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Modulating Hunting Atmospheres: Mud and Material Flows Beyond the Kill

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 3, Page 629-639, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This article argues that hunting is not a bounded event but a materially redistributed atmosphere that extends beyond the kill and across field, truck, clothing, and home. Drawing on long‐term ethnographic fieldwork with wild boar hunters in Uruguay, I show how mud, odors, blood, and bodily residues carry the sensory, affective, and material ...
Juan Martin Dabezies
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Toward Culturally Sustaining Korean as a Foreign Language (KFL) Textbooks: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Linguistic, Cultural, and Racial Ideologies Across Earlier and Revised Editions

open access: yesThe Modern Language Journal, Volume 110, Issue 3, Page 881-901, Autumn (Fall) 2026.
ABSTRACT This article critically examines Korean as a Foreign Language (KFL) textbooks published by major Korean universities and widely used around the world. Using critical discourse analysis and a culturally sustaining pedagogy (CSP) perspective, this article analyzes how earlier and revised textbooks represent language, culture, and race, and ...
Eunae Kim
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Delomization, or the esoteric Nechung kang so, the Dalai Lama, and exilic imaginings of a Tibetan community

open access: yesJournal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, August 2026.
Abstract I propose the concept of delomization, the process whereby a sign comes to be understood as a symbol. I term such signs delomes. With rhematization and dicentization, delomization completes the triplet that linguistic anthropologists derive from Charles Sanders Peirce's third trichotomy.
Urmila Nair
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Semiosis, Information and Knowledge [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
This paper understands knowledge and information to operate within a reality that is rendered dynamic by asymmetrical ‘cuts’ that ontologically divide reality into internal and external realms, and epistemologically divide experience into formal models and informal instances.
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Domesticating robots, domesticating language: The hylomorphic paradox of “openness” in large language models

open access: yesJournal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, August 2026.
Abstract This article examines how openness is interpreted in human–LLM interaction through an ethnographic study of a robotics experiment. Focusing on an episode in which a robot produced an unexpected utterance, I analyze how engineers classify the output as inconsequential noise.
Raffaele Andrea Buono
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Palatal violence: Sonic gatekeeping and enemy‐making in wartime Ukraine

open access: yesJournal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, August 2026.
Abstract Within 2 days of Russia's full‐scale invasion of Ukraine, a single word—palianytsia, a Ukrainian round loaf—became a phonetic test separating Ukrainians from Russians. The article traces how a culinary term was enregistered as a wartime shibboleth that structurally marks the very citizens it was meant to protect as enemies.
Anatoli Ulyanov
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Cognitive and linguistic underpinnings of deixis am phantasma: Bühler's and Peirce's semiotic

open access: yesSign Systems Studies, 2013
Th is inquiry outlines Karl Bühle's three kinds of deixis, focusing particularly on his most advanced use – deixis am phantasma (deictics to refer to absent referents).
Donna E. West
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Power, Resistance, and Family Absence During Resuscitation: A Foucauldian Analysis

open access: yesNursing Inquiry, Volume 33, Issue 3, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Although family presence during resuscitation demonstrates benefits such as facilitating the grieving process through fostering a sense of closeness, providing reassurance that all efforts were made, and offering an opportunity for a final farewell, its integration for adult patients in healthcare facilities remains contested.
Tamara J. Young, Rochelle Einboden
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Process and Dynamics in AI and Language Use

open access: yesTopics in Cognitive Science, Volume 18, Issue 3, July 2026.
Abstract In this volumed, Randall Beer and Joanna Rączaszek‐Leonardi have opened an important discussion of what is further needed to enhance the reach of dynamical approaches to cognition. Focusing on issues concerning the nature of language and developments in language technology, we have attempted, in this brief contribution, to place their ...
Eleni Gregoromichelaki, Gregory J. Mills
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Une linguistique au-delà de l’humain ?

open access: yesItinéraires, 2020
This article aims to discuss the relevance of considering an interspecies semiosis, both in theoretical and empirical terms. It revisits the recent work of anthropologist Eduardo Kohn, who claims for an “anthropology beyond the human” (2013) and proposes
Chloé Mondémé
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