Video essay 𝑅𝐺𝐵𝐹𝐴𝑄 by #AlanWarburton traces a recent history of what he terms the #hyperimage, drafting a trajectory from computer graphics to synthetic data and examining how images have become increasingly unmoored from photographic #indexicality 🪞 🧩
> aksioma.org/becomingimage/symposium/rgbfaq/
TIL:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indexic...
In #semiotics, #linguistics, #anthropology, and #philosophy of language #indexicality is the phenomenon of a sign pointing to some element in the context in which it occurs. A sign that signifies #indexically is called an index or, in philosophy an #indexical.
I have a chapter in the volume Sprachgebrauch und Sprachidentitäten.
"Non-standard typography as performative protection: From indexicality to enregisterment" can be read here:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
#Sociolinguistics #Grapholinguistics #Enregisterment #Indexicality
NEW ON FIRSTVIEW
"Migrating meanings: Language (re)valuation in a two-way parallel migration context" by Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales
#Indexicality #SocialMeaning #NingboFenghua #MigrationAndLanguage #LanguageAttitudes
doi.org/10.1017/S004...
NEW FROM 55(1)
"‘Wasp porn’: The discursive construction of ridicule and the right to joke about science" by @petercramer.bsky.social
#Narrative #Stance #Entitlement #Indexicality #Humor #Literacy #ScientificPopularization
doi.org/10.1017/S004...
‘Why movies just don’t feel “real” anymore’ — watch this
#filmsky #cinema #indexicality
credit: @tomvanderlinden.bsky.social
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"On ‘doing being moral’ in the research interview" by
Robert William Schrauf & Patria C. López de Victoria Rodríguez
doi.org/10.1017/S004...
#NarrativeAnalysis #Indexicality #Disaster #SemistructuredInterview #SocialScienceInterview #Morality #Ethics #NomicCalibration
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"“Can a minister say qǐyè?”: How a non-standard tone becomes indexical of the national other" by Hsi-Yao Su, @tsunglunone.bsky.social, Wan-Hsin Ann Lee
doi.org/10.1017/S004...
#Indexicality #LgIdeology #TonalVariation #Enregisterment #LanguagePolicing #Metapragmatics #Taiwan
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#3 "The code of the streets in Beijing: Style-shifting and changing personae in the performance of Beijing male rappers" by Tianxiao Wang
#HipHop #Indexicality #Iconicity #Performance #MandarinChinese
doi.org/10.1017/S004...
A tour-de-force demonstration by sociophonetician @tsunglunone.bsky.social of how post-racial colorblind ideologies are violently racist: this time through the lens of Vietnamese immigrants in Taiwan.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#sociolinguistics #linguistics #racism #indexicality #TikTok
NEW FROM 54(1)
"The code of the streets in Beijing: Style-shifting and changing personae in the performance of Beijing male rappers" by Tianxiao Wang
#HipHop #Indexicality #Iconicity #Performance #MandarinChinese
doi.org/10.1017/S004...
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#3 "The code of the streets in Beijing: Style-shifting and changing personae in the performance of Beijing male rappers" by Tianxiao Wang
#HipHop #Indexicality #Iconicity #Performance #MandarinChinese
doi.org/10.1017/S004...
NEW #OA ON FIRSTVIEW
"“Hi, I'm Ruan Yuejiao, from Ho Chi Minh City!”: Digital raciolinguistic enregisterment and indexical hijack of the Vietnamese Mandarin accent" by @tsunglunone.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1017/S004...
#Raciolinguistic #Taiwan #VietnameseMigrant #DigitalEnregisterment #Indexicality
NEW #OA FROM 53(5)
"“I repeatedly tell you, the future is yours—the righteous, not the liars”: Hope in Saleh Diab's political speeches in East Jerusalem" by Chaim Noy
#Narrative #Indexicality #IsraelPalestine #SheikhJarrah #Protest #PoliticalDiscourse
doi.org/10.1017/S004...
Asymmetry is the power move, whether in T/V or following/followers. Yes, indexicality always helps! (Bluesky thinks it's misspelled.)
#indexicality
Are you in Taiwan? Come say hi at my talk on 11th December at National Taiwan University's Institute of Linguistics: "Indexicality and Language Change"
#linguistics #sociolinguistics #lvc #variation #soundchange #semiotics #indexicality #Taiwan
My inaugural lecture is now online 🥰
media.ed.ac.uk/media/Profes...
#sociophonetics #sociolinguistics #linguistics #phonetics #semiotics #Peirce #indexicality #social #meaning #research #academic #academia #lecture #Arizona #SanFrancisco #Gaelic #Gàidhlig #Scots #English #professor #babyphotos
A word NÖÖÖDLES written in red block letters. A noodle bar
Here's a photo for your linguistic landscape collection. I found it charming with all the three ööö. Kuala Lumpur airport. #indexicality
We're in paperback!!! And we're 20% off!!! 🎉🎉🎉
Hall-Lew, Lauren, Emma Moore, & Robert J. Podesva (eds.) 2021. Social Meaning and Linguistic Variation: Theorizing the Third Wave. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
#sociolinguistics #variation #indexicality #books