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1 online resource (xvi, 303 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Images -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Toward a Theory of Language Materiality: An Introduction -- 2 Curated Conversation: â#x80;#x9C;Materiality: Itâ#x80;#x99;s the Stuff!â#x80;#x9D; -- Part I Texts, Objects, Mediality -- 3 Japanâ#x80;#x99;s Trendy Word Grand Prix and Kanji of the Year: Commodified Language Forms in Multiple Contexts -- 4 Fontroversy! Or, How to Care about the Shape of Language -- 5 Spelling Materiality: The Branded Business of Competitive Spelling |
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Part II Transformation, Aesthetics, Embodiment6 How the Sausage Gets Made: Food Safety and the Mediality of Talk, Documents, and Food Practices -- 7 â#x80;#x9C;Your Mouth Is Your Lorry!â#x80;#x9D;: How Honk Horns Voice the Acoustic Materiality of Reputation in Accra -- 8 Transduction in Religious Discourse: Vocalization and Sound Reproduction in Mauritian Muslim Devotional Practices -- Part III Time, Place, Circulation -- 9 Making and Marketing in the Bilingual Periphery: Materialization as Metacultural Transformation |
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10 Word-things and Thing-words: The Transmodal Production of Privilege and Status11 Language and Materiality in the Renaming of Indigenous North American Languages and Peoples -- 12 The Semiotic Ecology of Drinks and Talk in Georgia -- Part IV More Stuff: Short Topical Commentaries on Language and Materiality and Afterword -- Can Language Be a Commodity? -- Language, Music, Materiality (and Immateriality): Entanglements beyond the â#x80;#x9C;Symbolicâ#x80;#x9D; -- Why Bodies Matter -- Physicality and Texts: Rematerializing the Transparent |
| Summary |
"Language and Materiality integrates linguistic anthropological and sociolinguistic scholarship on a range of topics: semiotic approaches to language, language commodification, sound, embodiment, mediatization, and aesthetics. Empirically rigorous, the volume engages scholars and students interested in language, its use, and meanings. It consists of three sections - "Texts, Objects, Mediality," "Sound, Aesthetics, Embodiment," and "Time, Place, Circulation"--Containing chapters and short commentaries, framed by a curated conversation about semiotics and materiality in anthropology. Each section theorizes intersections, connections, and relationships between language and materiality across diverse topics and ethnographic contexts. The volume shows that materiality may be approached as a feature of political economy, sensual experience, aesthetics, and affective relationships in its relation to language as talk, register, genre, ideology, and acoustic object. It consists of new perspectives on materiality as a vital dimension of social life and signification in global capitalism, connecting inquiries on subjects as diverse as food, media, fonts, and music"-- Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Anthropological linguistics.
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Semiotics.
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anthropological linguistics.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Anthropological linguistics
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Semiotics
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Ethnolinguistique.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cavanaugh, Jillian R., editor
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Shankar, Shalini, 1972- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781316855003 |
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1316855007 |
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9781316854655 |
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1316854655 |
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9781316848418 |
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1316848418 |
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9781316853955 |
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1316853950 |
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1316632393 |
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9781316632390 |
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