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Record W4244833923 · doi:10.22148/001c.22222

Voice

2021· article· en· W4244833923 on OpenAlex
Nika Mavrody, Laura B. McGrath, Nichole Nomura, Alexander Sherman

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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

VenueJournal of Cultural Analytics · 2021
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicLanguage, Metaphor, and Cognition
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsStyle (visual arts)VernacularPassive voiceLinguisticsReading (process)CriticismComputer scienceArtLiteraturePhilosophy

Abstract

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The concept of the writer’s voice is central to the way that contemporary literature is read, evaluated, circulated, and criticized, appearing everywhere from the creative writing classroom to online reader reviews. Yet, voice remains a slippery and tendentious concept: Is voice something a writer has, or is it something a writer is? Does everyone have a voice? Are some voices voicier, and how? What form does voice take on the page? How is voice different from style or constrained by genre? In this essay, we track voice’s many meanings across a large corpus of what we call “vernacular literary criticism.” First, we consider the ways that voice is used in different communities and the writers it is used to describe. Second, we develop a conceptual model of voice's many uses, based on our reading of a (limited) ver-sion of our composite corpus. Finally, we build a word-embedding model to track voice's use in a larger discourse. Ultimately, we show that voice, style, and genre operate in a unified vernacular critical sys-tem, that voice (along with genre) is a subcategory of style, and that voice consists of the parts of style not otherwise captured by genre.

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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: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.127
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

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)0.0020.000

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 head0.037
GPT teacher head0.331
Teacher spread0.294 · 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