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Linguistic Hauntings at the Margins of China
Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 29, Issue 4, Page 237-249, September 2025.ABSTRACT This study examines emotional and material traces lingering in the aftermath of forced linguistic landscape transformations in Inner Mongolia following the implementation of a new assimilationist national language policy in 2022. Drawing on ethnographic and linguistic landscape data, the study specifically examines how the multilingual signs ...
Gegentuul Baioud
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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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Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 29, Issue 4, Page 250-267, September 2025.ABSTRACT This paper responds to a recent call to develop a sociolinguistics of potentiality by examining how semiotic and multilingual practices may participate in processes of ethical world‐building. It looks at contexts where minoritized language speakers who are subjected to colonial government use colonial languages (e.g., English) along with other
Muzna Awayed‐Bishara
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Comics und der myopische Blick : Strafen für unerwartete und wirkungsvolle Texte [PDF]
, 2004 A remarkable indictment and conviction following the sale of an ‘obscene’ comic book invites us to examine arguments brought forth to describe a specifically childlike reception of new media, as usually suggested by those who would motivate legal ...
Packard, Stephan
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Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Volume 25, Issue 2, Page 200-213, September 2025.Abstract The Sundarbans as a region is shared between Bangladesh (60%) and India (40%) and forms an intriguing geography to understand not only the consequences of macro‐political landmarks such as the partition, it is an arable field to explore the intersections of people, history, and politics‐ with a particular recognition of the constructions ...
Sneha Roy
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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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Mind, Cognition, Semiosis: Ways to Cognitive Semiotics [PDF]
, 2018 What is meaning-making? How do new domains of meanings emerge in the course of child’s development? What is the role of consciousness in this process? What is the difference between making sense of pointing, pantomime and language utterances?
Konderak, Piotr
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Sustainable Development, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 3228-3245, June 2025.ABSTRACT Recently, scholarly communities of practice have emerged with the objective of decolonizing knowledge practices within sustainable development. Their contributions to sustainability and systems change remain underexplored, possibly due to the absence of appropriate conceptual tools to analyze them. This study applies a new conceptual framework
Sarah Cummings +2 more
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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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, 2008 The great divide of modern thought is whether mind is real or naught. The conceit that either mind is reducible to matter or that mind is utterly ethereal is rooted in a mind-versus-matter dichotomy that can be characterized as the modern error, a ...
Halton, Eugene
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