{"id":"https://openalex.org/W7084748150","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqaf106","title":"The future of language: how technology, politics, and utopianism are transforming the way we communicate. Philip Seargeant","display_name":"The future of language: how technology, politics, and utopianism are transforming the way we communicate. Philip Seargeant","publication_year":2025,"publication_date":"2025-09-18","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W7084748150","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqaf106"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.1093/llc/fqaf106","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqaf106","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S2734814886","display_name":"Digital Scholarship in the Humanities","issn_l":"2055-7671","issn":["2055-7671","2055-768X"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310311648","host_organization_name":"Oxford University Press","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310311648","https://openalex.org/P4310311647"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Oxford University Press","University of Oxford"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Digital Scholarship in the Humanities","raw_type":"journal-article"},"type":"article","indexed_in":["crossref"],"open_access":{"is_oa":false,"oa_status":"closed","oa_url":null,"any_repository_has_fulltext":false},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":null,"display_name":"Huiling Chen","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0009-0007-7368-9258"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I47720641","display_name":"Huazhong University of Science and Technology","ror":"https://ror.org/00p991c53","country_code":"CN","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I47720641"]}],"countries":["CN"],"is_corresponding":true,"raw_author_name":"Huiling Chen","raw_affiliation_strings":["School of Foreign Languages, Huazhong University of Science and Technology,"],"raw_orcid":"https://orcid.org/0009-0007-7368-9258","affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"School of Foreign Languages, Huazhong University of Science and Technology,","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I47720641"]}]},{"author_position":"last","author":{"id":null,"display_name":"Yiting Liu","orcid":null},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I47720641","display_name":"Huazhong University of Science and Technology","ror":"https://ror.org/00p991c53","country_code":"CN","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I47720641"]}],"countries":["CN"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Yiting Liu","raw_affiliation_strings":["School of Foreign Languages, Huazhong University of Science and Technology,"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"School of Foreign Languages, Huazhong University of Science and Technology,","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I47720641"]}]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":1,"institutions_distinct_count":1,"corresponding_author_ids":[],"corresponding_institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I47720641"],"apc_list":{"value":2522,"currency":"GBP","value_usd":3093},"apc_paid":null,"fwci":0.0,"has_fulltext":false,"cited_by_count":0,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.54057456,"is_in_top_1_percent":false,"is_in_top_10_percent":false},"cited_by_percentile_year":null,"biblio":{"volume":"40","issue":"4","first_page":"1334","last_page":"1336"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":true,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12283","display_name":"Latin American history and culture","score":0.3192000091075897,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1213","display_name":"Visual Arts and Performing Arts"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12283","display_name":"Latin American history and culture","score":0.3192000091075897,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1213","display_name":"Visual Arts and Performing Arts"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T14312","display_name":"Historical Studies in Central America","score":0.05559999868273735,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1202","display_name":"History"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T14195","display_name":"Linguistic and Cultural Studies","score":0.04839999973773956,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1110","display_name":"Plant Science"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/11","display_name":"Agricultural and Biological Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/1","display_name":"Life Sciences"}}],"keywords":[],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C107038049","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q35986","display_name":"Aesthetics","level":1,"score":0.5192999839782715},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C138885662","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5891","display_name":"Philosophy","level":0,"score":0.4542999863624573},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C142362112","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q735","display_name":"Art","level":0,"score":0.3328000009059906},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C52119013","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q50637","display_name":"Art history","level":1,"score":0.3319999873638153},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C111472728","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9471","display_name":"Epistemology","level":1,"score":0.3125999867916107},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C144024400","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21201","display_name":"Sociology","level":0,"score":0.2667999863624573},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C95457728","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q309","display_name":"History","level":0,"score":0.2653999924659729},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C95124753","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q875686","display_name":"Environmental ethics","level":1,"score":0.2395000010728836},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C190253527","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q295354","display_name":"Law and economics","level":1,"score":0.21619999408721924},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C17744445","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36442","display_name":"Political science","level":0,"score":0.2078000009059906}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":1,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.1093/llc/fqaf106","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqaf106","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S2734814886","display_name":"Digital Scholarship in the Humanities","issn_l":"2055-7671","issn":["2055-7671","2055-768X"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310311648","host_organization_name":"Oxford University Press","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310311648","https://openalex.org/P4310311647"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Oxford University Press","University of Oxford"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Digital Scholarship in the Humanities","raw_type":"journal-article"}],"best_oa_location":null,"sustainable_development_goals":[{"id":"https://metadata.un.org/sdg/10","score":0.5849571228027344,"display_name":"Reduced inequalities"}],"awards":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/G6679532332","display_name":null,"funder_award_id":"22BYY193","funder_id":"https://openalex.org/F4320335869","funder_display_name":"National Social Science Fund of China"}],"funders":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/F4320335869","display_name":"National Social Science Fund of China","ror":null}],"has_content":{"grobid_xml":false,"pdf":false},"content_urls":null,"referenced_works_count":1,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W2062747696"],"related_works":[],"abstract_inverted_index":{"Originally":[0],"coined":[1],"in":[2],"1943":[3],"by":[4,141],"German":[5],"political":[6],"scientist":[7],"Flechtheim":[8],"(1966),":[9],"futurology":[10,87,108,140],"has":[11,71],"evolved":[12],"over":[13],"eight":[14],"decades.":[15],"As":[16],"a":[17,110,124,198],"\u201ctelescope\u201d":[18],"for":[19,116,182,196],"exploring":[20,93],"humanity\u2019s":[21],"future":[22,144,167,184,190],"development,":[23],"science":[24],"fiction":[25],"writers,":[26],"sociologists,":[27],"natural":[28],"scientists,":[29],"and":[30,34,43,58,68,76,120,133,154,163,192],"even":[31,164],"business":[32],"leaders":[33],"national":[35],"institutions":[36],"have":[37],"continuously":[38],"contributed":[39],"to":[40,88,109,160,176,205],"the":[41,49,89,94,104,128,143,166,179,183,203],"exploration":[42],"development":[44],"of":[45,51,91,106,130,145,168,185,202],"this":[46,74,81],"field.":[47],"Recently,":[48],"emergence":[50],"information":[52],"technologies":[53],"such":[54],"as":[55],"virtual":[56],"reality":[57],"artificial":[59],"intelligence,":[60],"along":[61],"with":[62],"movements":[63],"like":[64],"technoscience,":[65],"positivist":[66],"futurisms,":[67],"computational":[69],"sociology,":[70],"further":[72],"advanced":[73],"exploratory":[75],"predictive":[77],"research":[78,119],"paradigm.":[79],"In":[80],"context,":[82],"linguist":[83],"Philip":[84],"Seargeant":[85,157],"applies":[86],"realm":[90],"language,":[92,186],"human":[95],"communicative":[96],"capacities":[97],"that":[98,126],"underlie":[99],"civilization.":[100],"His":[101,170],"work":[102,137],"brings":[103],"study":[105],"linguistic":[107,139],"new":[111],"height,":[112],"offering":[113,193],"thought-provoking":[114],"insights":[115,188],"digital":[117],"humanities":[118],"advancing":[121],"it":[122],"toward":[123],"paradigm":[125],"transcends":[127],"boundaries":[129],"time,":[131],"media,":[132],"species.":[134],"This":[135],"seminal":[136],"elevates":[138],"envisioning":[142],"language":[146],"through":[147],"multifaceted":[148],"analysis.":[149],"By":[150],"examining":[151],"technological,":[152],"political,":[153],"social":[155],"trajectories,":[156],"explores":[158],"methods":[159],"influence,":[161],"control,":[162],"reshape":[165],"language.":[169],"numerous":[171],"case":[172],"studies":[173],"lead":[174],"readers":[175],"critically":[177],"consider":[178],"diverse":[180],"possibilities":[181],"providing":[187],"into":[189],"developments":[191],"actionable":[194],"guidance":[195],"constructing":[197],"more":[199],"promising":[200],"vision":[201],"world":[204],"come.":[206]},"counts_by_year":[],"updated_date":"2026-06-23T06:36:01.041984","created_date":"2025-10-10T00:00:00"}