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Record W4415588164 · doi:10.3828/ejlp.2025.15

Transformation of the urban linguistic landscape under the influence of social and cultural changes

2025· article· en· W4415588164 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueEuropean Journal of Language Policy · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicLinguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLinguistic landscapeGlobalizationMultilingualismMegacityUrbanizationSpace (punctuation)Focus (optics)Adaptation (eye)

Abstract

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The study was conducted to analyse changes in ergonyms in urban landscapes under the influence of social and cultural transformations. The main focus was on the processes taking place in post-Soviet countries, in particular in Kazakhstan, where public policy, globalisation and decommunisation actively influence the change in the urban linguistic environment. The study examined changes in the names of objects in such cities as Almaty, Astana, Shymkent, Aktau and Pavlodar. In addition, examples of global megacities were studied, such as London, New York, Los Angeles, Montreal, Tokyo, Shanghai and Singapore, where the interaction of cultures and the impact of globalisation processes on the appearance of multilingual names in urban space were analysed. As part of the study, the literature was searched and analysed for keywords covering the topic of the linguistic landscape and globalisation processes. As a result of the study, it was found that changing names in cities of Kazakhstan is part of the overall process of decommunisation and the return of national identity. Analysis of the linguistic landscape of world cities has shown that globalisation also actively affects the names of commercial objects, contributing to the growth of multilingualism and adaptation to an international audience. The results obtained confirm the importance of language transformations as a reflection of social, cultural and economic changes in the urban space, which makes them an important indicator of modern urban processes. This article was published open access under a CC BY licence: https://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/ .

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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)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.315
Threshold uncertainty score0.136

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
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)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.018
GPT teacher head0.258
Teacher spread0.239 · 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