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‘It's a Relationship Just Like Any Other Relationship’—Systemic Therapists' Perspectives on Friend Therapy

Journal of Family Therapy, Volume 48, Issue 2, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Many people place friendships at the centre of their lives, yet systemic therapists often focus exclusively on familial and romantic relationships. In this study, we explored how systemic therapists understand and approach working relationally with friends in therapy.
Elliott Burcham, Lizette Nolte, Hendrix Hammond   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Book Review of Indian Religions: Renaissance and Renewal [PDF]

, 2008
The eighteen articles in this volume grew from papers delivered at the 2006 Spalding Symposium on Indian Religions. The Symposium featured both newer and more advanced scholars who presented papers on a variety of topics and traditions of India (but ...
Bauman, Chad M
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Language machines: Toward a linguistic anthropology of large language models

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract 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 Language Machines calls for renewed engagement with LLMs as socially embedded language technologies.
Siri Lamoureaux, Michael Castelle, Anna Weichselbraun   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Human tests for machine models: What lies “Beyond the Imitation Game”?

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract Benchmarking large language models (LLMs) is a key practice for evaluating their capabilities and risks. This paper considers the development of “BIG Bench,” a crowdsourced benchmark designed to test LLMs “Beyond the Imitation Game.” Drawing on linguistic anthropological and ethnographic analysis of the project's GitHub repository, we examine ...
Noya Kohavi, Anna Weichselbraun
wiley   +1 more source

Book review: on the world and ourselves by Zygmunt Bauman and Stanislaw Obirek [PDF]

, 2016
On the World and Ourselves is the second installment in the ongoing dialogue between Zygmunt Bauman and Stanislaw Obirek. Following the first volume, Of God and Man, this book explores not only questions of truth, but also goodness as Bauman and Obirek ...
Adaire, Esther
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Co‐textual dopes: How LLMs produce contextually appropriate text in chat interactions with humans without access to context

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract This paper asks how LLM‐based systems can produce text that is taken as contextually appropriate by humans without having seen text in its broader context. To understand how this is possible, context and co‐text have to be distinguished. Co‐text is input to LLMs during training and at inference as well as the primary resource of sense‐making ...
Ole Pütz
wiley   +1 more source

Narrative formatting, chronotopic orderings, and moralization in ex‐gay stories

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract 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 ...
Vincent Pak
wiley   +1 more source

Mother tongue instruction as a sticky object: The making of a register of denunciation

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract 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.
Scarlett Mannish, Linus Salö
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing wildfire extents in Siberian forests using machine learning

Scientific Reports
Wildfires significantly impact ecosystem dynamics and forest management strategies globally, including in Siberian forests. This study develops a machine learning (ML) framework to estimate wildfire size by integrating meteorological variables, forest ...
Ivan P. Malashin, Igor Masich, Vladimir Nelyub, Aleksei Borodulin, Andrei Gantimurov, Vadim Tynchenko   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Milk Fatty Acid Dynamics in Cows Grazing Standard and Multispecies Pastures Under Two Management Systems

New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research, Volume 69, Issue 2, April 2026.
This study evaluated the influence of three pasture‐management systems on milk fatty acid (FA) profiles in New Zealand dairy cows: standard–contemporary (STD–CON), diverse–contemporary (DIV–CON), and diverse–regenerative (DIV–REG). The STD–CON pastures consisted of ryegrass–clover, whereas diverse pastures included up to 16 species of grasses, legumes,
Yaliska Moreno‐González, Nicolas López‐Villalobos, Daniel Donaghy, Ignacio F. López, Benjamin Carter, Fernando J. Roca Fraga, J. Eruera Tait‐Jamieson, Stephen E. Holroyd, Alastair MacGibbon   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source