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Record W2188630816 · doi:10.5539/ells.v5n4p159

The Semantic Shift of Some Arabic Lexemes in Egypt after January 25 Revolution

2015· article· en· W2188630816 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueEnglish Language and Literature Studies · 2015
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicSwearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMeaning (existential)Semantic changeContext (archaeology)TRACE (psycholinguistics)PoliticsArabicSituational ethicsLinguisticsParadigm shiftSociologyPsychologyEpistemologyHistoryPolitical sciencePhilosophySocial psychologyLaw

Abstract

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<p>This study attempts to defend the claim that politics is a linguistically constituted activity, and to show that the terms that inform political beliefs and behavior have historically mutable meanings that have undergone changes related to real political events. Namely, these terms correspond to the experiences which package the semantic material into them .i.e. verbal and situational context yield the shift in meaning. This issue is, however, much more complex and it requires a truly integrating approach, where morphological and semantic criteria are all relevant, as well as psycholinguistic considerations (holistic storage and processing), and sociolinguistic and pragmatic factors.</p><p>To support the claim above, this study aims to explore the semantic change of some Arabic words after January 25 Revolution in Egypt. It is an attempt to trace evidences of semantic shift in words used during and after the January 25 Revolution through the Egyptian newspapers and social sites. It is concerned with terms used by the pro and anti-revolution activists to name themselves and their opponents. Through this study, the researcher expects that the findings may be useful to enrich the knowledge about the semantic change in Egyptian Arabic in general and to give a better understanding of the meaning shifts and changes that occurred to some lexemes as a result of January 25 Revolution in particular. Moreover, the result of this study is hoped to be used as reference and comparison to other studies in order to make better analysis for further research in semantic change (broadening, Narrowing, Amelioration, Pejoration, Weakening, and Semantic Shift). The study, then, is limited to the purpose of analyzing the semantic changes. The analysis of the collected data represents the semantic change in some Arabic words after January 25 Revolution.</p>

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation 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 score0.174
Threshold uncertainty score0.363

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
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 head0.015
GPT teacher head0.316
Teacher spread0.300 · 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