Language and Materiality (eBook, ePUB)

Ethnographic and Theoretical Explorations
Redaktion: Cavanaugh, Jillian R.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Language and Materiality integrates linguistic anthropological and sociolinguistic scholarship on a range of topics: semiotic approaches to language, language commodification, sound, embodiment, mediatization, and aesthetics. Empirically rigorous, the volume engages scholars and students interested in language, its use, and meanings. It consists of three sections - 'Texts, Objects, Mediality', 'Sound, Aesthetics, Embodiment', and 'Time, Place, Circulation' - containing chapters and short commentaries, framed by a curated conversation about semiotics and materiality in anthropology. Each section theorizes intersections, connections, and relationships between language and materiality across diverse topics and ethnographic contexts. The volume shows that materiality may be approached as a feature of political economy, sensual experience, aesthetics, and affective relationships in its relation to language as talk, register, genre, ideology, and acoustic object. It consists of new perspectives on materiality as a vital dimension of social life and signification in global capitalism, connecting inquiries on subjects as diverse as food, media, fonts, and music.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316850800
• Artikelnr.: 49271453

Inhaltsangabe

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.