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How Public Participation Depends on What Happens ‘In‐Between’. Analysing Emotion, Memory and Meaning in Participatory Policies

Social Policy &Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Public participation often falls short of creating more legitimate and inclusive policies that address local needs. The literature highlights three main legitimacy criteria: agreements on who holds power to decide what and how, inclusivity of the process and its representativeness.
Nanke Verloo
wiley   +1 more source

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

“Conyo talk”: the affirmation of hybrid identity and power in contemporary Philippine discourse

Lingue e Linguaggi, 2013
The Philippine linguistic and cultural phenomenon “coño talk” (a mix of predominantly Spanish and English with tagalog) is a type of discourse that purportedly identifies and differentiates people of ‘power’ from the common masses, and arose from the ...
M. M. Garvida
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Don\u27t Argue with the Members [PDF]

, 2011
Mel Pollner regularly cautioned researchers not to argue with the members of settings under consideration. He warned against substituting the researcher’s meaning for the meanings of those being studied.
Gubrium, Jaber F, Holstein, James A
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Making Space for Stories: Ambiguity in the Design of Personal Communication Systems [PDF]

, 2005
Pervasive personal communication technologies offer the potential for important social benefits for individual users, but also the potential for significant social difficulties and costs. In research on face-to-face social interaction, ambiguity is often
Aoki, Paul M., Woodruff, Allison
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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

Review: Paul ten Have (2004). Understanding Qualitative Research and Ethnomethodology

Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 2005
Paul TEN HAVE presents an overview of qualitative methodology approaches and compares selected approaches to ethnomethodology. TEN HAVE differentiates methods from methodology. The book offers a collection of qualitative methods but not a methodology for
Charles Lee Cole
doaj  

Nonhuman situational enmeshments—How participants build temporal infrastructures for ChatGPT

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract This paper investigates how participants recruit Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT as interactional co‐participants depending on their temporal enmeshment within an interactional flow. Using Charles Goodwin's co‐operative action framework, we analyze video data of human–AI interaction to trace the temporal structures established by ...
Nils Klowait, Maria Erofeeva
wiley   +1 more source

Theoretical Perspectives of Discursive Phenomena: DA and Ethnomethodologically DA

REiLA, 2019
The aims of this paper try to discuss and present various theoretical perspectives of discursive phenomena, in specific the different research techniques widely known as, as well as the theories.
Indri C. Sihombing
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Functionaries: A Distributional Approach to Institutional Analysis

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 56, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper outlines a distributional approach to institutional analysis, reconceptualising institutions as distributions of knowledge and activity across people. We argue that institutionalisation and institutional change are best understood by focussing on actors with the requisite knowledge and motivation to keep institutional patterns going,
Dustin S. Stoltz, Marshall A. Taylor, Omar Lizardo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source