Cultural Anthropology

Applied anthropology, Social Policy

0001. Adeseye, B.O. & Ariremako, I.A. (2019). A congenial communication climate: The catalyst and panacea for effective organizational communication. EJOTMAS: Ekpoma Journal of Theatre and Media Arts, 7(1–2), 386–402.

We describe the necessary and proactive ingredients that foster a positive communication climate between people.

0002. Ani, E.I. (2020). African philosophy and the lingering question of methodology. African Studies Quarterly, 19(2), 1-16.51-62.

Is African philosophy the espousing of collective traditional practices, norms and values?

0003. Brown, R.F., Muller, T.R., & Olsen, A. (2019). Australian women's cervical cancer screening attendance as a function of screening barriers and facilitators. Social Science & Medicine, 220, 396–402.

Individual psychological screening barriers (e.g., anxiety, embarrassment), practical barriers (e.g., lack of time) and practical facilitators (e.g., low cost of test) were related to screening status.

0004. Cronje, J.H. & Vilakazi, M.J. (2020). Secondary traumatic stress in police detective officers dealing with complainants of sexual crimes. South African Journal of Psychology, 50, 520–529.

The majority of police detective officers reported some degree of secondary traumatic stress symptoms as they are frequently exposed to traumatized complainants.

0005. Deidda, M., Geue, C., Kreif, N., Dundas, R., & McIntosh, E. (2019). A framework for conducting economic evaluations alongside natural experiments. Social Science & Medicine, 220, 353–361.

Policy makers aim to reduce the detrimental consequences and rising costs associated with unhealthy diets, inactivity, smoking, alcohol and other risk factors.

0006. Johnsen, S., Watts, B., & Fitzpatrick, S. (2021). Rebalancing the rhetoric: A normative analysis of enforcement in street homelessness policy. Urban Studies, 58, 355–371.

We present an analytical framework that pays systematic attention to this span of normative lenses can facilitate more constructive conversations about policy interventions.

0007. Kabonga, I. (2020). Volunteers as enablers or disablers of community development in Chegutu District, Zimbabwe. Southern African Journal of Social Work and Social Development, 32(2).

Volunteers disable community development through corruption, polarization, falsifying reports and a lethargic approach to work.

0008. Lipsey, N.P. & Shepperd, J.A. (2019). The role of powerful audiences in health information avoidance. Social Science & Medicine, 220, 430–439.

People may choose to remain ignorant of potentially important health risks if they believe that powerful audiences can use that information to harm them.

0009. Randles, J. (2020). “Harder being without the baby”: Fathers' coparenting perspectives in responsible fatherhood programming. Journal of Marriage and Family, 82, 550–565.

Fathers are enrolled in a responsible fatherhood program primarily due to conflicted coparenting relationships exacerbated by poverty, unemployment, and homelessness.

0010. Ross, C.A., West, M., & Somer, E. (2020). Self-reported medication and recreational drug effectiveness in maladaptive daydreaming. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 208, 77–80.

We counsel against the use of marijuana for individuals with maladaptive daydreaming.

0011. Speer, J. (2019). “A collection of stories, poetry and theories”: Homelessness, outsider memoirs, and the right to theorize. GeoHumanities, 5, 326–341.

Reading “outsider memoirs” as theoretical texts can be a method for expanding current understandings of the nature of social theory.

0012. Unseld, F. (2021). Rhythms of the unemployed: Making art and making do through spoken word in Kisumu, Kenya. Africa, 91, 77–94.

Janabii has spent several years in limbo, oscillating between glittering performances and a more discreet daily life, marked by functional homelessness.

0013. van Stapele, N. (2021). Providing to belong: Masculinities, hustling and economic uncertainty in Nairobi ‘ghettos.’ Africa, 91, 57–76.

Hustling provides insights into gendered experiences of urban life worlds in the underserved and highly policed areas of Nairobi.

0014. Ward, J.K., Cafiero, F., Fretigny, R., Colgrove, J., & Seror, V. (2019). France's citizen consultation on vaccination and the challenges of participatory democracy in health. Social Science & Medicine, 220, 73–80.

Confronted with a rise in vaccine hesitancy, public health officials increasingly try to involve the public in the policy decision-making process.

0015. Xweso, M., Blaauw, D., & Schenck, C. (2020). “I do not have anything else, bra”: The hardships of day labourers in East London, South Africa, and the implications for developmental social welfare/work. Southern African Journal of Social Work and Social Development, 32(2).

We need to facilitate strategies to integrate informal workers such as day laborers into initiatives that are designed to grant social justice.

Arts (Dance, folklore, graphic arts, music)

0016. Adebayo, S. (2020). This uprising will bring out the beast in us: The cultural (after)Life of ‘Beasts of No Nations.’ Journal of African Cultural Studies, 32, 270–285.

I examine how Beasts of No Nation has traveled not only across national borders but also across medial, temporal and contextual borders.

0017. Alqadumi, E.A. (2019). The iconoclastic theatre: Transgression in Christopher Marlowe’s Tamburlaine. EJOTMAS: Ekpoma Journal of Theatre and Media Arts, 7(1-2), 281–293.

Marlowe’s experimentalism in Tamburlaine expands the imaginative representations to include areas never formerly visited.

0018. Amoros, L.G. (2020). Beyond nationhood: Haul music from a postcolonial perspective in western Sahara and Mauritania. African Music, 11(2), 41–59.

The mobility of the Haul modal system provides a reconsideration of a precolonial past in existing music cultures in North Africa.

0019. Aterianus-Owanga, A. (2020). A Pan-African space in Cape Town? The Chimurenga Archive of Pan-African festivals. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 32, 251–269.

I describe the materials collected by Chimurenga and the projects in which they have participated.

0020. Curtis, A., Tyner, J., Ajayakumar, J., Kimsroy, S., & Ly, K.-C. (2019). Adding spatial context to the April 17, 1975 evacuation of Phnom Penh: How spatial video geonarratives can geographically enrich genocide testimony. GeoHumanities, 5, 386–404.

People perished from starvation, disease, exhaustion, inadequate medical care, torture, murder, and execution during the Cambodian genocide.

0021. Diabate, N. (2020). Nudity and pleasure. Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, 46, 152–166.

By inserting their (semi-)naked bodies as central images, artists invite yet resist unwanted readings of erotic pleasure in their works.

0022. Dordzro, J.-D. (2020). Brass band music in Ghana: The indigenisation of European military music. African Music, 11(2), 141–163.

Local brass bands have become an indispensable factor in weddings, processions, rituals of birth or death, and others.

0023. Fourie, W. (2019). Between the musical anti- and post-apartheid: Structures of crisis in Kevin Volans’s String Quartet No. 5, Dancers on a Plane. South African Music Studies, 39, 134–175.

I show how Volans’s quartet can be read as articulating the structure of the apartheid crisis.

0024. Hanmakyugh, T.T. (2019). Ritual culture phenomenon in Igbo films: A study of Money is Money. EJOTMAS: Ekpoma Journal of Theatre and Media Arts, 7(1-2), 374–385.

I use content analysis and literary methods as tools to interrogate the preponderance of the occult themes in Nollywood movies.

0025. Holtzhausen, C.A. (2020). Sokkie dancing in Pretoria: Popular Afrikaans music, dance, and identity. African Music, 11(2), 25–40.

I focus on how a strand of music, that might seem to avoid meaningful dialogue through superficial lyrics, forms part of an Afrikaner subculture.

0026. Lambrechts, L. & Taylor, J. (2019). ‘They called me the “Ag Pleez Deddy” man’: On the (Be)longing of Jeremy Taylor. South African Music Studies, 39, 44–86.

We explore Taylor’s musical career and reflect on his life and experiences of apartheid South Africa.

0027. Maré, E.A. (2019). The stolen notebooks: Leonardo da Vinci and the man from the east, Susan Audrey Grundy. South African Journal of Art History, 34(3), 130–133.

Leonardo da Vinci was an engineer, a botanist, anatomist, cartographer, inventor of war machines, and artist.

0028. Maré, E.A. (2019). Leonardo da Vinci’s representations of mothers with their infants. South African Journal of Art History, 34(3), 75–129.

I explore Leonardo’s portrayal of il concetto’del anima of a series of infants and their varied relationships with their mothers.

0029. Meier, P. (2020). Beyond multiple modernities: East African port cities as the space between. Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, 46, 116–125.

Technologies of modernity, such as photography, enable people simultaneously to sustain a sense of distance and closeness to others.

0030. Nii-Dortey, M. (2020). Liveness, multifocality, eavesdropping in ethnomusicological fieldwork research at Ghanaian festivals and royal funerals. African Music, 11(2), 102–118.

The vagaries of liveness are largely responsible for nuanced peculiarities which every live musical performance assumes.

0031. Olivier, B. (2019). How not to approach nature: Devlin’s Geostorm (2017) and nature’s ‘blowback.’ South African Journal of Art History, 34(3), 37–48.

The film, Geostorm, argues that technology can provide the means to master even extreme, anthropogenic natural processes and events.

0032. Parent, M.-C. (2020). “Music of the slaves” In The Indian Ocean Creole islands: A perspective from the Seychelles. African Music, 11(2), 1–24.

I describe circulations and musical exchanges between the islands, opening the door to a better understanding of Creole culture and music.

0033. Röntsch, M. (2019). ‘I might seem out of place here’: Exploring Whiteness and belonging in Hog Hoggidy Hog’s Oink! South African Music Studies, 39, 23–43.

Hog Hoggidy Hog was a band from Cape Town, who integrated punk, ska, metal, rock, jazz and ghoema into music they named ‘Pork Rock.’

0034. Shehab, B. (2020). Practicing art in revolutionary times. Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, 46, 168–178.

The Egyptian revolution was driven online by archival research, music videos, comedians, memes, graffiti, and symbols of martyrdom.

0035. Steenkamp, A. (2019). Making heritages in the Castle of Good Hope and Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum. South African Journal of Art History, 34(3), 1–18.

How can alternative ways and products of ‘making heritages’ challenge the tradition to transform the field itself through a shifting of conceptual and structural foundations?

0036. Steyn, G. (2019). Informality and spatiality in some major sub-Saharan African cities. South African Journal of Art History, 34(3), 19–36.

The major cities of sub-Saharan Africa are mostly distinguished from those of the First World by shantytowns, hawkers, and minibus taxis.

0037. Vercelli, M.B. (2020). Constructing Dagara gyil pedagogy: The legacy of Bernard Woma. African Music, 11(2), 60–67.

Woma provided instruction on Dagara music and dance to hundreds of non-Ghanaian students.

Cultural Ecology

0038. Ferreira, S.M. & Funston, P. (2020). African lion and spotted hyaena changes in Kruger National Park, South Africa. African Studies Quarterly, 19(2), 1–16. 37–50.

Poachers may induce top-down trophic cascades through the removal of keystone grazing and browsing species.

0039. Hepburn, M.H. (2020). Protecting intellectual property rights and traditional ecological knowledge: A critical look at Peru's Law 27811. Human Organization, 79, 69–79.

It does not address the impoverishment of Indigenous Peoples and continues to subordinate Indigenous traditional ecological knowledge to Cartesian science.

0040. Hoornweg, D., Sugar, L. & Gomez, C.L.T. (2020). Cities and greenhouse gas emissions: Moving forward. Urbanisation, 5, 43–62.

Greenhouse gas emissions can vary noticeably for the same resident of a city or country, depending on whether these are production- or consumption-based values.

0041. Kirsch, S. (2020). Why Pacific Islanders stopped worrying about the apocalypse and started fighting climate change. American Anthropologist, 122, 827–839.

The Solomon Islands' responses to climate change suggest new ways of thinking about the relationship between local environmental knowledge and scientific models.

0042. Ley, D. (2021). A regional growth ecology, a great wall of capital and a metropolitan housing market. Urban Studies, 58, 297–315.

The deregulation of private institutions and the under-resourcing of public agencies working in the capital/real estate nexus provided an ecology favorable to the ‘animal spirits’ of the market.

0043. Linder, B. (2019). (Re-)writing Thamel: National identity and the city-setting in contemporary Nepali literature. GeoHumanities, 5, 424–443.

Nepali authors lay claim to a space that no longer coincides with its prevailing discursive-literary representations as merely a “foreign” place.

0044. Tamas, S. (2019). Tricky stories: Settler-academic reflections on anti-colonial teaching. GeoHumanities, 5, 376–385.

Personal stories and storytelling often appear as part of an effort to decolonize our approaches to teaching and learning.

0045. Whitington, J. (2020). Earth's data: Climate change, Thai carbon markets, and the planetary atmosphere. American Anthropologist, 122, 814–826.

Carbon regulation seeks to ensure Earth's future habitability by managing the chemical composition of the planetary atmosphere.

Economics (Theory, technology, political economy, colonialism, development)

0046. Amusa, K., Monkam, N., & Viegi, N. (2020). Can foreign aid enhance domestic resource mobilisation in Nigeria? Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 38, 294–309.

Foreign aid in the form of grants can be an effective tool for enhancing tax revenue mobilization in the long-run.

0047. Babatunde, A.O. (2020). Oil pollution and water conflicts in the riverine communities in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region: Challenges for and elements of problem-solving strategies. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 38, 274–293.

I show how the network of interactions among localized, national and globalized actors aggravate environmental pollution.

0048. Baez-Camargo, C., Bukuluki, P., Sambaiga, R., Gatwa, T., …, Stahl, C. (2020). Petty corruption in the public sector: A comparative study of three East African countries through a behavioural lens. African Studies, 79, 232–249.

We discuss the potential to incorporate behavioral insights into anti-corruption policy-making.

0049. Cheruiyot, K. (2020). Heterogeneous relationships between income levels and associated correlates in Gauteng province, South Africa: Quantile regression approach. Development Southern Africa, 37, 871–887.

There are variations across some identifiable groups (e.g. youth, pensioners, and adults) and quantiles.

0050. Del Biondo, K. (2020). Moving beyond a donor-recipient relationship? Assessing the principle of partnership in the joint Africa-EU strategy. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 38, 310–329.

The EU has overall treated its African counterparts as equal partners in these thematic partnerships, namely by respecting ownership.

0051. Ference, M.E. (2021). ‘You will build me’: Fiscal disobedience, reciprocity and the dangerous negotiations of redistribution on Nairobi's matatu. Africa, 91, 16–34.

The matatu (taxi) workforce engages in a coordinated but tense economic dance along the dangerous and shifting lines among illegality, work and reciprocity.

0052. Fourie, W. (2020). Non-state actors in state-driven development processes: The case of religious actors and foreign aid flows. Development in Practice, 30, 92–100.

As “prophets”, religious actors can identify and address discrepancies in the definition and distribution of foreign aid.

0053. Gadisi, M., Owusu-Sekyere, E., & Ogundeji, A.A. (2020). Impact of government support programmes on household welfare in the Limpopo province of South Africa. Development Southern Africa, 37, 937–952.

Welfare gains of households in the low-income category are higher than those of households in the middle-income category.

0054. Haywood, L.K., Nortje, K., Dafuleya, G., Nethengwe, T., & Sumbana, F. (2020). An assessment for enhancing sustainability in rural tourism products in South Africa. Development Southern Africa, 37, 1033–1050.

The intention and purpose of the framework is to ensure that sustainability is central to the operation of rural tourism products.

0055. Kollamparambil, U. & Mathentamo, Q. (2020). Subjective wellbeing inequality in South Africa 2008–14: An unconditional quantile decomposition analysis. Development Southern Africa, 37, 1012–1032.

Employment stands out starkly as increasing inequality through both endowment and coefficient effect.

0056. Marsden, J., Marsden, K., Rahman, M., Danz, T., …, Wilson, P. (2020). Learning and savings groups in Bangladesh: An alternative model for transforming families and communities. Development in Practice, 30, 52–67.

We emphasize internal savings, holistic training, and the build-up of community-wide social capital.

0057. Mello, C., Azizi, S., & Kama, S.-L. (2020). Spatial and relational representations of economic well-being and the Kahumana Farm Hub, Waiʻanae, Hawaiʻi. Human Organization, 79, 57–68.

Our interdisciplinary and community-led project fused Western-based methodology with the Hawaiian methodological framework of Māʻawe Pono.

0058. Němečková, T. (2021). Morocco as emerging regional economic power? The Journal of North African Studies, 26, 51–72.

Morocco began dominating the region mainly in foreign direct investment outflows and the export of services.

0059. Ngwenya, N. & Simatele, M.D. (2020). Unbundling of the green bond market in the economic hubs of Africa: Case study of Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa. Development Southern Africa, 37, 888–903.

There needs to be public-private partnerships fostered, integrated policies, political will as well as effective institutional frameworks.

0060. Onyango, G. (2020). Inter-institutional trust and multi-agency networks in anti-corruption efforts in public administration in Kenya. African Studies Quarterly, 19(2), 1–16. 17–36.

Non-performance, lack of personal integrity, organizational enclaves, and inter-institutional hostilities characteristic in the implementation processes in public administration were indicative of administrational trust deficits.

0061. Ruiters, M. & Charteris, A. (2020). Gender equality in labour force participation, economic growth and development in South Africa. Development Southern Africa, 37, 997–1011.

Greater female participation in the labor market is found to have no effect on growth.

0062. Say, J., Zhao, H., Agbenyegah, F.S., Nusenu, A.A., …, Egbadewoe, S.M. (2020). Regional efficiency disparities in rural and community banks in Ghana: A data envelopment analysis. Journal of Psychology in Africa, 30, 249–256.

Tailored policies for asset selection should be enacted to protect the banks from risks associated with selecting too many bad assets.

0063. Sharma, A.K., Singh, A.K., Yadav, A.K., Shukla, A., …, Bhaduri, A. (2020). Mapping Delhi’s weekly markets: An explorative study of hafta bazaars. Urbanisation, 5, 9–16.

Our goal is to study the administrative and economic models that underpin the efficient and sustainable functioning of the hafta bazaars.

0064. Thieme, T. (2021). ‘Youth are redrawing the map’: Temporalities and terrains of the hustle economy in Mathare, Nairobi. Africa, 91, 35–56.

Youth occupy a ‘precarious present’, caught in a state of suspension but also well versed in adapting to adversity and shaping local politics of provisioning.

0065. Wu, X. (2020). Examining the influence of transnational discourses on Chinese international secondary school students’ academic learning. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 41, 368–382.

Their academic studies are influenced by socio-economic and cultural forces circulating between the home and host spaces of China and Canada.

0066. Yu, D., Blaauw, D., & Schenck, R. (2020). Waste pickers in informal self-employment: Over-worked and on the breadline. Development Southern Africa, 37, 971–996.

Waste pickers provide an invaluable service, and authorities need to dignify their working conditions and value the work that they are doing.

Ethnohistory

0067. Aweke, A.K. (2021). Civil resistance in Ethiopia: An overview of a historical development. African Journal of History and Culture, 13(1), 7–18.

I provide a brief historical overview of the genesis, development, nature and dynamics of civil resistance in the 2015 Oromo and Amhara protest.

0068. Cristofaro, D. (2020). From caravans to lorries: Shifting patterns of mobility and colonial roadmaking in northern Ghana (1896–1936). The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 53, 289–314.

The centrality of Bolgatanga was not planned by the colonial administration, but by travelers who wanted to avoid controls on trade.

0069. Erdal, G. & Gucuyener, I. (2021). The knife of Bursa in Turkish culture: A historical and cultural study. African Journal of History and Culture, 13(1), 19–26.

By comparison to today's knives, the place, historical development, and properties of the historical Bursa knife were studied.

0070. Marmon, B. (2020). “Division to save the country is wisdom”: The short life of the Zimbabwe National Party and its lasting impact on Zimbabwe’s liberation struggle, 1961-1963. The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 53, 361–388.

The relentless and often violent attempts to derail the Zimbabwe National Party solidified a culture of anti-colonial nationalism that rejected political pluralism.

0071. Meert, A. (2020). Suffering, consent, and coercion in Uganda: The Luwero War, 1981-1986. The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 53, 389–412.

I offer insight into broader questions of authority, legitimacy, and mobilization in African politics.

0072. Parker, J. (2020). A ‘juggernaut of progress’? Irrigation and statecraft in late-colonial Kenya. The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 53, 335–360.

I explore how political power was extended into the semi-arid landscapes of eastern Kenya during the postwar era.

0073. Petrocelli, R.M. (2020). Reputations at stake: Positioning self and others in Dakar’s colonial court, 1922-1942. The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 53, 315–334.

Cases involving witchcraft, family, and work of city dwellers passed through the court.

Kinship (Family organization, marriage)

0074. Agadjanian, V. (2020). Condemned and condoned: Polygynous marriage in Christian Africa. Journal of Marriage and Family, 82, 751–768.

This study contributes to a better understanding of the role of Christianity in the persistence of polygyny in sub‐Saharan Africa.

0075. Bonfanti, S. (2021). Where do we go from here? Exploring the future of mixed families between Italy and South Asia. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 30, 60–78.

I consider the daily struggles in conjugal and parental relations in mixed-culture households formed by spouses.

0076. Bünning, M. (2020). Paternal part‐time employment and fathers' long‐term involvement in child care and housework. Journal of Marriage and Family, 82, 566–586.

Fathers did more child care and housework while they worked part time.

0077. Chen, Y. (2021). Gender discrimination in societal and familial realms: Understanding agency among Chinese marriage migrant women in Switzerland. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 30, 18–38.

I discuss their gendered representations before migration (as “leftover women” or “divorced women”) to being “foreign wives” after migration.

0078. Engdahl, B., Idstad, M., & Skirbekk, V. (2019). Hearing loss, family status and mortality-Findings from the HUNT study, Norway. Social Science & Medicine, 220, 219–225.

There was also a trend for a lower mortality related to hearing loss in subjects with a well-hearing partner.

0079. Gerrand, P.A. & Warria, A. (2020). Factors that motivate African women in South Africa to depart from kinship care to legal adoption of non-kin children. Southern African Journal of Social Work and Social Development, 32(2).

African women usually decide to legally adopt non-kin children because their desire to mother permanently is not realized when engaging in kinship care.

0080. King, V., Bragg, B., & Lindstrom, R. (2020). Family relationships during adolescence and stepchilden's educational attainment in young adulthood. Journal of Marriage and Family, 82, 622–638.

Mother-child relationship quality was not associated with college attendance.

0081. Miller, D.P., Thomas, M.M.C., Waller, M.R., Nepomnyaschy, L., & Emory, A.D. (2020). Father involvement and socioeconomic disparities in child academic outcomes. Journal of Marriage and Family, 82, 515–533.

School involvement by low‐socioeconomic status (SES) resident fathers was more beneficial than involvement by the highest SES fathers.

0082. Ramotuana, B.K. & Amone-P'Olak, K. (2020). Family type predicts mental health problems in young adults: A survey of students at a University in Botswana family types and mental health. Southern African Journal of Social Work and Social Development, 32(2).

We investigated the extent to which different family types (intact, single-mother, and multiple) predict mental health problems in young adults.

0083. Ros Pilarz, A., Cuesta, L. & Drazen, Y. (2020). Nonstandard work schedules and father involvement among resident and nonresident fathers. Journal of Marriage and Family, 82, 587–604.

Among nonresident fathers, working evenings was associated with lower engagement relative to working standard hours only.

0084. Sanner, C., Ganong, L., & Coleman, M. (2020). Shared children in stepfamilies: Experiences living in a hybrid family structure. Journal of Marriage and Family, 82, 605–621.

Children hypothesized about the topics that were not openly discussed in their families.

0085. van Houdt, K., Kalmijn, M., & Ivanova, K. (2020). Stepparental support to adult children: The diverging roles of stepmothers and stepfathers. Journal of Marriage and Family, 82, 639–656.

Stepparents of both genders provided fewer types of support if their partner (i.e., the child's biological parent) was deceased.

0086. Wray, D. (2020). Paternity leave and fathers' responsibility: Evidence from a natural experiment in Canada. Journal of Marriage and Family, 82, 534–549.

There may be indirect, contextual effects of the policy that have shifted the norms in Quebec regarding fathering.

Medical anthropology

0087. Anjorin, A.A., Abioye, A.I., Asowata, O.E., Soipe, A., …, Omotayo, M.O. (2021). Comorbidities and the COVID-19 pandemic dynamics in Africa. Tropical Medicine & International Health, 26, 2–13.

There is a critical need to generate empirical data on clinical profiles and the predictors of morbidity and mortality from COVID-19.

0088. Bronstein, J., Sen, B., Morrisey, M., Blackburn, J., …, Smith, W. (2018). Assessing the impact of case management on medicaid clients with chronic diseases. Social Work in Public Health, 33, 215–225.

Case-management appeared to result in program savings, driven largely by inpatient and emergency department cost-savings.

0089. Burris, M., Bradley, S., Rykiel, K., & Himmelgreen, D. (2020). Teen food insecurity: Finding solutions through the voices of teens. Human Organization, 79, 13–23.

Teens relied on their communities, illegal activities, cheap and unhealthy foods, jobs, or their teachers to cope with food insecurity.

0090. Connolly, C., Keil, R., & Ali, S.H. (2021). Extended urbanisation and the spatialities of infectious disease: Demographic change, infrastructure and governance. Urban Studies, 58, 245–263.

We reveal how extended urbanization in the broadest sense has amplified the conditions necessary for the spread of infectious diseases.

0091. Dearden, E.K., Lloyd, C.D., & Catney, G. (2019). A spatial analysis of health status in Britain, 1991-2011. Social Science & Medicine, 220, 340–352.

Health is inextricably linked to geography, demonstrating quantitatively a complex, yet distinctive, spatial organization of health inequalities.

0092. Dickson, M.E. (2021). Globalisation and COVID-2019 pandemic: The nexus and impact on development in Africa. African Journal of Political Science and International Relations, 15(1), 11–18.

The spread of the pandemic has been very unusual as it takes advantage of forces of contemporary globalization.

0093. Gallagher, H.C., Block, K., Gibbs, L., Forbes, D., …, Bryant, R.A. (2019). The effect of group involvement on post-disaster mental health: A longitudinal multilevel analysis. Social Science & Medicine, 220, 167–175.

Communities with higher median levels of group involvement reported lower levels of PTSD symptoms and major depression.

0094. George, C.M., Cirhuza, L.B., Birindwa, A., Williams, C., …, Mirindi, P. (2021). Child hand contamination is associated with subsequent pediatric diarrhea in rural Democratic Republic of the Congo (REDUCE Program). Tropical Medicine & International Health, 26, 102–110.

There is high fecal contamination in child play spaces and food increasing the likelihood of diarrhea.

0095. Hernandez, A.G., Kiyaga, C., Howard, T.A., Ssewanyana, I., …, Ware, R.E. (2021). Trends in sickle cell trait and disease screening in the Republic of Uganda, 2014-2019. Tropical Medicine & International Health, 26, 23–32.

Examination and analysis of national sickle cell screening trends in Uganda documents the successes of focused screening strategies.

0096. Kabyemela, M. (2020). Traditional medicine: A complementary and accommodating health services delivery system at the village level of Tanzania. African Studies Quarterly, 19(2), 1–16.

Traditional medicine does not cause delays in referring patients to biomedical facilities.

0097. Moghaddam, H.R., Allahverdipour, H., & Matlabi, H. (2018). Barriers to women’s participation: Experiences of volunteers and community healthcare authorities. Social Work in Public Health, 33, 237–249,

Interaction among health system, people, and health volunteers should be improved.

0098. Mohapi, B.J. (2020). Experiences and challenges of peer educators as part of a health and wellness strategy in the workplace in Gauteng, South Africa. Southern African Journal of Social Work and Social Development, 32(2).

The experiences of peer educators in the workplace were mainly positive and offered them some opportunities.

0099. Mooij, R., Kapanga, R.R., Mwampagatwa, I.H., Mgalega, G.C., …, de Kok, B.C. (2021). Beyond severe acute maternal morbidity: A mixed-methods study on the long-term consequences of (severe pre-)eclampsia in rural Tanzania. Tropical Medicine & International Health, 26, 33–44.

Women who suffered from (severe pre-)eclampsia may experience long-term sequelae, including hypertension, depression and anxiety.

0100. Ozoh, O.B., Eze, J.N., Garba, B.I., Ojo, O.O., …, Beran, D. (2021). Nationwide survey of the availability and affordability of asthma and COPD medicines in Nigeria. Tropical Medicine & International Health, 26, 54–65.

There are very limited availability and affordability of recommended asthma and COPD medicines here.

0101. Unal, D. (2018). Sovereignty and social justice: How the concepts affect federal American Indian policy and American Indian health. Social Work in Public Health, 33, 259–270.

Health disparities these populations cannot only be attributed to individual behavior and choice but is driven by societal, economic and political factors.

0102. Van Natta, M., Burke, N.J., Yen, I.H., Fleming, M.D., …, Shim, J.K. (2019). Stratified citizenship, stratified health: Examining Latinx legal status in the U.S. healthcare safety net. Social Science & Medicine, 220, 49–55.

Many immigrants are unable to take full advantage of primary and specialty care, resulting in unnecessary morbidity and mortality.

Minorities (Ethnicity, class differentials, sex roles)

0103. Bakk, L. & Cadet, T.J. (2018). Awareness of the Medicare Part D low-income subsidy among older non-Hispanic Blacks and Hispanics. Social Work in Public Health, 33, 250–258.

Differences in low-income subsidy awareness among racial and ethnic minority groups highlight the need for culturally and linguistically sensitive community-based education.

0104. Bartos, A.E. & Ives, S. (2019). More than “silly stories”: Sexual harassment as academic training. GeoHumanities, 5, 342–354.

Recognition of the spaces where we “learn” our place in these structures is imperative to feminist action.

0105. Fresnoza-Flot, A. (2021). (Un)configurable masculinities and gender dynamics in men’s eyes: “Mixed” couples of Filipino migrants in Belgium and the Netherlands. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 30, 102–116.

Filipino informants, whose Belgian/Dutch spouses pursue gender equality, adopt various strategies to regain their masculine self.

0106. Karimi, A. (2020). Limits of social capital for refugee integration: The case of gay Iranian male refugees' integration in Canada. International Migration, 58(5), 87–102.

Examining racialized LGBT refugees' integration strategies best reveals communitarian social capital's flaws at the conjunction of sexuality, gender, race, and class.

0107. Kasembeli, S.N. (2020). The South African student #Fallist movements: Xenophobia and the impossibility of including the African ‘other.’ Journal of African Cultural Studies, 32, 316–331.

The Fallist movements showed that knowledge production takes place within a space of racial violence.

0108. King, S.J. (2021). Black Arabs and African migrants: Between slavery and racism in North Africa. The Journal of North African Studies, 26, 8–50.

Maghrebi white majorities have taken tentative steps to, for the first time, acknowledge their countries’ legacies of racial slavery and oppression.

0109. Moss, P. & Besio, K. (2019). Auto-methods in feminist geography. GeoHumanities, 5, 313–325.

We frame our reading of these contributions by problematizing three key concepts: experience, memory, and data.

0110. Muchiri, S.W. & Nzisabira, S.C. (2020). Gender, poverty reduction and social work: A view from Burundi. Southern African Journal of Social Work and Social Development, 32(2).

Social workers have the role of educating women and men in Burundi about the importance of women in poverty reduction.

0111. Ndagurwa, P. & Chemhaka, G.B. (2020). Education elasticities of young women fertility in sub-Saharan Africa: Insights from Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Zimbabwe. Development Southern Africa, 37, 921–936.

In Zimbabwe youth fertility changes were driven by those with secondary or higher educational attainment.

0112. Ogakason, R.O. (2019). Women as agents of conflict resolution in Femi Osofisan’s Moroutodun. EJOTMAS: Ekpoma Journal of Theatre and Media Arts, 7(1-2), 321–334.

Women should be given the same chance as men to contribute to peace-building and conflict resolution in the society.

0113. Schroth, R.K. (2021). Queer shame: Affect, resistance, and colonial critique in Abdellah Taïa’s Celui qui est digne d’être aimé. The Journal of North African Studies, 26, 138–162.

Recent cultural and theoretical work on shame elucidates the paper’s analysis of the materiality, constitution, expression, and circulation of queer shame.

0114. Thomsen, B., Muurlink, O., Best, T., Thomsen, J., & Copeland, K. (2020). Transcultural development. Human Organization, 79, 43–56.

Gender norms and rights proved a focal point in demonstrating the importance of conducting social impact assessments to mitigate entrenched or biased views.

Political structure and process, Law

0115. Adams, S. & Asante, W. (2020). The judiciary and post-election conflict resolution and democratic consolidation in Ghana’s Fourth Republic. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 38, 243–256.

Stakeholders are operating within the legal framework governing elections, despite logistical, law enforcement and justice delivery challenges.

0116. Adetunji, O.A. & Adewumi, E.F. (2021). Manifest destiny and foreign relations: Examining the Nigeria-South Africa contradiction. African Journal of Political Science and International Relations, 15(1), 1–10.

Nigeria’s leadership status remained a country of potentials lacking the edge to provide leadership for the rest of the continent.

0117. Cabatingan, L. (2020). Law, language, and a nonsovereign Caribbean. American Anthropologist, 122, 721–732.

The Caribbean Court of Justice seeks to constitute a nonsovereign region that carves out a Caribbean people and pointedly rejects ongoing British legacies and logics.

0118. Cardoso, C. (2020). The challenges facing African universities. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 32, 302–315.

This crisis is multifaceted, multidimensional, and poses a variety of enigmas and many different challenges.

0119. Cordeiro-Rodrigues, L. & Chimakonam, J.O. (2020). The South African land question in light of Nelson Mandela’s political thought. African Studies, 79, 250–265.

We maintain that some forms of protest could be morally justified even if they involve property violation and symbolic destruction.

0120. Goodman, R. (2020). Getting creative with data: Managing relationships and quantitative proof in an Indian NGO. American Anthropologist, 122, 799–813.

Fieldworkers were creative with data production to maintain their ties to both leaders and beneficiaries.

0121. Jemal, B.M. (2020). The depoliticisation of two competing nationalisms and the introduction of democratic Meritopianism as a possible way out for Ethiopia. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 38, 205–220.

If the Ethiopian version of federalism continues to be applied within the context of politicisation of ethnicity, it will always be a source of ethnic hostility.

0122. Karanda, C. & Toledano, N. (2020). Exploring the role of NGOs in influencing enterprise policy: Insights from Zimbabwe. Development Southern Africa, 37, 904–920.

An understanding of such roles requires the appreciation of how people and organizations are embedded to their contexts.

0123. Mamvura, Z. (2021). ‘Where art thou?’: Ethnocracy, toponymic silence, and toponymic subjugation in the Harare Commemorative Landscapes during the Mugabe Era (1980-2017). Urban Forum, 32, 17–31.

Politically motivated place renaming efforts usually select from the past aspects that serve present political purposes.

0124. Napolitano, V. (2020). On the touch-event: Theopolitical encounters. Social Analysis, 64(4), 81–99.

I argue for a closer examination of touch-events in order to grasp some of their theopolitical, radical, emancipatory, and, in some contexts, subjugating effects.

0125. Sanches, E.R. (2020). Transitions to democracy, institutional choices and party system stability: Lessons from small African islands. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 38, 186–204.

Stabilization is likely if party elites are able to control the rules of the game during the transition to democracy.

0126. Stephens, A.C. (2019). Feeling “Brexit”: Nationalism and the affective politics of movement. GeoHumanities, 5, 405–423.

I make the case for how an affective approach to the politics of movement suggests ways of thinking and acting politically.

0127. Szmolka, I. (2021). Bipolarisation of the Moroccan political party arena? Refuting this idea through an analysis of the party system. The Journal of North African Studies, 26, 73–102.

Political parties possess political ‘blackmail’ and coalition potential in the process of government formation.

0128. Tume, T.K. (2019). Choreographic metaphors of political terrorism and counter-terrorism in Arodan Dance Theatre. EJOTMAS: Ekpoma Journal of Theatre and Media Arts, 7(1–2), 335–347.

I examine the use of choreographic metaphors to enact the forms, features, and effects of political terrorism within the Nigerian space in the Arodan performance.

Psychological anthropology

0129. Baba, N., Schrage, T., Hartmann, A., Baba, K., …, Joos, A. (2021). Mental distress and need for psychosocial support in prostate cancer patients: An observational cross-sectional study. The International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, 56, 51–63.

Interpersonal relationships, most often wives and children, represent important coping resources.

0130. Bemath, N., Cockcroft, K., & Theron, L. (2020). Working memory and psychological resilience in South African emerging adults. South African Journal of Psychology, 50, 493–506.

Working memory processes indirectly promote resilience-enabling behaviors, while the sociocultural environment also facilitates behaviors which engage working memory and foster resilience.

0131. Coetzee, M. & Govender, A. (2020). Psychological career resources as explanatory mechanisms of employee adaptive career concerns across the career-life period. Journal of Psychology in Africa, 30, 225–230.

There is a need for workplace career development practices to help employees capitalize on their psychological career resources.

0132. Da, W., Li, X., Qiao, S., Zhou, Y., & Shen, Z. (2020). Antiretroviral therapy and mental health among people living with HIV/AIDS in China. Psychology, Health & Medicine, 25, 45–52.

Well-adherent antiretroviral therapy users had lower scores on anxiety and higher scores on mental health.

0133. Ding, H., Yu. E., & Li, Y. (2020). Transformational leadership and core self-evaluation: The roles of psychological well-being and supervisor-subordinate guanxi. Journal of Psychology in Africa, 30, 236–242.

Transformational leadership enhances both core self-evaluation and psychological well-being.

0134. Duma, N. & Madiba, T. (2020). The prevalence of peripartum depression and its relationship to mode of delivery and other factors among mothers in Ixopo, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa. South African Journal of Psychology, 50, 530–539.

Unemployment was found to have a statistically significant association with peripartum depression, and single motherhood was not associated.

0135. Harunavamwe, M., Nel, P., & Van Zyl, E. (2020). The influence of self-leadership strategies, psychological resources, and job embeddedness on work engagement in the banking industry. South African Journal of Psychology, 50, 507–519.

Accumulating and expanding internal and job resources from psychological capital, self-leadership, and job embeddedness significantly influence work engagement.

0136. Hungr, C., Recklitis, C.J., Wright, A.A., & Bober, S.L. (2020). How does a single session group intervention improve sexual function in ovarian cancer survivors? A secondary analysis of effects of self-efficacy, knowledge and emotional distress. Psychology, Health & Medicine, 25, 110–120.

The relationship between self-efficacy and sexual function was not mediated by emotional distress.

0137. Jithoo, V., Marchetti-Mercer, M., & Swartz, L. (2020). The search for significance: meaning making in elderly South Africans following the emigration of their adult children. South African Journal of Psychology, 50, 469–479.

We show how parents coped with ambiguous loss of emigration, making use of technology and alternative configurations of identity and care.

0138. Kang, S.Y., Lee, J.A. & Kim, Y.S. (2020). Depressive mood moderates the association between family communication and self-rated health in married couples. Psychology, Health & Medicine, 25, 102–109.

High levels of depressive mood weakened the positive association between family communication and self-rated health.

0139. Kauffman, K.M., Dolata, J., Figueroa, M., Gunzler, D., …, Sajatovic, M. (2021). Higher dose weekly fluoxetine in hemodialysis patients: A case series report. The International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, 56, 3–13.

The antidepressant medication fluoxetine at 90 mg dosed weekly is as effective and safe as standard formulation.

0140. Kim, J.-h., Jung, S.-h., Ahn, J.-c., Kim, B.-s., & Choi, H.-j. (2020). Social networking sites self-image antecedents of social networking site addiction. Journal of Psychology in Africa, 30, 243–248.

Self-image is the latent variable that explains social network services addiction.

0141. Laher, S. & Hassem, T. (2020). Doing systematic reviews in psychology. South African Journal of Psychology, 50, 450–468.

The systematic review method was used to establish the efficacy of online depression screening tools.

0142. Lianchao, A. & Tingting, M. (2020). Mindfulness, rumination and post-traumatic growth in a Chinese cancer sample. Psychology, Health & Medicine, 25, 37–44.

Deliberate rumination functions as an essential mechanism in the relationship between mindfulness and post-traumatic growth.

0143. Maresca, G., Maggio, M.G., Caliri, S., De Cola, M.C., …, Calabrò, R.S. (2020). The role of body image changes in neurorehabilitation outcomes: A preliminary study. Psychology, Health & Medicine, 25, 10–16.

The combined psychological counselling-nutritional counselling approach encouraged change in body representation, the reconstruction of body image and improved mood.

0144. Marthoenis, M., Syukri, M., Abdullah, A., Tandi, T.M.R., …, Schouler-Ocak, M. (2021). Quality of life, depression, and anxiety of patients undergoing hemodialysis: Significant role of acceptance of the illness. The International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, 56, 40–50.

Patients’ acceptance of their illnesses is significantly associated with the occurrence of anxiety and quality of life.

0145. Molepo, L.P. (2020). The way in which child and youth care workers in South Africa cope with psychosocial challenges. Southern African Journal of Social Work and Social Development, 32(2).

Child and youth care workers must find a healthy balance between their personal and professional life, timely seek psychosocial support, and keep on developing themselves to acquire skills.

0146. Moolman, B., Essop, R., & Tolla, T. (2020). Navigating agency: Adolescents’ challenging dating violence towards gender equitable relationships in a South African township. South African Journal of Psychology, 50, 540–552.

We discuss the complexities experienced by girls moving towards more gender equitable relationships.

0147. Nigol, S.H. & Di Benedetto, M. (2020). The relationship between mindfulness facets, depression, pain severity and pain interference. Psychology, Health & Medicine, 25, 53–63.

Higher levels of mindfulness were associated with lower depression as well as lower pain.

0148. Oros, S.M., Christon, L.M., Barth, K.S., Berini, C.R., …, Diaz, V.A. (2021). Facilitators and barriers to utilization of medications for opioid use disorder in primary care in South Carolina. The International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, 56, 14–39.

We provide an argument for tailoring education to specifically address the barriers primary care prescribers perceive.

0149. Pengpid, S. & Peltzer, K. (2020). Mental morbidity and its associations with socio-behavioural factors and chronic conditions in rural middle- and older-aged adults in South Africa. Journal of Psychology in Africa, 30, 257–263.

Being female, older age, being underweight, and having multi-morbidity portended higher risk for depression.

0150. Rice, S.M., Kealy, D., Oliffe, J.L., Treeby, M.S., & Ogrodniczuk, J.S. (2020). Shame and guilt mediate the effects of alexithymia on distress and suicide-related behaviours among men. Psychology, Health & Medicine, 25, 17–24.

Men’s difficulties identifying and describing their feelings and corresponding distress are particularly explained by shame.

0151. Scanavino, M.D.T., Ventuneac, A., Caramelli, B., Naufal, L., …, Parsons, J.T. (2020). Cardiovascular and psychopathological factors among non-sexually compulsive, sexually compulsive, and hypersexual individuals in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Psychology, Health & Medicine, 25, 121–129.

We investigated the effect of high rates of sexual activity on cardiovascular risk.

0152. Sepeng, W., Stander, M.W., van der Vaart, L., & Coxen, L. (2020). Authentic leadership, organisational citizenship behaviour and intention to leave: The role of psychological capital. South African Journal of Industrial Psychology, 46, a1802.

Employees’ perceptions of their leaders as authentic has an effect on organizational citizenship behavior and intention to leave through psychological capital.

0153. Stowkowy, J., Goldstein, B.I., MacQueen, G., Wang, J., …, Addington, J. (2020). Trauma in youth at-risk for serious mental illness. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 208, 70–76.

Childhood trauma has been shown to have detrimental consequences on mental health.

0154. Swart, L.-A., Day, S., Govender, R., & Seedat, M. (2020). Participation in (non)violent protests and associated psychosocial factors: sociodemographic status, civic engagement, and perceptions of government’s performance. South African Journal of Psychology, 50, 480–492.

Blacks and those who report high levels of poverty and civic engagement are likely to participate in non-violent protests.

0155. Tschuschke, V., Koemeda-Lutz, M., von Wyl, A., Crameri, A., & Schulthess, P. (2020). The impact of patients' and therapists' views of the therapeutic alliance on treatment outcome in psychotherapy. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 208, 56–64.

Successful treatments were conducted more often by therapists who showed significant convergence of alliance ratings.

0156. Veldsman, T.H. & Veldsman, D. (2020). Critically problematising existing organisational identity theory against practice: Part 2-Organisational identity-in-action. South African Journal of Industrial Psychology, 46, a1800.

We validated, in an exploratory manner, the existing organizational identity theory to expose the strengths, weaknesses and blind spots of the current literature.

0157. Ward-Smith, C., Naidoo, T., Olvitt, L., & Akhurst, J. (2020). Perceived benefits of nature-based experiences as mediators of connectedness with nature: the case of Mystic Mountain. South African Journal of Psychology, 50, 553–564.

We centralize participants’ perceived psychological and social benefits of nature-based experiences as mediators of deeper self and nature connectedness.

0158. Yu, M. & Li, J. (2020). Work-family conflict and mental health among Chinese underground coal miners: The moderating role of psychological capital. Psychology, Health & Medicine, 25, 1–9.

Managers should promote organization support and investment in psychological capital to improve miners’ mental health.

0159. Yu, Y., Yu, Y., & Lin, Y. (2020). Anxiety and depression aggravate impulsiveness: The mediating and moderating role of cognitive flexibility. Psychology, Health & Medicine, 25, 25–36.

Cognitive flexibility moderated the impact of anxiety on motor impulsivity.

0160. Zhang, L. & Jiang, H. (2020). Exploring the process of ethical leadership on organisational commitment: The mediating role of career calling. Journal of Psychology in Africa, 30, 231–235.

Human resource managers should display ethical leadership in order to promote employees’ sense of career calling.

Social organization (General)

0161. Ariel Cascio, M., Grond, F., Motta-Ochoa, R., Tembeck, T., …, Blain-Moraes, S. (2020). Working together: Ethnographic observations on participatory design involving adults with autism. Human Organization, 79, 1–12.

Biomusic uses a smartphone application and a wearable sensor to measure physiological signals and translate them into auditory output.

0162. Faro, E.Z. & Bauman, L.J. (2020). Tribalism in a pediatric emergency department. Human Organization, 79, 24–32.

We examine the historical, social, and institutional factors that contributed to tribalism.

0163. Mansournia, S., Bahrami, B., Farahani, L.M., & Aram, F. (2021). Understanding children’s perceptions and activities in urban public spaces: The case study of Zrêbar Lake Waterfront in Kurdistan. Urban Studies, 58, 372–388.

Using behavior and mental mapping, this paper examines children’s activities in public spaces as well as their mental images of such spaces.

0164. Seijas, A. & Gelders, M.M. (2021). Governing the night-time city: The rise of night mayors as a new form of urban governance after dark. Urban Studies, 58, 316–334.

These structures are challenging traditional approaches to urban governance and paving the way for a new wave of studies on the urban night.

0165. Shahawy, S., Amanuel, H., & Nour, N.M. (2019). Perspectives on female genital cutting among immigrant women and men in Boston. Social Science & Medicine, 220, 331–339.

We do not support the fear that “vacation cutting” might be common among US immigrants.

0166. Tirivanhu, P. (2020). A realist assessment of the facilitation process for improving social accountability by community based organizations. Development Southern Africa, 37, 953–970.

The potential utility of the Context-Mechanism-Output configurations is useful for future facilitation of social accountability interventions for community-based organizations.

Sociocultural change (Culture contact, migration, modernization)

0167. Aggarwal, V., Solano, G., Singh, P., & Singh, S. (2020). The integration of interstate migrants in India: A 7 state policy evaluation. International Migration, 58(5), 144–163.

Policymakers in the considered Indian states have a long way to go to improve the integration of interstate migrants.

0168. Bielewska, A. & Amit, K. (2020). Israeli and Polish policies toward returning residents as a reflection of nationhood. International Migration, 58(5), 29–44.

Our study supports Joppke's argument that there is no purely civic or ethnic nationalism.

0169. Collado, Z.C. (2020). Determinants of return intentions among internally displaced persons (IDPs) of Marawi City, Philippines. Development in Practice, 30, 113–124.

Place attachment, good memories in relation to profit-making, and cultural identity contribute to the firm desire to return home.

0170. Güler, A. (2020). Turkey's geographical limitation: The legal implications of an eventual lifting. International Migration, 58(5), 3–17.

I focus on the rights of conditional refugees under Turkish laws and questions whether these rights comply with or diverge from the rights of others.

0171. Hare, T., Miller-Graff, L.E., & Guzmanm J.C. (2020). Evaluating social protective factors for violence involvement in Honduras. Development in Practice, 30, 80–91.

Early behavior problems have a greater association with current violence involvement.

0172. Heckert, C. (2020). The bureaucratic violence of the health care system for pregnant immigrants on the United States-Mexico border. Human Organization, 79, 33–42.

The bureaucratic routes for gaining access to health coverage create latent forms of exclusion and fear.

0173. Jakubiak, I. (2020). Are migrants overrepresented among individual welfare beneficiaries? International Migration, 58(5), 103–127.

Immigrants rely on welfare less often than natives, and receive lower benefits when they do.

0174. Mazuera‐Arias, R., Albornoz‐Arias, N., Cuberos, M.A., Vivas‐García, M., …, Peraza, M. (2020). Sociodemographic profiles and the causes of regular Venezuelan emigration. International Migration, 58(5), 164–182.

There is a current humanitarian crisis (around both food and health) in Venezuela with a need to generate inclusive migratory policies in host countries.

0175. Monteith, W. & Mirembe, G. (2021). ‘We are taught to act’: Hustling on the move in Kampala and Nairobi. Africa, 91, 95–112.

Translational practices of acting and storytelling have become a generalized tactic of survival among migrants in urban East Africa.

0176. Plopeanu, A.-P., Homocianu, D., Bodea, G., Lucian, E., …, Mihaila, A. (2020). Assessing the imprint of the long‐gone Hapsburg Empire's border on the Romanian students' migration intentions. International Migration, 58(5), 45–68.

Students who have their homes in the former Empire's area have lower migration intentions than those outside it.

0177. Pravattiyagul, J. (2021). Thai transgender women in Europe: Migration, gender and binational relationships. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 30, 79–101.

I discuss gender, sexuality and migration, as well as their sentimental dynamic and feminine identity formation.

0178. Pries, L. (2020). “We will manage it”-Did Chancellor Merkel's dictum increase or even cause the refugee movement in 2015? International Migration, 58(5), 18–28.

Did the German government violated law and open one‐sided borders?

0179. Souralová, A. (2021). “My parents did everything for us but nothing with us”: Parenting and mothering in Vietnamese immigrant families in the Czech Republic. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 30, 39–59.

What is the meaning of migration for mothers’ and children’s comprehension of parenthood and motherhood?

0180. Verdía, V., Belén, V., Suárez, F., & DePalma, R. (2020). What is integration? A comparative view from immigrants and municipal policy. International Migration, 58(5), 128–143.

We explore the perspectives of immigrants with respect to their own integration and to examine how these compare with local policies designed to facilitate these processes.

0181. Villegas, P.E. (2020). Flexible and assembled bordering practices for Mexicans travelling to Canada. International Migration, 58(5), 69–86.

I analyze how bordering practices operated through the enactment of policy and the circulation of anti‐immigrant/anti‐Mexican discourses.

Symbol systems (Religion, ritual, world view)

0182. Chunga, J.J. & Tostensen, A. (2021). Clergy in politics: The opportunistic engagement of faith-based organisations in Malawi’s politics. Journal of Religion in Africa, 49, 1–33.

Faith communities have engaged and continue to engage with the political establishment through various means (e.g., by issuing pastoral letters and statements).

0183. Blanes, R.L. & Zawiejska, N. (2021). The Pentecostal antirevolution: Reflections from Angola. Journal of Religion in Africa, 49, 34–58.

Evangelicalism and Pentecostalism are defined by exclusionary tactics that render most churches compliant with the current political regime.

0184. de Abreu, M.J. (2020). Acts is Acts: Tautology and theopolitical form. Social Analysis, 64(4), 42–59.

I identify the function of tautology in Catholic Charismatic religious practices.

0185. Hughes, J.S. (2020). The colony as the mystical body of Christ: Theopolitical embodiment in Mexico. Social Analysis, 64(4), 21–41.

The Mexican corpus mysticum was grounded in the vernacular theologies and affects of the mortandad, the violent death world of the colonial cataclysm.

0186. Kloppers, E.C. (2020). Singing and sounding the sacred-The function of religious songs and hymns in the public sphere. Journal for the Study of Religion, 33(1), 1–23.

Hymnody forms a part of the beliefs, self-concepts, values, symbols, identities, sets of myths, and the collective cultural memory of people.

0187. Kroesbergen-Kamps, J. (2021). Horizontal and vertical dimensions in Zambian sermons about the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Religion in Africa, 49, 73–99.

The initial vertical dimension of the services shifts to more horizontal concerns as the pandemic progresses.

0188. McAllister, C. (2020). No one can hold it back: The theopolitics of water and life in Chilean Patagonia without dams. Social Analysis, 64(4), 121–139.

They allowed a flooding phenomenon on a river threatened with damming to be heard as a prophetic call to action.

0189. Mgumia, J.H. (2020). Chuma Ulete: Business and discourses of witchcraft in neoliberal Tanzania. Journal for the Study of Religion, 33(1), 1–26.

Witchcraft ends up being invoked by those who need their businesses to be protected and to grow.

0190. Omer, A. (2020). Decolonizing religion and the practice of peace: Two case studies from the postcolonial world. Critical Research on Religion, 8, 273–296.

I examine the colonial legacy of “peace” and key features of decolonial interventions in modernist, civilizational, and developmentalist discourses.

0191. Sande, N. (2021). Greening faith and herbology in Pentecostalism in Zimbabwe. Journal of Religion in Africa, 49, 59–72.

The Apostolic Faith Mission has remained impervious to the widespread campaign promoting the use of herbs as an effective healing treatment.

0192. Stonington, S.D. (2020). Karma masters: The ethical wound, hauntological choreography, and complex personhood in Thailand. American Anthropologist, 122, 759–770.

In contexts of severe illness in Northern Thailand, many conceive of themselves as combinations of beings assembled through the binding ethical force of karma.

0193. Tarugarira, G. & Moyo, A. (2020). Money dwells in the spiritual pocket! The gospel of prosperity and the empowerment of women through Talents/Matarenda among ZAOGA FIF adherents in Gweru, Zimbabwe. Journal for the Study of Religion, 33(1), 1–24.

We explore how this church organization has instilled hard work, frugality, and penultimate economic empowerment among its followers through Talents/Matarenda.

0194. Turton, Y. (2020). The lived experiences of community caregivers who use integrative mind-body-spirit practices. Southern African Journal of Social Work and Social Development, 32(2).

Social workers must be introduced to integrative mind-body-spirit practices as an additional set of tools and techniques to have at their disposal.

0195. Wallace, D. (2020). Resurgent fundamentalism, politics, and the anti-liberal agenda: Challenges for South Africa’s constitutional democracy. Journal for the Study of Religion, 33(1), 1–28.

I question the unlimited right to religious freedom in the context of guarantees of protection from discrimination in a constitutional democracy.

Theoretical, Methodological, and General

0196. Ember, C.R., Adem, T.A., Brougham, T., & Pitek, E. (2020). Predictors of land privatization: Cross-cultural tests of defendability and resource stress theory. American Anthropologist, 122, 745–758.

Agriculture by itself is not a strong predictor of private land rights, although irrigation agriculture is.

0197. Eromosele, O.P. (2019). Costumes as depiction of cultural identity in Pedro Agbonifo-Obaseki’s Idia. EJOTMAS: Ekpoma Journal of Theatre and Media Arts, 7(1-2), 310–320.

Costumes in Nigeria must depart from such outside influences that undermine their ability to communicate indigenous identity.

0198. Johnson, A. (2020). Wait and the sky will change: Anticipation and revolution in northeastern Thailand. American Anthropologist, 122, 840–851.

Waiting on that which never comes, in this context, is neither nihilism nor escapism, but allows for the opening a space of fantasy.

0199. Julius-Adeoye, 'R.J. (2019). Community radio: An instrument for good governance in Nigeria. EJOTMAS: Ekpoma Journal of Theatre and Media Arts, 7(1–2), 348–361.

Since community radio is essentially non-for-profit, government should make the operation license free or at a minimal cost to the host community.

0200. Lambelet, K.B.T. (2020). Redemption contests: Imperial salvation and the presence of the dead. Social Analysis, 64(4), 100–120.

The materiality of these signs can be apprehended by asking who is saving whom from what, by what means, and for what end.

0201. Maringanti, A. (2020). Seizing the day for southern urbanism: Reflections from the lockdown. Urbanisation, 5, 37–42.

I discuss new learning and teaching contexts where experience and sensory perceptions are privileged but not at the expense of abstraction and concept building.

0202. Naar, N. (2020). Gaming anthropology: The problem of external validity and the challenge of interpreting experimental games. American Anthropologist, 122, 784–798.

Anthropologists borrowing experimental methods from economics should treat the relationship between behavior inside and outside of games as an open empirical question.

0203. Ogoke, C. (2019). Import of family and peers in a writer’s life. EJOTMAS: Ekpoma Journal of Theatre and Media Arts, 7(1–2), 362–373.

I investigate how culture, society and the family are significant in the life of every man or woman.

0204. Premo, L.S. (2020). Reconciling and reassessing the accumulated copying error model's population-level predictions for continuous cultural traits. American Anthropologist, 122, 771–783.

The accumulated copying error model exploits the fact that limits to human visual perception introduce proportional copying errors during cultural transmission of a continuous trait.

0205. Sotoudehnia, M. (2019). Sticky waddling: An autobiography of pregnant embodiment in Toronto’s crypto-economy. GeoHumanities, 5, 355–368.

I extend wider debates among feminist geographers interested in affirmation, emotions, and creative writing methods.

Urban Studies

0206. Ahrens, A. & Lyons, S. (2021). Do rising rents lead to longer commutes? A gravity model of commuting flows in Ireland. Urban Studies, 58, 264–279.

We found a 10% rise in rents in employment centers is associated with an up to 0.6 minute rise in one-way daily average commuting times nationally.

0207. Bradley, Q. (2021). The financialisation of housing land supply in England. Urban Studies, 58, 389–404.

I assess the activities of economic agents in performing or ‘formatting’ this supply, its boundaries, externalities and rules of operation.

0208. Chigudu, A. & Chavunduka, C. (2021). The tale of two capital cities: The effects of urbanisation and spatial planning heritage in Zimbabwe and Zambia. Urban Forum, 32, 33–47.

Urbanization is an enduring phenomenon in these capital cities, and the growth of slums and informal settlements is very pronounced there.

0209. Chitonge, H. (2020). Urbanisation and the water challenge in Africa: Mapping out orders of water scarcity. African Studies, 79, 192–211.

There is a need for a more nuanced understanding of water scarcity to enable effective planning for water resource use and service management.

0210. Collins, B. (2020). Putting culture on the map: Media discourse and the urban growth machine in Koreatown, Los Angeles. Urban Affairs Review, 56, 254–288.

I analyze how four discursive frames used by the local newspaper commodify cultural communities for consumption by the urban elite.

0211. Connor, T.K. & Charway, F. (2020). Ambiguities of xenophobia in a border town: Inner city informal traders and Ekasi shopkeepers in the city of East London, South Africa. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 38, 257–273.

Informality is a driver of economic empowerment and equality among traders, but also of xenophobia and difference.

0212. Dakyaga, F., Ahmed, A., & Sillim, M.L. (2021). Governing ourselves for sustainability: Everyday ingenuities in the governance of water infrastructure in the informal settlements of Dar es Salaam. Urban Forum, 32, 111–129.

Water infrastructures are developed and sustained through the everyday act of inventing, repetitive self-actions, ordering and disordering of the rules and mechanisms.

0213. Das, M. & Chattopadhyay, S. (2020). Understanding peoples’ participation in urban local government in West Bengal. Development in Practice, 30, 68–79.

Elected representatives became the only link between citizens and the municipal administration.

0214. Ezeanah, U. (2021). Quality housing: Perception and insights of people in Benin City, Nigeria. Urban Forum, 32, 87–110.

I provide newer dimensions to which housing quality can be defined as one which is spacious, clean, accessible and habitable in terms of the finesse of the interior of the building.

0215. Graham, L. (2020). Public housing participation in Superstorm Sandy recovery: Living in a differentiated state in Rockaway, Queens. Urban Affairs Review, 56, 289–324.

I deliver a new synthesis of the limits to tenants’ political participation in conventional public housing developments.

0216. Jelili, M.O., Akinyode, B.F., & Ogunleti, A. (2021). Land pooling and urban renewal in Lagos State: A narrative inquiry into Isale Gangan Project. Urban Forum, 32, 49–66.

Public participation should be encouraged for effective realization of residents’ cooperation, as observed in Isale Gangan project.

0217. Li, Q., Wang, J., Callanan, J., Lu, B., & Guo, Z. (2021). The spatial varying relationship between services of the train network and residential property values in Melbourne, Australia. Urban Studies, 58, 335–354.

Crime and retail activities that indirectly affect the relationship between rail stations and residential property values are also identified.

0218. Mishra, P. (2020). Urbanisation through brick kilns: The interrelationship between appropriation of nature and labour regimes. Urbanisation, 5, 17–36.

I bring brick kilns into Marxist debates on the interrelationship between nature and labor within capitalist production.

0219. Pieterse, M. (2021). Anatomy of a crisis: Structural factors contributing to the collapse of urban municipal governance in Emfuleni, South Africa. Urban Forum, 32, 1–15.

While human failings explain some of the municipality’s failings, there are also deeper problems around municipal demarcation, intergovernmental relations, and urban autonomy.

0220. Preis, B., Janakiraman, A., Bob, A., & Steil, J. (2021). Mapping gentrification and displacement pressure: An exploration of four distinct methodologies. Urban Studies, 58, 405–424.

We identify the geographic areas of agreement and disagreement among the four models studied.

0221. Sabbi, M. (2020). ‘Municipal entrepreneurs’: Local politicians and the delivery of urban sanitation in Kumasi, Ghana. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 38, 221–242.

Management of urban sanitation is a contested arena between bureaucrats and political actors all vying for their interests.

0222. Sarkar, A. (2020). Everyday practices of poor urban women to access water: Lived realities from a Nairobi slum. African Studies, 79, 212–231.

Procuring water entails physical hardship that often leads to mental agony that sometimes even threatens the safety and dignity of these women’s lives.

0223. Zhao, J.Z., Lou, S., Fonseca, C., Feiock, R., & Shen, R. (2021). Explaining transit expenses in US urbanised areas: Urban scale, spatial form and fiscal capacity. Urban Studies, 58, 280–296.

Transit investments are super-linear to population, directly contradicting predictions of Bettencourt’s popular urban scale theory.

LINGUISTICS

Historical linguistics

0224. Abu Guba, M.N. (2021). Gemination within English loanwords in Ammani Arabic: An Optimality-theoretic analysis. Journal of Linguistics, 57, 3–40.

The introduction of English loanwords into Ammani Arabic highlights the activity of a constraint that requires prosodic words.

0225. Aijmer, K. (2021). “That’s well good”: A re-emergent intensifier in current British English. Journal of English Linguistics, 49, 18–38.

Diachronically well has developed from its etymological meaning (‘in a good way’) on a cline of adverbialization to an intensifier and to a discourse marker.

0226. Bodt, T.A. (2021). The Duhumbi perspective on Proto-Western Kho-Bwa onsets. Journal of Historical Linguistics, 11, 1–59.

On basis of sound correspondences, I propose 282 Western Kho-Bwa proto-forms including a total of 92 onsets.

0227. Brinton, L.J. (2021). “He loved his father but next to adored his mother”: Nigh(ly), near, and next (to) as downtoners. Journal of English Linguistics, 49, 39–60.

Next (to) grammaticalizes as a downtoner, but proceeds only to the degree modifier stage and involves a high degree of idiomaticization.

0228. Burns, R. (2021). Modeling gradient processes in Polabian vowel chain shifting and blocking. Journal of Historical Linguistics, 11, 102–142.

I test Timberlake’s proposal and the current proposal in a Harmonic Grammar which uses Purcell’s acoustic data from Russian as a proxy.

0229. Claridge, C., Jonsson, E., & Kytö, M. (2021). A little something goes a long way: Little in the Old Bailey Corpus. Journal of English Linguistics, 49, 61–89.

Little modifies a wide range of “targets,” but most frequently adjectives and prepositional phrases, focusing on human states and circumstantial detail.

0230. Comrie, B. & Zamponi, R. (2021). Expanding the boundaries of Asian linguistics: Great Andamanese languages. Asian Languages and Linguistics, 2, 1–23.

We find presumably accidental parallels in languages spoken inside Asia (e.g. retroflex consonants), or elsewhere (e.g. body-part prefixes and verb root ellipsis).

0231. Dezecache, G., Zuberbühler, K., Davila-Ross, M., & Dahl, C.D. (2021). Flexibility in wild infant chimpanzee vocal behavior. Journal of Language Evolution, 6, 37–53.

The most common chimpanzee vocalization, the grunt is not affectively bound.

0232. Djamouri, R. & Paul, W. (2021). Clitic pronouns in Archaic Chinese. Journal of Historical Linguistics, 11, 60–101.

The clitic pronouns y and y can neither be analyzed as stranded prepositions left behind after extraction of their complement nor as orphan prepositions.

0233. Green, C.R. (2020). Harmony and disharmony in Mbat (Jarawan Bantu) verbs. Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 6, 43–72.

I show that an approach based on well-motivated binary vocalic features like [open], [closed], and [ATR] offers a transparent account of most Mbat outcomes.

0234. Harvey, M. & Baker, B. (2020). Epenthetic prefixation in Alawa and Marra. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 40, 273–295.

We propose that the synchronically epenthetic prefixes are remnants of old article roots.

0235. Hiltunen, T. (2021). Intensification in eighteenth century medical writing. Journal of English Linguistics, 49, 90–113.

The use of intensifiers in this period is characterized by stability rather than dramatic change, despite ongoing changes in the socio-cultural context of medicine.

0236. Johansson, N.E., Carr, J.W., & Kirby, S. (2021). Cultural evolution leads to vocal iconicity in an experimental iterated learning task. Journal of Language Evolution, 6, 1–25.

Linguistic transmission is sufficient for vocal iconicity to emerge, which demonstrates the role non-arbitrary associations play in the evolution of language.

0237. Kirton, F., Kirby, S., Smith, K., Culbertson, J., & Schouwstra, M. (2021). Constituent order in silent gesture reflects the perspective of the producer. Journal of Language Evolution, 6, 54–76.

We provide evidence that the effect of salience is realized through its effect on the perspective from which a producer frames an event.

0238. Kossmann, M. (2020). Proto-Berber phonological reconstruction: An update. Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 6, 11–42.

Il provide an overview of the results and challenges in the reconstruction of Proto-Berber phonology.

0239. Meakins, F., Pensalfini, R., Zipf, C., & Hamilton-Hollaway, A. (2020). Lend me your verbs: Verb borrowing between Jingulu and Mudburra. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 40, 296–318.

We quantify the degree of shared verb forms and determine the direction of borrowing between Mudburra and Jingulu.

0240. Moessner, L. (2020). Old English law-codes: A synchronic-diachronic genre study. Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 21, 28–52.

The diachronic comparisons show marked differences in the linguistic profile of Old English law-codes and statutes of later periods.

0241. Rhee, S. (2020). Pseudo-hortative and the development of the discourse marker eti poca (‘well, let’s see’) in Korean. Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 21, 53–82.

Hortative constructions are good sources of discourse markers because they have an engaging effect on the addressee.

0242. Stange, U. (2021). “He should so be in jail”: An empirical study on preverbal so in American English. Journal of English Linguistics, 49, 114–136.

The preverbal so is expanding its functional range from intensification to emphasis.

0243. Su, H. (2020). Local grammars and diachronic speech act analysis: A case study of apology in the history of American English. Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 21, 109–136.

Local grammar descriptions capture both formal and semantic regularities of speech act realizations.

0244. Van Acker, S. & Bostoen, K. (2020). Inheritance and contact in the genesis of Gisamba (Bantu, L12a, DRC): A diachronic phonological approach. Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 6, 73–130.

Some of the diachronic sound changes confirm Gisamba’s affiliation to West-Coastal Bantu, the Kikongo Language Cluster and Kikongoid.

0245. Viola, L. (2020). On the diachrony of giusto? (‘right?’) in Italian: A new discoursivization. Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 21, 83–108.

I explore whether there are positive correlations between the use of right? in English and the use of giusto? in real use Italian.

Psycholinguistics

0246. Baek, Y.M. & Ihm, J. (2021). Word use as an unobtrusive predictor of early departure from organizations. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 40, 238–259.

We expand the theoretical meaning of personality and provide practical ways to predict people’s organizational behaviors.

0247. Bayram, E., Yilmaz, R., Qiu, Y., Yalap, O.E., …, Akbostanci, M.C. (2021). The effect of subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation on verb and noun naming in Turkish-Speaking Parkinson’s disease patients. Brain and Language, 212, Article 104865.

Noun-verb difference was accounted by differences in imageability, familiarity and complexity of the stimuli.

0248. Beck, S.D. & Weber, A. (2020). Context and literality in idiom processing: Evidence from self-paced reading. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 59, 837–863.

Biasing contexts are used in a flexible process of real-time idiom processing and meaning constitution, but this effect is mediated by idiom literality.

0249. Cho, J. (2020). Memory load effect in the real-time processing of scalar implicatures. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 59, 865–884.

Participants in the memory-load condition did not show sensitivity to semantically false sentences.

0250. Cutler, A.D., Carden, S.W., Dorough, H.L., & Holtzman, N.S. (2021). Inferring grandiose narcissism from text: LIWC versus machine learning. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 40, 260–276.

The machine learning model was able to preserve personality information where linguistic inquiry and word count failed to do so.

0251. De Vos, L., De Sutter, G., & De Vogelaer, G. (2021). Weighing psycholinguistic and social factors for semantic agreement in Dutch pronouns. Journal of Germanic Linguistics, 33, 30–66.

We weigh the importance of both structural and social factors in pronominal gender agreement in Belgian Dutch.

0252. Dosi, I. & Gavriilidou, Z. (2020). The role of cognitive abilities in the development of definitions by children with and without developmental language disorder. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 59, 761–777.

The development of definitions is driven by different mechanisms in (non-)impaired children.

0253. Feng, W., Yu, H., & Zhou, X. (2021). Understanding particularized and generalized conversational implicatures: Is theory-of-mind necessary? Brain and Language, 212, Article 104878.

Particularized implicature and generalized implicature comprehension shared the multivariate functional MRI patterns of language processing.

0254. François, C., Garcia-Alix, A., Bosch, L., & Rodriguez-Fornells, A. (2021). Signatures of brain plasticity supporting language recovery after perinatal arterial ischemic stroke. Brain and Language, 212, Article 104880.

In adults stroke over the left hemisphere generally induces post-stroke aphasia, but this is not always the case when a stroke occurs in the perinatal period.

0255. Frankford, S.A., Nieto-Castañón, A., Tourville, J.A., & Guenther, F.H. (2021). Reliability of single-subject neural activation patterns in speech production tasks. Brain and Language, 212, Article 104881.

We found that a novel machine-learning subject classifier could identify these individuals by their speech activation patterns.

0256. García-Sierra, A., Ramírez-Esparza, N., Wig, N., & Robertson, D. (2021). Language learning as a function of infant directed speech (IDS) in Spanish: Testing neural commitment using the positive-MMR. Brain and Language, 212, Article 104890.

Quality of language exposure fosters language learning, and that this beneficial relationship expands to the bilingual population.

0257. Godoy, M.C., de Souza Filho, N.S., de Souza, J.G.M., França, H.A.N, & Kawahara, S. (2020). Gotta name’em all: An experimental study on the sound symbolism of Pokémon names in Brazilian Portuguese. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 59, 717–740.

We investigated which sound-symbolic association speakers of Brazilian Portuguese employ to name Pokémon characters.

0258. Gulgowski, P. & Błaszczak, J. (2020). Psycholinguistic investigation of the immediate interpretation of plural nouns in the scope of sentential negation in Polish. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 59, 741–760.

We investigated whether a plural noun in a negative sentence is treated as inclusive immediately when it is encountered or whether this interpretation is delayed.

0259. Jeong, H., Li, P., Suzuki, W., Sugiura, M., & Kawashima, R. (2021). Neural mechanisms of language learning from social contexts. Brain and Language, 212, Article 104874.

Higher activity in the right temporal parietal junction, right hippocampus, and motor areas was observed during the initial stage of social learning.

0260. Kajiura, M., Jeong, H., Kawata, N.Y.S., Yu, S., …, Sugiura, M. (2021). Brain activity predicts future learning success in intensive second language listening training. Brain and Language, 212, Article 104839.

The left angular and superior temporal gyri were key areas responsible for integrating prior knowledge to sensory input.

0261. Kampf, Z., Chudy, D., Danziger, R., & Schreiber, M. (2021). “Wait with falling in love”: Discursive evaluation of amicable messages conveyed by opponents. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 40, 188–213.

We discuss the importance of studying interpretative repertoires and their applicability to other communities involved in conflicts.

0262. Karbakhsh, R. & Safa, M.A. (2020). Basic psychological needs satisfaction, goal orientation, willingness to communicate, self-efficacy, and learning strategy use as predictors of second language achievement: A structural equation modeling approach. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 59, 803–822.

Language learners need to be more oriented towards setting their future goals, believing in their capabilities, and using more learning strategies.

0263. Levy, R.S. & Kelly, S.D. (2020). Emotion matters: The effect of hand gesture on emotionally valenced sentences. Gesture, 19, 41–71.

Gesture was more likely to become integrated into memory of neutrally and positively valenced speech than negatively valenced speech.

0264. Miller, K.A., Raney, G.E., & Demos, A.P. (2020). Time to throw in the towel? No evidence for automatic conceptual metaphor access in idiom processing. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 59, 885–913.

The conceptual (target) domain, not a specific underlying conceptual metaphor, facilitates processing of related target words.

0265. Riffo, B., Guerra, E., Rojas, C., Novoa, A., & Veliz, M. (2020). Strategic spatial anchoring as cognitive compensation during word categorization in Parkinson’s Disease: Evidence from eye movements. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 59, 823–836.

Parkinson’s disease patients present an over-reliance on space during word categorization as a form of cognitive compensation.

0266. Thierfelder, P., Durantin, G., & Wigglesworth, G. (2020). The effect of word predictability on phonological activation in Cantonese reading: A study of eye-fixations and pupillary response. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 59, 779–801.

Orthographic effects were significant in first fixation and gaze duration, while phonological effects emerged later in total reading time.

Sociolinguistics

0267. Afful, J.B.A. (2020). The discourse of thesis assessment reports in a disciplinary community at the University of Cape Coast: An exploratory study. AFRREV LALIGENS: An International Journal of Language, Literature and Gender Studies, 9(1), 117–134.

There were varying structural patterns adopted by assessors, thereby evincing individual preferences.

0268. Akinsete, C.T. (2020). The postmodern pulse of postproverbials in African cultural space. Matatu, 51, 241–253.

I explore the postmodern pulse of selected postproverbial forms as the prostheses of conventional African proverbs.

0269. Armon-Lotem, S., Rose, K., & Altman, C. (2021). The development of English as a heritage language: The role of chronological age and age of onset of bilingualism. First Language, 41, 67-89.

Performance was more advanced for measures that were less reliant on language-specific skills.

0270. Babayi, I., Dowling, T., & Possa-Mogoera, R. (2020). The language of Wakanda: An analysis of the use of isiXhosa in the Hollywood science-fiction film Black Panther. South African Journal of African Languages, 40, 249–256.

We examine how Wakanda is rendered in text by the makers of the subtitles (grammatical and syntactical observations) and by the actors (a phonological analysis).

0271. Bodie, G.D., Jones, S.M., Brinberg, M., Joyer, A.M., …, Ram, N. (2021). Discovering the fabric of supportive conversations: A typology of speaking turns and their contingencies. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 40, 214–237.

A typology for both listener and discloser turns includes acknowledgment, advisement, question, elaboration, hedged disclosure, and reflection.

0272. Chen, Z. (2021). The insignificance reading of Shenme revisited. Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 30, 83–107.

Diachronic evidence in Chinese is given to support the existence of a degree-reading shenme, apart from the familiar entity-reading shenme.

0273. Clegg, J., Rohde, C., McLachlan, H., Elks, L., & Hall, A. (2020). Evaluating the Elklan Talking Matters Programme: Exploring the impact of a training programme for early years professionals on pre-school children’s language development. Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 36, 108–125.

The Talking Matters program has a positive impact on pre-school children’s language development.

0274. du Plessis, T. (2020). The officialisation of South African sign language: Implications for place-name planning. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa, 51(3), 66–86.

Place naming in signed languages is generally authentic and that written place names are consequently often renamed in signed languages.

0275. Ekiye, E. (2019). The use of specific linguistic features within the context of a casual conversation in a speech community. EJOTMAS: Ekpoma Journal of Theatre and Media Arts, 7(1–2), 294–309.

Particular focus is paid to such linguistic features as the register of conversation, turn taking, discourse variation, phonological variation and grammatical variation.

0276. Fadare, N.O. (2020). Postproverbial and postmodern aesthetics in Ify Asia Chiemeziem’s new media proverbs. Matatu, 51, 254–271.

Emerging facts about postproverbials are indications that the theory is viable and will endure the test of time.

0277. Foltz, A., Knopf, K., Jonas, K., Jaecks, P., & Stenneken, P. (2021). Evidence for robust abstract syntactic representations in production before age three. First Language, 41, 3–20.

Phonological working memory and production skills relate to children’s syntactic priming behavior, albeit in different ways.

0278. Gallagher, K. & Bataineh, A. (2020). An investigation into the linguistic landscape of translingual storybooks for Arabic-English bilingual children. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 41, 348–367.

We examine what the storybooks convey, explicitly or implicitly, about culture and language in the UAE where the books were written.

0279. Goodness, D. (2020). Shinyiha noun derivation. South African Journal of African Languages, 40, 326–334.

One nominalizing suffix may induce multiple meanings, depending on the nature of the verb root.

0280. Grama, J., Travis, C.E., & Gonzalez, S. (2020). Ethnolectal and community change ov(er) time: Word-final (er) in Australian English. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 40, 346–368.

Acoustic analyses of vowel duration and position in the vowel space reveal incremental lengthening with concomitant lowering and backing over time for (er).

0281. Hyland, K. & Jiang, F. (2020). Text-organizing metadiscourse: Tracking changes in rhetorical persuasion. Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 21, 137–164.

Published academic writing often seems to be an unchanging form of discourse with its frozen informality remaining stable over time.

0282. Ikonne, U.H. (2020). The influence of cultural constraints on comprehension among second language (L2) learners: Implications for language teaching and learning. AFRREV LALIGENS: An International Journal of Language, Literature and Gender Studies, 9(1), 135–141.

Language teachers should apply strategies and techniques like infantilization, dramatization, excursion, and audio and visual resources to concretize their lessons.

0283. Jebbour, M. (2021). English language teaching in Morocco: A focus on the English department. The Journal of North African Studies, 26, 103–115.

I consider the challenges facing the development of English language education in the target departments.

0284. Kipacha, A. (2020). Not so well campaign speech in Swahili: Postproverbials as persuasive tool. Matatu, 51, 272–281.

The use of subverted form of standard adage became inevitable on the process of waging verbal war to disarm opponents’ argumentative style.

0285. Lantern, B. & Moyo, T. (2020). A toponomastic commemoration of King Mzilikazi: A linguistic landscaping and Maslow’s hierarchy of needs perspectives. South African Journal of African Languages, 40, 291–296.

The iconic name Mzilikazi brings up memories of pride, sufficiency, health, belonging and general unity.

0286. Li, J. (2021). An aggregate approach to diachronic variation in modern Chinese writings and translations. Asian Languages and Linguistics, 2, 110–133.

Diachronic variation in early modern Chinese mirrors that of English in that both languages developed to be more colloquial and interactive.

0287. Li, S., Nan, N., Xu, Q., & Li, J. (2020). Perceived quality of parent-child relationships by Chinese primary school students: The role of parents’ education and parent-child literacy activities. Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 36, 79–89.

Boosting the frequency of parent-child literacy activities may be a useful strategy for facilitating the parent-child relationship.

0288. Mabela, L., Mann, C., & Ditsele, T. (2020). Language and discourse in contemporary South African politics: A critical discourse analysis. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa, 51(3), 108–129.

Political leaders used and chose words strategically in their speeches to persuade and manipulate their audiences.

0289. Madonsela, S. (2020). Measuring semantic relatedness between words using related synsets in African Wordnet. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 38, 236–243.

The measures of semantic relatedness to which words are associated include synonymy, hyponymy, function and association.

0290. Mangeya, H. (2020). Shona-Ndebele symbolic ethnic violence in institutions of higher learning: An analysis of male toilet graffiti at Midlands State University. South African Journal of African Languages, 40, 257–265.

Any discussion of ethnicity is quickly labeled as fanning tribalism and is therefore suppressed or criticized.

0291. Markowitz, D.M., Kouchaki, M., Hancock, J.T., & Gino, F. (2021). The deception spiral: Corporate obfuscation leads to perceptions of immorality and cheating behavior. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 40, 277–296.

Behavioral experiments revealed that group members cheat more after reading a high-obfuscation values statement than a low-obfuscation values statement.

0292. Mbirimi-Hungwe, V. & McCabe, R.-M. (2020). Translanguaging during collaborative learning: A ‘transcollab’ model of teaching. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 38, 244–259.

Translanguaging can be used in collaborative learning activities to enhance deeper understanding of the material.

0293. Mèhouénou, M.S., Dossoumou, A.M., & Loko, D.C. (2020). Reinforcing the teaching of translation in Beninese Secondary Schools: A new challenge for EFL teachers. AFRREV LALIGENS: An International Journal of Language, Literature and Gender Studies, 9(1), 151–164.

The poor grades the learners culled are due to the lack of practice with their teachers who, in turn, have received no professional training in the matter.

0294. Mostert, A. (2020). The efficacy of the context-adaptive model in facilitating utilisation-focused language programme evaluation. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 38, 222–235.

The selected impact assessment study provides empirical evidence of a utilization-focused evaluation process guided by the context-adaptive model.

0295. Motsamayi, M.F. (2020). Cattle culture and colour symbolism as reflected in selected artworks of Sotho-Tswana in South Africa. South African Journal of African Languages, 40, 297–307.

The interpretation of cattle culture and color symbolism may help to identify specific colors as significant in the context of creative production and indigenous nomenclatures.

0296. Müller, K., Niekrenz, Y., Schmitt, C., Krishnamurthy, S., & Witte, M.D. (2020). An analysis of metaphors in the biographies of the ‘GDR children of Namibia.’ African Studies, 79, 173–191.

We use metaphor analysis to show how the now-adult ‘GDR children’ experienced their lives between different national contexts.

0297. Mumpande, I. & Barnes, L. (2020). The revitalisation of the Tonga language in Zimbabwe: The strategies. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa, 51(3), 43–65.

The Tonga revitalization initiative was a success as it adopted a holistic approach with sociological, political, economic, and cultural factors.

0298. Naidoo, S. & Gokool, R. (2020). Compulsory isiZulu at the University of KwaZulu-Natal: The attitudes of enrolled students. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa, 51(3), 24–42.

Students are aware of the value of acquiring competence in isiZulu.

0299. Ndlovu, M.V. (2020). Ideology in the English translation of isiZulu praise poems. South African Journal of African Languages, 40, 243–248.

I explore the reflection of Trevor Cope’s ideology in his selection, Izibongo-Zulu praise-poems, by using mainly paratextual elements.

0300. Nesset, T. (2020). What's in a Russian aspectual prefix? A cognitive linguistics approach to prefix meanings. Journal of Slavic Linguistics, 28, 141–162.

The aspectual meaning of prefixes is the result of metaphorical extension of their basic spatial senses.

0301. Ntshangase, S.Z. & Bosch, S. (2020). Dual language education: Improving the academic learning experiences of isiZulu-speaking learners in KwaZulu-Natal. South African Journal of African Languages, 40, 317–325.

A model is proposed which aims at expanding the existing language repertoires of learners in a form of multilingual pedagogical translanguaging.

0302. Pelatti, C.Y., Martino, A., & Wilson, K.P. (2020).Bi-directional communication journals as a method of caregiver support during speech and language intervention: A pilot study. Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 36, 127–139.

We found three core themes: improved communication between caregivers and student clinicians, insight about child’s routines, and application in the home environment.

0303. Peng, J., Wang, C., & Lu, X. (2020). Effect of the linguistic complexity of the input text on alignment, writing fluency, and writing accuracy in the continuation task. Language Teaching Research, 24, 364–381.

The simplified version resulted in more automatic alignment and greater improvement in writing fluency and accuracy.

0304. Poehner, M.E. & Leontjev, D. (2020). To correct or to cooperate: Mediational processes and L2 development. Language Teaching Research, 24, 295–316.

Individuals draw upon meanings and ways of thinking they have already internalized as well as those that are available in their immediate environment.

0305. Pratt, T. (2020). Embodying “tech”: Articulatory setting, phonetic variation, and social meaning. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 24, 328–349.

Studies of co-occurring features should focus on the ideological processes by which combinations of variables come to index thematic styles.

0306. Prażmo, E. (2020). The post-fact world in a post-truth era: The productivity and emergent meanings of the prefix post- in contemporary English. English Language and Linguistics, 24, 393–412.

The appearance of the prefix post- in new combinations is motivated by the need to describe the changing reality (especially in political and media discourse).

0307. Rao, Z. & Chen, H. (2020). Teachers’ perceptions of difficulties in team teaching between local- and native-English-speaking teachers in EFL teaching. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 41, 333–347.

To maximize benefit from team teaching in class, local schools should provide team teachers with a pre-semester training.

0308. Ross, B., Ballard, E., & Watson, C. (2021). New Zealand English in Auckland: A Papatoetoe snapshot. Asia-Pacific Language Variation, 7, 62–81.

We found minimal differences among speakers from different suburbs, but all groups had notable differences from the traditional New Zealand English vowel space.

0309. Sekepe, D. (2020). The depiction of cosmic images of the sun, moon and stars in selected Setswana novels. South African Journal of African Languages, 40, 308–316.

I show the knowledge of Batswana cosmology and its application to their everyday life.

0310. Sheriff, A. & Pittas, E. (2020). Factors contributing to student language outcomes in a biliteracy setting according to teachers’ and parents’ views. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa, 51(3), 4–23.

Most teachers reported that they prefer the use of both the Ghanaian L1 and English as media of classroom interaction and instruction.

0311. Sibisi, M. & Tappe, H. (2020). The use of tense and aspect in isiZulu and English by isiZulu L1/English L2 speakers: An empirical investigation. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 38, 200–221.

Students carefully positioned the events on a linear timeline, and they encoded the chronological succession of the events in detail in their L1.

0312. Smolík, F. & Bláhová, V. (2021). Early linguistic reference to first and second person depends on social understanding as well as language skills: Evidence from Czech 30-month-olds. First Language, 41, 109–125.

Both mental state language and general language development show unique relations to person reference with pronouns as well as verbs.

0313. Sobane, K., van der Merwe, C., & Shandu, B. (2020). The silence of South African health policies on the language barrier between healthcare providers and patients. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa, 51(3), 87–107.

Such policies must become explicit on how the language barrier in healthcare delivery should be addressed and implemented.

0314. Sowińska, A. & Boruta-Żywiczyńska, M. (2020). Gestures in patients’ presentation of medically unexplained symptoms (MUS). Gesture, 19, 97–127.

The patients with overall low gesture rate tend to perform deictic gestures, pointing to exact locations of the symptoms.

0315. Thurlow, C. (2020). Expanding our sociolinguistic horizons? Geographical thinking and the articulatory potential of commodity chain analysis. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 24, 350–368.

I combine the principles of articulation theory with the procedures of commodity chain analysis for picking apart an epitomic, contemporary manifestation of extreme privilege.

0316. Trabelsi, S. (2021). (Mis)alignment in relation to written corrective feedback: The teachers’ beliefs and practices vs the students’ preferences in an EFL context. International Journal of Language & Linguistics, 9, 6–16.

There were more areas of congruence than incongruence between the students' preferences and the teachers’ beliefs and practices regarding written corrective feedback.

0317. van Niekerk, A. (2020). A semantic-pragmatic approach to sentence structure in advertising language. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 38, 185–199.

An advertising message is often presented in a radically reduced form and various contextual and textual variables have to be considered to convey the intended illocution.

0318. Vest, M.A., Fyfe, E.R., Nathan, M.J., & Alibali, M.W. (2020). Learning from an avatar video instructor: The role of gesture mimicry. Gesture, 19, 128–155.

Middle school students’ gestures play a key role when learning a mathematics lesson from an avatar instructor.

0319. Wang, Q. (2020). A corpus-based contrastive analysis of I think in spoken Hong Kong English: Research from the International Corpus of English (ICE). Australian Journal of Linguistics, 40, 319–345.

Discourse markers, such as I think, I mean and you know, are sometimes syntactically peripheral and poor in semantic meaning.

0320. Xu, J. (2021). On cultural connotations of death euphemisms in English and Chinese: A case study of The Story of the Stone and its translation by Hawkes. International Journal of Language & Linguistics, 9, 17–23.

Some relevant translation strategies are put forward by analyzing the cultural contrasts reflected by these Chinese and English euphemisms.

0321. Yeldham, M. (2020). Does the presence of formulaic language help or hinder second language listeners’ lower-level processing? Language Teaching Research, 24, 338–363.

Formulaic language facilitated student's lower-level listening.

0322. Zhan, Y. (2021). The role of agency in the language choices of a trilingual two-year-old in conversation with monolingual grandparents. First Language, 41, 21–40.

The study demonstrates how the child asserts her agency to negotiate the decisions and efforts made by her Mandarin-speaking grandparents.

Theoretical linguistics

0323. Aldridge, E. (2021). The syntax of pronoun fronting in Late Archaic Chinese negated clauses. Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 30, 39–79.

I propose that partitive case is assigned to objects in negated clauses, because only pronouns undergo fronting.

0324. Andreou, M. & Lieber, R. (2020). Aspectual and quantificational properties of deverbal conversion and -ing nominalizations: The power of context. English Language and Linguistics, 24, 333–363.

The strongest role in determining quantificational and aspectual readings is played by factors arising from the context in which conversion forms and -ing nominalizations are deployed.

0325. Auer, P. & Siegel, V. (2021). Grammatical gender in the German multiethnolect. Journal of Germanic Linguistics, 33, 5–29.

We show that the gender system does not show signs of reduction in the direction of a two-gender system, nor of wholesale loss.

0326. Bastin, Y. (2020). The Class 18 locative prefix and the expression of the present progressive in Bantu. Africana Linguistica, 26, 5–58.

We make this translation of Bastin’s meticulous historical/comparative research on Bantu languages more widely accessible.

0327. Bernander, R. & Laine, A. (2020). The formation of existential constructions in western Serengeti: A micro-comparative exploration of variation and change. Africana Linguistica, 26, 59–102.

Some existential constructions do not adhere to the canonical criteria distinguishing an existential from a plain locational.

0328. Biedny, J., Burner, M., Cudworth, A., & Macaulay, M. (2021). Classifier medials across Algonquian: A first look. International Journal of American Linguistics, 87, 1–47.

We describe Algonquian verbal classifiers, morphemes that index a salient superordinate feature (such as substance, consistency, or shape) of an argument or non-argument in a clause.

0329. Blaxter, T. & Coates, R. (2020). The trap-bath split in Bristol English. English Language and Linguistics, 24, 269–306

We investigate the quality and length of low unrounded vowels in Bristol English on the basis of sociolinguistic interviews.

0330. Brattico, P. (2021). Finnish word order: Does comprehension matter? Nordic Journal of Linguistics, 44, 38–70.

Morphosyntax and word order represent syntactic structure at the phonetic form-interface.

0331. Castroviejo, E. (2021). On wh-exclamatives and gradability: An argument from Romance. Journal of Linguistics, 57, 41–82.

The degree phrases in these wh-exclamatives leave behind a degree variable that is ultimately bound by an expressive speech act operator.

0332. Czaplicki, B. (2020). A listener-oriented account of the evolution of diphthongs and changes in the Jers in Kashubian. Journal of Slavic Linguistics, 28, 105–140.

In hypocorrective changes, the prior existence of a certain structure in the language facilitates the emergence of this structure in other contexts.

0333. de Carvalho, F.O. (2021). A comparative reconstruction of Proto-Purus (Arawakan) segmental phonology. International Journal of American Linguistics, 87, 49–108.

The contrast between r and l is a secondary development in Yine, that there is no need for reconstructing a vowel *I, and that most if not all instances of initial h in Yine reflect Proto-Purus *h.

0334. de Vries, H., Meyer, C., & Peeters-Podgaevskaja, A. (2021). Learning strategies in Russian ordinal acquisition. First Language, 41, 90–108.

Russian-speaking children initially learn ordinals lexically, unlike English- and Dutch-speaking children, who have previously been shown to use a rule-based approach.

0335. Enguehard, E. & Chemla, E. (2021). Connectedness as a constraint on exhaustification. Linguistics and Philosophy, 44, 79–112.

Connectedness is a sister notion of monotonicity, which has been recruited to explain certain lexical restrictions on nouns, adjectives and more recently quantifiers.

0336. Ershova, K. (2021). Diagnosing clause structure in a polysynthetic language: Wh-agreement and parasitic gaps in West Circassian. Linguistic Inquiry, 52, 1–38.

Applied objects may undergo optional scrambling to a position above the ergative agent.

0337. Furumoto, M. (2020). Come to the future, come to the past: Grammaticalisation of Kimakunduchi COME. Africana Linguistica, 26, 103–138.

-ja can work to denote past imperfective situations, even when marked with an otherwise perfective prefix.

0338. Furuya, K. (2020). Structure and inference in Japanese right dislocation. Language and Linguistics, 21, 557–580.

Even when the surface strings are the same, the recovery of the ellipsis site is possibly derived in multiple ways through the use of distinct linguistic strategies.

0339. Gluckman, J. & Bowler, M. (2020). The expression of modality in Logoori. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 41, 195–238.

Logoori’s modal system raises some interesting questions regarding the typology and theoretical analysis of modality.

0340. Güneş, G. & Lipták, A. (2021). Nuclear prominence in ellipsis: Evidence from aggressively non-D-linked phrases. Journal of Linguistics, 57, 83–121.

We propose a novel prosodic account in which the wh-the-hell must satisfy the prosodic licensing condition that it cannot bear nuclear accent.

0341. Haugen, T.A. (2021). When complementation gets specific: A study of collocational preferences in verb-object combinations in Norwegian. Nordic Journal of Linguistics, 44, 71–98.

Speakers do distinguish between and prefer certain conventional verb-object combinations to other equally grammatical, equally transparent and equally understandable alternatives.

0342. Hill, J.H. (2021). Cupeño. International Journal of American Linguistics, 87(S1), S105–S124.

An enthusiastic storyteller includes exuberant reduplication, the exaggerated lengthening of stressed vowels, sound-symbolic phonetic variants, and silly voices.

0343. Hill, K.C. (2021). Serrano. International Journal of American Linguistics, 87(S1), S83–S104.

Serrano has discontinuous constituents. Some are interrupted by second position clitics expressing modality, tense, and the pronominal arguments of the clause.

0344. Hsu, B. (2021). Coalescence: A unification of bundling operations in syntax. Linguistic Inquiry, 52, 39–87.

Presyntactic lexicon and a postsyntactic module can receive a unified analysis in terms of one syntactic operation called coalescence.

0345. Hu, S. (2021). The split word orders APV and PAV of Nuosu Yi: Comparing to the split ergativity of the Tibeto-Burman languages. Asian Languages and Linguistics, 2, 36–78.

I propose that the conditions of split word order in Nuosu Yi are on a par with those of the split ergativity encoded by the morphological marking in Tibetan.

0346. Iatridou, S. & Zeijlstra, H. (2021). The complex beauty of boundary adverbials: In Years and Until. Linguistic Inquiry, 52, 89–142.

Our approach permits a unified account of until, whose behavior has led researchers to consider it lexically ambiguous.

0347. Koev, T. (2021). Parentheticality, assertion strength, and polarity. Linguistics and Philosophy, 44, 113–140.

I develop a probabilistic update model that captures the role of parentheticality as a language tool for qualifying commitments.

0348. Kühl, K, & Petersen, J.H. (2021). Argentine Danish grammatical gender: Stability with strongly patterned variation. Journal of Germanic Linguistics, 33, 67–94.

The overall stability of grammatical gender in the Germanic heritage languages is a general pattern that only partly relates to social or societal factors.

0349. Levisen, C. (2021). The syntax of something: Evaluative affordances of noget in Danish construction grammar. Nordic Journal of Linguistics, 44, 3–24.

I provide high-definition analysis of complex, language-specific constructions in a simple, globally translatable metalanguage.

0350. Li, C. (2020). Causer and causee as two higher-ranked thematic roles. Language and Linguistics, 21, 601–635.

The Proto-Agent property corresponding to the Causer and the Proto-Patient property corresponding to the Causee are two higher-ranked properties.

0351. Li, P.J.-k. (2021). Adverbs in the Austronesian languages of Taiwan. Asian Languages and Linguistics, 2, 79–109.

Since the function of an adverb is to modify a verb, it may not occur without a verb in a sentence.

0352. Lindsey, K.L. (2021). Ende oration and final/n/-realisation. Asia-Pacific Language Variation, 7, 30–61.

I discuss how emically-derived categories relating to age, clan, and orator status may deviate from characterizations of prestige in Westernized and urbanized societies.

0353. Liu, C.-T. & Chen, L.-m. (2020). Testing the applicability of Third Tone Sandhi at the intonation boundary: The case of the monosyllabic topic. Language and Linguistics, 21, 636–651.

The fundamental frequency of the critical syllables demonstrated a falling contour, showing that Tone Three Sandhi was not applied.

0354. Liu, D. & Myers, D. (2020). The most-common phrasal verbs with their key meanings for spoken and academic written English: A corpus analysis. Language Teaching Research, 24, 403–424.

Instructional approaches to phrasal verbs should indeed prioritize different meanings depending on the kind of register learners engage with.

0355. Lohndal, T. & Westergaard, M. (2021). Grammatical gender: Acquisition, attrition, and change. Journal of Germanic Linguistics, 33, 95–121.

The definite suffix is quite stable, as it is acquired early and does not undergo attrition/change.

0356. Okoye, A.N. (2020). An investigation of questions in Ètùló language of Benue State, Nigeria. AFRREV LALIGENS: An International Journal of Language, Literature and Gender Studies, 9(1), 108–116.

Particles occur at the final position of a declarative sentence to indicate that it is a question.

0357. Opsahl, T. (2021). Dead, but won’t lie down? Grammatical gender among Norwegians. Journal of Germanic Linguistics, 33, 122–146.

The traditional three-gender system is being replaced by a two-gender system in several dialects, resulting in the loss of the feminine gender.

0358. Pacchiarotti, S. & Bostoen, K. (2020). The Proto-West-Coastal Bantu velar merger. Africana Linguistica, 26, 139–195.

The recurrent devoicing of *g in several ancestral Bantu languages of the rainforest could be diagnostic of a pre-Bantu hunter-gatherer substrate.

0359. Pixabaj, T.A.C. & Aissen, J. (2021). Nominalization and the expression of manner in K’iche’. International Journal of American Linguistics, 87, 109–146.

This basic construction is restricted in that it cannot express morphological aspect nor can it include an external (agentive) argument.

0360. Põldvere, N. & Paradis, C. (2020). ‘What and then a little robot brings it to you?’ The reactive what-x construction in spoken dialogue. English Language and Linguistics, 24, 307–332

The reactive what-x construction features the interrogative what directly followed by a phrasal or clausal complement x.

0361. Rafiu, K.A. & Adekunle, B.O. (2020). Coda violation among the Igbo-English speakers in Ilorin, Nigeria. South African Journal of African Languages, 40, 266–274.

Violation of word-final coda and word-final complex coda among Igbo speakers of English does not render their variety of English unintelligible.

0362. Rogos-Hebda, J. (2020). Visual pragmatics of abbreviations and otiose strokes in John Lydgate’s Siege of Thebes. Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 21, 1–27.

The pragmatic roles of the macron are then confronted with the visual forms and possible functions of its notorious graphic doppelgänger (i.e., the otiose stroke).

0363. Safar, J. (2020). “When you were that little…” From Yucatec Maya height-specifier gestures to Yucatec Maya Sign Language person-classifier signs. Gesture, 19, 1–40.

Special attention is paid to how height-specifier gestures fulfill a grammatical purpose as noun-classifiers for human referents.

0364. Schiattarella, V. (2020). Noun modifiers and the n preposition in Siwi Berber (Egypt). Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 41, 239–264.

I describe the use and function of n in all three contexts of noun modification in Siwi.

0365. Schokkin, D. (2021). Variable realisation of verb-final/n/in Idi. Asia-Pacific Language Variation, 7, 1–29.

For the present tense, variable realization of verb-final/n/is a case of stable, and perhaps age-graded, variation.

0366. Simmelkjær, B. & Hansen, S. (2021). Root nouns in Elfdalian: Categorisation and etymology. Nordic Journal of Linguistics, 44, 25–37.

I present a synchronic classification of all of the Elfdalian actual and potential root-noun continuants as well as their etymologies and derivational histories.

0367. Srdanović, S. & Rinke, E. (2020). Possessive modifiers in Serbian: Coreference with clitics and strong pronouns. Journal of Slavic Linguistics, 28, 163–182.

Possessive noun phrases in article-languages like English and articleless languages like Serbian may receive a parallel analysis.

0368. Takimoto, M. (2020). Exploring the effects of proximal-distal metaphor on the development of EFL learners’ knowledge of the degree of certainty. Language Teaching Research, 24, 317–337.

The self-directed approaches were no less effective than the teacher-directed approaches.

0369. Tamaredo, I., Röthlisberger, M., Grafmiller, J., & Heller, B. (2020). Probabilistic indigenization effects at the lexis-syntax interface. English Language and Linguistics, 24, 413–440.

We evaluate claims according to which the extent of probabilistic indigenization is proportional to the lexical specificity of the syntactic phenomenon under study.

0370. Tatsumi, T., Chang, F., & Pine, J.M. (2021). Exploring the acquisition of verb inflections in Japanese: A probabilistic analysis of seven adult-child corpora. First Language, 41, 41–66.

Children are encoding whole verb forms in addition to creating forms with compositional morphological rules.

0371. Tomaschek, F., Plag, I., Ernestus, M., & Baayen, R.H. (2021). Phonetic effects of morphology and context: Modeling the duration of word-final S in English with naïve discriminative learning. Journal of Linguistics, 57, 123–161.

The differences in duration of English final S as a function of the morphological function it expresses (non-morphemic, plural, third person singular, genitive, genitive plural, cliticized has, and cliticized is).

0372. Turton, D. & Baranowski, M. (2021). Not quite the same: The social stratification and phonetic conditioning of the foot-strut vowels in Manchester. Journal of Linguistics, 57, 163–201.

Co-articulatory effects of surrounding consonants explain this instrumental difference, as they have significant lowering/heightening effects on the acoustics.

0373. Uguru, J.O. & Beerends, J. (2020). Effects of voiced consonants and speaker gender on the acoustic characteristics of preceding vowels in Ika. South African Journal of African Languages, 40, 275–281.

Vowels preceding voiced consonants generally manifested longer durations and had lower F1 values.

0374. Vydrin, V. (2020). Featural foot in Bambara. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 41, 265–300.

The Bambara foot is represented as a rhythmic unit which can be disyllabic or monosyllabic.

0375. Zhou, Z. (2021). Neo-Davidsonian ontology of events. Linguistics and Philosophy, 44, 195–235.

I discuss how the ontologically austere Davidsonian can account for the truth conditions of progressive constructions without the need for an enriched ontology.