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Computing consensus: Language ideological work in LLM‐assisted deliberative democracy

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, August 2026.
Abstract This article examines how the digital platform Polis and its experiments with large language models (LLMs) reconfigure democratic participation through a particular vision of consensus. Through analysis of media coverage of Polis and developers' public discussions of the platform, I argue that developers reframe consensus from a discursive ...
Janet E. Connor
wiley   +1 more source

Sidelining Mitigation: Climate Delay Discourses Among Municipal Legislators in Southeastern Brazil

Environmental Policy and Governance, Volume 36, Issue 3, Page 685-700, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how municipal legislators frame climate mitigation and how these framings shift responsibility, narrow the perceived scope of municipal authority, and reduce the urgency or feasibility of local action. We analyzed 31 interviews with city councilors serving on Permanent Environmental Committees across municipalities in ...
Tainá Yumi Patriani
wiley   +1 more source

L’argumentation dans la formation des groupes protestataires : du conflit d’aménagement au militantisme environnemental

Argumentation et Analyse du Discours, 2015
This article discusses the role of argumentation in the development of environmental activism during land-development conflicts. Argumentation is analyzed here on three levels: First, protest groups must integrate and incorporate pro-environmental ...
Aurélien Allouche
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Distinctive features of motherhood discourse in Russian media

Russian Language Studies, 2020
This study of modern media devoted to the problems of motherhood discourse is significant and relevant due to both the axiological nature of motherhood phenomenon and socio-cultural features of the existing (present day) media space.
Anna A. Kuvychko
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On Being Receptive: Listening and Compliance on a University Campus

American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 2, Page 249-258, June 2026.
ABSTRACT How should you listen when you hear about harms in interpersonal life, such as sexual harassment or anti‐Black racism? Across a range of sites on a university campus, from bystander intervention workshops to reporting systems for sex‐ and gender‐based misconduct, we spotlight the way “listening” is mobilized to address harms of various kinds ...
Michael Lempert, Benjamin Davis, Alex Forrest   +2 more
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Interdiscursivity between political and religious discourses in a speech by Sadat

, 2011
Religion and politics have a complicated relationship in the Arab world. Interdiscursivity within political speeches between religious and political discourses is a manifestation of this complexity. This article argues that this sort of interdiscursivity
Emad Abdul-Latif
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Youtubing Sápmi : Sámi multisemiotic repertoires, decolonial mobilization and interdiscursivity in the wired age

, 2022
This thesis explores the practice of “youtubing Sápmi”, which entails Sámi decolonial mobilization, multisemiotic and multilingual language use on YouTube. The aim is to understand how YouTube videos can function as a tool for discursive mobilization and
Rudberg, Tom
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Mother tongue instruction as a sticky object: The making of a register of denunciation

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract This article examines the making of a political register to denounce mother tongue instruction (MTI) in Sweden. Nationally mandated since 1977, MTI is a state‐sponsored, curriculum‐stipulated subject for minority pupils of over 187 languages other than Swedish.
Scarlett Mannish, Linus Salö
wiley   +1 more source

Interdiscursivity in leadership discourse [PDF]

, 2006
Language is salient and important in the leadership process. Language in terms of 'discourse' has always been manipulated to achieve the final aims of a leader. A major part of the discourse that is related to the importance of language is its production,
Mohammad Fadzeli Jaafar,, Idris Aman,
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Transnationalism as interdiscursivity: Korean managers of multinational corporations talking about mobility

, 2017
This article explores how transnationalism can be understood as an interdiscursive process. By making connections with chronotopes of past places along a transmigrant's trajectory, interdiscursivity allows for the emergence of complex indexical meaning ...
Joseph Sung-Yul Park
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