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Scripted Urbanity in the Canadian North

2009· article· en· W2047770451 on OpenAlexaffabout
Michelle Daveluy, Jenanne Ferguson

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Linguistic Anthropology · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicLinguistic Variation and Morphology
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
Fundersnot available
KeywordsUrbanityCircumpolar starScripting languagePoliticsMultilingualismIdentity (music)Human settlementEthnologyWriting systemGeographySettlement (finance)SociologyLinguisticsAnthropologyPolitical scienceArchaeologyAestheticsComputer scienceArtEconomy

Abstract

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In Canadian northern settlements terms pertaining to traffic are created in local languages. We assess the positioning of languages in public space in northern landscapes through evidence from Nunavik in Northeastern Canada. We argue that the co‐existence of scripts is as relevant as language choice when creating road signs in the Canadian North and show how multigraphic signs, in particular the use of multiple scripts for a single language, make an international (circumpolar) debate about language tangible at the community level. Stop signs and streetname signs complement each other, illustrating language use, language politics and cultural identity among Canadian Inuit. [multilingualism, writing systems, language politics, circumpolar world, Canadian Inuit]

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.049
Threshold uncertainty score0.359

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0030.004
Science and technology studies0.0170.011
Scholarly communication0.0050.001
Open science0.0010.004
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.000

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 head0.037
GPT teacher head0.354
Teacher spread0.317 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Citations29
Published2009
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