Journal of Linguistic Anthropology最新文献

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{"title":"The revolution within: Islamic media and the struggle for a New Egypt by Yasmin Moll, Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2025. pp. 368. 9781503642423 (e-book)","authors":"Muhammad Lukman Arifianto","doi":"10.1111/jola.70050","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jola.70050","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47070,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Linguistic Anthropology","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147568999","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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{"title":"Mother tongue instruction as a sticky object: The making of a register of denunciation","authors":"Scarlett Mannish,&nbsp;Linus Salö","doi":"10.1111/jola.70048","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jola.70048","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines the making of a political register to denounce mother tongue instruction (MTI) in Sweden. Nationally mandated since 1977, MTI is a state-sponsored, curriculum-stipulated subject for minority pupils of over 187 languages other than Swedish. However, the instigation by the far-right in 2023 of a commission into MTI's effects on integration helped conventionalize and legitimate a register of assembled features of anti-MTI discourse. Using a discourse-historical approach, we trace this register-making process across Swedish media and political documents from 1970 to 2025, and into Denmark, where MTI was partly abolished. We identify national and transnational interdiscursive clasps, grafts and relays through which legitimacy is drawn from historical claims to frame MTI as costly, outdated, and non-Swedish. The formation of this register of denunciation renders the social arena of MTI a feared sticky object attached to semilingualism, parallel societies, and failed integration that must be controlled and contained.</p>","PeriodicalId":47070,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Linguistic Anthropology","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jola.70048","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147568356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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{"title":"The algorithm's hidden layers: Nurturant matrices, quantitative poetry, and the religious ethics of language technology","authors":"Zachary Sheldon","doi":"10.1111/jola.70042","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jola.70042","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper builds on conversations at the intersection of artificial intelligence research and the linguistic anthropology of religion by exploring a mathematical technique that connects contemporary Large Language Models [LLMs] with the history of Islamicate occult sciences. In both cases, transformation algorithms are used to entextualize linear streams of discourse as geometric embeddings in higher dimensional arrays. Focusing on an algorithmic poem from a nineteenth-century Palestinian manuscript on the healing magic of midwives, I argue that the entextualization of language in computational space emerged as a ritual practice of self-transformation. A historical perspective on mathematical dialogues suggests that both older and newer algorithmic language technologies can reengineer selves and societies; but the comparison also exposes the peculiarity of our own assumptions about the opaque, quantified, and gendered language of math. By separating the technical affordances of semiotic transformations from the larger ideological frames into which they are taken up, this paper seeks to model a multilayered method of comparative analysis that can inform future linguistic anthropological studies across diverse contributions to the history of LLMs.</p><p>يساهم هذا المقال في إثراء الحوار الدائر بين دراسات الذكاء الاصطناعي والأنثروبولوجيا اللغوية والبحوث اللاهوتية. ويرتكز على تقنية خوارزمية مشتركة بين النماذج اللغوية الكبيرة والعلوم الباطنية الإسلامية، ألا وهي: تحويل النصوص اللغوية إلى أرقام، ومن ثم ترتيبها في مصفوفات رياضية. تتمحور الدراسة حول قصيدة تعليمية وردت في مخطوطة فلسطينية تعود للقرن التاسع عشر، حيث تتناول هذه المخطوطة دور القابلات التقليديات. وتشرح القصيدة التعليمية توزيع الأرقام في مصفوفات رياضية (أو ”أوفاق الأعداد“). تعمد القابلات إلى هذه المصفوفات في نقش التعويذات والأحراز، رغبةً في تأمين سلامة الوالدة ومولودها. ونكتشف في هذه العمليات الروحية الأصول التاريخية لتحويل النص اللغوي إلى بيانات رياضية. يُلقي هذا الاكتشاف المثير للدهشة الضوء على تطبيق تقنيات اللسانيات الحاسوبية، قديمها وحديثها، في تطوير النفس والمجتمع. وفي الوقت ذاته، تكشف هذه المقارنة عن اختلافات جوهرية بين النقاشات المعاصرة حول هذه النماذج الرياضية وبين الرؤية التقليدية لها، وتحديداً حول العلاقة بين الرياضيات والدور الاجتماعي للمرأة وبين التقاليد الدينية والتقدم العلمي. إنّ التركيز على استمرارية الهياكل الخوارزمية عبر ممارسة نوع من التجريد المنهجي الذي يهدف إلى عزل المنطق الصوري عن سياقات تطبيقه البراغماتية، يكشف عن جذور تاريخية عابرة للثقافات لمنطق الذكاء الاصطناعي المعاصر.</p>","PeriodicalId":47070,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Linguistic Anthropology","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147299785","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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{"title":"Record the track and track the record: On the call-and-response dynamics in Hip Hop practice","authors":"Dastan Abdali,&nbsp;Steven Gilbers","doi":"10.1111/jola.70046","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jola.70046","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Call-and-response has primarily been studied in Black Atlantic artistic traditions. We transpose call-and-response dynamics to the writing and recording process of a Hip Hop studio session. Combining collaborative autoethnography with formal analysis and using Communication Accommodation Theory's conceptual parameters of conscious and subconscious convergence and divergence, we explore how our output and expression as practitioners are relationally affected in terms of rhyme, content, and flow. We argue this focus on intersubjectivity offers a window into how identities—here via Hip Hop practice and its engagement with language, music, and history—are in a process of “becoming” in real time.</p>","PeriodicalId":47070,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Linguistic Anthropology","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jola.70046","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147315524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The politics of language oppression in Tibet By Gerald Roche, Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 2024. pp. 264","authors":"Charisma K. Lepcha","doi":"10.1111/jola.70047","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jola.70047","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47070,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Linguistic Anthropology","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147275043","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}