Language and Materiality de Jillian R. Cavanaugh

Language and Materiality

Jillian R. Cavanaugh

Shalini Shankar

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 iun 2024

Aimed at interdisciplinary audiences, and tailored especially to scholars of linguistic and cultural anthropology, sociolinguistics, and cultural studies, the book argues for the importance of analyzing language use with an eye toward new materialisms, semiotics, and ideology.

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List of images; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Toward a theory of language materiality: an introduction Shalini Shankar and Jillian R. Cavanaugh; 2. Curated conversation: 'materiality: it's the stuff!' Webb Keane and Michael Silverstein; Part I. Texts, Objects, Mediality: 3. Japan's trendy word grand prix and Kanji of the year: commodified language forms in multiple contexts Laura Miller; 4. Fontroversy! Or, how to care about the shape of language Keith M. Murphy; 5. Spelling materiality: the branded business of competitive spelling Shalini Shankar; Part II. Transformation, Aesthetics, Embodiment: 6. How the sausage gets made: food safety and the mediality of talk, documents, and food practices Jillian R. Cavanaugh; 7. 'Your mouth is your lorry!' How honk horns voice the acoustic materiality of reputation in Accra Steven Feld; 8. Transduction in religious discourse: vocalization and sound reproduction in Mauritian Muslim devotional practices Patrick Eisenlohr; Part III. Time, Place, Circulation: 9. Making and marketing in the bilingual periphery: materialization as metacultural transformation Nikolas Coupland and Helen Kelly-Holmes; 10. Word-things and thing-words: the transmodal production of privilege and status Crispin Thurlow and Adam Jaworski; 11. Language and materiality in the renaming of Indigenous North American languages and peoples Robert Moore; 12. The semiotic ecology of drinks and talk in Georgia Paul Manning; Part IV. More Stuff: Short Topical Commentaries on Language and Materiality and Afterword: Can language be a commodity? Monica Heller; Language, music, materiality (and immateriality): entanglements beyond the 'symbolic' Paja Faudree; Why bodies matter Mary Bucholtz; Physicality and texts: rematerializing the transparent Jennifer Dickinson; History, artifacts, and the language of culture change in archaeology Mark W. Hauser; Afterword: materiality and language, or material language? Dualisms and embodiments Judith T. Irvine; Index.