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ABSTRACT The Sense of Humor Scale parallel version short form (SHS‐PSF) is a novel self‐report measure aimed at describing personality traits related to enjoyment of humor, laughter, verbal humor, humor under stress, humor in everyday life, and laughing at oneself.
Chloe Lau +6 more
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ABSTRACT This study investigates the impact of problem‐posing on the mathematical proficiency and engagement of 56 Developmental Mathematics (DM) students enrolled in a noncredit college mathematics course. Using a quasi‐experimental design, one of two existing classes was selected as the experimental group and received a 5‐week intervention focused on
John Sevier +2 more
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Minor epic: Notes toward a different “Anthropoetry”
Abstract Anthropologists have often turned to poetry as a means of accessing emotional registers of which conventional academic prose is unable to avail. In doing so, they have tacitly conflated poetry with lyric poetry, today probably the most widely practiced poetic genre, associated in particular with the expression of inner feelings and subjectival
Stuart McLean
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Narrative Horizons: Deliberate Derangement in Oceanic Climate Fiction
ABSTRACT Although we live in the Anthropocene—the geological age of humankind, wherein humans have measurably impacted the biosphere—we struggle to narrate the Anthropocene. In particular, we struggle to give narrative shape to its foremost feature: anthropogenic climate change.
Mark Celeste
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Language machines: Toward a linguistic anthropology of large language models
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 +2 more
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Abstract 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.
Courtney Handman
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The present study analyzes in a concrete film, Howard Hawks's Red River, some of the constants present in the genre of western, to apply these mentioned plot and thematic motives to a film placed between the comedy and the road movie, The adventures of ...
José Patricio Pérez Rufí
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Narrative formatting, chronotopic orderings, and moralization in ex‐gay stories
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
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Moving In and Out of Reading: Teens Talking About Books, Digital Games, Social Media and Fanfiction
ABSTRACT This article examines teens' recreational reading activities as they move between books and digital media. It uses the model of connected reading to understand connections between teen reading practices and digital pastimes. Using focus group data, we draw on participants' experiences with books, fan texts, video games, and social media and ...
Amy Schoonens, Michael Dezuanni
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ABSTRACT From a desire to create an “unruly edge” that values student voice in a holistically more authentic and creative learning environment, this qualitative action research study seeks to determine how reconfiguring the learning environment (holding ELA classes outside) contributes to literacy learning for students tracked into classes that ...
Kristie Camp
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