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Record W1974777367 · doi:10.1558/sols.v2i3.425

‘Who can tell, mon ami?’

2008· article· en· W1974777367 on OpenAlex
Gaëlle Planchenault

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueSociolinguistic Studies · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicLinguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity
Canadian institutionsSimon Fraser University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLinguisticsDramaSalientRepresentation (politics)Character (mathematics)Speech communitySociologyPsychologyArtLiteratureComputer sciencePhilosophyArtificial intelligence

Abstract

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French stylization can frequently be observed in the English-speaking media under the form of faked French accents or performed personas as is the case with Poirot’s TV character. In the popular ITV drama adaptation of the well-known eponymous novels of Agatha Christie, dialogues in English are peppered with French words. This paper will analyse the functions of these tokens of bilingualism and will show that they are used as a form of ethnosymbolism (Haarmann 1986). In this article, I argue that the actor’s performance is a representation of the foreign language and culture for a mainly monolingual audience. For Androutsopoulos (2007: 222), it is a matter of ‘styling ethnic otherness for majority audiences’. I relate the staging of salient linguistic traits to folk linguistics and more particularly to the beliefs a speech community carries on another speech community and its ways of speaking. In order to identify popular conceptions regarding transfers from L1 French, the lines of the Belgian sleuth are analysed on lexical, pragmatic and syntactic levels.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.014
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch, Science and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.182
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.014
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.121
GPT teacher head0.288
Teacher spread0.167 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it