English as an Instrument of Power: A Study of Literary Texts from a Social Critical Perspective
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The study critically analyzed how English has been shaped and appropriated across diverse and often antagonistic social, political, and cultural arenas. This study used lyric poetry and music lyrics from across Canada and Cameroon to analyze socioeconomic issues. As said in the opening, the goal was to delve into the ambivalence of English as a ubiquitous and occasionally pervasive language, providing fertile ground for local musical interpretations and textual changes. Despite its ethnic dissimilarity and displacement, the analytic selection upheld a lack of linguistic rights, justice, antagonism, reinvention, and patriotism/local-mindedness towards its polysemy-afflicted language. The investigation uncovered a strategic, theatrical, and fruitful use of allusion, as was the role of language and culture in global and cross-cultural dissimulation. In an overtly affirmative act with its appropriation from the colonial masters, the coping mechanisms of adaptation, opposition, and promotion were compared to loan-shifting. A new ontology and the rhythmicity of soft power in the war of discourses were hinted at by the domesticates culled from texts imperiled by local and worldwide political intrigue.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".