Globalization and language vitality : perspectives from Africa
Why this work is in the frame
A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Contributors - Acknowledgments 1. Introduction, Salikoko S. Mufwene (University of Chicago, USA) and Cecile B. Vigouroux (Simon Fraser University, Canada) 2. Trajectories of Language Endangerment in South Africa, Rajend Mesthrie (University of Cape Town, South Africa) 3. The Circumstances of Language Shift and Death in Southern Africa, Herman M. Batibo (University of Botswana, Botswana) 4. African Modernity, Transnationalism, and Language Vitality: Portuguese in Multilingual Mozambique, Christopher Stroud (University of the Western Cape, South Africa) 5. The Lives of Local and Regional Congolese Languages in Globalized Linguistic Markets, Eyamba G. Bokamba (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) 6. Globalization and Sociolinguistic Stratification in North Africa: The case of Morocco, Ahmed Boukous (IRCAM, Morocco) 7. The Ascent of Wolof as an Urban Vernacular and National Lingua Franca in Senegal, Fiona Mc Laughlin (University of Florida, USA) 8. On the Futurology of Linguistic Development, Robert Chaudenson (Universite d' Aix-Marseille, France) 9. Globalization and the Sociolinguistics of the Internet: Between English and Kiswahili, Alamin Mazrui (Ohio State University, USA) 10. Writing Locality in Globalized Swahili: Semiotizing Space in a Tanzanian novel, Jan Blommaert (Institute of Education, UK) 11. From Africa to Africa: Globalization, Migration and Language Vitality, Cecile B. Vigouroux (Simon Fraser University, Canada) 12. Creating the Conditions for a Counter-Hegemonic Strategy: African Languages in the Twenty-First Century, Neville Alexander (University of Cape Town, South Africa) Bibliography Author Index Subject Index.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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 it