Published in Sustainable Multilingualism
In today's world, when the global movement occurs, there are more and more mixed families interacting in two or more languages. Children born in such families have the opportunity to learn the mother tongues of both parents and become bilingual or multilingual. Whether this can work often depends on the family language policy. The latter is often i...
Published in International Journal of Legal Discourse
Several studies have recently discussed legal translation beyond the transfer of equivalent linguistic and terminological features from a source language to a target language. Such perspectives can provide linguistics, translators and legislators with a framework for translating outside events of social life, including its demands, knowledge, wishe...
Published in Frontiers in Psychology
The diagnosis of a chronic illness during young adulthood represents a non-normative life transition influencing the identity definition process, as well as the individual psychological adjustment. The study examined if relationships between identity motives (self-esteem, efficacy, continuity, distinctiveness, belonging, and meaning), health-relate...
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Published in E3S Web of Conferences
Urban communities often regarded as the periphery in big cities. They are the people who considered a lower-class society. Le familie de kere is a satire short story by Juslifar M. Junus that raises the issue of urban people. The literary sociology and identity theory approach used as an analytical tool to examine the life issues of urban people wh...
Published in Frontiers in Psychology
The current research investigates maximizers’ responses to restrictions of choice freedom during lockdown in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Having as a starting point the assumption that for maximizers choice is constitutive of identity, this research proposes that maximizing is associated with search for existential meaning in life. In turn...
En plus de son territoire géographique, l’entreprise familiale possède un territoire conceptuel, largement inexploré dans la littérature académique, et composé d’une dimension culturelle, d’une dimension « business » et d’une dimension sociale. Le modèle conceptuel proposé soutient une discussion qui montre que le territoire géographique et le terr...
Published in Journal of Medical Internet Research
Background Growing individualization within the past decades has been described as a fundamental shift in society. Studies have reported how the digital age promotes new forms of individualism with self-tracking technologies and self-presentation in social networks. Potential harmful effects on the mental health of young adults have already been at...
Published in Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie
The concept of “Heimat” has recently become a subject of lively debate in society and science. In the course of this debate it has become clear that this concept has been endowed with very different, even controversial meanings, the consequences being methodological and political confusion on the issue. The aim of this paper is to clarify the conce...
Published in Cognitive Semiotics
Living with an artificial limb is a reality for millions of people around the world, and it is not without its challenges. The body of the prosthesis user must adapt to the presence of an external aid and the user must learn how to act in the world by means of it. We analyze such a “cyborg body” with the help of a cognitive semiotic framework, bene...
