A semiotics of nonexistence?

Karlander, David

doi:10.1075/ll.18023.kar

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“…It appears and disappears continuously because the official policy defines it as a form of vandalism and has a strict regime of erasure. Karlander (2019) closely examined those anti-graffiti regimes and found that the acts of graffiti erasure often left visible traces behind, which he related to issues of the semiotics of non-existence. Another angle was taken by Seloni and Sarfati (2017), who analyzed graffiti during the Gezi Park protests in Istanbul in the summer of 2013.…”

Section: Graffitimentioning

confidence: 99%

A Panorama of Linguistic Landscape Studies

Gorter¹,

Cenoz²

2023

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Section: Graffitimentioning

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A Panorama of Linguistic Landscape Studies

Gorter¹,

Cenoz²

2023

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“…We could forget this wall, as it would seem to be insignificant due to its lack of visible transgression, outspoken inscriptions, or even other signs beyond its blankness (Karlander 2019;Moore 2019;Bendl 2019;Banda & Jimaima 2019). At first sight, there is seemingly 'nothing'-nothing that would allow us to make conclusions about any diachronic layering of prior discourses (cf.…”

Section: Pervasive Absencementioning

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“…This evidence makes one wonder about 'what' has been erased, 'who' has erased it, as well as 'why' this erasure has taken place. Perhaps the newly installed signs to the right, as adorned with credentials of the Russian Federation, may hold the clue to this semiotics of produced absence (cf Karlander 2019)…”

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Shouting absences: Disentangling the ghosts of Ukraine in occupied Crimea

Volvach

2023

Lang. Soc.

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This article aims to illuminate absences in the semiotic landscape of Crimea, resulting from the erasure of Ukraine after Russia's occupation of Crimea in 2014. By foregrounding what is not there, the study expands semiotic landscapes studies and critical sociolinguistic research more generally by interrogating absence and its haunting effects. More than 3,500 photographs of semiotic landscapes collected over two months of fieldwork between 2017 and 2019 together with fieldnotes serve as ethnographic data. The production of absence is interrogated through an analysis of its material effects, that is, voids, holes, and blank walls. It concludes that erasure does not simply negate Ukraine. Instead, pasts remain present, visible, and audible in semiotic landscapes. Absences, as part of a relational ontology of materiality, discourse, and affect, shout about complex invisibilized histories of violence. In this way, they suggest the need to probe traditional approaches in semiotic landscape research that rely on an ontology of presence. (Absence, trace, materiality, ghost, spectre, haunting, Crimea, Ukraine, semiotic landscape, linguistic landscape, interdiscursivity)*

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“…With the introduction of the concept of language landscapes, graffiti has received attention as a form of atypical language landscape. Karlander (2019) explores the relationship between space and semiotics, suggesting that the cleaned-up graffiti landscape acquires a new symbolic meaning, deepened through the act of cleaning. The act of cleaning itself, like the act of graffiti, holds symbolic meaning, and the cleaned-up graffiti can be seen as a manifestation of strict management and power over space and location.…”

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Analysis of Marginal Discourse: Identity Construction in Campus Wall Graffiti

Chen

2023

ELTLS

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Campus wall graffiti plays a significant role in the identity construction of graffiti artists as a form of marginal discourse. However, due to its long-standing perception as a destructive activity and the unique cultural environment, graffiti research in China has been relatively underdeveloped, with a focus on theoretical investigations. This study collected a total of 391 textual and pictorial graffiti samples from a language university in China as the corpus. From the perspective of identity construction, this study analyzed the characteristics of campus wall graffiti, as well as the methods and content of identity construction. The findings revealed that campus graffiti exhibits characteristics such as informality, anonymity, and counter-culturality. The language behaviors and symbol usage in graffiti include both one-way output and two-way interaction, the employment of textual and pictorial symbols, and the use of metaphors and symbolism. The construction of identity in graffiti primarily involves cultural identity, social identity, and creative identity among others. Lastly, in terms of campus graffiti management, this paper proposes effective strategies from the aspects of discourse power allocation and management, as well as feedback and reconstruction of identity construction. These strategies aim to transform disorder into order and foster an open and inclusive campus culture.

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A semiotics of nonexistence?

Cited by 17 publications

References 15 publications

A Panorama of Linguistic Landscape Studies

A Panorama of Linguistic Landscape Studies

Shouting absences: Disentangling the ghosts of Ukraine in occupied Crimea

Analysis of Marginal Discourse: Identity Construction in Campus Wall Graffiti

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