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Drinking, Talking, and Ritual Action

2025· book-chapter· en· W4406758337 on OpenAlexaff
Paul Manning

Bibliographic record

VenueOxford University Press eBooks · 2025
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicLanguage, Discourse, Communication Strategies
Canadian institutionsTrent University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAction (physics)PsychologyCommunicationHistoryArtPhysics

Abstract

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Abstract Drinking and talking are physiologically complementary activities, that, though impossible to do simultaneously, are often brought into closer or looser relation in rituals. One place to look to explore the ritualized linkage of drinking and speaking is to explore what kinds of metricalized calibrations exist between the obviously semiotic order of speaking and the material order of drinks. When drinking is embedded in a ritual action, accompanied by a performative utterance such as a toast, drinking is closely calibrated to talk and foregrounded as being in itself a performative act as important as speaking the toast. But in many ritual events, drinks are more loosely calibrated to ritual talk which verges on the phatic function, the drink serving as a kind of seen but unnoticed, mute material, infrastructural backdrop to a ritual event, as in informal sociable drinking. Drawing from comparative ethnographic examples, including those from the author’s fieldwork in the country of Georgia, this chapter explores the varied ritual indexical calibrations of drink to talk.

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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 categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.986
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 studies0.0010.000
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 head0.047
GPT teacher head0.242
Teacher spread0.195 · 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 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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