102 results on '"SEMIOTICS"'
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2. Motor Signs for 'Yes' and 'No'
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Jakobson, Roman
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Russian text published in Jazyk i Celovek", memorial volume for Professor P.S. Kuznecov, Moscow University Press, 1970. (VM)
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- 1972
3. Shouting absences: Disentangling the ghosts of Ukraine in occupied Crimea.
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Volvach, Natalia
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SEMIOTICS , *COVID-19 pandemic , *CRITICAL discourse analysis , *LINGUISTICS , *POLITICAL participation - Abstract
This article aims to illuminate absences in the semiotic landscape of Crimea, resulting from the erasure of Ukraine after Russia's occupation of Crimea in 2014. By foregrounding what is not there, the study expands semiotic landscapes studies and critical sociolinguistic research more generally by interrogating absence and its haunting effects. More than 3,500 photographs of semiotic landscapes collected over two months of fieldwork between 2017 and 2019 together with fieldnotes serve as ethnographic data. The production of absence is interrogated through an analysis of its material effects, that is, voids, holes, and blank walls. It concludes that erasure does not simply negate Ukraine. Instead, pasts remain present, visible, and audible in semiotic landscapes. Absences, as part of a relational ontology of materiality, discourse, and affect, shout about complex invisibilized histories of violence. In this way, they suggest the need to probe traditional approaches in semiotic landscape research that rely on an ontology of presence. (Absence, trace, materiality, ghost, spectre, haunting, Crimea, Ukraine, semiotic landscape, linguistic landscape, interdiscursivity) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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4. Enregistering mask-wearing in the time of a public health crisis.
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Lee, Sheng-Hsun
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PUBLIC health , *COVID-19 , *MEDICAL communication , *FOREIGN students , *SEMIOTICS - Abstract
This study explores how during the initial outbreak of COVID-19 in Taiwan, mask-wearing emerged as a semiotic register in health communication. Focusing on enregisterment (Agha 2007), I analyze interactional recordings of press conferences by the Taiwanese government, Chinese language lessons offered to international students, and conversations at a convenience store between an Australian student and her Taiwanese friend. The analysis reveals information production and reception on three social scales: public health policies, institutionalized health instruction, and interpersonal-care practices. On each scale, masking is enregistered as a semiotic sign associated with particular social actions, actors, and relations. This enregisterment transpires through an orchestration of verbal and non-verbal resources, conveying ideologies about invisible viruses in everyday life. While inconsistencies exist across scales, masking is consistently overlaid with civic solidarity and moral responsibility. In times of crisis, mask-wearing is an issue of public health and a process of typifying behaviors, identities, and relationships. (COVID-19, enregisterment, scale) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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5. Objects in embodied sociolinguistics: Mind the door in research group meetings.
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Canagarajah, Suresh and Minakova, Valeriya
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SOCIOLINGUISTICS , *MICROBIOLOGISTS , *BACTERIOLOGISTS , *SEMIOTICS , *PROFESSIONALISM - Abstract
This article addresses recent calls in sociolinguistics to accommodate the agentive role of material objects in communicative interactions. The study explores how agency is shared between humans and objects, and how the latter may influence and shape the semiotic repertoires in a professional interaction. We adopt interactional sociolinguistics to analyze video recordings from the research group meetings (RGM) of a team of multinational microbiologists in a midwestern American university to demonstrate how the door plays an important role in the RGM genre of discourse. The door serves as a contextualization cue for the opening and composition of the interaction, indexes the participant identities, constructs the interactional space into an 'ecological huddle', and frames the 'professional vision' by bringing into salience the relevant semiotic resources, footing, participation frameworks, and ethos. (Objects, embodied sociolinguistics, interactional sociolinguistics, ecological huddle, research group meetings) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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6. Affect in sociolinguistic style.
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Pratt, Teresa
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SOCIOLINGUISTICS , *HIGH school student attitudes , *ECONOMICS education , *SEMIOTICS , *CULTURAL values , *YOUNG adults - Abstract
This article argues for a focus on affect in sociolinguistic style. I integrate recent scholarship on affective practice (Wetherell 2015) and the circulation of affective value (Ahmed 2004b) in order to situate the linguistic and bodily semiotics of affect as components of stylistic practice. At a Bay Area public arts high school, ideologically distinct affects of chill or high-energy are co-constructed across signs and subjects. I analyze a group of cisgender young men's use of creaky voice quality, speech rate, and bodily hexis in enacting and circulating these affective values. Crucially, affect co-constructs students' positioning within the high school political economy (as college-bound or not, artistically driven or not), highlighting the ideological motivations of stylistic practice. Building on recent scholarship, I propose that a more thorough consideration of affect can deepen our understanding of meaning-making as it occurs in everyday interaction in institutional settings. (Affect, political economy, embodiment, bricolage, voice quality, speech rate, high school) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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7. Rescaling the global borderlands: Transperipheral projections from 'the heart of the Amazon'.
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Windle, Joel and Moita-Lopes, Luiz Paulo
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ETHNOGRAPHIC analysis , *SOCIOLINGUISTICS , *SEMIOTICS , *CULTURAL production , *SOCIAL status - Abstract
This article examines semiotic resignifications undertaken in 'peripheral' cultural production through an ethnographic analysis of the trajectory of the Amazonian artist, Jaloo. Jaloo occupies multiple positions of marginality in Brazilian society and artistic scenes, which he connects to other global peripheries in his performances, aesthetics, and self-narratives. Building on anthropological and sociolinguistic scholarship, we show how 'peripheral' status is managed by Jaloo in the context of a growing and politicised audience for outsider and alternative cultural production. We theorise Jaloo's negotiation of his relationship with audiences and the media as rescaling. Further, we argue that this rescaling entails the ordering of semiotic resources into a social imaginary that reconfigures peripheral territories and identities, which we consider in terms of a transperipheral chronotope. (Inequality, chronotopes, indexicality, race, coloniality, scales, periphery) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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8. (De)coupling race and language: The state listening subject and its rearticulation of antiracism as racism in Singapore.
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Pak, Vincent
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ANTI-racism , *MULTICULTURALISM , *RAP music , *RACE relations , *SEMIOTICS - Abstract
Harmonious multiracialism is one of Singapore's national values, yet race in Singapore is almost always precariously managed. In 2019, race once again became the centre of public debate when a government-sanctioned advertisement featured a Chinese Singaporean actor 'brownfacing' as an Indian Singaporean, incurring public outcry. Local entertainers Preeti and Subhas Nair responded with a rap music video that criticised the advertisement and included the line 'Chinese people always out here fucking it up', which drew flak from the government and the Chinese community in Singapore. This article considers the state's response to the antiracist practices of the Nair siblings, and the subsequent labelling of their behaviour as racist. The article also introduces the concept of the state listening subject and describes its role in the semiotic process of rearticulation to elucidate how the Singaporean state selectively (de)couples race and language to maintain the national racial order. (Raciolinguistic ideology, multiracialism, rearticulation, state listening subject, race, Singapore, antiracism)* [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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9. Mapping the itineraries of semiotic artefacts in the linguistic landscape of protest: The case of shields in Venezuela.
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Velásquez Urribarrí, Jessica
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SEMIOTICS , *LINGUISTICS , *PUBLIC demonstrations , *PUBLIC spaces , *ADVERTISING - Abstract
This study explores the emergence and developments through time of a semiotic artefact, the shield, used by demonstrators in violent anti-government protests in contemporary Venezuela. Drawing on the concept of discourse itineraries (Scollon 2008), the material and semiotic transformations this artefact underwent are mapped through various protest cycles, whilst considering the semiotic enrichment of century-long traditions of shields that inform the various functions they play within current day itineraries. The study concludes by discussing the advantages of using the concept of discourse itineraries for understanding moments in the life cycle of semiotic artefacts in the linguistic landscape and outlines future opportunities to expand the analysis of shields beyond the Venezuelan case. (Linguistic landscape of protest, discourse itineraries, semiotic artefact, shields, Venezuela) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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10. Introduction to the Generic Special Issue.
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Zuckerman, Charles H. P.
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GENERIC drugs , *LANGUAGE & languages , *COGNITIVE psychology , *SOCIAL action , *SEMIOTICS - Abstract
The article presents the discussion on Generics and generic reference being a key analysis for understanding the relation between language and the social. Topics include working on generics in cognitive psychology reflecting the research on language as social action might offering scholars in the field; and contributions illuminating the role of abstraction in social and semiotic life.
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- 2021
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11. Simultaneity and the refusal to choose: The semiotics of Serbian youth identity on Facebook.
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George, Rachel
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SEMIOTICS , *LANGUAGE & languages , *LINGUISTICS , *SOCIAL media - Abstract
Although the importance of linguistic simultaneity has long been recognized (Woolard 1998), the concept is underexamined in recent analyses of language use in globalized, digital contexts such as social media. Drawing from an analysis of everyday Facebook posts from youth in Belgrade, Serbia, the article proposes that recognizing four types of simultaneity—of linguistic features, indexical operations, effects, and scale—is key for making sense of social media utterances in political and historical context. On Facebook, Serbian youth mix languages and writing systems in complex ways, adhering to dominant ideologies of language and identity in some ways and flouting them in others. Using the Serbian case as a springboard, along with the four types of simultaneity proposed, I suggest a framework for analyzing language and identity on social media. (Serbia, indexicality, simultaneity, social media, superdiversity, bivalency, youth) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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12. Middle class timelines: Ethnic humor and sexual modernity in Delhi.
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Hall, Kira, Levon, Erez, and Milani, Tommaso M.
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MODERNITY , *MIDDLE class , *GENDER , *TRANSGENDER people , *SEMIOTICS - Abstract
The rise of India's global economy has reinforced a perception of English as a language of sexual modernity within the expanding middle classes. This article explores this perception in the multilingual humor of Hindi-speaking Delhi youth marginalized for sexual and gender difference. Their joking routines feature the Sikh Sardarji, a longstanding ethnic figure often caricatured as circulating in modernity but lacking the English competence to understand modernity's semiotics. Reflective of the economic restructuring that ushered in the millennium, the humor supports a normative progress narrative that prioritizes an ethnically unmarked urban middle class. At the same time, the lesbian, bisexual, and transgender youth who tell these jokes—still criminalized under Section 377 when this fieldwork was conducted—shift this narrative by positioning sexual knowledge at modernity's forefront. The analysis reveals how sexual modernity—here viewed as constituted in everyday interaction through competing configurations of place, time, and personhood—relies on normativity even while defining itself against it. (Chronotope, ethnic humor, formulaic jokes, globalization, Hindi-English, Hinglish, media, middle class, normativity, sexual modernity, temporality) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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13. The fierceness of fronted /s/: Linguistic rhematization through visual transformation.
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Calder, Jeremy
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FEMININITY , *SEMIOTICS , *SOCIOLINGUISTICS , *PHONETICS , *LINGUISTIC analysis - Abstract
This article explores the roles that language and the body play in the iconization of cross-modal personae (see Agha 2003, 2004). Focusing on a community of radical drag queens in San Francisco, I analyze the interplay of visual presentation and acoustic dimensions of /s/ in the construction of the fierce queen persona, which embodies an extreme, larger-than-life, and anti-normative type of femininity. Taking data from transformations—conversations during which queens visually transform from male-presenting into their feminine drag personae—I explore the effect of fluid visual presentation on linguistic production, and argue that changes in both the linguistic and visual streams increasingly invoke qualia (see Gal 2013; Harkness 2015) projecting 'harshness' and 'sharpness' in the construction of fierce femininity. I argue that personae like the fierce queen become iconized through rhematization (see Gal 2013), a process in which qualic congruences are construed and constructed across multiple semiotic modalities. (Iconization, rhematization, qualia, sociophonetics, gender, personae, drag queens)* [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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14. ‘Because it's easier to kill that way’: Dehumanizing epithets, militarized subjectivity, and American necropolitics
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Janet McIntosh
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Subjectivity ,Linguistics and Language ,Sociology and Political Science ,Essentialism ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Context (language use) ,Adversary ,Dehumanization ,Language and Linguistics ,Vietnam War ,Aesthetics ,Political science ,Semiotics ,Epithet ,media_common - Abstract
This article examines the blunt conceptual instrument of dehumanizing American military terms for the enemy in the context of the Vietnam War and the Global War on Terror. I examine language that dehumanizes American service members themselves, who are semiotically framed as expendable. Next, I explore the essentialist, semi-propositional qualities of derogatory epithets for the enemy and the affectively charged, deadly stances they encourage. I examine how generic references to the enemy during training make totalizing claims that risk encompassing civilians in their typifications. And I show that, in the context of war, the instability of derogatory epithets can manifest itself when the servicemember is confronted with the behavioral idiosyncrasies and personal vulnerabilities of actual ‘enemies’ on the ground. The putative folk wisdom found in generic references to the enemy can thus fall apart when confronted with countervailing experience; in such cases, service members may shift stance by renouncing military epithets. (Military language, epithets, slurs, generics, othering, dehumanization, necropolitics)*
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- 2021
15. ‘Keep calm, stay safe, and drink bubble tea’: Commodifying the crisis of Covid-19 in Singapore advertising
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Rebecca Lurie Starr, Christian Go, and Vincent Pak
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050101 languages & linguistics ,Linguistics and Language ,Sociology and Political Science ,Commodification ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,050801 communication & media studies ,Advertising ,Consumption (sociology) ,Southeast asian ,Femininity ,Language and Linguistics ,Power (social and political) ,Critical discourse analysis ,0508 media and communications ,Political science ,Semiotics ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Ideology ,media_common - Abstract
Advertisements employ multimodal configurations of semiotic resources in an effort to lead consumers to draw particular meanings from desired consumption behaviors. This analysis examines the deployment of such resources in advertising during the global Covid-19 pandemic, focusing on the Southeast Asian nation of Singapore. We identify five discourses that offer distinct framings of Covid-19 as a challenge for workers, a wellness issue, a threat to home and family, a challenge for women, and a threat to the Singapore lifestyle. Undergirded by neoliberal notions such as the productivity imperative, these discourses rationalize a range of consumer behaviors as necessary and justified in the struggle to defeat the virus. Advertisements are argued to place the burden of navigating the pandemic primarily on women via the evocation of power femininity. We propose a new framework, crisis commodification, as a means of understanding the ideological mechanisms at play in Covid-19 advertising. (Critical discourse analysis, crisis commodification, semiotic analysis, advertising, public health, Southeast Asia)*
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- 2021
16. Style, stance, and social meaning in mock white girl.
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Slobe, Tyanna
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MEANING (Philosophy) , *LINGUISTICS , *LANGUAGE & culture , *MIDDLE class families , *PERFORMING arts , *INTERPRETATION (Philosophy) in art , *PARODY , *SEMIOTICS - Abstract
Mock white girl (MWG) performances parody a linguistic and embodied style associated with contemporary middle class white girls in the United States. The article identifies bundles of semiotic resources in the stylization of the white girl persona—for example, creaky voice, uptalk, blondeness, and Starbucks—in three genres of MWG: Savior , Shit white girls say , and Teenage girl problems. While semiotic variables used to index the white girl persona are consistent across performances, there is significant variation in performers’ ideological stances relative to the mocked figure of personhood: white girls in the US are not ‘heard’ in any one way by all social actors. Contextualizing MWG performances through analysis of stance reveals critical variation in how the white girl is interpreted, evaluated, and produced as a meaningful social entity by diverse segments of the population. (Gender, mock, race, parody, persona, stance, style)* [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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17. Personae and phonetic detail in sociolinguistic signs.
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D'Onofrio, Annette
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SOCIOLINGUISTICS , *PHONETICS , *VARIATION in language , *SEMIOTICS , *MEANING (Psychology) , *HUMAN information processing , *SPEECH perception - Abstract
Social meaning-based approaches to linguistic variation treat variation as a semiotic system, in which sociolinguistic signs—indexical links between linguistic forms and social meanings—serve as interactional resources that individuals use to project personae. This article explores the perceptual nature of the links between social personae and linguistic forms, examining how information about a speaker's persona can influence a listener's linguistic perceptions of a continuous phonetic feature. Using a phoneme categorization task, this study examines associations between gradient phonetic manifestations on a continuum from /æ/ to /ɑ/ and three social personae. Findings illustrate that the social persona made relevant for a listener influences the ways in which points on this phonetic continuum are categorized phonemically as either trap or lot. Overall, this shows that the social constructs of personae influence phonetically detailed perceptions of linguistic material. (Sociolinguistic perception, personae, indexicality, sociophonetics, sociolinguistic signs)* [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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18. Jaw setting and the California Vowel Shift in parodic performance.
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Pratt, Teresa and D'Onofrio, Annette
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VOWELS , *PARODY , *SEMIOTICS , *PHONETICS , *SOCIOLINGUISTICS , *STEREOTYPES - Abstract
This article explores the intertwining semiotics of language and embodiment in performances of Californian personae. We analyze two actors’ performances of Californian characters in parodic skits, comparing them to the same actors’ performances of non-Californian characters. In portraying their Californian characters, the actors use particularized jaw settings, which we link to embodied stereotypes from earlier portrayals of the Valley Girl and Surfer Dude personae. Acoustic analysis demonstrates that both actors also produce features of the California Vowel Shift in their Californian performances, aligning their linguistic productions with sound changes documented in California. We argue that these embodied stereotypes and phonetic realizations not only co-occur in parodic styles, but are in fact semiotically and corporeally intertwined, one occasioning the other. Moreover, the performances participate in the broader process of enregisterment, packaging these semiotic resources with other linguistic and extralinguistic features to recontextualize Californian personae in the present day. (Parody, performance, California, California Vowel Shift, embodiment, embodied stereotype, enregisterment)* [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2017
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19. Metapragmatics of mobility.
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Lo, Adrienne and Park, Joseph
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DISCURSIVE psychology , *TRANSNATIONALISM , *SEMIOTICS , *DIGITAL media , *HEGEMONY - Abstract
This introduction presents a framework for analyzing the semiotic dimensions of mobility. Drawing upon the notion of pathway (Wortham & Reyes 2015), it examines how mobility is facilitated by semiotic processes that link linguistic emblems with speaker images across time and space (Agha 2007). It focuses on the circulation of discursive forms, facilitated by media technologies and complex patterns of transnational interaction, which ascribe identities to people on the move and root such identities within hierarchical structures of the market on local, national, and transnational scales. Looking at how interdiscursive networks intersect with people's experience of mobility and the way they position themselves in social space, this article problematizes the divide between ‘micro’ and ‘macro’ approaches, offering a historically grounded approach to operations of power that permeate both metapragmatic discourse and experiences of mobility. (Mobility, metapragmatics, mediatization, interdiscursivity)* [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2017
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20. ‘Converse racialization’ and ‘un/marking’ language: The making of a bilingual university in a neoliberal world
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Mike Mena and Ofelia García
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050101 languages & linguistics ,Linguistics and Language ,Sociology and Political Science ,Critical race theory ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,Neoliberalism ,050301 education ,Face (sociological concept) ,Gender studies ,Making-of ,Language and Linguistics ,Converse ,Semiotics ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Racialization ,Sociology ,0503 education ,Neuroscience of multilingualism ,media_common - Abstract
The discourse on the opening of a bilingual university along the Texas-Mexico border leads us to propose a theory of ‘converse racialization’ through which the local Spanish is being progressively ‘unmarked’ and disassociated from the language practice of Mexican Americans. Converse racialization, as the equal and opposite co-constituting underside of racialization, shifts the directionality of semiotic indexes away from a particular ‘race’ or ‘ethnicity’ (including whiteness) and produces an apparent state of ‘unmarkedness’. We argue that the process of ‘unmarking’ Spanish has social, economic, and racializing consequences. Specifically, the language-as-resource discourse obscures and rearticulates the ‘deficiency perspective’ that continues to perpetuate structural inequalities that Latinxs in the border face. (Racialization, higher education, critical race theory, bilingualism, neoliberalism)*
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- 2020
21. Simultaneity and the refusal to choose: The semiotics of Serbian youth identity on Facebook
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Rachel George
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050101 languages & linguistics ,Linguistics and Language ,060101 anthropology ,Simultaneity ,Sociology and Political Science ,05 social sciences ,Media studies ,Identity (social science) ,Superdiversity ,Context (language use) ,06 humanities and the arts ,Language and Linguistics ,language.human_language ,language ,Semiotics ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,0601 history and archaeology ,Social media ,Sociology ,Serbian ,Indexicality - Abstract
Although the importance of linguistic simultaneity has long been recognized (Woolard 1998), the concept is underexamined in recent analyses of language use in globalized, digital contexts such as social media. Drawing from an analysis of everyday Facebook posts from youth in Belgrade, Serbia, the article proposes that recognizing four types of simultaneity—of linguistic features, indexical operations, effects, and scale—is key for making sense of social media utterances in political and historical context. On Facebook, Serbian youth mix languages and writing systems in complex ways, adhering to dominant ideologies of language and identity in some ways and flouting them in others. Using the Serbian case as a springboard, along with the four types of simultaneity proposed, I suggest a framework for analyzing language and identity on social media. (Serbia, indexicality, simultaneity, social media, superdiversity, bivalency, youth)*
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- 2019
22. Expressives and the multimodal depiction of social types in Mundari
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Nishaant Choksi
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050101 languages & linguistics ,Linguistics and Language ,Materiality (auditing) ,Sociology and Political Science ,Ideophone ,05 social sciences ,Agency (philosophy) ,050105 experimental psychology ,Language and Linguistics ,Linguistics ,Multimodality ,Embodied cognition ,Semiotics ,Depiction ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Sociology ,Gesture - Abstract
Present in many of the world's languages, expressives (also called ideophones or mimetics) are commonly discussed as iconic ‘depictions’ of speaker's sensual experiences. Yet anthropologists and linguists working with these constructions have noticed that they also index ‘social types’ that perdure across interactional events. This article analyzes the semiotic relation between depiction and social stereotypes embedded in expressive use by examining video data from interviews with speakers of Mundari, an expressive-rich Austro-Asiatic language spoken in eastern India. Presenting interview data taken from both lab-based elicitations as well as ethnographic interviews in Mundari-speaking villages, the article claims that speakers deploy multimodal resources such as gesture and gaze in concert with expressives in order to re-intepret social indexes as felt, embodied experiences (rheme) while also juxtaposing these experiences with elements in the immediately perceptible material world (dicent). The article also addresses issues of ethics, agency, and materiality entailed by multimodal expressive depiction. (Ideophones, multimodality, materiality, embodiment, semiotics)*
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- 2019
23. Semiotic spaces in antidiscriminatory political discourse: Naming practices as indexes
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Mats Landqvist
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General Language Studies and Linguistics ,050101 languages & linguistics ,Linguistics and Language ,Jämförande språkvetenskap och allmän lingvistik ,Sociology and Political Science ,05 social sciences ,050109 social psychology ,Language and Linguistics ,Epistemology ,Politics ,Semiotics ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Norm (social) ,Sociology - Abstract
This article explores the semiotic spaces occupied by organizations working against discrimination in Sweden. Expressions of identity, norm critique, and political goals are studied in relation to word production and language policy and planning. The study departs from interviews with representatives from three organizations within the hbtqi, antiracist, and disability movements. Other resources connected to them have also been analyzed, such as glossaries. Theoretically, this study draws on Yuri Lotman's concept of semiospheres, allowing the analysis to weigh in the whole semiotic process, including meaning production, policy work, and concrete word production. This approach completes an analysis of indexical orders. The results show that (a) organizations are aware of the importance of linguistic choices, (b) when new concepts and words are spread to the public, tension can arise and sometimes objections, and (c) word meanings change when used in public discourse. (Language policy and planning, semiosphere, indexical order, hbtqi, antiracism, disability, discrimination)
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- 2019
24. The discursive construction of mobile chronotopes in mobile-phone messaging
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Agnieszka Lyons and Caroline Tagg
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050101 languages & linguistics ,Linguistics and Language ,Sociology and Political Science ,Exploit ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,Media studies ,050801 communication & media studies ,Language and Linguistics ,Negotiation ,0508 media and communications ,Mobile phone ,Ethnography ,Semiotics ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Sociology ,Chronotope ,media_common - Abstract
This article draws on data from an ethnographic project to explore the ways in which migrant micro-entrepreneurs exploit mobile messaging apps to co-construct mobile chronotopes: dynamic configurations of time and space negotiated by geographically separated participants, who draw on different contexts and frames of understanding. Analysis of mobile messages by two couples—Chinese butchers in Birmingham and Polish shop-owners in London—informed by interview and interactional data collected at work and home, suggests they discursively negotiate and exploit multiple chronotopic layers, creating complex intersections between virtual and physical spaces in everyday interactions. We focus on the role that multilingual and multimodal semiotic resources play in co-constructing mobile chronotopes. In particular, we explore critical junctures at which communicative expectations are challenged, rendering mobile chronotope negotiation visible. Our concept of the mobile chronotope has implications for both the theorisation of mobile phone communication and understanding how chronotopes function in contemporary transnational migrant discourse. (Chronotope, migrant entrepreneur, mobile messaging, transnational migration)*
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- 2019
25. Monster metaphors: When rhetoric runs amok.
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Hanne, Michael
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SYMBOLISM , *CRITICAL discourse analysis , *SEMIOTICS , *HYPERBOLE , *NONFICTION - Published
- 2023
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26. The fierceness of fronted /s/: Linguistic rhematization through visual transformation
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Jeremy Calder
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050101 languages & linguistics ,Linguistics and Language ,060101 anthropology ,Sociology and Political Science ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,Qualia ,06 humanities and the arts ,Persona ,Femininity ,Language and Linguistics ,Transformation (music) ,Linguistics ,Queen (playing card) ,Semiotics ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,0601 history and archaeology ,Sociology ,Visual presentation ,media_common - Abstract
This article explores the roles that language and the body play in the iconization of cross-modal personae (see Agha 2003, 2004). Focusing on a community of radical drag queens in San Francisco, I analyze the interplay of visual presentation and acoustic dimensions of /s/ in the construction of the fierce queen persona, which embodies an extreme, larger-than-life, and anti-normative type of femininity. Taking data from transformations—conversations during which queens visually transform from male-presenting into their feminine drag personae—I explore the effect of fluid visual presentation on linguistic production, and argue that changes in both the linguistic and visual streams increasingly invoke qualia (see Gal 2013; Harkness 2015) projecting ‘harshness’ and ‘sharpness’ in the construction of fierce femininity. I argue that personae like the fierce queen become iconized through rhematization (see Gal 2013), a process in which qualic congruences are construed and constructed across multiple semiotic modalities. (Iconization, rhematization, qualia, sociophonetics, gender, personae, drag queens)*
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- 2018
27. Folk-linguistic landscapes: The visual semiotics of digital enregisterment.
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Heyd, Theresa
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SEMIOTICS , *QUOTATION marks , *TELEMATICS , *BLOGS , *PHOTOGRAPH captions , *VISUAL communication - Abstract
This article analyzes folk-linguistic photo blogging as an example of twenty-first-century grassroots prescriptivism. Photo blogs engaged in grassroots prescriptivism usually focus on one specific linguistic phenomenon and collect visual evidence of its usage. Through the overt or covert language policing involved in such displays, folk-linguistic photo blogs contribute to the digital enregisterment of the linguistic practices they focus on as nonstandard or uneducated. This process is closely examined in a case study on emphatic quotation marks, a nonstandard form of punctuation that has been termed ‘greengrocer's quotes’, and its concomitant folk-linguistic photo blog. It is argued here that much of the persuasive power of such blogs can be attributed to their reliance on photographic material depicting signage in public space, and thus on the kind of visual semiotics that also informs many recent approaches in sociolinguistics. The simultaneity of these two phenomena is critically discussed. (Visual semiotics, enregisterment, computer-mediated communication, grassroots prescriptivism, emphatic quotation)* [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2014
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28. Personae and phonetic detail in sociolinguistic signs
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Annette D'Onofrio
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060201 languages & linguistics ,Linguistics and Language ,Sociology and Political Science ,media_common.quotation_subject ,06 humanities and the arts ,Persona ,Social constructionism ,Language and Linguistics ,Linguistics ,Variation (linguistics) ,Categorization ,Perception ,0602 languages and literature ,Semiotics ,Psychology ,Indexicality ,Meaning (linguistics) ,media_common - Abstract
Social meaning-based approaches to linguistic variation treat variation as a semiotic system, in which sociolinguistic signs—indexical links between linguistic forms and social meanings—serve as interactional resources that individuals use to project personae. This article explores the perceptual nature of the links between social personae and linguistic forms, examining how information about a speaker's persona can influence a listener's linguistic perceptions of a continuous phonetic feature. Using a phoneme categorization task, this study examines associations between gradient phonetic manifestations on a continuum from /æ/ to /ɑ/ and three social personae. Findings illustrate that the social persona made relevant for a listener influences the ways in which points on this phonetic continuum are categorized phonemically as eithertraporlot. Overall, this shows that the social constructs of personae influence phonetically detailed perceptions of linguistic material. (Sociolinguistic perception, personae, indexicality, sociophonetics, sociolinguistic signs)*
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- 2018
29. Linguistic science and nationalist revolution: Expert knowledge and the making of sameness in pre-independence Ireland.
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French, Brigittine M.
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LINGUISTICS , *IRISH Gaelic language , *NATIONALISM - Abstract
This article examines the linguistic ideological work entailed in the analyses of Irish by the "revolutionary scholar" and cofounder of the Gaelic League, Eoin MacNeill. It does so to discern one central way in which the essentialized link between the Irish language and a unified Irish people became an efficacious political construction during the armed struggle for independence in the early 20th century. It shows how MacNeill used authoritative linguistic science to engender nationalist sentiment around Irish through semiotic processes even as he challenged a dominant conception of language prevalent in European nationalist movements and social thought. The essay argues that MacNeill wrote against the unilateral valorization of codified linguistic homogeneity and embraced the heterogeneous variation of spoken discourse even as he sought to consolidate Irish national identity through sameness claims. This critical examination suggests that scholars of nationalism reconsider the taken-for-granted homogenizing efforts of nationalist endeavors that are ubiquitously presumed to negatively sanction linguistic variation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2009
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30. Jaw setting and the California Vowel Shift in parodic performance
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Annette D'Onofrio and Teresa Pratt
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060201 languages & linguistics ,Linguistics and Language ,History ,Sociology and Political Science ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Vowel shift ,Stereotype ,06 humanities and the arts ,Language and Linguistics ,Linguistics ,030507 speech-language pathology & audiology ,03 medical and health sciences ,Embodied cognition ,0602 languages and literature ,Semiotics ,0305 other medical science ,media_common - Abstract
This article explores the intertwining semiotics of language and embodiment in performances of Californian personae. We analyze two actors’ performances of Californian characters in parodic skits, comparing them to the same actors’ performances of non-Californian characters. In portraying their Californian characters, the actors use particularized jaw settings, which we link toembodied stereotypesfrom earlier portrayals of the Valley Girl and Surfer Dude personae. Acoustic analysis demonstrates that both actors also produce features of the California Vowel Shift in their Californian performances, aligning their linguistic productions with sound changes documented in California. We argue that these embodied stereotypes and phonetic realizations not only co-occur in parodic styles, but are in fact semiotically and corporeally intertwined, one occasioning the other. Moreover, the performances participate in the broader process ofenregisterment, packaging these semiotic resources with other linguistic and extralinguistic features to recontextualize Californian personae in the present day. (Parody, performance, California, California Vowel Shift, embodiment, embodied stereotype, enregisterment)*
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- 2017
31. "I'm Mommy and you're Natalie": Role-reversal and embedded frames in mother-child discourse.
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Gordon, Cynthia
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CRITICISM ,INFLUENCE (Literary, artistic, etc.) ,VECTOR analysis ,SEMIOTICS ,INTERTEXTUALITY ,CHILDREN - Abstract
This study investigates framing in discourse while considering spontaneous role-play between a young child (age 2 years 11 months) and her mother, wherein the participants reverse roles from real life and reenact shared prior experiences. Data consist of two tape-recorded naturally occurring pretend- play episodes and the real-life interactions on which they are based, all of which took place at home. Analysis of the role-play episodes illustrates how framing occurs from moment to moment in interaction in this context, showing that the participants use both play and non-play utterances collaboratively to evoke, maintain, and embed multiple play frames with increasingly specific, and at times blended, metamessages. By linking the role-play interactions back to their real-life counterparts, I explore the relationship between framing and "prior text." This analysis adds to our understanding of framing by showing how frames are layered in discourse. Additionally, it links frames theory to the notion of intertextuality by illustrating how prior text can be used as a resource for framing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2002
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32. Introduction: Heteroglossia, performance, power, and participation
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Sabina Perrino, Michèle Koven, Alexandra Jaffe, and Cécile B. Vigouroux
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Power (social and political) ,Linguistics and Language ,Politics ,Scrutiny ,Sociology and Political Science ,Expression (architecture) ,Aesthetics ,Reflexivity ,Semiotics ,Performative utterance ,Sociology ,Heteroglossia ,Language and Linguistics - Abstract
In this special issue, we build on Bauman's seminal observation about performance, that ‘the act of expression is put on display, objectified, marked out to a degree from its discursive surrounding and opened up to interpretive scrutiny and evaluation by an audience’ (2000:1). More recently, scholars have moved to examining the performative role of heteroglossia, that is, the use of multiply sourced, semiotic (verbal and nonverbal) forms. In particular, this line of research has shown how attention to heteroglossic performances and their local interpretations can illuminate the subtle politics of dominant and nondominant identities in different ethnographic contexts. This is particularly true of what Coupland (2007) calls ‘high performances’, which, as Bell & Gibson (2011:558) write, are privileged sites for allowing participants to indexically associate expressive forms with social personae. Thus, while all performances are inherently reflexive, heteroglossic performances particularly amplify that reflexivity with respect to their multiple frames, voices, and stances that they presuppose and establish.
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- 2015
33. Robert A. Yelle, The semiotics of religion: Signs of the sacred in history. New York: Bloomsbury, 2013. Pp. xii, 242. Pb. $44.95
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Meaghan O'Keefe
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Linguistics and Language ,Sociology and Political Science ,Philosophy ,Semiotics ,Theology ,Religious studies ,Language and Linguistics - Published
- 2014
34. Gary Genosko , Critical semiotics: Theory, from information to affect. London: Bloomsbury, 2016. Pp. 200. Hb. $128
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Emily Suh
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Linguistics and Language ,Psychoanalysis ,Sociology and Political Science ,Philosophy ,Semiotics ,Affect (psychology) ,Language and Linguistics - Published
- 2018
35. Uptake (un)limited: The mediatization of register shifting in US public discourse
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Régine Pellicer and Deborah Cole
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Register (sociolinguistics) ,Value (ethics) ,Linguistics and Language ,Hierarchy ,Sociology and Political Science ,Media studies ,Language and Linguistics ,Style (sociolinguistics) ,Standard English ,Public discourse ,Semiotics ,Sociology ,Social science ,Socioeconomic inequalities - Abstract
We observe that mediatization (Agha 2011b) creates and maintains the conditions by which some messages and uptake formulations remain unavailable to larger audiences while others are continuously recycled and increasingly accessible. We argue that the maintenance of the unequal divisions of semiotic labor in ways that mirror socioeconomic inequalities at an increasingly global scale can be facilitated by mediatization as currently practiced. An analysis of the way that the uptake formulations of a mediatized fragment of a register-shifting event varied in its pre- and postmediatized contexts reveals how premediatized value projects can be systematically replaced during mediatization, limiting the availability of premediatized value projects for wider uptake. We observe that value projects attached to mediatized fragments work to maintain the hierarchy of perduring semiotic registers (Goebel 2010) in US public discourse in which Standard English repertoires continue to dominate all others. (Mediatization, Standard, semiotic register-shifting, black preaching style)
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- 2012
36. Adam Jaworski & Crispin Thurlow (eds.), Semiotic landscapes: Language, image, space. London: Continuum, 2010. Pp. ix, 314. Hb. $160
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Durk Gorter
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Linguistics and Language ,Sociology and Political Science ,Continuum (topology) ,Image (category theory) ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Semiotics ,Art ,Space (mathematics) ,Language and Linguistics ,Mathematical physics ,media_common - Published
- 2012
37. Marcel Danesi , The semiotics of emoji: The rise of visual language in the age of the internet. London: Bloomsbury, 2016. Pp. 208. Hb. £55
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Christian Ilbury
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Linguistics and Language ,Visual language ,Sociology and Political Science ,business.industry ,Emoji ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Art history ,Semiotics ,The Internet ,Art ,business ,Language and Linguistics ,media_common - Published
- 2017
38. A Mayan ontology of poultry: Selfhood, affect, animals, and ethnography
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Paul Kockelman
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Linguistics and Language ,Pragmatism ,Sociology and Political Science ,Anthropology ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Language and Linguistics ,Attunement ,Linguistic anthropology ,Reflexivity ,Ethnography ,Ontology ,Maya ,Semiotics ,Sociology ,media_common - Abstract
This article has three key themes: ontology (what kinds of beings there are in the world), affect (cognitive and corporeal attunements to such entities), and selfhood (relatively reflexive centers of attunement). To explore these themes, I focus on women's care for chickens among speakers of Q'eqchi' Maya living in the cloud forests of highland Guatemala. Broadly speaking, I argue that these three themes are empirically, methodologically, and theoretically inseparable. In addition, the chicken is a particularly rich site for such ethnographic research because it is simultaneously self, alter, and object for its owners. To undertake this analysis, I adopt a semiotic stance towards such themes, partly grounded in the writings of the American pragmatists Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, and George Herbert Mead, and partly grounded in recent and classic scholarship by linguists, psychologists, and anthropologists. (Linguistic anthropology, political economy, ontology, affect, selfhood, animals, chickens, Mesoamerica, Maya, Q'eqchi')*
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- 2011
39. Linguistic science and nationalist revolution: Expert knowledge and the making of sameness in pre-independence Ireland
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Brigittine M. French
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Linguistics and Language ,Sociology and Political Science ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Making-of ,Language and Linguistics ,language.human_language ,Linguistics ,Nationalism ,Politics ,Irish ,National identity ,Eoin ,language ,Semiotics ,Sociology ,Ideology ,media_common - Abstract
This article examines the linguistic ideological work entailed in the analyses of Irish by the “revolutionary scholar” and cofounder of the Gaelic League, Eoin MacNeill. It does so to discern one central way in which the essentialized link between the Irish language and a unified Irish people became an efficacious political construction during the armed struggle for independence in the early 20th century. It shows how MacNeill used authoritative linguistic science to engender nationalist sentiment around Irish through semiotic processes even as he challenged a dominant conception of language prevalent in European nationalist movements and social thought. The essay argues that MacNeill wrote against the unilateral valorization of codified linguistic homogeneity and embraced the heterogeneous variation of spoken discourse even as he sought to consolidate Irish national identity through sameness claims. This critical examination suggests that scholars of nationalism reconsider the taken-for-granted homogenizing efforts of nationalist endeavors that are ubiquitously presumed to negatively sanction linguistic variation. (Nationalism, linguistic ideology, Ireland, semiotics, heterogeneity, Eoin MacNeill, Gaelic League, Europe, scientific knowledge)
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- 2009
40. <scp>Kormi Anipa</scp>, A critical examination of linguistic variation in Golden-Age Spanish. (Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics, no. 47). New York: Peter Lang, 2001. Pp. xx, 254. Hb $57.95
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Rena Torres Cacoullos
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Linguistics and Language ,Variation (linguistics) ,Sociology and Political Science ,Philosophy ,Semiotics ,Language and Linguistics ,Critical examination ,Linguistics - Abstract
This book is about variation in 16th-century Spanish between forms and patterns that triumphed and those “archaisms” that did not, with a focus on the latter. The goal is to investigate resistance to language change. Contrary to the widespread assumption that this was a period of rapid changes, Anipa shows the intricacies of persistent variation during the Golden Age, drawing on literary data and a novel source: the testimony of contemporaneous grammarians.
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- 2002
41. Dialect stylization in radio talk
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Nikolas Coupland
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Linguistics and Language ,Sociology and Political Science ,Interpretation (philosophy) ,Context (language use) ,Persona ,Language and Linguistics ,Linguistics ,language.human_language ,Welsh ,Reflexivity ,Cultural reproduction ,language ,Semiotics ,Sociology ,Sociolinguistics - Abstract
Stylization is the knowing deployment of culturally familiar styles and identities that are marked as deviating from those predictably associated with the current speaking context. Dialect stylization involves performing non-current-first-person personas by phonological and related means, sometimes in play or parody. Although these processes may seem to be very local, it is arguably true that dialects are increasingly experienced in reflexive and mediated environments that breed stylization. One of these is light entertainment on radio; this article analyzes data from English-language national radio broadcasts in Wales. Welshness is self-consciously evoked in the data, partly through dialect performance, where the variables (ou) and (ei) are a rich semiotic resource, linked to nondialectal means of evoking Welsh cultural stances and practices. Although stylization is a form of strategic de-authentication, its ultimate relationship with authenticity is complex. As a facet of cultural performance, stylization can be part of a process of cultural reproduction, and I argue that this is the best interpretation of the present data. As a result, sociolinguistics may need to reconsider its assumptions about cultural authenticity.
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- 2001
42. <scp>Miwa Nishimura</scp>, Japanese/English code-switching: Syntax and pragmatics. (Berkeley insights in linguistics and semiotics, 24.) New York: Peter Lang, 1997. Pp. xx, 176. Hb $43.95
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Noriko O. Onodera
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Linguistics and Language ,Sociology and Political Science ,Semiotics ,Sociology ,Pragmatics ,Code-switching ,Variety (linguistics) ,Syntax ,Language and Linguistics ,Linguistics ,Utterance ,Storytelling - Abstract
This book reminds us that code-switching is not only a classic topic, but also an important and highly challenging one. In distinction from previous studies, this work reveals that a bilingual community of second-generation Japanese Canadians (Niseis), in Toronto, has three distinct types of bilingual speech: a basically Japanese variety, a basically English variety, and a mixed variety. Nishimura analyzes these three bilingual speech varieties and provides an answer to the fundamental question in code-switching: “Who speaks what language to whom, and on what occasions?” That is, this research ascribes the motivation of this variability to the “intended audience.” These Niseis choose the basically Japanese variety when they speak to native Japanese people; when they speak to fellow Niseis who have always lived in Canada, they choose the basically English variety; and when they speak to a group comprising both native Japanese and Niseis, they use the mixed variety, oscillating between Japanese and English. They switch among these codes even in the middle of storytelling. What is important here, for the bilingual speakers, is to address two questions: “Who is present in the audience of the ongoing conversational situation?”; and more specifically, “To whom is the current production of this utterance directed?”
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- 1999
43. Paul Manning, The semiotics of drink and drinking. New York: Continuum, 2012. Pp. 245. Pb. $44.95
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Jonathan L. Larson
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Linguistics and Language ,Sociology and Political Science ,Continuum (measurement) ,Philosophy ,Semiotics ,Environmental ethics ,Language and Linguistics ,Epistemology - Published
- 2014
44. Adam Kendon, Sign languages of Aboriginal Australia: Cultural, semiotic, and communicative perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. xviii + 542
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Alan Rumsey
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Linguistics and Language ,Sociology and Political Science ,Semiotics ,Sign (semiotics) ,Sociology ,Sign language ,Language and Linguistics ,Linguistics - Published
- 1991
45. Communicative Description - Geneviève Calbris, The semiotics of French gestures. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990. Pp. xiv + 236
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Jacqueline Lindenfeld
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Linguistics and Language ,Sociology and Political Science ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Media studies ,Semiotics ,Art history ,Art ,Language and Linguistics ,Gesture ,media_common - Published
- 1991
46. Homosocial desire in men's talk: Balancing and re-creating cultural discourses of masculinity
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Scott F. Kiesling
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Linguistics and Language ,Sociology and Political Science ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Gender studies ,Language and Linguistics ,Solidarity ,Negotiation ,Denotation ,Language and gender ,Homosociality ,Masculinity ,Semiotics ,Conversation ,Sociology ,media_common - Abstract
This article is an exploration of how a group of men in the United States create homosocial (as opposed to homosexual) desire through language. In a society in which dominant discourses of masculinity provide competing scripts of male solidarity and heterosexuality, the achievement of closeness among men is not straightforward but must be negotiated through “indirect” means. It is shown how men actively negotiate dominant cultural discourses in their everyday interactions. In addition, a broadened view of indirectness, based on social function as much as denotation, is argued for.This article was initially presented in much shorter and different form at the Second International Gender and Language Association (IGALA) Conference in Lancaster, U.K., in April 2002. I would like to thank the audience there, and in particular Jennifer Coates, for their comments and lively discussion. I would also like to thank Deborah Tannen for her insightful comments and advice, and two anonymous reviewers whose comments strengthened the article considerably. I would also like to thank the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago for inviting me to have conversation about this work in their semiotics workshop, and specifically Lauren Keeler, Jonathan Rosa, and Michael Silverstein. Ultimately, responsibility for the article's contents remains with the author.
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- 2005
47. Theorizing identity in language and sexuality research
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Kira Hall and Mary Bucholtz
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Linguistics and Language ,Sociology and Political Science ,Identity (social science) ,Gender studies ,Human sexuality ,Language and Linguistics ,Feminism ,Epistemology ,Queer ,Semiotics ,Sociology ,Sociocultural evolution ,Identity formation ,Intersubjectivity - Abstract
The field of language and sexuality has gained importance within socioculturally oriented linguistic scholarship. Much current work in this area emphasizes identity as one key aspect of sexuality. However, recent critiques of identity-based research advocate instead a desire-centered view of sexuality. Such an approach artificially restricts the scope of the field by overlooking the close relationship between identity and desire. This connection emerges clearly in queer linguistics, an approach to language and sexuality that incorporates insights from feminist, queer, and sociolinguistic theories to analyze sexuality as a broad sociocultural phenomenon. These intellectual approaches have shown that research on identity, sexual or otherwise, is most productive when the concept is understood as the outcome of intersubjectively negotiated practices and ideologies. To this end, an analytic framework for the semiotic study of social intersubjectivity is presented. (Sexuality, feminism, identity, desire, queer linguistics.)*
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- 2004
48. GUNTHER KRESS & THEO VAN LEEUWEN, Multimodal discourse: The modes and media of contemporary communication. London: Arnold, 2001. Pp. vii, 142. Hb $72.00, Pb $24.95
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Silke Brandt
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Linguistics and Language ,Sociology and Political Science ,Action (philosophy) ,Field (Bourdieu) ,Cultural studies ,Realization (linguistics) ,Semiotics ,Sociology ,Term (logic) ,Architecture ,Variety (linguistics) ,Language and Linguistics ,Linguistics - Abstract
Multimodal Discourse offers a theoretical framework for the study of communication in the modern world of multimedia. The book helps students of linguistics, cultural studies, and communication as well as journalists, photographers, designers, and others who work practically in the field of communication and design, to understand and differentiate the distinct levels of mass communication and their interaction. The authors also give an overview of the development of communication and discourse and show how this development is influenced by overall changes in society and social life. All the definitions of theoretical concepts and notions are further explained and illustrated by a great variety of examples. Linguists have shown that discourse is not only used and expressed in and/or by language; Kress & van Leeuwen also apply the term to music, architecture, and many other domains of culture. The notion of modes, however, is explained only in a very abstract way as “semiotic resources which allow the simultaneous realization of discourses and types of (inter)action” (p. 21). Media, on the other hand, are described as the material resources being used for the production. Examples of modes mentioned by the authors are music, language, and images. The medium is supposed to be the material, such as a book.
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- 2004
49. The semiotics of religion: Signs of the sacred in history.
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O'Keefe, Meaghan
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SEMIOTICS , *LANGUAGE & religion , *NONFICTION , *RELIGION - Published
- 2014
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50. Len Unsworth, Multimodal semiotics: Functional analysis in contexts of education. New York: Continuum, 2008. Pp. ix, 257. Hb. $150
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Andrew Jocuns
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Cognitive science ,Linguistics and Language ,Sociology and Political Science ,Continuum (measurement) ,Semiotics ,Sociology ,Functional analysis (psychology) ,Language and Linguistics - Published
- 2010
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