Language in an ontological register: Embodied speech in the Northwest Amazon of Colombia and Brazil
Publication date: Available online 12 April 2018 Source:Language & Communication Author(s): Janet Chernela Speakers of Eastern Tukanoan languages in Brazil and Colombia construe linguistic differences as indices of group identity, intrinsic to a complex ontology in which language is a consubstantial, metaphysical product—a 'substance' in the development of the person. Through speech, speakers of the same language signal a corporality based in theories of shared ancestry and mutual belonging while speakers of different languages signal difference. For Tukanoans, then, one creates one’s self in the act of spea...
Source: Language and Communication - April 12, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Doing being an ordinary technology and social media user
Publication date: May 2018 Source:Language & Communication, Volume 60 Author(s): Jessica S. Robles, Stephen DiDomenico, Joshua Raclaw This paper uses discourse and conversation analysis of naturally-occuring conversations to describe how participants construct themselves as “ordinary” users of communication technologies—devices such as mobile phones, their communicative affordances, and the mediated interaction they enable (e.g., access to online communication via social media platforms). The three practices analyzed are (1) managing motivations by downplaying interest and stake in using technology and p...
Source: Language and Communication - April 7, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
On logophagy and truth: Interpretation through incorporation among Peruvian Urarina
Publication date: Available online 4 April 2018 Source:Language & Communication Author(s): Harry Walker This paper develops an Amazonian critique of Western theories of interpretation as grounded in correspondence between a proposition and a state of affairs, and of truth as correspondence between mind and reality. For the Peruvian Urarina, language has materiality and force and implies a non-arbitrary relationship between signifier and signified, and is moreover based in a very different mode of adequation of person to world: a process grounded in absorption rather than representation. The view that words are e...
Source: Language and Communication - April 5, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Legitimation strategies in the Greek paradigm: A comparative analysis of Syriza and New Democracy
This article examines the legitimising discourse of two political parties, New Democracy and Syriza, in their political advertisements filmed for the Greek legislative election in September 2015. It also aspires to suggest a way for multimodal research to stave off the criticism about impressionistic analyses it faces via implementing triangulation. The findings suggest that Syriza exploited the modes of gaze and voice, deployed an emotional discourse and linked the election with the antecedent election and referendum that occurred earlier in 2015. As for ND, its legitimation depended on instrumental rationalisation and na...
Source: Language and Communication - April 4, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Bodies that speak: Languages of differentiation and becoming in Amazonia
Publication date: Available online 30 March 2018 Source:Language & Communication Author(s): Casey High In this article I consider the metaphysical underpinnings of a specific language ideology in Amazonian Ecuador by comparing Waorani ideas about the agency of speech in shamanism and funerary practices to their engagements in language documentation. I relate the notion of language as a force inseparable from the bodies of speakers to concepts of language as “culture” in research to document their language. By considering how Waorani consultants have come to see certain features of their language in video rec...
Source: Language and Communication - March 30, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
