Appeals to Semiotic Registers in Ethno‐Metapragmatic Accounts of Variation

Williams, Cara Penry

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“…The semiotics developed by Barthes connects a text with the macro structures (myths, ideologies) of a society, which is further referred to as ethno-semiotics [21]. Thus, signs and language are not only studied at the syntactic level but also at the semantic and pragmatic levels.…”

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Understanding Regional Budget Reality in the Framework of Ethno-Semiotics

Pasoloran,

Matasik

2023

Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research

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The aim of this research is to understand how regional budget actors and communities interpret the community aspiration fund in regional budgeting. The discourse on the "community aspiration fund" has become one of the realities of regional budgeting that has caused contradictions. This study uses an ethnosemiotic approach to understand how regional budget actors and communities read or interpret the sign of the community aspiration fund in their social context and also understand the socio-political relations and institutions behind the text and develop connotative meanings towards myths and ideologies. The results of this study show that: (1) at the level of the sign, the community aspiration fund serves as a means to serve the interests of "constituent" communities and becomes one consideration for equalizing between electoral districts, (2) at the micro level, the community aspiration fund is interpreted as a trust fund, tactical, political, conspiracy, inspiration of budget actors, loss of meaning, and other things that are considered not to have a broad impact on the community, (3) at the macro level, this study obtains an understanding that the community aspiration fund is a myth that is actually arbiter and connotative. The community aspiration fund has diffused as a narrative created for the interests of budget actors, becoming a ritual in regional budgeting and ultimately becoming "sacred" because social movements that doubt the policy of the community aspiration fund as a means to create community welfare have emerged.

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Understanding Regional Budget Reality in the Framework of Ethno-Semiotics

Pasoloran,

Matasik

2023

Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research

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“…This is an example of how semiotic resources are clustered in metalinguistic discourse, showing how enregisterment happens (cf. Williams ). In other words, we get insight into speakers’ own understandings of variation: certain usages are seen as proper AdaSL while others are not.…”

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One Village, Two Sign Languages: Qualia, Intergenerational Relationships and the Language Ideological Assemblage in Adamorobe, Ghana

Kusters¹

2019

J Linguistic Anthropol

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“Adamorobe signing is sweet,” “The signing in Adamorobe is hard,” “Adamorobe’s deaf people should sign in an eye‐hard way.” These are discourses about signing in Adamorobe Sign Language (AdaSL), a sign language used in Adamorobe, an Akan farmer village in southern Ghana distinguished by a history of hereditary deafness. By calling AdaSL sweet, hard and so on, deaf people in Adamorobe attribute qualia (sensuous qualities which can include hardness, lightness, dryness, and so on) to different forms of signing. Based on fieldwork stints in Adamorobe spread over a period of 10 years, I analyze how qualic evaluations of AdaSL are expressed differently by deaf people from different generations who have had different rates of exposure to Ghanaian Sign Language in addition to AdaSL. Qualic evaluations of AdaSL are related to qualic evaluations of behavior (Gal 2013; Harkness 2015): there are parallels in discourses about AdaSL being hard and deaf people being hard of character and being hardworking strong farmers. Qualic evaluations of language and social relationships permeate discourses about intergenerational differences, constituting a recurrent theme in the language ideological assemblage (i.e., clusters of language ideologies and other ideologies that impact on language) (Kroskrity 2018).

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English and Bivalent Class Indexicality in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Valentinsson¹

2020

Handbook of the Changing World Language Map

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Research on the relationship between language use and class has typically focused on how one feature, or a set of features, indexes a single, specific class identity or positionality. This chapter expands sociolinguistic understandings of language and class through a focus on the use and avoidance of English among young adults in Argentina. Despite the status of Spanish as the national language of Argentina, the long-standing political and cultural relationship between Argentina and Great Britain has historically linked English to social types and positions seen as elitist, privileged, and snobbish. In more recent years, the spread of "English as a/the global language" discourse has led to a revalorization of English as a marker of education and positively valued upward social mobility. Young adults in Argentina must contend with the implications of both of these discourses in their own linguistic negotiation of class identity. While they may at times use English in their everyday speech to index an upwardly mobile, globally oriented positionality, they also modulate when and where they use English to avoid being labeled as snobbish or elitist. The data of this chapter illustrate how elements of English use can simultaneously index contrasting class identities. More broadly,

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Appeals to Semiotic Registers in Ethno‐Metapragmatic Accounts of Variation

Cited by 5 publications

References 47 publications

Understanding Regional Budget Reality in the Framework of Ethno-Semiotics

Understanding Regional Budget Reality in the Framework of Ethno-Semiotics

One Village, Two Sign Languages: Qualia, Intergenerational Relationships and the Language Ideological Assemblage in Adamorobe, Ghana

English and Bivalent Class Indexicality in Buenos Aires, Argentina

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