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The Semiotics of Multilingual Desire in Hong Kong and Singapore’s Elite Foodscape 香港多语言欲望符号学与新加坡美食
IF 0.5 4区 社会学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.1086/718861
Andre Joseph Theng, T. Lee
This article considers a form of marketing strategy among upmarket food and beverage establishments in Hong Kong and Singapore involving the use of Chinese text in their decor. Although the two cities have a majority Chinese population, English is widely considered the language of social mobility and an unmarked language in the discursive construction of eliteness. In asking, “Why Chinese?” we consider how the indexical value of a vernacular language can be rescaled in upmarket commercial spaces for an emergent group of consumers known as “cultural omnivores.” Through the process of indexical selectivity, the invocation of Chinese in these establishments taps into the unique disposition of cultural omnivores by feeding their multilingual desires, and more specifically their desire to consume relatively more or less prestigious languages omnivorously in indexing social distinction. Such alternative readings of the prestige value of the vernacular by a privileged group of consumers point to the ambivalent indexicality of language.
本文探讨了香港和新加坡高档餐饮店在装饰中使用中文文本的营销策略。尽管这两个城市的中国人口占大多数,但英语被广泛认为是社会流动的语言,也是elitences话语结构中的一种无标记语言。在问“为什么是汉语?”时,我们考虑了如何在高端商业空间中,为一个被称为“文化杂食者”的新兴消费者群体重新调整方言的指数价值。通过指数选择性的过程,这些机构中对汉语的调用通过满足文化杂食性者的多语言欲望,更具体地说,他们希望在索引社会差异时杂食地使用相对或多或少有声望的语言。特权消费者群体对白话文声望价值的这种另类解读指向了语言的矛盾指数性。
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引用次数: 3
Secret Language as a “Weapon of Defense”: The Problem of Opacity in Italian Colonial Libya 作为“防御武器”的秘密语言:意大利殖民利比亚的不透明问题
IF 0.5 4区 社会学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.1086/718898
Nicco A. La Mattina
This article examines the role of referential directness and community emblematization in the documentation of Libyan sign processes construed by Italian colonial ethnographers as secretive. I examine the key texts on these practices to show that colonial ethnographers metasemiotically framed the so-called argots of Libya in terms of what was understood to be their occulting function of hiding one’s intentions and their anti-language function of opposing established society. I show that Italian colonial-ethnological preoccupations with clarity and moral unity were articulated against the discursive background of French colonial ethnology of Algeria as well as Italian racist criminology anchored in the metaphor of relative opacity.
这篇文章探讨了意大利殖民民族学家认为是秘密的利比亚符号过程文件中参考直接性和社区象征的作用。我研究了这些实践的关键文本,以表明殖民民族志学者在元语义学上构建了所谓的利比亚暗语,根据他们被理解为隐藏一个人的意图的隐藏功能和反对既定社会的反语言功能。我表明,意大利殖民民族学对清晰度和道德统一的关注,是在阿尔及利亚法国殖民民族学的话语背景下,以及在相对不透明的隐喻中锚定的意大利种族主义犯罪学的话语背景下表达出来的。
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引用次数: 0
“Am I Your Coequal?!”: Memes and Changing Meanings in the Digital Subversion of Ghanaian Hierarchies “我是你的平等吗?!”:加纳等级制度数字颠覆中的模因和不断变化的含义
IF 0.5 4区 社会学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.1086/719025
R. Flamenbaum
Capturing the zeitgeist of youthful challenges to the status quo in Ghana, a video of an anonymous young person challenging an older politician with a derisive call of “Tweaa!” went viral in 2014. Reentextualizations of the encounter were soon circulating online in the form of memes, songs, and hashtags and offline in joking exchanges everywhere from vegetable markets to parliament. This article traces the many ironic reembeddings of the tweaa clip across these contexts, as young people used tweaa to subvert and interrogate Ghana’s rigid social hierarchies—ultimately producing an enduring shift in the vocabulary of protest in Ghana. Tweaa, once a casual interjection of disapproval, is now explicitly seen as iconic of the disenfranchised challenging those in power: a verb meaning “to protest inept authority.” This case study of memetic circulation suggests that memes not only discursively produce publics but can effect seismic semiotic shifts in everyday language.
一段视频捕捉了加纳年轻人挑战现状的时代精神,一名匿名年轻人用嘲讽的声音“Tweaa!”在2014年疯传。这次会面的再现很快就以表情包、歌曲和话题标签的形式在网上传播,而在线下,从蔬菜市场到议会,到处都有开玩笑的交流。这篇文章追溯了twea片段在这些背景下的许多具有讽刺意味的重新嵌入,因为年轻人使用twea来颠覆和质疑加纳僵化的社会等级制度,最终在加纳的抗议词汇中产生了持久的转变。Tweaa,曾经是一个随意的不赞成的感叹词,现在被明确地视为被剥夺公民权的人挑战当权者的标志:一个动词,意思是“抗议无能的权威”。模因循环的案例研究表明,模因不仅在话语上产生公众,而且可以影响日常语言中震撼性的符号学转变。
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Papo Reto: The Politics of Enregisterment amid the Crossfire in Rio de Janeiro Papo Reto:里约热内卢大火中的注册政治
IF 0.5 4区 社会学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.1086/718862
Daniel N. Silva
This essay studies papo reto (straight talk) activist register as an enregistered social formation that indexes practices, relations, and personae belonging in Brazil’s favelas (low-income neighborhoods). Drawing from fieldwork in the Complexo do Alemão favelas in Rio de Janeiro, I discuss three case studies that showcase prototypical pragmatic features of papo reto (suspension of face concerns; directness; and indexically valued tropism). In juxtaposing findings from the sociology of violence in Brazil with my informants’ ethnopragmatics, I conclude that papo reto activist register is a crucial language game for surviving the “crossfire,” that is, the violent dispute between the normative regimes of the state and the “world of crime” in favelas. Further, in its rewording of the “convoluted” language of bureaucracy and other upscale registers to a “direct” and more participatory speech level, papo reto activist register is a fundamental weapon for the political participation of Blacks and other minorities in one of the world’s most unequal countries.
这篇文章研究了直言不讳的活动家登记册,它是一个登记的社会组织,索引了巴西favelas(低收入社区)的实践、关系和人物。根据在巴西里约热内卢的Complexo do alem贫民窟的田野调查,我讨论了三个案例研究,展示了papo reto(暂停面部关注;率直的;指标值向性)。在将巴西暴力社会学的研究结果与我的线人的民族语用学研究结果并列后,我得出结论,在“交火”(即国家规范制度与贫民窟“犯罪世界”之间的暴力争端)中生存下来的关键语言游戏是papo reto活动家登记。此外,在将官僚主义和其他高级登记册的“复杂”语言重新措辞为“直接”和更具参与性的演讲水平时,papo reto活动家登记册是黑人和其他少数民族在世界上最不平等的国家之一参与政治的基本武器。
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引用次数: 9
Rhymed Talk and Ideophones: Recovering Extinct Discourse Practices from Russian Realist Fiction 押韵与意象:从俄罗斯现实主义小说中恢复已绝迹的话语实践
IF 0.5 4区 社会学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.1086/718860
B. Maslov, T. Nikitina
This article presents a case for approaching works of nineteenth-century realist fiction as proto-ethnographic documents that contain unique evidence for reconstructing extinct discourse practices. We focus on two previously undescribed phenomena: improvised rhyming in sparring dialogue, and the use of ideophones in oral storytelling.
本文提出了一个案例,将19世纪现实主义小说作品作为原始民族志文献,其中包含重建已灭绝话语实践的独特证据。我们关注两个先前描述过的现象:陪练对话中的即兴押韵,以及口述故事中表意音的使用。
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引用次数: 0
Polyphony and the Carnivalesque in Kyiv 复调和基辅的狂欢节
IF 0.5 4区 社会学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.1086/718897
Łukasz Gemziak
This article analyzes the significance of the place in Kyiv where the statue of Lenin stood before it was toppled during the Euromaidan protests. Following the monument’s demolition, many works of art have been successively exhibited on this site. Drawing on Bakhtin’s concept of the carnival sense of the world, the article suggests that these sculptures, installations, and performances have demonstrated the permanent carnivalesque potential of the place. Moreover, as different representations of Ukrainian memory and identity, these works of art have created a polyphony of voices about the Ukrainian past, present, and future. The research explains the significance of this phenomenon for the Ukrainian society.
这篇文章分析了基辅列宁雕像在Euromaidan抗议活动中被推倒之前矗立的地方的意义。纪念碑被拆除后,许多艺术作品相继在这里展出。根据巴赫金的狂欢世界观,文章认为这些雕塑、装置和表演展示了这个地方永恒的狂欢潜力。此外,作为乌克兰记忆和身份的不同表现,这些艺术作品创造了关于乌克兰过去、现在和未来的复调声音。这项研究解释了这一现象对乌克兰社会的意义。
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引用次数: 1
Artificial Skin and Biopolitical Masks, or How to Deal with Face-Habits 人造皮肤和生物政治面具,或者如何处理脸部习惯
IF 0.5 4区 社会学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1086/717563
Cristina Voto
Building on the case study of the performative practice of voguing within ballroom culture among LGBTQIA+ communities, the aim of this article is to recognize a facial agency capable of putting into tension three thresholds of meaning: visibility and invisibility; identity and otherness; nature and artifice. On the basis of these tensions, interpretive habits concerning identity are incorporated into the face as a semiotic dispositif that negotiate sociocultural expectations and limitations. These habits, when agentively performed through the face, give shape to a communicative project that manipulates platforms of identity into biopolitical masks. The analysis will also give an account of how “worn” biopolitical masks reproduce and perform a facial monstrum, or warning, and how this specification warns others of the normativity of aesthetic and biopolitical appearance while activating an intentional transformation of identity.
本文以LGBTQIA+社区在舞厅文化中的表演实践为案例研究,旨在识别一个能够使三个意义阈值变得紧张的面部代理:可见性和不可见性;身份和另类;自然和技巧。基于这些紧张关系,关于身份的解释习惯被纳入面部,作为一种符号处置,协商社会文化期望和限制。当这些习惯通过面部进行代理时,就会形成一个沟通项目,将身份平台操纵成生物政治面具。该分析还将说明“佩戴”的生物政治面具是如何再现和表现面部表情或警告的,以及该规范是如何警告其他人审美和生物政治外表的规范性,同时激活身份的有意转变的。
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Qualia of Proximity and Materiality in Classic Maya Hieroglyphs 经典玛雅象形文字中的接近性和物质性
IF 0.5 4区 社会学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1086/717562
Mallory E. Matsumoto
Drawing on the Peircean concepts of qualia and qualisign (Munn 1986; Keane 2003; Chumley and Harkness 2013), I propose that Classic Maya hieroglyphs were associated with two fundamental sensorial experiences, materiality and proximity, which were expressed by coordinating lexical, morphological, syntactic, and pragmatic strategies. I argue that Classic Mayan terminology distributed materiality between three basic qualisigns by privileging tactile and technological experiences of scribal production above interaction with the finished text. Qualia of proximity, in turn, implied differential access to hieroglyphic writing and its recorded knowledge with qualisigns that distinguished producers from patrons or owners. A semiotic approach articulates the material, the corporal, and the social in Classic Maya ontologies of writing and reveals the relational nature of hieroglyphic production and access. It also offers a theoretical consideration of the role of morphology, syntax, and pragmatics in culturally conditioned experiences of qualities and their interpretations.
借鉴皮尔斯的夸利亚和夸利西恩概念(Munn 1986;Keane 2003;Chumley和Harkness 2013),我认为经典的玛雅象形文字与两种基本的感官体验有关,即物质性和接近性,这两种体验通过协调词汇、形态、句法和语用策略来表达。我认为,经典的玛雅术语通过将书面作品的触觉和技术体验置于与最终文本的互动之上,在三个基本资格之间分配了物质性。反过来,接近性的特质意味着对象形文字及其记录知识的不同获取,以及区分生产者和赞助人或所有者的特质。符号学方法阐明了经典玛雅书写本体论中的物质、身体和社会,并揭示了象形文字产生和获取的关系本质。它还提供了形态学、句法和语用学在文化条件下的素质体验及其解释中的作用的理论思考。
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Sacred Skin: The Religious Significance of Medieval Scars 神圣的皮肤:中世纪伤疤的宗教意义
IF 0.5 4区 社会学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1086/717561
Kathryn Dickason
While numerous studies have addressed medieval wounds, few scholars have critically examined the religious role of scars in medieval Europe. This article incorporates theological writings, hagiography (saints’ biographies), chivalric romances, and the visual arts to assess the semiotic significance of medieval scars. This article uses Roland Barthes’s notion of semanticization as an organizing principle. As Barthes has shown, the process of meaning-making is contingent upon its social context. Indeed, semanticization allows the conventionality of signs to operate. This article explores how Western medieval Christianity, with its repository of values and symbolism, enabled scars to function as signs. The religious context undergirding medieval scars allowed them to transcend from traces of accidental bodily markings to portals to rich theological significance.
虽然许多研究都涉及中世纪的伤口,但很少有学者批判性地审视中世纪欧洲伤疤的宗教作用。这篇文章结合了神学著作、圣徒传记、骑士小说和视觉艺术来评估中世纪伤疤的符号学意义。本文采用罗兰·巴特的语义化概念作为组织原则。正如巴特所表明的,意义生成的过程取决于它的社会语境。事实上,语义化允许符号的惯例性运作。本文探讨了西方中世纪基督教是如何凭借其价值观和象征主义的宝库,使伤疤成为一种标志。支撑中世纪伤疤的宗教背景使它们超越了偶然的身体标记的痕迹,成为丰富的神学意义的门户。
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Colon + Hyphen + Right Paren: At the Origins of Face Semiotics from Smileys to Memes 冒号+连字符+右括号:从笑脸符号到表情包的面部符号学起源
IF 0.5 4区 社会学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1086/717560
Gabriele Marino
The article engages with the semiotics of “stylized faces” in online communication, focusing on “smileys.” It reconstructs the origins of both emoticons and emojis, outlining how they differ functionally (paralinguistic signs vs. narrative figures) and commenting on their pragmatics, with regard to the issue of literacy as related to generational fruition. A chronology is provided of the first tokens of smileys in written communication, both before and after the Internet. By relying upon the anthropology of the face dating back to prehistory, the issues of iconism and universality are discussed, supporting the view that there is a strong cultural, conventional component in face depiction, varying diachronically (emoticons versus emojis) and diatopically (emoticons versus kaomojis, i.e., Japanese emoticons). Emoticons and emojis are regarded as prominent examples of intermedia, working at the intersection of written word and image. Finally, stylized digital faces are set in the broader framework of Internet memes, thus discussing the dichotomy between structural memes (the focus is on the formula) and iconic memes (the focus is on the image and, thus, the face). Throughout the text, great care is devoted to the philology of sources, some of them being presented in this form for the first time.
这篇文章探讨了在线交流中“程式化面孔”的符号学,重点是“笑脸”。它重构了表情符号和表情符号的起源,概述了它们在功能上的区别(副语言符号与叙事符号),并就与代际成果相关的识字问题评论了它们的语用学。在互联网之前和之后的书面交流中,提供了笑脸符号的第一个符号的年表。通过对史前面孔的人类学研究,本文讨论了象征主义和普遍性问题,支持以下观点:在面部描绘中存在强烈的文化传统成分,这些成分在历时上(emoticon vs emojis)和历时上(emoticon vs kaomojis,即日本的表情符号)存在差异。表情符号和表情符号被认为是中间媒体的突出例子,是文字和图像的交汇点。最后,将程式化的数字面孔置于更广泛的网络模因框架中,从而讨论了结构性模因(关注公式)和标志性模因(关注图像,因此关注面孔)之间的二分法。在整个文本中,非常小心地致力于来源的语言学,其中一些是第一次以这种形式呈现。
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