Explaining Perceptions of Racist Speech

Racism in Health Services in Brazil

This article discusses racial prejudices and discrimination in perceptions, attitudes and practices among health personnel in the municipality of Camaçari. The survey’s methodology included racist statements in questionnaires distributed to 634 health workers, as well as socio-determinants of health, family and work characteristics. Results indicate how masked racism is reproduced through ambig...

Attributing Harm to Racist Speech

Locate the Hate: Detecting Tweets against Blacks

Although the social medium Twitter grants users freedom of speech, its instantaneous nature and retweeting features also amplify hate speech. Because Twitter has a sizeable black constituency, racist tweets against blacks are especially detrimental in the Twitter community, though this effect may not be obvious against a backdrop of half a billion tweets a day. We apply a supervised machine lea...

Examining the Association between T-unit and Pausing Length on the EFL Perception of Listening Comprehension

Listening taking over half of the learners’ time and effort (Nunan, 1998), forms a basis for acquiring much of a language. There are factors affecting listening comprehension and its perception, such as the speech rate, phonological properties of the text, the quality of the recording, the learners’ anxiety, and listening comprehension strategies (Goh, 2000; Hamouda, 2013). At the Iran Language...

بررسی کیفیت خدمات گفتاردرمانی در درمانگاه دانشکده توانبخشی دانشگاه علوم پزشکی ایران با استفاده از مدل سروکوال

Introduction: Service quality is essential for service delivery. The Speech Therapy Clinic at the Rehabilitation Faculty of Iran University of Medical Sciences is one of the governmental centers providing rehabilitation services. This study aimed to study the service quality of speech therapy services using SERVQUAL model. Methods: In this descriptive-analytic stud, conducted in 2016 – 2017, ...