Muffled Voices in a World of Words: What does it Mean to Live with Language and Communication Difficulties? - Three Case Studies in Hong Kong and North America
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This exploratory study aims to understand, from their own perspectives and in a holistic manner, the personal experiences of three students' living with language and communication difficulties (LCD) from a Cantonese-speaking background in the context of their everyday life in Hong Kong and North America (Le., New York and Toronto). The focus is to through their voices explore the personally meaningful matters and resultant emotional reactions arisen from daily social encounter in their wider sociocultural communication context. How supportive or hostile are these daily living contexts to these individuals and how well do they cope? It was hoped that through this exploration, their views and beliefs would be made known to us and the interplay of their experience and intrapersonal functioning with the sociocultural context would be revealed. More importantly, the intention is that with this knowledge, these students would be more appropriately understood and their needs appropriately responded to. Through observation in and description of the context, analysis of causal explanation and autoethnographic reflection, this study eventually evolved into a critical study, which was evaluative, revelatory in nature. As a result, the issues relating to LCD in cross-cultural encounters in individual's experience milieu were illuminated to disclose new meaning of LCD in a world regulated and dominated by the power of language and culture. It also extended to involve the experience of significant others and helpers (e.g., parents, teachers, professionals). The cross-case analysis of themes emerged out of the findings reveal an enriched discourse of individuals with LCD. It elucidates the interconnectedness and the interplay of language/communication and emotion, the ecological omnipresent system of governmentality and the redemption from it, the social connectedness between them and us, the implications of the presence of individuals with LCD to us.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.013 | 0.009 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".