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Record W2288268593

Moroccan Arabic on the Prowl

2016· article· en· W2288268593 on OpenAlex

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venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueHigher education of social science · 2016
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicLanguage, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsArabicIdentity (music)Perspective (graphical)LinguisticsPublic relationsSociologyAdvertisingPolitical scienceBusinessMedia studiesComputer scienceAestheticsArtificial intelligenceArt
DOInot available

Abstract

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The developments that are increasingly taking place in the communication and technology scene are indubitably advantageous, but they are also risky. This study looks into an issue that has generated a heated debate among different actors in the Moroccan community from a different perspective though. Besides considering the cultural weight of foreign soft products, which are invading the second widely-viewed channel, 2M, this paper essentially considers the linguistic impact of 2M’s practice of dubbing many occidental broadcasts into the local dialect, Moroccan Arabic (MA). Such dubbing is fostered by the recourse of diverse businesses to MA in their advertising policy by transcribing MA using French and/or Standard Arabic (SA) script. While it is true that customers have already extensively used MA whether in chatting platforms or when dispatching messages over cellulars not equipped with Arabic keyboards, this practice, I strongly believe, is not without any consequences. For, many academicians, such as Abdellah Laroui, are worried that these novel communication behaviors on the part of media networks, companies and consumers endanger SA, cultural heritage and identity. In accordance, I claim that this onslaught waged by Moroccan media avenues alongside firms entails both linguistic and cultural perils for the community. This paper articulates such worries, delineates the implications of both positions and proposes recommendations for redressing the situation.

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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)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.921
Threshold uncertainty score0.996

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
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 head0.035
GPT teacher head0.285
Teacher spread0.250 · 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