Britta Schneider
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3592022 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Britta Schneider |
| NOMBRES | Britta |
| APELLIDO | Schneider |
| FIRMA | SCHNEIDER B |
| AFILIACIONES | European University Viadrina |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0377-5808 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 55 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Sociolinguists against the AI hype? AI tools in sociolinguistics scholarship
This paper examines sociolinguists’ views of and engagement with artificial intelligence technology in sociolinguistics scholarship, an area that has received little systematic attention to date. Drawing on a global survey of 274 respondents, the study reveals that while automatization and AI tools are mainly used for efficiency and experimentation purposes, their adoption for data collection and analysis remains limited. Moreover, sociolinguists…
AI technology as human interaction
Developing Critical AI Language Literacy—prompting experiments on raciolinguistic bias to understand large language models as cultural artefacts
Understanding how AI and constructions of race intersect and which new ethical dilemmas arise in this context has become pressing. In this article, we introduce a university pedagogical project centred on collective explorations of raciolinguistic biases in Large Language Models. The project aimed at the development of Critical AI Language Literacy. It approached raciolinguistic biases from linguistic anthropological perspectives, where ‘race’ is…
The material making of language as practice of global domination and control
Although AI language technologies are typically presented as future-oriented technological innovation, none of the elements of machine learning technologies are unaffected by the cultural and historical contexts of their emergence. This is particularly true in the case of language constructions and the materialization of language in AI. Examination of computational language culture reveals striking continuities to concepts of language and their m…
Language in the age of AI technology
Large language models based on machine-learning technologies are reshaping linguistic contexts and understandings of language. We explore these reconfigurations by investigating discursive positionings of traditional institutional guardians of power in language in response to these changes. Focusing on the discourse of the Real Academia Española (RAE), we show how RAE's social functions, ways of asserting authority, and the nature, function, and …
Introduction
In this special issue, we inspect material and nonhuman phenomena that contribute to interaction and meaning-making—among them sounds, visual signs, animals, images, digital devices, bodies, and movements—in order to stimulate new thinking surrounding the question of what language is from a posthumanist perspective. The contributors are language-oriented scholars who focus on material and technological environments in language. They interrogate h…
Language is not a data set-Why overcoming ideologies of dataism is more important than ever in the age of AI
Multilingualism and AI
This article examines the effects of commercial digital language technologies on the regimentation of language. Language technologies based on the exploitation of large data sets—from machine translation and automatic text generation to digital voice assistants—are a particular form of human-made sign practice in which traditional language norms interact with the affordances of digital devices and the capitalist interests of those who design them…
Posthumanism and the role of orality and literacy in language ideologies in Belize
This article discusses language ideological data from interviews and group discussions conducted in a village in Belize. Speakers here perceive English as a formal prestige language and link this to the fact that it appears in written form and tangible materiality – that is, in the form of visual symbols in text, and in objects like grammar books or dictionaries. This contrasts with discourses on Belizean Kriol, which is mostly considered a code …
Beyond Boundaries
Data from plurilingual Belize shows that not everyone recognizes stability as an essential feature of aspoken language. Belizeans consider the use of Kriol as a symbol of belonging but foreground its readiness for variation across communities in space and time. Their use of liquid languages is a different form of cultural construction than the one our textbooks show. It questions a good part of linguistics and reveals its possibly Eurocentric poi…
Creole prestige beyond modernism and methodological nationalism
In this article, I develop an ethnographic view on social discourses associated with language use in a Belizean village in order to access the setting’s complex and not always easy to grasp patterns of linguistic prestige. Analyzing interview and observational data on language ideologies, I show that relationships of prestige are not necessarily neatly ordered and binary but that different language ideologies, in some cases relating to the same l…
Language and Publics in a Global Digital World. What Is Linguistic Citizenship in the 21st Century
In this article, I discuss language from a linguistic anthropological perspective, where the existence of standardised languages is understood as an outcome of socio-political discourses in the age of nationalism, in which the technologies of print literacy enabled national public spaces – and with it, national language standards – to emerge. What happens to language standards and public spaces in the era of digital technologies and transnational…
The Sociolinguistic Economy of Berlin
This volume explores the linguistic diversity and language variation in Berlin. The analytical focus is on the emergence of linguistic, cultural, political and spatial discourses and communities, or discursive and institutional responses to these. The volume provides new insights into language in its local but transnationally conditioned socio-economic embeddedness.
Linguistics as a biased discipline
Methodological nationalism in Linguistics
The sociolinguistics of late modern publics
This issue examines struggles over public discursive power in late modern society, understanding that late modern publics are characterized by a destabilization of formerly unmarked public authorities, in other words, an unsettling of standardized "voices from nowhere" (Gal & Woolard, 2001). The contributions to the issue illustrate traditional social and academic elites' discursive reactions to such developments. In the introduction, we outline …
Lobster, tourism and other kinds of business. Economic opportunity and language choice in a multilingual village in Belize
This article discusses the interaction of economic opportunity and language choice. On the basis of ethnographic and interview data, I show language ideologies and patterns of language choice in a multilingual Belizean village to be related to economic activity. In the case in question, fishing, international tourism, transnational trade and work migration are crucial in understanding complex patterns of language ideology and use. The main argume…
First and second modern language ideologies, cosmopolitan discourses of English and the emergence of new social hierarchies in transnational contexts
This article scrutinises language discourse in transnational culture and considers theories on reflexive modernity (Beck et al. 2003) for analysis. I introduce symbolic meanings of language in transnational Communities of Practice constituted by salsa dance, where, depending on dance styles and on local, national and transnational discursive configurations, language ideologies differ, to which data from ethnographic observation and interviews giv…
A. Pennycook and E. Otsuji
This book contributes to current sociolinguistic debates that see a need for new concepts in language and linguistics as, due to intense forms of mobility, "the connection between a speech community and a set of established, and shared, forms of knowledge of languages and of language norms must be questioned" (Blommaert and Dong 2010: 382).A central aim in this is to overcome 'numerative' strategies of language and Metrolingualism grounds the end…
Introduction
Haciendo y deshaciendo la lengua – Funciones simbólicas del español en Belice
En este artículo analizo el papel que desempeña el español en Belice, una nación situada en Centroamérica. Demuestro que a pesar del predominio demográfico que tiene en dicho país, el español cumple parajódicamente algunas funciones indexicales cuyo origen radica en ideologías y condiciones sociales, lingüísticas y políticas que influyen en las actitudes hacia la lengua y la elección lingüística, además de construir el español como lengua “extran…
Heteronormativity and queerness in transnational heterosexual Salsa communities
Salsa dance and music has become popular worldwide and Salsa communities outside of Latin America offer a fertile environment for studying gender and heteronormativity in cultural contact zones. Often, the desire to reconstruct ‘traditional’ heteronormative gender roles in these contexts is striking. Interestingly, informants of the qualitative, ethnographic study presented here display high degrees of reflexive consciousness regarding the constr…
In Salsa, it's okay to be a woman
This article introduces discourses of heteronormativity in Western Salsa contexts. In these, gender discourses from different cultural backgrounds come into contact. Heteronormative structures are a constitutive component of many Western Salsa communities and are here analysed with the help of ethnographic data and qualitative interviews. The observations show that informants display a strong appeal to 'traditional Latin' gender performance. This…
Multilingual Cosmopolitanism and Monolingual Commodification
Salsa, a global urban music and dance phenomenon, is an interesting example for the emergence of transnational cultural spheres. Salsa has its roots in the Americas and in many Salsa communities outside of Latin America, the Spanish language is seen as the authentic means of expression. However, attitudes to multilingualism can differ strongly from Salsa community to Salsa community.In this paper, the Salsa-scene of Sydney is introduced with its …
The sociolinguistics of late modern publics
This issue examines struggles over public discursive power in late modern society, understanding that late modern publics are characterized by a destabilization of formerly unmarked public authorities, in other words, an unsettling of standardized "voices from nowhere" (Gal & Woolard, 2001). The contributions to the issue illustrate traditional social and academic elites' discursive reactions to such developments. In the introduction, we outline …
Heteronormativity and queerness in transnational heterosexual Salsa communities
Salsa dance and music has become popular worldwide and Salsa communities outside of Latin America offer a fertile environment for studying gender and heteronormativity in cultural contact zones. Often, the desire to reconstruct ‘traditional’ heteronormative gender roles in these contexts is striking. Interestingly, informants of the qualitative, ethnographic study presented here display high degrees of reflexive consciousness regarding the constr…
Multilingualism and AI
This article examines the effects of commercial digital language technologies on the regimentation of language. Language technologies based on the exploitation of large data sets—from machine translation and automatic text generation to digital voice assistants—are a particular form of human-made sign practice in which traditional language norms interact with the affordances of digital devices and the capitalist interests of those who design them…
Language is not a data set-Why overcoming ideologies of dataism is more important than ever in the age of AI
Introduction
Lobster, tourism and other kinds of business. Economic opportunity and language choice in a multilingual village in Belize
This article discusses the interaction of economic opportunity and language choice. On the basis of ethnographic and interview data, I show language ideologies and patterns of language choice in a multilingual Belizean village to be related to economic activity. In the case in question, fishing, international tourism, transnational trade and work migration are crucial in understanding complex patterns of language ideology and use. The main argume…
Methodological nationalism in Linguistics
Language in the age of AI technology
Large language models based on machine-learning technologies are reshaping linguistic contexts and understandings of language. We explore these reconfigurations by investigating discursive positionings of traditional institutional guardians of power in language in response to these changes. Focusing on the discourse of the Real Academia Española (RAE), we show how RAE's social functions, ways of asserting authority, and the nature, function, and …
Introduction
In this special issue, we inspect material and nonhuman phenomena that contribute to interaction and meaning-making—among them sounds, visual signs, animals, images, digital devices, bodies, and movements—in order to stimulate new thinking surrounding the question of what language is from a posthumanist perspective. The contributors are language-oriented scholars who focus on material and technological environments in language. They interrogate h…
In Salsa, it's okay to be a woman
This article introduces discourses of heteronormativity in Western Salsa contexts. In these, gender discourses from different cultural backgrounds come into contact. Heteronormative structures are a constitutive component of many Western Salsa communities and are here analysed with the help of ethnographic data and qualitative interviews. The observations show that informants display a strong appeal to 'traditional Latin' gender performance. This…
Multilingual Cosmopolitanism and Monolingual Commodification
Salsa, a global urban music and dance phenomenon, is an interesting example for the emergence of transnational cultural spheres. Salsa has its roots in the Americas and in many Salsa communities outside of Latin America, the Spanish language is seen as the authentic means of expression. However, attitudes to multilingualism can differ strongly from Salsa community to Salsa community.In this paper, the Salsa-scene of Sydney is introduced with its …
Posthumanism and the role of orality and literacy in language ideologies in Belize
This article discusses language ideological data from interviews and group discussions conducted in a village in Belize. Speakers here perceive English as a formal prestige language and link this to the fact that it appears in written form and tangible materiality – that is, in the form of visual symbols in text, and in objects like grammar books or dictionaries. This contrasts with discourses on Belizean Kriol, which is mostly considered a code …
First and second modern language ideologies, cosmopolitan discourses of English and the emergence of new social hierarchies in transnational contexts
This article scrutinises language discourse in transnational culture and considers theories on reflexive modernity (Beck et al. 2003) for analysis. I introduce symbolic meanings of language in transnational Communities of Practice constituted by salsa dance, where, depending on dance styles and on local, national and transnational discursive configurations, language ideologies differ, to which data from ethnographic observation and interviews giv…
Multilingual Cosmopolitanism and Monolingual Commodification
Salsa, a global urban music and dance phenomenon, is an interesting example for the emergence of transnational cultural spheres. Salsa has its roots in the Americas and in many Salsa communities outside of Latin America, the Spanish language is seen as the authentic means of expression. However, attitudes to multilingualism can differ strongly from Salsa community to Salsa community.In this paper, the Salsa-scene of Sydney is introduced with its …
Heteronormativity and queerness in transnational heterosexual Salsa communities
Salsa dance and music has become popular worldwide and Salsa communities outside of Latin America offer a fertile environment for studying gender and heteronormativity in cultural contact zones. Often, the desire to reconstruct ‘traditional’ heteronormative gender roles in these contexts is striking. Interestingly, informants of the qualitative, ethnographic study presented here display high degrees of reflexive consciousness regarding the constr…
In Salsa, it's okay to be a woman
This article introduces discourses of heteronormativity in Western Salsa contexts. In these, gender discourses from different cultural backgrounds come into contact. Heteronormative structures are a constitutive component of many Western Salsa communities and are here analysed with the help of ethnographic data and qualitative interviews. The observations show that informants display a strong appeal to 'traditional Latin' gender performance. This…
Haciendo y deshaciendo la lengua – Funciones simbólicas del español en Belice
En este artículo analizo el papel que desempeña el español en Belice, una nación situada en Centroamérica. Demuestro que a pesar del predominio demográfico que tiene en dicho país, el español cumple parajódicamente algunas funciones indexicales cuyo origen radica en ideologías y condiciones sociales, lingüísticas y políticas que influyen en las actitudes hacia la lengua y la elección lingüística, además de construir el español como lengua “extran…
First and second modern language ideologies, cosmopolitan discourses of English and the emergence of new social hierarchies in transnational contexts
This article scrutinises language discourse in transnational culture and considers theories on reflexive modernity (Beck et al. 2003) for analysis. I introduce symbolic meanings of language in transnational Communities of Practice constituted by salsa dance, where, depending on dance styles and on local, national and transnational discursive configurations, language ideologies differ, to which data from ethnographic observation and interviews giv…
A. Pennycook and E. Otsuji
This book contributes to current sociolinguistic debates that see a need for new concepts in language and linguistics as, due to intense forms of mobility, "the connection between a speech community and a set of established, and shared, forms of knowledge of languages and of language norms must be questioned" (Blommaert and Dong 2010: 382).A central aim in this is to overcome 'numerative' strategies of language and Metrolingualism grounds the end…
Introduction
Lobster, tourism and other kinds of business. Economic opportunity and language choice in a multilingual village in Belize
This article discusses the interaction of economic opportunity and language choice. On the basis of ethnographic and interview data, I show language ideologies and patterns of language choice in a multilingual Belizean village to be related to economic activity. In the case in question, fishing, international tourism, transnational trade and work migration are crucial in understanding complex patterns of language ideology and use. The main argume…
The Sociolinguistic Economy of Berlin
This volume explores the linguistic diversity and language variation in Berlin. The analytical focus is on the emergence of linguistic, cultural, political and spatial discourses and communities, or discursive and institutional responses to these. The volume provides new insights into language in its local but transnationally conditioned socio-economic embeddedness.
Linguistics as a biased discipline
Methodological nationalism in Linguistics
The sociolinguistics of late modern publics
This issue examines struggles over public discursive power in late modern society, understanding that late modern publics are characterized by a destabilization of formerly unmarked public authorities, in other words, an unsettling of standardized "voices from nowhere" (Gal & Woolard, 2001). The contributions to the issue illustrate traditional social and academic elites' discursive reactions to such developments. In the introduction, we outline …
Language and Publics in a Global Digital World. What Is Linguistic Citizenship in the 21st Century
In this article, I discuss language from a linguistic anthropological perspective, where the existence of standardised languages is understood as an outcome of socio-political discourses in the age of nationalism, in which the technologies of print literacy enabled national public spaces – and with it, national language standards – to emerge. What happens to language standards and public spaces in the era of digital technologies and transnational…
Beyond Boundaries
Data from plurilingual Belize shows that not everyone recognizes stability as an essential feature of aspoken language. Belizeans consider the use of Kriol as a symbol of belonging but foreground its readiness for variation across communities in space and time. Their use of liquid languages is a different form of cultural construction than the one our textbooks show. It questions a good part of linguistics and reveals its possibly Eurocentric poi…
Creole prestige beyond modernism and methodological nationalism
In this article, I develop an ethnographic view on social discourses associated with language use in a Belizean village in order to access the setting’s complex and not always easy to grasp patterns of linguistic prestige. Analyzing interview and observational data on language ideologies, I show that relationships of prestige are not necessarily neatly ordered and binary but that different language ideologies, in some cases relating to the same l…
Multilingualism and AI
This article examines the effects of commercial digital language technologies on the regimentation of language. Language technologies based on the exploitation of large data sets—from machine translation and automatic text generation to digital voice assistants—are a particular form of human-made sign practice in which traditional language norms interact with the affordances of digital devices and the capitalist interests of those who design them…
Posthumanism and the role of orality and literacy in language ideologies in Belize
This article discusses language ideological data from interviews and group discussions conducted in a village in Belize. Speakers here perceive English as a formal prestige language and link this to the fact that it appears in written form and tangible materiality – that is, in the form of visual symbols in text, and in objects like grammar books or dictionaries. This contrasts with discourses on Belizean Kriol, which is mostly considered a code …
Introduction
In this special issue, we inspect material and nonhuman phenomena that contribute to interaction and meaning-making—among them sounds, visual signs, animals, images, digital devices, bodies, and movements—in order to stimulate new thinking surrounding the question of what language is from a posthumanist perspective. The contributors are language-oriented scholars who focus on material and technological environments in language. They interrogate h…
Language is not a data set-Why overcoming ideologies of dataism is more important than ever in the age of AI
The material making of language as practice of global domination and control
Although AI language technologies are typically presented as future-oriented technological innovation, none of the elements of machine learning technologies are unaffected by the cultural and historical contexts of their emergence. This is particularly true in the case of language constructions and the materialization of language in AI. Examination of computational language culture reveals striking continuities to concepts of language and their m…
Language in the age of AI technology
Large language models based on machine-learning technologies are reshaping linguistic contexts and understandings of language. We explore these reconfigurations by investigating discursive positionings of traditional institutional guardians of power in language in response to these changes. Focusing on the discourse of the Real Academia Española (RAE), we show how RAE's social functions, ways of asserting authority, and the nature, function, and …
Sociolinguists against the AI hype? AI tools in sociolinguistics scholarship
This paper examines sociolinguists’ views of and engagement with artificial intelligence technology in sociolinguistics scholarship, an area that has received little systematic attention to date. Drawing on a global survey of 274 respondents, the study reveals that while automatization and AI tools are mainly used for efficiency and experimentation purposes, their adoption for data collection and analysis remains limited. Moreover, sociolinguists…
AI technology as human interaction
Developing Critical AI Language Literacy—prompting experiments on raciolinguistic bias to understand large language models as cultural artefacts
Understanding how AI and constructions of race intersect and which new ethical dilemmas arise in this context has become pressing. In this article, we introduce a university pedagogical project centred on collective explorations of raciolinguistic biases in Large Language Models. The project aimed at the development of Critical AI Language Literacy. It approached raciolinguistic biases from linguistic anthropological perspectives, where ‘race’ is…
Sociology (19 obras) · Linguistics (18 obras) · Multilingual Education and Policy (18 obras) · Political science (16 obras) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (11 obras) · Philosophy (11 obras) · Politics (11 obras) · Ideology (9 obras) · Computer Science (7 obras) · Law (7 obras)