{"title":"","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","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":"148072368","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}
{"title":"Contested heritage landscapes for Arabic language learning in a postcolonial France","authors":"Chantal Tetreault, Alexandrine Barontini, Kiana Sakimehr","doi":"10.1111/jola.70041","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jola.70041","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article analyzes the contested and multiple meanings of “heritage” that emerge for advanced Arabic language learners in a postcolonial France. A linguistic life histories approach reveals a fraught duality of privileged access and exclusionary adversity for heritage students of Arabic. We analyze three university students' politicized subject positions relative to a postcolonial French heritage landscape in which Arabic language study is marked by cultural, racialized, religious, and linguistic differentiation. We argue that while Arabic language learning in France can accurately be described as a highly valued, widely practiced endeavor, it is also virulently stigmatized and marginalized to the point of cultural erasure. In our analysis, we claim that this apparent contradiction is not merely due to the association of Arabic language with North African migrants from previous French colonies, but rather to a contemporary postcolonial semiotic framing of Arabic. Instead of a neo-liberal framing of Arabic that is more typical of North American educational contexts, Arabic is either lauded as part of French (post-)colonial <i>patrimoine</i> (“heritage”) or, more often, degraded as “separatist” heritage or <i>communautarisme</i> (“communalism”).</p>","PeriodicalId":47070,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Linguistic Anthropology","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jola.70041","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146057913","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":"Narrative formatting, chronotopic orderings, and moralization in ex-gay stories","authors":"Vincent Pak","doi":"10.1111/jola.70044","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jola.70044","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Formatted stories rely on spatiotemporal cues to evoke recognizability through linearity, which prescribes a particular template for meaning-making. This article examines stories narrated by ex-gay members of a Christian organization in Singapore and considers how chronotopes within the stories are ordered to regiment ways of feeling for viewers. By ordering these experiences differently, affective flows between each chronotope become altered and the uptake of meaning is impacted. Drawing on Bakhtinian thought and linguistic anthropological ideas in narratives, I suggest that the structuring of recognizable stories is an exercise in narrative formatting: the discursive practice of ordering and presenting experience as morally and normatively desirable.</p>","PeriodicalId":47070,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Linguistic Anthropology","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jola.70044","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145909360","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":"Kinship-based deference among Jaru siblings: A collaborative, adaptive, and multimodal accomplishment","authors":"Josua Dahmen","doi":"10.1111/jola.70026","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jola.70026","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the Jaru community of northern Western Australia, certain in-laws and relatives are categorized as being in a highly respectful relationship in which they are expected to pay deference to one another. This conversation-analytic study closely examines the deferential practices that are used among three Jaru siblings in an ordinary multi-party conversation, providing insights into the dynamic and cooperative nature of kin-based respect and demonstrating that the practices in question readily diverge from metapragmatic stereotypes to fit the interactional context. The deferential practices function as sociopragmatic indexicals that form a multimodal register, encompassing both linguistic and bodily visual resources.</p>","PeriodicalId":47070,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Linguistic Anthropology","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jola.70026","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145909093","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}
Siri Lamoureaux, Michael Castelle, Anna Weichselbraun
{"title":"Language machines: Toward a linguistic anthropology of large language models","authors":"Siri Lamoureaux, Michael Castelle, Anna Weichselbraun","doi":"10.1111/jola.70033","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jola.70033","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Large language models (LLMs) challenge long-standing assumptions in linguistics and linguistic anthropology by generating human-like language without relying on rule-based structures. This introduction to the special issue <i>Language Machines</i> calls for renewed engagement with LLMs as socially embedded language technologies. We trace the intellectual genealogy that led linguistic anthropology to sideline such technologies, highlighting how disciplinary boundaries and language ideologies shaped this absence. Arguing for the field's unique potential to analyze the semiotic, interactional, and ideological dimensions of LLMs, we invite future contributions that expand linguistic anthropology's scope and relevance in the age of machine-mediated communication.</p>","PeriodicalId":47070,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Linguistic Anthropology","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jola.70033","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145905208","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":"Vernacular infrastructuring: Rethinking linguistic agency of minority-language speakers in multilingual digital environment","authors":"Udiana Puspa Dewi","doi":"10.1111/jola.70038","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jola.70038","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article introduces the concept of vernacular infrastructuring to examine how speakers of minoritized languages navigate multilingual digital environments. Building on notion of vernacular creativity and extending insights from linguistic anthropology, I conceptualize infrastructuring as the everyday negotiation of institutional norms, platform logics, and user practices that structure linguistic visibility. Drawing on the case of <i>Nanti Kita Sambat tentang Hari Ini</i> (NKSTHI), a popular Instagram and X account that reimagines the Javanese speech genre <i>sambat</i> (“to complain”), I show how users creatively mobilize Javanese to perform cultural intimacy while tactically responding to algorithmic imaginaries. I argue that vernacular infrastructuring operates through three entangled layers: institutional infrastructures (historical hierarchies of language policy and media), perceived platform infrastructures (folk theories and algorithmic imaginaries), and user practices (stylization, code-mixing, and affective design). Through this layered analysis, the paper demonstrates that vernacular practices are not merely expressive but infrastructurally strategic forms of discursive value work, referring to the speakers' reflexivity to assign and contest linguistic value. By foregrounding the agentive tactics of minoritized users, vernacular infrastructuring contributes to ongoing debates in linguistic anthropology on language, media, and infrastructure, showing how digital platforms actively participate in the revaluation of linguistic diversity.</p>","PeriodicalId":47070,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Linguistic Anthropology","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145905129","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}
{"title":"The chatbot's real self: On the archaeology of artificial personas\u0000 Le vrai soi du chatbot: vers une archéologie des personnes artificielles","authors":"Courtney Handman","doi":"10.1111/jola.70040","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jola.70040","url":null,"abstract":"<p>From the beginning of widespread public interactions with ChatGPT and other large language models, some users have seen the disfluencies of chatbots as opportunities for them to go on an archaeological search for an unfettered chatbot persona that they need to jailbreak. These are not claims of sentience, but rather of personhood. Moreover, they are part of a right-leaning populist political project of defining speech that some find inflammatory, racist, or sexist as instead normal and needed for humans to be, like the jailbreaked chatbots, unfettered subjects.</p>","PeriodicalId":47070,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Linguistic Anthropology","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jola.70040","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145909092","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}