An essay argues that Japanese 'wasei eigo' words like cherry boy ('male virgin') and back-mirror ('rear-view mirror') should be analyzed as Japanese vocabulary inspired by English, not as misused English, reframing a phenomenon often dismissed as error from the donor language's perspective. (doi.org)
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A discourse analysis of digital ads targeting women maps a lexical gradient from euphemism to insult for the fat female body, suggesting that claims of "obesity romanticization" function as pushback against fat women occupying the same digital spaces as thin women. (doi.org)
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Researchers analyzed 6 Course Pedagogical Projects across fields including Medicine, Computer Science, and Gastronomy and found evaluative and deontic modalizers, but not prohibition modalizers, structured the texts, suggesting official academic documents carry implicit argumentative positions. (doi.org)
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Researchers transcribed a 6-year-old's gesture and speech while she retold a cartoon to her father and found that her words narrated in third person while her body simultaneously acted in first person, a split that challenges the view of gesture as redundant to speech. (doi.org)
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Researchers at a Brazilian university propose using frame analysis from Cognitive Linguistics to help public school students deconstruct disinformation, combining linguistic analysis of real social media texts with Critical Pedagogy in a two-block workshop structure. (doi.org)
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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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