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When AI meets intercultural communication: new frontiers, new agendas 当人工智能遇上跨文化交流：新领域、新议程

IF 2.1 2区文学

Applied Linguistics Review Pub Date : 2024-07-22 DOI: 10.1515/applirev-2024-0185

David Wei Dai, Zhu Hua

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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

IF 2.6 2区文学

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

John P. O’Regan, Giuliana Ferri

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(Im)mobility infrastructure and the production of the linguistic precariat (流动性基础设施与语言贫民窟的产生

IF 2.1 2区文学

Applied Linguistics Review Pub Date : 2024-07-17 DOI: 10.1515/applirev-2024-0207

Birgul Yilmaz

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Decolonizing Cameroon’s language policies: a critical assessment 喀麦隆语言政策的非殖民化：批判性评估

IF 2.1 2区文学

Applied Linguistics Review Pub Date : 2024-07-16 DOI: 10.1515/applirev-2023-0273

Seraphin Kamdem, C. Ojongnkpot, B. van Pinxteren

{"title":"Decolonizing Cameroon’s language policies: a critical assessment","authors":"Seraphin Kamdem, C. Ojongnkpot, B. van Pinxteren","doi":"10.1515/applirev-2023-0273","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/applirev-2023-0273","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Due to its colonial history and prevalent multilingualism, Cameroon is a country where language policies have profoundly impacted socioeconomic and political life. Cameroon has 273 local languages and two official languages, English and French. The two official languages have been a crystallization point for discontent and civil unrest, leading to secessionist sentiments and violence. In this paper, we assess Cameroon’s language policies, firstly by providing a brief historical and legal overview based in the literature. We then present a new decolonial analytical framework, building on but extending existing theoretical frameworks. Our new analysis shows that a transition to using indigenous languages in formal education and other domains is not necessary at present. However, we argue that such a transition will become unavoidable in future. We show that it will be practically possible to use a limited number of indigenous languages as mediums of instruction, building on existing bilingualisms in the country. We believe these languages should be chosen using rational criteria and we introduce an approximate assessment of which languages are easy to learn and teach, and for speakers of which other languages. The transition we foresee requires planning and preparation. A different approach to Cameroon’s languages may help in building national unity and healing national wounds in the areas of sociolinguistic power-sharing and interregional cohabitation. We expect that our approach also holds benefits for other African countries.","PeriodicalId":46472,"journal":{"name":"Applied Linguistics Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141641761","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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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

IF 2.6 2区文学

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？

IF 2.6 2区文学

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

IF 2.6 2区文学

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

IF 2.6 2区文学

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

Christopher J. Jenks

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Mobility-in-place: how to keep privilege by being mobile at work 就地移动：如何在工作中通过移动保持特权

IF 2.6 2区文学

Applied Linguistics Review Pub Date : 2024-06-17 DOI: 10.1515/applirev-2024-0169

Ruanni Tupas, V. Tarrayo

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Shanghai hukou, English and politics of mobility in China’s globalising economy 上海户口、英语和中国全球化经济中的流动政治

IF 2.6 2区文学

Applied Linguistics Review Pub Date : 2024-06-06 DOI: 10.1515/applirev-2024-0174

Eleanor Yue Gong

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