Toward cultural interpretability: A linguistic anthropological framework for describing and evaluating large language models by Graham M Jones, Shai Satran, Arvind Satyanarayan

“…We suggest that, by examining how LLMs internally “represent” relationships between language and culture, CI can: (1) provide insight into long-standing linguistic anthropological questions about the patterning of those relationships; and (2) aid model developers and interface designers in improving value alignment between language models and stylistically diverse speakers and culturally diverse speech communities. Our discussion proposes three critical research axes: relativity, variation, and indexicality.…”
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Challenges of Diabetes Self-Management in Adults Affected by Food Insecurity in a Large Urban Centre of Ontario, Canada by Justine Chan, Margaret DeMelo, Jacqui Gingras, Enza Gucciardi

“…To explore how food insecurity affects individuals’ ability to manage their diabetes, as narrated by participants living in a large, culturally diverse urban centre. Design. Qualitative study comprising of in-depth interviews, using a semistructured interview guide. …”
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The planning process for marketing a service about to enter a foreign market: a concept case study by Blaženko Perić, Tanja Winter, Marcel Piskač, Ajla Rizvan, Neven Mehun, Tina Vukasović

“…Practical implications – the herein described strategies aim to offer practical insight for businesses seeking to expand into international markets, particularly culturally diverse targets like Germany. By putting emphasis on customer-centricity, agility, and innovation, businesses can improve their competitiveness and establish a strong presence. …”
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Embodied performances of (post-)indenture: Creolization of Indian dance, music and nadrons in Guadeloupe by Sandrine Soukaï

“…The 1970s marked a turning point, with the emergence of Indianité , a French Caribbean cultural project aimed at valourizing the Indian components of the region’s culturally diverse and creolizing landscape. Drawing on still underdeveloped scholarship on Indianité , theories of creolization, studies on embodied memory of past trauma, I analyze how the descendants of Indian indentured labourers reconstruct and transmit the heritage and memory of indenture in Guadeloupe through embodied performances of Indian dance, music and, in particular, the danced and sung theatre known as nadrons (from Tamil nādagam ), formerly staged on plantations. …”
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Faith, Networks, and the Ballot: Unveiling the Hidden Drivers of Voting Intentions in Indonesia's 2024 Election by Tery Setiawan, Muhammad AS Hikam, Antonius Suhartomo

“…This study provides new insights into the complex interplay between religious identity, social networks, and political behaviour in Indonesia, a predominantly Muslim and culturally diverse nation, particularly in the post-pandemic socio-political landscape.…”
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Hip-hop, Identity, and Cultural Hybridity: An Exploration of Motswako as a Bicultural Phenomenon by Kgomotso Mothokhumo Ambitious Theledi, Soyiso Khetoa

“…South Africa is a linguistically and culturally diverse country. South African locals normally assimilate more than one culture, officially and unofficially. …”
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Euro-Med Abandoned Small(er) Towns. A landscape/ecological urbanism perspective for sustainable regeneration in Basilicata inlands by Alessandro Raffa

“…With these objectives, the research chooses Basilicata region, in the South of Italy, as emblematic for its structural marginality- morphological, infrastructural, social and economic -, bio-cultural diverse and diffused heritage and its seemingly unreversible depopulation process. …”
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Designing multilingual and multicultural curriculum by Alsu M. Gilmetdinova

“…What role do language and culture play in designing curriculum that is inclusive of the needs of linguistically and culturally diverse students? What does multicultural and multilingual curriculum development look like? …”
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FOR A SOCIOLOGY OF THE MEDITERRANEAN by Francesco Vespasiano

“…The article shows the important commitment of the leaders of the different world religions in generating spaces for encounters and dialogue between cultural diversities that cannot be analyzed within the paradigm of confrontation but require to be understood within the paradigm of confrontation and responsible coexistence. …”
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A Flexible Framework Integrating Digital and Social Competences in Vocational Education Across Diverse Contexts by María José Hernández-Serrano, Joe Cullen, Barbara Jones, Noelia Morales Romo

“…Many VET classrooms with dual or flexible contexts, with a range of demographically and culturally diverse learners, now require teachers to be trained with new competences and cross-cutting skills to cope with the resultant wider and deeper changes in knowledge. …”
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Relations Between Parental Emotion Talk and Preschoolers’ Emotion Expressions in Low-Income Chinese American and Mexican American Families by Megan Chan, Michelle Taw, Nancy Eisenberg, Qing Zhou

“…Limited research has examined preschoolers’ observed emotion expressions and emotion-related behaviors in culturally diverse samples. We sought to explore the following: (1) cultural group differences and similarities in observed emotion expressions (anger, sadness, and positive emotions) and emotion-related behaviors between Chinese American and Mexican American preschoolers, and (2) the concurrent links between parental ET and children’s emotion expressions. …”
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Cross-cultural adaptation of the writer-reader relationship in non-translated and translated English health information websites on HIV and TB diagnostic testing by Amy Dara Hochberg

“…These results should serve researchers and professionals in the translation and language sciences as well as the public health field for, respectively, future studies and techniques to improve the composition of multilingual health information texts in culturally diverse countries.…”
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Seeing the Sound: Multilingual Lip Sync for Real-Time Face-to-Face Translation by Amirkia Rafiei Oskooei, Mehmet S. Aktaş, Mustafa Keleş

“…Our research tackles the primary challenge of achieving accurate lip synchronization across culturally diverse languages, filling a significant gap in the literature by evaluating the generalizability of lip sync models beyond English. …”
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Identifying the Minimal Clinically Important Difference in Emotion Regulation Among Youth Using the JoyPop App: Survey Study by Jaidyn Charlton, Ishaq Malik, Angela M Ashley, Amanda Newton, Elaine Toombs, Fred Schmidt, Janine V Olthuis, Kristine Stasiuk, Tina Bobinski, Aislin Mushquash

“…Information is needed regarding the JoyPop app’s MCID among culturally diverse youth. ObjectiveThis study aims to calculate the MCID for youth using the JoyPop app and to explore how the MCID may differ for a subset of Indigenous youth. …”
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Interrelationships between social exclusion, mental health and wellbeing in adolescents: insights from a national Youth Survey by K. Filia, S. M. Teo, N. Brennan, T. Freeburn, D. Baker, V. Browne, A. Watson, J. Menssink, A. Prasad, E. Killackey, P. D. McGorry, S. M. Cotton, C. X. Gao

“…Young people who identified as gender diverse, Indigenous, living in a remote/rural or socio-economically disadvantaged area and with a culturally diverse background were more likely to report social exclusion. …”
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Disproportionate, differential and targeted treatment: people who use drugs’ experiences of policing during the COVID-19 pandemic by Shelley Walker, Kasun Rathnayake, Paul Dietze, Peter Higgs, Bernadette Ward, Margaret Hellard, Joseph Doyle, Mark Stoove, Lisa Maher

“…Studies globally have revealed how the expansion of policing powers produced significant collateral damage for marginalized populations, including people from low-income neighboorhoods, Indigenous Peoples, sex workers, and people from culturally diverse backgrounds. For people who use drugs, interactions with police are commonplace due to the criminalization of drug use, however, little empirical attention has been given to their experiences of pandemic policing; we aimed to address this gap in the literature. …”
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