Bibliographic record
Abstract
By attending to the diverse ways that eighteenth-century fugitive advertisements collapse together the bodily and linguistic habits of wanted criminals, this article argues that linguistic embodiment was an important dimension of interpersonal communication in the eighteenth-century anglophone world. Advertisements from Britain, North America, the Caribbean, and South Asia are analyzed in order to exemplify perceptions of the linguistic embodiments of wanted criminals. In its zeal to accurately capture personal details that would disclose the being of a person in the world through text, fugitive advertising is a writing practice closely related to techniques of descriptive characterization that begin to appear in anglophone literature around the same time. This article views fugitive advertising as a salient intertext for certain characterological and narrative strategies of the late eighteenth-century novel. William Godwin’s Things as They Are; Or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams (1794) is read as an example of a novel that requires readers to envision characters’ linguistic embodiments and interactions in order to situate them within evolving systems of interpersonal categorization.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.028 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".