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Record W2502660625 · doi:10.1057/9780230302204_11

Language Contact: Present and Future

2011· book-chapter· en· W2502660625 on OpenAlexaff
John Edwards

Bibliographic record

VenuePalgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · 2011
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicLinguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity
Canadian institutionsSt. Francis Xavier University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLinguisticsLanguage contactPower (physics)Political scienceIdentity (music)Balance (ability)SociologyComputer sciencePsychologyAestheticsArt

Abstract

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Coleman (2006: 11) has suggested that ‘ultimately, the world will become diglossic, with one language for local communication, culture and expression of identity, and another — English — for wider and more formal communication, especially in writing’. It is clear that many feel this way, although not all of them are pleased by the prospect, of course, and some feel that it is an outcome to be resisted. Relatedly, Nettle and Romaine (2002: 191) have argued that such a bilingual or diglossic situation essentially transforms ‘the majority of the world’s languages [into] minority languages’. I don’t think this is quite accurate or, if it is, it achieves accuracy only by sliding back and forth between different linguistic regions. Nonetheless, the increasing power and attraction of English certainly alters patterns of communication in important ways. It is undoubtedly accurate to add, as Nettle and Romaine do, that even those languages ‘protected by national boundaries and institutions exist in a diglossic relationship with English’. It is also correct for the authors to write that ‘this in itself is no cause for alarm’ (p. 191). If the balance between a ‘big’ language like English and ‘smaller’ or more localised ones could remain more or less stable, more or less diglossic, then there would indeed be little cause for alarm.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

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 categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.860
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

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 studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.000

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 head0.024
GPT teacher head0.211
Teacher spread0.187 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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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