Language use at Italian medical congresses
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DOI: 10.1007/s10072-018-3452-9
Abstract: Dear Editor, The English language is now considered the most spoken language in the world, after the Mandarin Chinese language. Several English words and expressions are commonly used during informal conversation, in newspapers, in television… read more here.
Keywords: medical congresses; use; language use; use italian ... See more keywords
Sexual Language Use in U.S. College Students Across Twenty Years.
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DOI: 10.1007/s10508-021-02022-8
Abstract: Study 1: Students (N = 256 women, 129 men, and 13 nonbinary individuals, 61.8% heterosexual) from the same college campus studied 20 years ago (Murnen, 2000) reported on terms they used to refer to male genitals, female genitals,… read more here.
Keywords: sexual language; use; college; language use ... See more keywords
The Language We Use: Providers’ Perceptions About Families
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DOI: 10.1007/s10643-021-01258-2
Abstract: Implicitly-held unconscious associations and attitudes may not align with the beliefs we hold outwardly or explicitly but can affect our professional perceptions, decisions, and actions. In a phenomenological study identifying strategies used to support families… read more here.
Keywords: providers perceptions; language use; language; perceptions families ... See more keywords
Revisiting Attachment to Parents and Depression Link in Adolescence: the Importance of Language Use and Emotion Regulation
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DOI: 10.1007/s12144-017-9714-5
Abstract: Although past research has provided important information about the relationship between attachment and mental health during the period of adolescence, the role of intervening variables in this association has been neglected. The aim of the… read more here.
Keywords: language; language use; emotion regulation;
Humor in multimodal language use: Students’ Response to a dialogic, social-networking online assignment
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DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2021.100903
Abstract: Abstract The focus of this study was on how students created and shared humor in an online multimodal learning environment. Across two semesters of a graduate course on psycholinguistics in education, 28 students posted 1006… read more here.
Keywords: humor multimodal; social networking; language use; humor ... See more keywords
Resource-rationality beyond individual minds: the case of interactive language use
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DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x19001638
Abstract: Abstract Resource-rational approaches offer much promise for understanding human cognition, especially if they can reach beyond the confines of individual minds. Language allows people to transcend individual resource limitations by augmenting computation and enabling distributed… read more here.
Keywords: resource; interactive language; individual minds; language use ... See more keywords
Cultural evolution is not independent of linguistic evolution and social aspects of language use
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DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x22001285
Abstract: Abstract The bifocal stance theory (BST) focuses on cultural evolution without alluding to associated processes in linguistic evolution and language use. The authors briefly comment on language acquisition but leave underexplored the applicability of BST… read more here.
Keywords: cultural evolution; evolution independent; language use; language ... See more keywords
Exploring language in use
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DOI: 10.1017/s0266078417000049
Abstract: The study of language and linguistics often conjures up images that make people shudder. However, Introducing Language in Use (2 edn.) shows us that studying language and linguistics, although amazingly complex and intellectually demanding, can… read more here.
Keywords: chapter; language use; linguistics; syntax ... See more keywords
Attitudes to usage vs. actual language use: The case of literally in American English
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DOI: 10.1017/s0266078418000366
Abstract: From a descriptive point of view, literally is seen as ‘a case of semantic change in progress’ (Israel, 2002: 424), exemplified through the shift from uses such as This word literally means ‘water’ to This… read more here.
Keywords: attitudes usage; change; language use; case ... See more keywords
Language use, home literacy environment, and demography: Predicting vocabulary skills among diverse young dual language learners in Norway
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DOI: 10.1017/s0305000920000495
Abstract: From a socio-cultural perspective, language offers a means for children to communicate with and learn from others through interaction: language is the medium through which young children are provided cognitive, social, and emotional support in… read more here.
Keywords: dual language; language use; use home; language learners ... See more keywords
The Association between Language Use and Food Insecurity among Hispanic Adults Residing in the United States Depends on Nativity.
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DOI: 10.1017/s1368980023000885
Abstract: OBJECTIVE To examine the association between language use - predominantly English, English and Spanish equally, and predominantly Spanish - and food insecurity among Hispanic adults residing in the United States, 1999-2018. DESIGN Pooled cross-sectional study… read more here.
Keywords: food insecurity; hispanic adults; food; language use ... See more keywords