Posthuman translanguaging and the reconfiguration of authorship in AI-mediated EFL academic writing

IF 3.9 1区文学 Q1 LINGUISTICS

Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2026-09-30 DOI:10.1093/applin/amag091

Mohamad Almashour,Hesham Aldamen,Marwan Jarrah

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Abstract This article examines how authorship is reconfigured when multilingual English-as-a-foreign-language writers compose academic texts with generative artificial intelligence. Drawing on posthuman translanguaging, it treats authorship as an assemblage distributed across human, algorithmic, affective, and institutional relations. Data were generated from 111 ChatGPT-mediated drafting sequences, 25 stimulated-recall interviews, 150 reflective journal entries, and 19 hours of classroom observation at the University of Jordan. Analysis identified four recurrent authorship assemblages: human–machine translanguaging practice, algorithmic normativity and voice reconfiguration, affective-ethical negotiation of agency, and institutional survival authorship. ChatGPT did not replace writers; it operated as a discursive participant whose rhetorical orientations students re-voiced, accommodated, or deferred to while negotiating assessment regimes, linguistic hierarchies, and identity commitments. The article argues for a posthuman account of authorship in applied linguistics, while showing that AI-mediated agency can preserve institutional viability and still narrow multilingual voice.

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人工智能介导的英语学术写作中的后人类译语与作者身份重构

摘要本文探讨了多语种英语作为外语的作者使用生成式人工智能撰写学术文本时，作者身份是如何重新配置的。利用后人类翻译语言，它将作者身份视为分布在人类，算法，情感和制度关系中的集合。数据来自111个chatgpt介导的起草序列、25个刺激回忆访谈、150个反思日志条目和约旦大学19小时的课堂观察。分析确定了四种反复出现的作者身份组合：人机翻译实践、算法规范和语音重构、代理的情感-伦理协商和制度生存作者身份。ChatGPT并没有取代作者；它作为一个话语参与者运作，学生在谈判评估制度、语言等级和身份承诺时重新表达、适应或推迟修辞取向。这篇文章主张应用语言学中作者身份的后人类描述，同时表明人工智能介导的代理可以保持机构的可行性，并且仍然是狭隘的多语言声音。

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Applied Linguistics LINGUISTICS-

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7.60

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8.30%

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期刊介绍： Applied Linguistics publishes research into language with relevance to real-world problems. The journal is keen to help make connections between fields, theories, research methods, and scholarly discourses, and welcomes contributions which critically reflect on current practices in applied linguistic research. It promotes scholarly and scientific discussion of issues that unite or divide scholars in applied linguistics. It is less interested in the ad hoc solution of particular problems and more interested in the handling of problems in a principled way by reference to theoretical studies.