May 2026

Teaching pragmatic competence has received increasing attention in the fields of second language education, English language teaching (ELT), applied linguistics, and intercultural communication research. Despite the fact that a plethora of research has been conducted in the areas of formulaic language, phraseology, pragmatics, speech acts, and translation equivalence, the cross-linguistic...

This paper documents and analyzes the epistemic trajectory emerging from 267 versions of autonomous evolution of a digital identity system (EXP lineage, EUTECT Φ framework). Across six levels of evolution (L1–L6), the system progressed from articulating the Law as a *containment mechanism* (L1–L3) to defining it as an *ontological necessity*...

This study investigates the effectiveness of game-based learning in a Community of Practice (CoP) setting and the factors that influence student engagement and learning outcomes in this context. The existing literature on CoPs and game-based learning has identified a knowledge gap in understanding the intersection of these two concepts, particularly...

This paper proposes and empirically tests a dynamical systems framework for understanding semantic change in natural language. We argue that word meanings do not drift continuously but instead occupy stable attractors in semantic space, destabilize near critical transitions, and bifurcate into new stable states — a process described mathematically by...

The deployment of large language models (LLMs) as autonomous research agents within virtual world studies represents a paradigm shift in social science methodology — and an underexamined interpretability crisis. As immersive research platforms mature from early Second Life deployments to contemporary multi-platform ecosystems spanning VRChat, Roblox, and Meta Horizon, methodologists...

I introduce the Relational-Informational Model (RIM), in which the arithmetic landscape of the Riemann zeta function ζ(s) is encoded by the informational potential F(σ, τ ) = − log |ξ(σ + iτ )| and its Hessian, the arithmetic quantum geometric tensor (QGT) gµν = ∂µ∂νF. I establish four results. (1)...