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The chatbot's real self: On the archaeology of artificial personas Le vrai soi du chatbot: vers une archéologie des personnes artificielles

open access: yesJournal 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
wiley   +1 more source

Contested heritage landscapes for Arabic language learning in a postcolonial France

open access: yesJournal 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
wiley   +1 more source

Narrative formatting, chronotopic orderings, and moralization in ex‐gay stories

open access: yesJournal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract Formatted stories rely on spatiotemporal cues to evoke recognizability through linearity, which prescribes a particular template for meaning‐making. This article examines stories narrated by ex‐gay members of a Christian organization in Singapore and considers how chronotopes within the stories are ordered to regiment ways of feeling for ...
Vincent Pak
wiley   +1 more source

Mother tongue instruction as a sticky object: The making of a register of denunciation

open access: yesJournal 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

Remembering Courtney Cazden, 1925–2025

open access: yesReading Research Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 2, April/May/June 2026.
ABSTRACT Here we remember and honor Courtney B. Cazden (1925–2025), whose scholarship, mentorship, and moral clarity profoundly shaped the study of language, literacy, and learning. Drawing on our shared experiences as colleagues, collaborators, students, and friends, we reflect on Courtney's enduring contributions to classroom discourse analysis ...
Kris D. Gutiérrez   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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