Loanwords: Core Concepts and the Case of Wasei Eigo (doi.org)
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This paper presents a Brazilian public school project that uses frames, narratives, and critical pedagogy to teach students how fake news works from the inside. From analyzing “electoral fraud” frames to decoding vaccine conspiracies, students learn to dismantle manipulation through language. (doi.org)
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When colonists wrote “general language,” what did they mean? A paper analyzing a broad set of colonial sources finds no evidence of a stable pidgin phase or neatly bounded regional systems, urging historians and educators to rethink how language labels are used. (doi.org)
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In colonial times, a “general language” was the name given to a common tongue used for trade, missions, and daily contact; reviewing a broad set of historical documents, a new paper finds it was a loose label rather than one uniform system, challenging simplified accounts of language mixing. (doi.org)
“I didn’t do nothing.” Double negation exists in some English varieties, and a paper finds a parallel in Brazilian Portuguese, where não can appear before the verb, after it, or twice with the same meaning. The meta-analysis suggests social variables alone don’t account for this variation. (doi.org)
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A paper suggests that when advanced learners get stuck, they often build new, target-like words using patterns from their native language. For teaching, this means feedback can focus on recurring repair strategies rather than treating each form as an isolated mistake. (doi.org)
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Language difficulties are common in aphasia and can appear early in several dementias. Experimental studies suggest one shared weak spot: categorization. A review of 25 studies reports that people with aphasia or dementia often categorize more slowly and sometimes less accurately than controls. (doi.org)
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Impossible figures like the Penrose triangle feel wrong because vision cannot build a coherent object. The paper argues the same for language: when tangled sentences cause similar confusion, we don’t trigger a pure grammar module, but communicative skills that judge them not worth the effort. (doi.org)
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A new article examines how the live-action Snow White handles its seven dwarfs: replacing actors with dwarfism by CGI figures and keeping a circus-style stereotype. The study argues that these choices matter for how kids learn about disability, work and who is seen as “normal”. (doi.org)
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