Digital transformations are profoundly affecting research practices in the humanities and social sciences (HSS). Massive access to heterogeneous corpora, the rise of computational methods and computing resources, the widespread use of data infrastructures, and the proliferation of collaborative tools are transforming the ways in which knowledge is captured, produced, analysed and shared. These transformations are enabling the development of new research methodologies and contributing to the deve
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Veronika Szelid鈥檚 Love, Sex, and the Sacred explores how ROMANTIC LOVE is conceptualized in the Hungarian love folk songs of a traditional religious community. The songs analyzed come from the Moldavian Cs谩ng贸s, a Roman Catholic Hungarian group that speaks one of the oldest Hungarian dialects. The book is organized into six chapters and includes an appendix containing the abbreviations used throughout, th
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鈥淲e look inward in order to fight forward鈥� (p. 6).
The edited collection Autoethnographic explorations of lived raciolinguistic experiences among multilingual scholars: Looking inward to move forward by Qianqian Zhang-Wu and Bridget Goodman is a unique and timely work that brings together deeply personal autoethnographic narratives of multilingual scholars from diverse cultural, linguistic, and ethnic backgrounds across the globe, spanning 14 institutions of higher education and 6
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The idea of modeling language as a dynamical system is not new, but it has not caught on widely. With this entry in the Cambridge Elements series, Edgar W. Schneider draws attention to how concepts of complex dynamic systems theory can be used to better understand language, particularly the varieties of English spoken around the world.
In keeping with the scope of the Elements series, the book is very short, only 85 pages including the references. It consists of six chapters: four
I teach an undergraduate course entitled 鈥淚ndigenous languages: their past, present, and future,鈥� with 鈥渇uture鈥� referring to ongoing processes of revitalization, reclamation, and change. Since most of the Indigenous students at Syracuse University are from the United States or Canada and since I conduct my own research in Brazil, my syllabus focuses on the Indigenous peoples of the Americas and the languages that they speak (or spoke in the past). My students express interest in transnational p
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The edited volume 鈥淓arly Language Education in Instructed Contexts鈥� offers a comprehensive, empirically grounded exploration of early additional-language learning for children aged approximately 5 to 12. Bringing together fourteen chapters from international scholars, the book surveys contemporary research on assessment, literacy development, classroom practices, teaching materials, teacher cognition, parental views, and transitional experiences between primary and secondary schooling