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 +2 more
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Integrating Digital Technologies into the Teaching of Intercultural Competences: A Systematic Literature Mapping. [PDF]
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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
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"What's the point, when we're already dead?" Implementation challenges of COVID-19 public policies for indigenous peoples in the Peruvian Amazon: A sequential multi-method qualitative study. [PDF]
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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
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Experiences in the care of Indigenous people in hospital settings: challenges for clinical management. [PDF]
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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
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Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.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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Leadership Learning Through Short-term Study Abroad Courses. [PDF]
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Contested heritage landscapes for Arabic language learning in a postcolonial France
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.Abstract 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.
Chantal Tetreault +2 more
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