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Exiled From Their Own Lands: Indigenist Policies, Oil, and Colonial Plunder in 20th Century Venezuela

The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines the historical displacement of Indigenous peoples in Venezuela, focusing on the links between indigenist policies and the exploitation of natural resources, particularly oil, throughout the 20th century. Using a combined historical and ethnographic approach, it demonstrates how the formation of the Venezuelan nation‐state
Gabriel Tardelli
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The Digital Campfire: Ritualized Linguistic Practices and Leadership Among Facebook Group Administrators

Journal of Community &Applied Social Psychology, Volume 36, Issue 3, May/June 2026.
ABSTRACT Social media is a central arena for collective life, where communities form, identities are negotiated, and belonging is sustained. Within these spaces, Facebook groups stand out as key sites of community building, and group administrators (admins) emerge as pivotal figures who guide interaction and shape culture despite lacking formal ...
Tal Eitan
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Korean Transnational Students’ School Adjustment: An Ecological Perspective [PDF]

, 2017
This research explored Korean early study abroad students’ school adjustment in the U.S., as well as how their microsystems (family, peer, school) affect their experiences.
Kang, Hyeyoung, Kim, Hoe Kyeung
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A Graph Neural Network Approach to Cross‐Cultural Narrative Visualization for Educational Reform

Engineering Reports, Volume 8, Issue 5, May 2026.
A BERT‐GNN framework integrated with systemic functional linguistics identifies narrative functions in Thai literary texts and constructs cultural influence graphs for cross‐cultural analysis and digital humanities applications. ABSTRACT Thai literary classics constitute an important medium for the interaction of Southeast Asian multicultural ...
Wanjie Yang, Qian Zhang
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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, Michael Castelle, Anna Weichselbraun   +2 more
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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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Social networks and acquisition of sociolinguistic variation in a study abroad context : a preliminary study

, 2015
Over the past decade, there has been a clear increase in awareness of social and contextual perspectives in the field of second language acquisition (Atkinson, 2002; Ortega, 2011). A growing strand of literature has focused on how linguistic use and acquisition is affected by learning contexts (Muñoz, 2012). Looking in particular at linguistic outcomes,
Gautier, Rozenn, Chevrot, Jean-Pierre
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'R.I.P. man...u are missed and loved by many': entextualising moments of mourning on a Facebook Rest in Peace group site [PDF]

, 2014
Digital media offer new domains for people to articulate aspects of their everyday selves, as well as to share resources, views, attitudes, and emotions on an unprecedented scale (Barton and Lee 2013; Georgakopoulou 2006; Jones and Hafner 2012).
Giaxoglou, Korina
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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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The chatbot's real self: On the archaeology of artificial personas Le vrai soi du chatbot: vers une archéologie des personnes artificielles

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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