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View article: Border Thinking in the Training of Imams and Muslim Caregivers
Border Thinking in the Training of Imams and Muslim Caregivers Open
The continuing education of imams and Muslim caregivers in Europe, which complements their basic training, has so far mostly been analysed within social and political debates. Continuing education is understood as a contact zone where mult…
View article: Mapping Muslim Chaplaincy
Mapping Muslim Chaplaincy Open
This article analyses the emergent field of Muslim chaplaincy research by reviewing English-language publications in this growing area of professional religious work, especially in Europe and the United States. After presenting the method …
View article: POV: me, an empath, sensing the linguistic urge . . . to study the forms and functions of text-memes
POV: me, an empath, sensing the linguistic urge . . . to study the forms and functions of text-memes Open
A catapult into the world of social media, the title of our paper may be incoherent to some readers. What on earth does POV: me, an empath, sensing the linguistic urge ( . . . ) mean, and when and why would speakers say it? The title conta…
View article: Within and Beyond the Community: Tensions in Muslim Service Provision in Switzerland
Within and Beyond the Community: Tensions in Muslim Service Provision in Switzerland Open
Muslim religious professionals are caught between the expectations of the community they serve and belong to and the expectations of the society they live in. Drawing on Helmut Plessner’s notion of “antithetical tensions between community …
View article: Helping Refugees Build a Home
Helping Refugees Build a Home Open
This study focuses on the question of how Muslim chaplains can, through their interventions, exert an influence on the situation of refugees, characterised by vulnerability and loss of home. Based on definitions in social work and anthropo…
View article: Zürich-Kompetenz
Zürich-Kompetenz Open
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View article: Increasing Spiritual Sensitivity and Faith-Based Service Provision: Pathways to Islamic Social Work
Increasing Spiritual Sensitivity and Faith-Based Service Provision: Pathways to Islamic Social Work Open
Social work has been characterised in recent years by a growing sensitivity to religious and spiritual issues, both leading back to its historical roots and responding to the challenges of contemporary post-secular society. This sensitivit…
View article: Swiss Muslim Communities in Transnational and Local Interactions : Public Perceptions, State of Research, Case Studies
Swiss Muslim Communities in Transnational and Local Interactions : Public Perceptions, State of Research, Case Studies Open
In numerous European countries of immigration, there are controversial discussions about how transnational influences and local dynamics relate to each other within Muslim communities. This study addresses the subject of transnational Musl…
View article: Islamic Social Work within the Framework of the Welfare System: Observations from the German Case
Islamic Social Work within the Framework of the Welfare System: Observations from the German Case Open
The development possibilities for Islamic social work are closely linked to the respective state’s welfare framework. The German system provides an insightful example, as it is characterised by a significant incorporation of religious welf…
View article: Quo Vadis, Islamic Social Work? Empirical Findings and Theoretical Reflections Converging towards an Alternative Approach
Quo Vadis, Islamic Social Work? Empirical Findings and Theoretical Reflections Converging towards an Alternative Approach Open
This final chapter attempts to associate, structure and summarise the principal insights of the contributions to “Exploring Islamic Social Work. Between Community and the Common Good”. Despite differences in their topics and the contexts t…
View article: Exploring Islamic Social Work
Exploring Islamic Social Work Open
In considering the important contribution of Islamic principles and perspectives to social work, which has encompassed to-date both the etic (outsider) and an emic (insider) positionality, a dialectical stance is offered in this chapter. T…
View article: That’s Cool. Computational Sociolinguistic Methods for Investigating Individual Lexico-grammatical Variation
That’s Cool. Computational Sociolinguistic Methods for Investigating Individual Lexico-grammatical Variation Open
The present study deals with variation in the use of lexico-grammatical patterns and emphasizes the need to embrace individual variation. Targeting the pattern that’s adj (as in that’s right , that’s nice or that’s okay ) as a case study, …
View article: Interreligious Dialogues in Switzerland
Interreligious Dialogues in Switzerland Open
Due to the federal structure of Switzerland, interreligious activities are also strongly influenced by cantonal contexts. Based on published material as well as on semi-directive interviews with key protagonists, the article analyses three…
View article: “I’m just an Imam, not Superman”: Imams in Switzerland
“I’m just an Imam, not Superman”: Imams in Switzerland Open
Current debates on Islam in Europe often focus on imams as religious leaders and key figures in integration politics. Muslim associations undergoing processes of transformation and generational change have equally high expectations of imam…
View article: Language in mind and brain
Language in mind and brain Open
The question of how human language works is investigated by neuroscientists, psycholinguists and linguists, but there are important differences in their approaches. The aim of the workshop “Language in Mind and Brain” was to bridge the gap…
View article: Shell nouns in English – a personal roundup
Shell nouns in English – a personal roundup Open
This paper provides a somewhat personal retrospect on work on the notion and phenomenon of shell noun. After a brief introduction I will discuss some terminological and methodological issues. Following some remarks on the classification of…
View article: Why Cognitive Linguistics must embrace the social and pragmatic dimensions of language and how it could do so more seriously
Why Cognitive Linguistics must embrace the social and pragmatic dimensions of language and how it could do so more seriously Open
I will argue that the cognitive-linguistic enterprise should step up its efforts to embrace the social and pragmatic dimensions of language. This claim will be derived from a survey of the premises and promise of the cognitive-linguistic a…
View article: Too Matsch for You? Monolingual Humorous Slogans Are Recalled Better than Mixed-Language Ones
Too Matsch for You? Monolingual Humorous Slogans Are Recalled Better than Mixed-Language Ones Open
The paper reports the results of a programmatic study investigating the potential of different types of advertising slogans to be retained and recalled.Four types were tested: (1) monolingual non-humorous slogans, (2) mixedlanguage non-hum…
View article: Toward a Unified Socio-Cognitive Framework for Salience in Language
Toward a Unified Socio-Cognitive Framework for Salience in Language Open
OPINION article Front. Psychol., 05 August 2016Sec. Language Sciences Volume 7 - 2016 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01110
View article: Using the Web and Social Media as Corpora for Monitoring the Spread of Neologisms. The case of 'rapefugee', 'rapeugee', and 'rapugee'.
Using the Web and Social Media as Corpora for Monitoring the Spread of Neologisms. The case of 'rapefugee', 'rapeugee', and 'rapugee'. Open
This paper employs both a web-ascorpus and a Twitter-as-corpus approach to present a longitudinal case study of the establishment of three recently coined, synonymous neologisms: rapefugee, rapeugee and rapugee.We describe the retrieval an…