From “Ugh” to Babble (or Babel)

Graham, Laura R.

doi:10.1086/712489

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“…Much of this work has focused on language in images, as, for example, in investigations of the representation of speech variation in audiovisual media (Murphy 1978, Lefkowitz 2000, Bucholtz 2011, Bucholtz & Lopez 2011, Queen 2015, Lopez & Bucholtz 2017, Graham 2020 or of the interplay between speech and visual image (e.g., Lefkowitz 2005Lefkowitz , 2019Meek 2006Meek , 2020Jaworski 2015;Davis 2021). Other works, which I focus on herein, have analyzed images as such.…”

Section: Linguistic Anthropology and Imagesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A burgeoning literature has expanded on these insights to look at the role of image-based media (film, television, photography, social media) in processes of speech enregisterment and their contestation: of dialect (Hillewaert 2015), class (Valentinsson 2022), indigeneity and primitiveness (Meek 2006(Meek , 2020Swinehart 2012;Peterson 2017;Graham 2020), and race (Bucholtz 2011, Bucholtz & Lopez 2011, Wirtz 2014, Reyes 2017, Calhoun 2019, Canut 2019, Smalls 2020, Delfino 2021, Telep 2021.…”

Section: Enregisterment and Peirce's Three Kinds Of Iconicitymentioning

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A Linguistic Anthropology of Images

Nakassis

2023

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

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This review sketches a linguistic anthropology of images. While linguistic anthropology has not historically focalized images as a central theoretical object of concern, linguistic anthropologists’ research has increasingly concerned images of various sorts. Furthermore, in its critique of structuralist reductions of language, the field has advanced an analytic vocabulary for thinking about the image in discourse. In this article, I review scholarship in linguistic anthropology on prototypic images to show how these advances (e.g., entextualization, performativity, perspective, and enregisterment) can be leveraged to theorize images more generally. In doing so, I argue against any hard distinction between language and image. I conclude by expanding out from a linguistic anthropology of images to what I call “a linguistic anthropology of … ,” a field characterized by an open-ended horizon of objects and modes of inquiry, all linked together as linguistic anthropology. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Anthropology, Volume 52 is October 2023. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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