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The Linguistic Intimacy of Five Continents

2020· book-chapter· en· W3092739109 on OpenAlex
Bonnie McElhinny, Monica Heller

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Bibliographic record

VenueOxford University Press eBooks · 2020
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicHistorical Linguistics and Language Studies
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRacializationHybriditySociologyIdeologyColonialismLinguisticsSubject (documents)IndigenousAnthropologyRace (biology)Gender studiesHistoryPolitical sciencePhilosophyPolitics

Abstract

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Abstract This chapter elaborates work by Edward Said on comparative linguistics in embedding a history of linguistic study in histories of colonialism and capitalism. We look at three late nineteenth and early twentieth century challenges to comparative linguistics: evolutionary linguistics, which elaborated and sharpened ideas of racialized difference on the grounds of biology; the study of pidgins and creoles which challenges notions of “hybridity” and thus certain ideas of racial distinction; and Boasian approaches focusing on culture, which only critiques certain aspects of racialization. We also consider the ways colonial ideologies of race played out in the pragmatics of imperial rule, in the arena of language and industrial and residential schooling. These schools, which targeted Indigenous and Black bodies, were implemented at the same time that Boas was elaborating the field of anthropology; that they were not subject to critique shows the limits of the Boasian focus on culture as a means of resisting racism.

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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)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.989
Threshold uncertainty score0.675

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 studies0.0010.001
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 head0.027
GPT teacher head0.201
Teacher spread0.175 · 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