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American Bible Society
Nonprofit•Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States•
About: American Bible Society is a nonprofit organization based out in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Semiotics & Literal and figurative language. The organization has 11 authors who have published 18 publications receiving 53 citations.
Topics: Semiotics, Literal and figurative language, Agency (philosophy), Historical criticism, Language transfer
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TL;DR: In January and June 2020, participants were recruited and surveyed through online Qualtrics national consumer panels (Lucid) to ensure that the final group of respondents reflected the distribution of adults nationwide and adequately represented the racial and ethnic diversity of the USA.
Abstract: In January and June 2020, participants were recruited and surveyed through online Qualtrics national consumer panels (Lucid). The January study employed a 15-minute questionnaire. Data were collected from January 2 through 13, 2020 resulting in 1010 completed responses (completed-surveys-toqualified-respondents rate, 90%) using a stratified national sample of adults 18 and older within all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Based on US Census data, quotas were designed to ensure that the final group of respondents reflected the distribution of adults nationwide and adequately represented the racial and ethnic diversity of the USA. Quotas limited responses by geographic region, gender, generation/age, and race/Hispanic-origin. No other screening criteria were applied. Post hoc weighting ensured the sample was representative of US adults in each quota area plus educational attainment and religious self-identification. Similar representative recruitment and online data collection was carried out in June 2020, from May 28 through June 10, 2020, resulting in 3020 completed responses (completed-surveys-to-qualified-respondents rate,
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TL;DR: The language of academic journals tends to become so technical that only specialists are able to understand the unnecessarily complex features of vocabulary, syntax, discourse, and format as mentioned in this paper, which seems particularly unfortunate at a time when the results of present-day scholarship in linguistic and cultural anthropology need to be as widely accessible as possible.
Abstract: The language of academic journals tends to become so technical that only specialists are able to understand the unnecessarily complex features of vocabulary, syntax, discourse, and format. This seems particularly unfortunate at a time when the results of present-day scholarship in linguistic and cultural anthropology need to be as widely accessible as possible. An examination of problems in two articles in Language and one in the American Anthropologist points out the nature of the difficulties and some of the solutions. (Sociolinguistics, academic dialects, writing, jargons, English)
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| Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eugene A. Nida | 30 | 137 | 6658 |
| James Maxey | 2 | 3 | 11 |
| Peter Wosh | 2 | 3 | 12 |
| Joseph Crockett | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Philip H. Towner | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| John F. Plake | 1 | 1 | 8 |
| David G. Burke | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| William L. Wonderly | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Jeffery Fulks | 1 | 1 | 8 |
| Danny Fitzgerald | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Dan Fitzgerald | 0 | 1 | 0 |