1st Edition
Lingua Ex Machina AI, Multilingualism and Interculturality
Chapter 1 Problematising AI beyond a simple ‘parrot’?
Fred Dervin and Hamza R’boul
PART 1: AI, Language Hierarchies and Global Discourse
Chapter 2 AI and the language factor in intercultural communication – Or what happens to minor languages and the global flow of discourses?
Karen Risager
Chapter 3 AI as an open-ended dialogue: Language education beyond mastery and metrics
Beatriz Peña Dix and Mario Molina Naar
Chapter 4 AI-powered multilingual assemblages in comparative and international education
Anna Becker and Florin D. Salajan
PART 2: Pedagogy and Critical Multilingual-intercultural Engagement with AI
Chapter 5 Safe blades or sharp minds: Priorities at AI-interculturality crossroads
Wang Qiang
Chapter 6 A culturally responsive guide to abstract writing: Resisting AI over-reliance through the pedagogy of Al-Ta’dib التأديب
Wisam Kh. Abdul-Jabbar
Chapter 7 Defining a tricycle: Critical interaction with AI through intercultural lenses
Zhuang Qiu
Biography
Fred Dervin is a Full Professor and PhD supervisor at the University of Helsinki, renowned for his groundbreaking contributions to intercultural studies. As a leading scholar and critical thinker, he challenges conventional narratives on interculturality in education and society, offering innovative perspectives on identity, mobility and the politics of interculturality. With an extensive academic legacy of over 300 publications, his influential work has earned him a place among the world’s top scientists on the prestigious Stanford Elsevier List.
Hamza R’boul is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of International Education at the Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. His research interests include intercultural education, (higher) education in the Global South, decolonial endeavours in education, cultural politics of language teaching, and postcoloniality.
