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Ruselle Meade (Cardiff University, United Kingdom) May 21, 2020 Notes from the Field As a crisis that inevitably mixes politics with science, the COVID-19 pandemic has heightened the visibility of scientists. Political leaders the world over are keen to stress that their responses to the pandemic are “driven by science.” It was warnings from the government’s panel of scientific experts, argued

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  Jan Buts Humanities and Social Sciences Communications volume 7, Article number: 101 (2020) Cite this article   Abstract   This article is a rhetorical corpus study of the use of -phobia in online alternative media. The term phobia is used in the psychiatric domain to refer to a range of anxiety disorders, but is now also commonly used to identify social tensions.

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A corpus-based study of competing stances on bias, dogma and expertise in the blogosphere Luis Pérez-González  Humanities and Social Sciences Communications volume 7, Article number: 92 (2020) Abstract Climate change science has become an increasingly polarized site of controversy, where discussions on epistemological rigour are difficult to separate from debates on the impact that economic and political interests have on the production of

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By Yasmine Zohdi – August 22, 2020 Mada Masr / مدى مصر Instead of offering our usual weekly guide and recommendations, we thought we’d make this week’s issue of Detox a platform for a translator to showcase her efforts with a text she’d always wanted to work on. This is our culture editor Yasmine Zohdi’s account of her attempt at

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  The first part of this interview with Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature Wen-chin Ouyang appeared in a British Academy email newsletter titled “What is comparative literature?” and reappears here with permission:   The British Academy: What book do you always return to?   Wen-chin Ouyang: I have been thinking of bringing Arabic adab (أدب) and Chinese wen (文) together in a comparative project and

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Language’s term for black people is outdated, say young language learners Lenard Monkman · CBC News · Posted: Jun 05, 2020 The phrase Black Lives Matter has been translated into many Indigenous languages to show support for the movement over the last week, but the Ojibway language’s term for black people is spurring calls for change. “The people’s attitudes in trying to

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