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Record W4317639472 · doi:10.1017/9789048504138.012

Strategies of neutrality

2006· other· en· W4317639472 on OpenAlexaboutno aff

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typeother
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCanadian Identity and History
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNeutralityGovernment (linguistics)WishPopulationPolitical scienceComputer scienceLinguisticsPublic relationsSociologyLawPhilosophyDemography

Abstract

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When you call train information in Toronto, the automatic answering tape says HERE VIA RAIL/IC! VIA RAIL, underlining the cernpany's wish to present itself as a truly narional enterprise in a bilingual nation. In th e same way the national government in Canada is carefut (O preserve neutrality, in its policies and publications, with respect to bath the Engiish-speaking and the French-speaking population. The way in which neutraliry is achieved is by using bath languages, but this language doubling is but one ofthe strategies that cao be employed to be neutral. This chaprer is devoted (O a more systematic exploration of these strategies. The term ‘strategy of neutrality’ was introduced into sociolinguistics by Scotton (1976), who described intertribal interaction in urban Africa. Be10w we return in more detail to her research. Here we wiJl use ‘neutrality’ in rather loose sense and perhaps ambiguously, to describe two types of neutrality: - neurralization in in-group communication, which may be schematically represented as: (I) A/B → X ← AlB. In this type of neutralization, a ‘neutral’ communicative mode expresses a group's mixed ethnolinguistic identity. - neutralization of the communicative mode in situaticns of intergroup communication in which two groups ofspeakers with clearly separate ethnolinguistic identities do nor speak the same language. This type of neutralization may be schematically represented as: (2) A → X ← B Here X refers to the strategy ofneutrality, andA and B to the languages and identities ofthe speakers involved in the interaction. This second interpreration of neutrality is the one intended by Scotron (1976). In this chepter we wil! descrtbe the strategies in terms of these two types: neutralization of identity in section 11.1, and neutralization of communicative mode in 11.2, before anempting a more general perspective on neutraliry in sociolinguistics, in section 11.3. We should say right away that the way ‘neutrality’ was used in chapter 10 on code switching was rather different. There we referred to rhe points of neurrality between the structures ofthe two languages involved in code switching, a farm of grammatical neutrality.

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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)0.016
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.028
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation 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 score0.998
Threshold uncertainty score0.083

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0160.028
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0030.001
Science and technology studies0.0060.032
Scholarly communication0.0130.014
Open science0.0020.015
Research integrity0.0040.006
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0140.003

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 head0.012
GPT teacher head0.255
Teacher spread0.243 · 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 designNot applicable
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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