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The role of speaker categorization in South Korean attitudes toward North Korean accents 说话者分类在南韩人对北韩口音的态度中所起的作用

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Applied Linguistics Review Pub Date : 2024-09-18 DOI: 10.1515/applirev-2023-0058

Yu Kyoung Shin, Stephanie Lindemann

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“As a Muslim…”: on the importance of intercultural responsibility in transnational cultural exchanges "作为穆斯林......"：跨文化责任在跨国文化交流中的重要性

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Applied Linguistics Review Pub Date : 2024-09-02 DOI: 10.1515/applirev-2023-0111

Anyarat Nattheeraphong, Christopher Jenks

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Culture machines 文化机器

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Applied Linguistics Review Pub Date : 2024-08-16 DOI: 10.1515/applirev-2024-0188

Rodney H. Jones

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Artificial intelligence and depth ontology: implications for intercultural ethics 人工智能与深度本体论：对跨文化伦理的影响

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Applied Linguistics Review Pub Date : 2024-07-18 DOI: 10.1515/applirev-2024-0189

John P. O’Regan, Giuliana Ferri

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Exploring AI for intercultural communication: open conversation 探索人工智能在跨文化交流中的应用：开放式对话

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Applied Linguistics Review Pub Date : 2024-07-09 DOI: 10.1515/applirev-2024-0186

Hua Zhu, David Wei Dai, Adam Brandt, Guanliang Chen, Giuliana Ferri, Spencer Hazel, Chris Jenks, Rodney Jones, John O’Regan, Shungo Suzuki

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Generative AI for professional communication training in intercultural contexts: where are we now and where are we heading? 用于跨文化背景下专业交流培训的生成式人工智能：我们的现状和未来？

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Applied Linguistics Review Pub Date : 2024-07-06 DOI: 10.1515/applirev-2024-0184

David Wei Dai, Shungo Suzuki, Guanliang Chen

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Towards interculturally adaptive conversational AI 实现跨文化自适应对话式人工智能

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Applied Linguistics Review Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.1515/applirev-2024-0187

Adam Brandt, Spencer Hazel

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Communicating the cultural other: trust and bias in generative AI and large language models 沟通文化他者：生成式人工智能和大型语言模型中的信任与偏见

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Applied Linguistics Review Pub Date : 2024-06-28 DOI: 10.1515/applirev-2024-0196

Christopher J. Jenks

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Walking with: understandings and negotiations of the mundane in research 同行：研究中对世俗的理解和协商

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Applied Linguistics Review Pub Date : 2024-05-13 DOI: 10.1515/applirev-2024-0069

Jessica Mary Bradley, Sari Pöyhönen

{"title":"Walking with: understandings and negotiations of the mundane in research","authors":"Jessica Mary Bradley, Sari Pöyhönen","doi":"10.1515/applirev-2024-0069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/applirev-2024-0069","url":null,"abstract":"Disruptions, and indeed spectacular disruptions, are understood and experienced by people in many different ways. They serve to both highlight and embed deep-rooted inequalities, changing experiences of the everyday and even challenging the very right to have an everyday. In this joint article we critically engage with conceptualisations of the mundane, exploring how people negotiate everyday life in contexts of unprecedented change. We take up Georges Perec’s call to take account of the everyday, focusing on examples from two ethnographically informed projects, both of which engage with creative practice. The first is long-term research in forced migration settings in North-Western Finland, which explores how people negotiate and re-negotiate linguistic citizenship and everyday life, in a policy context which restricts and limits. The second is a community arts and wellbeing project in the North of England, which investigated creative approaches to re-emergence from the Covid19 pandemic among people who had been particularly affected by isolation, including new mothers. In both projects, our data are drawn from fieldnotes from observations, reflections from our own participation, interviews and creative artefacts made by participants. In our analysis and discussion, we foreground ephemeral everyday moments and how individuals aim to hold up the mundane in the middle of major, internal and international crises. We consider how the ‘right to an everyday’ is central to understandings of being human, and draw on these experiences to show how ethnographic research, with particular emphasis on language(s) and creative practice, can shed light on lived experiences of the mundane and unequal experiences of and rights to the everyday.","PeriodicalId":46472,"journal":{"name":"Applied Linguistics Review","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140927671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Ideologies of teachers and students towards meso-level English-medium instruction policy and translanguaging in the STEM classroom at a Malaysian university 马来西亚一所大学的教师和学生对中级英语教学政策和 STEM 课堂中的翻译语言的看法

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Applied Linguistics Review Pub Date : 2024-05-07 DOI: 10.1515/applirev-2023-0040

Mohammad Mosiur Rahman, Md. Shaiful Islam, Abdul Karim, Manjet Kaur Mehar Singh, Guangwei Hu

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