Toward cultural interpretability: A linguistic anthropological framework for describing and evaluating large language models by Graham M Jones, Shai Satran, Arvind Satyanarayan

“…This article proposes a new integration of linguistic anthropology and machine learning (ML) around convergent interests in both the underpinnings of language and making language technologies more socially responsible. …”
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Broken words, furious wasps. How should we translate the sonic materiality of Araweté ritual singing? by Guilherme Orlandini Heurich

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Zonas cardinales y orientación entre los qomléʔk (tobas del oeste de Formosa, Argentina) by María Belén Carpio, Cecilia Paula Gómez

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The Ideological Construction of the English Language in the French Agrégation by Adam WILSON

“…Bringing together tools from sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology and discourse analysis, I analyse a corpus of Agrégation jury reports and show how native-speakerism, national, standard language and raciolinguistic ideologies, as well as ideologies of coherence and purism, all play a role in shaping a set of ideal(ised) models of English – and thus of English speakers – in this context. …”
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A Review of Toyin Falọla. Cultural Modernity in a Colonized World: The Writings of Chief Isaac Oluwole Delanọ. Pan-African University Press, 2020, 739 pages. Toyin Falọla and Micha... by Bọla Dauda

“…While Samuel Ajayi Crowther laid the foundation for the transition of Yoruba culture from oral to written literatures, Delanọ provided the guideline manuals, the methodological rubrics, and the compass and roadmaps for the studies and development of modern Yoruba orthography, linguistics, anthropological historiography, literatures, spirituality, and nation building. …”
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