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ABSTRACT International education practices and trends, particularly student mobility, remain largely shaped by Global North perspectives. Although scholars have repeatedly called for the dismantling of Western dominance and supremacy in international education, there is still limited understanding of how this can be achieved and what the decolonising ...
Ly Thi Tran, Trang Thuy Le
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ABSTRACT Middle childhood represents a crucial developmental stage in which ethnic biases often emerge and solidify, potentially leading to peer exclusion or harassment. Recent research highlights the role of moral disengagement in ethnic‐related harassment and identifies intercultural competences as crucial for counteracting prejudicial peer ...
Penderi Efthymia +3 more
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Developing intercultural communicative competence through culture specific communicative style
The article deals with the problem of language and culture transfer which follows the process of intercultural communication and impedes understanding. It suggests that teaching communicative style which is shaped by cultural differences, communicative ...
T V Larina
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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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Pragmatic Competence and Intercultural communication
Globalization has intensified communication among people with different first languages and of different cultures. As a result, misunderstandings and communication breakdowns mark many intercultural encounters as participants rely on the norms of their mother tongue and native culture to interpret and create meaning.
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Human tests for machine models: What lies “Beyond the Imitation Game”?
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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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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Book Review : INTERCULTURAL LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING
The analysis of language and culture has been long and widely made. To mention a few, Lies Sercu (2005) addresses this issue in Foreign Language Teachers and Intercultural Competence, Soler and Jordan (ed, 2007) in Intercultural language Use and ...
Kaswan Kaswan
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