Holocaust commemoration and affective practice: a rhetorical ethnography of audience applause

Richardson, John

doi:10.1080/10350330.2020.1810542

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“…"the actions and artefacts we use to communicate" (Van Leeuwen 2005, 3). Thus, the affordance-driven analysis undertaken here continues the ongoing investigation into the social semiotics of affect (Björkvall, Van Meerbergen, and Westberg 2020;Milani and Mortensen 2020;Milani and Mortensen 2020;Motschenbacher 2020;Richardson 2020;Thurlow 2020;Thurlow 2020;Zieba 2020).…”

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Desiring the indigenous: affective commodification of the Sámi

Westberg

2021

Social Semiotics

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This paper argues that the multimodal enactment of affect plays a key role in the commodification of indigenous cultures. Departing from an understanding of affect as integral to discourse, the paper investigates how indigenous cultures are construed as an object of consumerist desire by employing subject formation, strategic perspectivation and affordance as conceptual starting points. As a case in point, affective meaning-making is studied as it is semiotically materialized in the commodification of Sámi culture by the predominant actor in marketing indigenous experiences in Sweden. By pondering the social force of affective meaning-making from the perspective of the perceived consumer, the analysis reveals that consumers are invited to affectively encounter the Sámi through curiosity, tranquility and excitement. However, the paper contends that the representations not only enable positive emotions; they also work their social force by constraining engagement in any disturbing, conflicting or uncomfortable emotions that are associated with the post-colonial heritage of the Sámi.

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Desiring the indigenous: affective commodification of the Sámi

Westberg

2021

Social Semiotics

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“…Correspondingly, semiotician John Richardson also identifies “applause” as a sociological strategy. He writes: “Affective practices like [clapping] are learnt rather than autonomous responses—that is, they are relatively routine, relatively ordered and prefigured processes which relate to specific social encounters, social actions and social relations” (2020, 13). When connecting such ideas about affective practices with a thinking, social body, the idea of affect becomes much more nuanced.…”

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“…Richardson also illustrates mutual monitoring among audience members in his evaluation of a Holocaust commemoration ceremony. The audience had been asked not to clap beforehand because of the nature of the event: “Today is a ceremony, not a performance” (2020, 8) 11 . Nonetheless, some in attendance clapped anyway from time to time.…”

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“…Richardson observed that the “affective action” of applause made everyone else uncomfortable because of the contextual mismatch. The impropriety of clapping agitated audience members who followed instructions and did not clap, Richardson posits, because “as a collectivity, the audience had failed to coordinate their behaviour as properly directed” (2020, 10). As a result, some non-clapping participants engaged in whispers and/or slight movements that signaled their awareness of the clapping policy while simultaneously chastising the offenders.…”

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Curtain Calls in Dance: Negotiating the Terms of Disengagement

Clark

2023

Dance Res. J.

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Through curtain calls in Eurocentric theatrical dance forms, dance artists, audience members, and staff coordinate how dance concerts end and participants disperse. Nevertheless, despite the widespread use of such practices, the rituals of bows and applause have largely eluded critical inquiry. This article offers dance practitioners choices toward thoughtfully negotiating the processes of engagement and disengagement in groups contingently assembled for dance events. A brief historical inquiry introduces how such behaviors may enact deeply embedded, power-laden agendas of relationship. Then, curtain calls are revealed as complex spaces of intersubjective negotiations, iterative of numerous possible functions at work.

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“…Even if some researchers consider the claps or applauses as a behavior of an emotional response to semiotic stimuli (Richardson, 2021 ), this essay argues that it is a misconception to circumscribe such complex behavior to a specific category of inner states, being emotion, cognition, or attitudes. Other conceptions, like Atkinson ( 1984 ), that "one person may clap their hands, but it only becomes applause when several do so repeatedly and at the same time" (p. 21) may cloud this behavior rather than help.…”

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Clap, Clap, Clap - Unsystematic Review Essay on Clapping and Applause

Crawley¹

2023

Integr. psych. behav.

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The rationale for the following unsystematic review article is to provide a dense description of clapping behavior from an ethological, psychological, anthropological, sociological, ontological, and even physiological perspective. The article delves into its historical uses, possible biological-ethological evolution, and primitive and cultural polysemic-multipurpose social functions. It explores the different distal and immediate messages transmitted by the simple act of clapping, to its more complex attributes like synchronicity, social contagion, as a device of social status signaling, soft biometric data, and its, till now, mysterious subjective experience. The subtle distinction between clapping and applause will be explored. A list of primary social functions will be introduced based on the literature on clapping. In addition, a series of unresolved questions and possible research avenues will be suggested. In contrast, out of the scope of the essay and published as a second article will be the contents of clapping morphological variations and a comprehensive description of purposes achieved through them.

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Holocaust commemoration and affective practice: a rhetorical ethnography of audience applause

Cited by 4 publications

References 25 publications

Desiring the indigenous: affective commodification of the Sámi

Desiring the indigenous: affective commodification of the Sámi

Curtain Calls in Dance: Negotiating the Terms of Disengagement

Clap, Clap, Clap - Unsystematic Review Essay on Clapping and Applause

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