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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Reimagining the role of emotion in healthcare research. [PDF]
Cole R.
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Mobilizing Documents: Identification, Bureaucracy, and Policing in Transnational Mobility
ABSTRACT This co‐authored essay builds on a growing anthropological literature that engages critically and creatively with idealized official and popular ideas about documents of/in migration regimes. Documents are often championed as a common and unquestionable good in transnational migration but they are intrinsically tied to inequalities and ...
Sahana Ghosh +5 more
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Telling Ecopoetic Stories: Wax Worms, Care, and the Cultivation of Other Sensibilities. [PDF]
Grünfeld M.
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The Sociology of AI as an Emerging Field: Mapping Tensions and Boundaries
ABSTRACT The expanding role of artificial intelligence (AI) in social life compels a foundational reassessment of sociology's concepts, methods, and theoretical commitments. From generative language models to predictive policing, AI systems are no longer mere tools but increasingly agentic, opaque, and normative sociotechnical actors.
Canhui Liu
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Sensory Labor as Un/knowing in a Waste Composition Study: Identifying a Chain of Translation. [PDF]
Lehtokunnas T +3 more
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Handmade relief models as matters of concern: Maintaining, restoring, and repairing mountains? [PDF]
Müller A.
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Engaged Medical Humanities-A Framework for Knowledge Production in Research Collaborations. [PDF]
Folker L +7 more
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Human body modifications and transformations in remaining human and the future of nursing practice. [PDF]
Pepito JA +6 more
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Nursing and Planetary Health: Learning from the Plant Metaphor for Environmental Justice. [PDF]
David HMSL.
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