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Tools for relatedness: “Fetishes” in Burkina Faso and the work of enacted metaphors
American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 2, Page 233-243, June 2025.Abstract In West Africa, certain objects can act in the world and interact with people as subjects. Labeled “fetishes” by Europeans, these material things have generated centuries of debates on the nature of their agency. In this article, I rely on participant fieldwork as a student in a group of initiated donso hunters in Burkina Faso, which involved ...
Lorenzo Ferrarini
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Sign as an object of social semiotics: evolution of cartographic semiosis
Sign Systems Studies, 1998 Sign as an object of social semiotics: evolution of cartographic ...
Anti Randviir
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Composing senselessness: Autoethnography after homicide
Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 50, Issue 1, June 2025.Abstract Not all narratives create meaning, or create the same kinds of meaning; instead, some stories amplify meaninglessness, which—it is argued—is its own form of sense‐making. This article examines how meaning is formulated through narrative in the absence of a meaningful death, specifically in the context of a motiveless murder.
Jerome Arrow
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tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 2008 In the perspective of an as yet-to-be-developed Unified Theory of Information as part of an as yet-to-be-developed theory of evolutionary systems semiosis plausibly coincides with self-organisation.
Wolfgang Hofkirchner +1 more
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Wildlife Biology, Volume 2025, Issue 3, May 2025.The fence provides two functions in wildlife management. First, it physically blocks, deters or impedes wild animals from access to protected areas or resources. Second, the fence signals impassability, danger, pain or irritation to animals through both of these pathways: the actual blockade and the signal of no access both communicates to wild animals
Erica von Essen +2 more
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“Are you Navajo or Inuit?” Identity, television dialogue, and Indigenizing semiotics
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 35, Issue 1, May 2025.Abstract This study analyzes Indigenizing semiotic tactics in television narratives from the United States, combining corpus linguistic methodology with a theoretical framing inspired by linguistic anthropology. Given recent changes in the US television landscape, we analyze two landmark series with First Nations showrunners: Reservation Dogs and ...
Monika Bednarek, Barbra A. Meek
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What We Do with the Meanings We Make
Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 29, Issue 5, Page 363-366, November 2025.
Vincent Pak
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Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 35, Issue 1, May 2025.Abstract This article examines competing discourses about Jordanian Sign Language (LIU) among deaf and hearing people in Amman, based on ethnographic fieldwork at an educational start‐up for deaf children and at a deaf cultural center. In these spaces, how my interlocutors discussed the use and value of LIU took on conflicting ideological tones: on the
Timothy Y. Loh
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Situating Experience in Social Meaning: Stance, Salience, and Enregisterment
Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 29, Issue 2, Page 136-147, April 2025.ABSTRACT This article uses mixed methods to establish how social meanings are situated in lived experiences. I test whether Greek listeners recognize features of Istanbul Greek (IG) and whether they associate the same social meanings with the variety as IG speakers. Results from a verbal guise experiment and metapragmatic stancetaking discourse suggest
Matthew John Hadodo
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Publicidad "sub specie semiosis"
Communication & Society, 1970 El propósito de este trabajo es tratar el fenómeno publicitario desde el punto de vista semiótico, sin negar ni reducir a ésta las otras dimensiones del hecho publicitario. Desde el punto de vista semiótico, la publicidad se presenta como un sistema modelizante secundario que proyecta los valores de la cultura según el modelo que ella tiene de sí misma:
Vilarnovo, A. (Antonio) +1 more
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