Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Abstract Common bean breeding efforts have focused on understanding and developing product profiles that align with farmers’ trait preferences with limited emphasis on downstream value chain actors. Varieties that do not consider client-preferred traits are often on the shelves and not adopted by the targeted clients. Thus, considering trait preferences of downstream bean value chain actors like …

Abstract The study introduces the sociology of translation as a research area and explores the potential and limits of using situational analysis (SA) as a theory-methods package for examining the production, distribution, and consumption of book translations of literary texts as a specific type of cultural production. Drawing on constructivist assumptions, SA emphasises the constructing of the r…

Abstract Although metaphors are widely recognised as central to climate communication, scant studies have explored how they function as structured arguments that exploit cognitive heuristics in political discourse. This study proposes a dual-staged model of metaphorical argumentation that links Toulmin’s layout, discourse-historical topoi and cognitive accounts of heuristics, applied to a corpus-…

This study examines corporate social responsibility (CSR) through relational networks involving internal, external, and social stakeholders. The empirical analysis uses panel data from 152 Korean listed firms between 2019 and 2021, combining ESG ratings from the Korea Institute of Corporate Governance and Sustainability (KCGS) with financial data (KIS-VALUE) provided by NICE Information Service. …

Understanding the spatiotemporal evolution of rural structures is critical to achieving global sustainable development. However, due to the lack of long-term, micro-scale data at the national scale, these dynamic changes remain insufficiently observed. Here, we innovatively introduce a molecular perspective that conceptualizes villages as “atoms” and village structures characterized by specific i…

Abstract Despite the widespread adoption of English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) in Chinese universities, low levels of student engagement in classroom are a persistent issue. As a practical theory of language, translanguaging provides a new perspective for EMI teaching. While the study of translanguaging practices in the second/foreign language classroom has been relatively systematic, the i…

Abstract Despite trends toward gender equality in mainland China, traditional gender ideology prioritising sons over daughters may continue to shape intergenerational support, including older parents’ provision of grandchild care. Such son favouritism is also suspected to modulate older parents’ expectations of future reciprocity. Thus, this research investigated how older parents’ provision of g…