Sloganization and the Political Pragmatics of Interdiscursivity: The Social Life of a Haitian Political Critique

Joersz, Alison C.

doi:10.1111/jola.12105

Cited by 5 publications

(7 citation statements)

References 26 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…From transposition and other strategies of delegitimation (Shoaps ) to branding, framing, and stance taking (Lempert and Silverstein ), creationist poetics and political language in the United States reveal how the ideological potency of discourse draws from socially circulating forms of linguistic creativity (cf. Joersz ).…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Particles‐to‐People…Molecules‐to‐Man”: Creationist Poetics in Public Debates

Bielo¹

2019

J Linguistic Anthropol

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This article examines religious language in a contested public sphere by analyzing performances of linguistic creativity among creationists in the United States. The public creation‐evolution debate has been a central speech event in the development of modern creationism, and functions as a key site for claiming cultural legitimacy. Focusing on three creation‐evolution debates spanning 33 years, I advance the concept of “creationist poetics” to capture how framing, stance taking, and speech play define the performance repertoire of creationists in the debate context. In particular, I illustrate how creationist speakers work to create a conspiracy‐populist frame and a revealer stance. Together, these strategies sketch a lifeworld that envisions elitist “secular” actors suppressing scriptural authority and creationists as humble, clear‐eyed people exposing the conspiracy through scriptural fidelity. I argue that this system of poetics is a key expressive resource in the ongoing struggle to wrest authority away from evolutionary science and claim it for biblical fundamentalism. Ultimately, this analysis of creationist poetics informs our understanding of how authority as a contingent social process is discursively mediated, a central theme in the study of both religious and political language.

show abstract

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Particles‐to‐People…Molecules‐to‐Man”: Creationist Poetics in Public Debates

Bielo¹

2019

J Linguistic Anthropol

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…And, in an analysis of identity-work through musical performance and consumption practices, Carla Guerrón-Montero (2006) shows how Afro-Panamanians have appropriated both Panamanian "national" genres of music and Caribbean genres such as calypso and soca to position themselves as cosmopolitan Panamanian citizens, reworking the expectations of international tourists' stereotypes into their own project of cultural revival. Joersz (2015) takes up the processes of sloganisation through which the catchy lyrics of a carnival song catalyzed uptake to launch widespread political critiques of corruption and inaction in Haiti. The poetics of the call-and-response refrains in the Brothers Posse song "Aloral" (excerpted in the epigraph of this section) provide a readily repeatable contrast between aloral ("all talk") and ateri ("results").…”

Section: Why Study Languagementioning

confidence: 99%

Voices in a Sea of History: Why Study Language in the Caribbean

Wirtz

2022

J Latin Amer Carib Anth

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In celebration of the 15th anniversary of this journal's name change, I situate recent linguistic anthropological scholarship in the Caribbean in a broader, interdisciplinary context. Caribbean ways of speaking—and especially contact languages such as creoles—have often been exceptionalised and subject to stereotypes. Taking Derek Walcott's “sea of history” as a key trope, I discuss the historical crosscurrents that have produced the diversity of Caribbean voices and their impact on the politics of language today. Attending to issues of voice and poetics demonstrates the creative mobilization of linguistic resources to impact politics, media, children's socialization, identity claims, and reclamations of deep ancestry. Such efforts contest the scholarly fragmentation of a region framed as having too much history and too shallow roots, to show productive connections with a broader anthropology of the Americas. The goal of this review is to make a compelling case for the ethnographic study of language in the Caribbean.

show abstract

“…It could be argued that the retweets, through the hashtag, maintained their link to the source critique and political agenda entailed in #MeToo, and thereby served to further build and organize the public. But on the contrary, it can be understood in terms of a “sloganization process” (Joersz, ). This is a process whereby a campaign is transformed from expressing a “singular, direct critique,” into just making a repeated “indirect reference signaling a political stance” (Joersz, , p. 317).…”

Section: Increasing Re‐circulationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…But on the contrary, it can be understood in terms of a “sloganization process” (Joersz, ). This is a process whereby a campaign is transformed from expressing a “singular, direct critique,” into just making a repeated “indirect reference signaling a political stance” (Joersz, , p. 317). Slogans, by definition, are very powerful as rhetorical tools, as they come across as “true” and don’t invite doubt.…”

Section: Increasing Re‐circulationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Movement Mobilization in the Age of Hashtag Activism: Examining the Challenge of Noise, Hate, and Disengagement in the #MeToo Campaign

Lindgren¹

2019

Policy & Internet

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This article analyses the challenges faced by the #MeToo campaign, during its first weeks of existence on Twitter. These included the challenges of maintaining its frame, and making a consistent impact in a complex and volatile media landscape. This mixed‐methods study draws on a data set of four million tweets accessed through Twitter's public data interface. It addresses the following research questions: To what degree did the #MeToo campaign on Twitter have a clear focus, and was it able to maintain it? How did the tone of the campaign on Twitter change over time, in terms of the positivity or negativity of expressed sentiments? To what extent were tweets simply reiterated, or instead made the subject of customization and active debate? The article finds that #MeToo quickly started to lose its momentum after the initial and explosive impact, with noise, antagonism, and sloganization increasingly weighing down and diluting the campaign. However, a cross‐platform perspective is needed to grasp a full picture of how hashtag activism functions; including the #MeToo campaign.

show abstract

Sloganization and the Political Pragmatics of Interdiscursivity: The Social Life of a Haitian Political Critique

Abstract: In the weeks leading up to the 2013 Carnival season in

Cited by 5 publications

References 26 publications

“Particles‐to‐People…Molecules‐to‐Man”: Creationist Poetics in Public Debates

“Particles‐to‐People…Molecules‐to‐Man”: Creationist Poetics in Public Debates

Voices in a Sea of History: Why Study Language in the Caribbean

Movement Mobilization in the Age of Hashtag Activism: Examining the Challenge of Noise, Hate, and Disengagement in the #MeToo Campaign

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About