of Language and Politics: Online-First Articles | Article
This article analyses Labour’s migration discourse during its first period in government after the 2024 UK general election. Drawing on concept-oriented Critical Discourse Analysis, it examines Labour’s 2024 manifesto, prime ministerial and ministerial speeches, parliamentary statements and the… read more
La memoria del presente: El estallido social en la novela Imágenes de la muerte de Ramón Díaz Eterovic Revue Romane: Online-First Articles | Article
The paper examines the way the Social Outburst (Estallido social) that originated in Santiago de Chile in October 2019 impacted on the detective saga by Ramón Diaz Eterovic. The author of the Heredia series is known for becoming a representative of so called neopolicial narrative, which is… read more
El portuñol literario como práctica translingüe: Hacia una lectura decolonial de la literatura fronteriza sudamericana Revue Romane: Online-First Articles | Article
This paper explores literary portuñol as a translingual practice by comparing two poetic works from South America’s border regions: “NósOtros” (2014) by Uruguayan writer Fabián Severo and “Uma flor na solapa da miséria” (2005) by Brazilian-Paraguayan writer Douglas Diegues. Focusing on an… read more
El artículo con posesivo en la prosa medieval castellana (1250–1350) como marca diferencial de concordancia Spanish in Context: Online-First Articles | Article
El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo analizar desde una perspectiva variacionista la alternancia entre presencia y ausencia de artículo ante posesivo en el español medieval (1250–1350). Se examina la relación morfosintáctica de concordancia entre los participantes de la posesión, poseedor y… read more
Accentedness ratings of brazilian speakers’ L2 English by LLMs: Systematic upward shift from the human baseline Journal of Second Language Pronunciation: Online-First Articles | Article
This study examines whether audio-capable large language models (LLMs) align with human patterns of L2 English accentedness judgment. Google Gemini Flash and Gemini Pro rated the L2 English speech of Brazilian Portuguese speakers from the CSLU Foreign Accented English Corpus (Lander, 2007) and… read more
Negotiating harmony via strategic emotion: Pragmatic identity construction in Chinese televised mediation Pragmatics: Online-First Articles | Article
This study investigates how mediators in Chinese televised mediation strategically employ emotion to negotiate state-mandated harmony and construct specific pragmatic identities. We integrate sentiment analysis (SnowNLP) with discourse analysis to model emotional discourse and identity… read more
Overlapping networks: Examining the multilingual mental lexicon through the word association task The Mental Lexicon: Online-First Articles | Article
The goal of this study was to explore L1/L2/L3 word interconnections when using a word association task. Sixty-six Tagalog-English bilinguals learning Spanish as an L3 took a discrete ‘free language’ word association task in which they responded to an L3 cue with any word that came to mind in… read more
Laughter as a metapragmatic awareness indicator in Chinese older adults with dementia Pragmatics and Society: Online-First Articles | Article
The study regards laughter as a metapragmatic indicator that reflects metapragmatic awareness. It explores the metapragmatic functions of laughter, thereby revealing the metapragmatic awareness of Chinese older adults with dementia during cognitive assessments and lifecourse interviews. The… read more
How does patriotic discourse become a populist policy tool? A discourse analysis of Trump’s Rhetoric Journal of Language and Politics: Online-First Articles | Article
This study explores how Donald J. Trump’s rhetoric intertwines populist appeals with patriotic language to construct a unifying vision of “true” American identity. Drawing on a corpus of 613 speeches and statements, the study combines quantitative content analysis with critical discourse… read more