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Record W3035555986 · doi:10.1111/aman.13389

Uncertain Times: Linguistic Anthropology in 2019

2020· article· en· W3035555986 on OpenAlexaff
Alejandro I. Paz

Bibliographic record

VenueAmerican Anthropologist · 2020
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicMultilingual Education and Policy
Canadian institutionsThe Scarborough HospitalUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSemiosisSemioticsAgency (philosophy)SociologyEpistemologyCertaintyPoliticsLinguistic anthropologyLinguisticsSocial sciencePolitical scienceAnthropologyPhilosophyLaw

Abstract

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ABSTRACT This year, linguistic and semiotic anthropologists are responding in particular to multiple sources of uncertainty and discuss a growing sense of crisis and anxiety across several different settings and contexts. The politics of truth and the uncertainty about the future, as well as the shifts due to new communicative technologies, are well represented in this last year of publications. To consider this collective response, this article reviews published work in this field in three parts: (1) the semiotic interplay of certainty and uncertainty, especially in relation to evidence and agency; (2) the remediation of semiosis across media technologies and infrastructures; and (3) the semiosis of the state‐citizen divide. More generally, this review considers how linguistic/semiotic anthropologists are renewing foundational concepts and approaches at the same time as they express a strong desire to turn their expertise into a more public form of political agency. This process of renewal is leading to the emergence of new agendas. [language, semiotics, uncertainty, media, state]

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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)0.014
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.012
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.016
Threshold uncertainty score0.100

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0140.012
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0050.005
Science and technology studies0.0110.041
Scholarly communication0.0160.017
Open science0.0010.006
Research integrity0.0050.006
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.001

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 head0.085
GPT teacher head0.497
Teacher spread0.412 · 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 designTheoretical or conceptual
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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Published2020
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