Dialogical Communicative Interaction between Humans and Elephants: an Experiment in Semiotic Alignment

Ribó, Ignasi

doi:10.1007/s12304-019-09354-y

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“…More specifically, what we aim to study through the analysis of a particular performance drawn from a precarious but still living oral tradition is the role of the skilled practice of oral poiesis in sustaining processes of semiotic alignment between humans and nonhumans within a particular habitat (Ribó 2019a;2019b;forthcoming). This project, while founded on a slightly different conceptual framework and stemming from fieldwork of considerably less scope and ambition, has much in common with Steven Feld's (1982: 16) classical attempt to interpret the relationship of the Kaluli with the birds of Papua New Guinea's forests through a semiotic, affective, and ethnological analysis of their "melodic-sung-weeping".…”

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“Kox Kwai Kauv Kox Kwai “:¹ Ecopoetic Symbolisation in Pgaz K’nyau Oral Poetry

Ribó

Samachitloed

Noopan

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Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics

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This article* presents the transcription, translation, and annotation of an original performance of hta, a traditional form of oral poetry in Sgaw, the language of the Pgaz K’Nyau (Karen) people of northern Thailand. This performance was recorded during ethnopoetic fieldwork carried out in two villages in the province of Chiang Rai.2 The hta is then analysed to understand the operations of ecopoetic symbolisation that bring particular nonhumans into the domain of human language. This analysis reveals that a metaphorical mode of symbolisation is extensively used throughout the hta to overcome human/nonhuman allotopies by means of implicit or explicit semic transformations. This seems to indicate that a naturalistic mode of identification underlies the whole poem, a conclusion that calls into question the essentialising and mythifying portrayal of the Pgaz K’Nyau as pre-modern and animistic indigenous stewards.

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“Kox Kwai Kauv Kox Kwai “:¹ Ecopoetic Symbolisation in Pgaz K’nyau Oral Poetry

Ribó

Samachitloed

Noopan

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Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics

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Interspecific Temporalities: Crafting Common Rhythms

Popovych

2024

Theory and History in the Human and Social Sciences

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Poetics of Cohabitation: An Ecosemiotic Theory of Oral Poiesis

Ribó

2022

Poetics Today

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This article exposes the principles of an ecosemiotic theory of oral poiesis, which conceives of singing as a highly specific habit or skilled practice within the human domain of languaging. It is claimed that oral poiesis may contribute to the semiotic alignment of human and nonhuman own-worlds (Umwelten), playing a role in processes of structural coupling within a habitat, understood as a hybrid assemblage or collective of multispecies inhabitants. The article describes how oral poiesis, as a modeling system, contributes to sustaining the various modes of identification that characterize collective human ontologies (animism, naturalism, totemism, analogism) through distinctive operations of symbolization (literality, metaphor, metonymy, analogy). These modes of ecopoetic symbolization serve to bring nonhumans, such as animals, plants, mountains, or rivers, into human own-worlds. Moreover, as one of many skilled practices of humans, oral poiesis is characterized by certain intrinsic features, such as attention, play, feeling, ritualization, musicality, or remembrance, which contribute to human sociality and hence to a system-wide relationality. All these elements constitute the foundations of a poetics of cohabitation.

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Dialogical Communicative Interaction between Humans and Elephants: an Experiment in Semiotic Alignment

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“Kox Kwai Kauv Kox Kwai “:¹ Ecopoetic Symbolisation in Pgaz K’nyau Oral Poetry

“Kox Kwai Kauv Kox Kwai “:¹ Ecopoetic Symbolisation in Pgaz K’nyau Oral Poetry

Interspecific Temporalities: Crafting Common Rhythms

Poetics of Cohabitation: An Ecosemiotic Theory of Oral Poiesis

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Dialogical Communicative Interaction between Humans and Elephants: an Experiment in Semiotic Alignment

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“Kox Kwai Kauv Kox Kwai “:1 Ecopoetic Symbolisation in Pgaz K’nyau Oral Poetry

“Kox Kwai Kauv Kox Kwai “:1 Ecopoetic Symbolisation in Pgaz K’nyau Oral Poetry

Interspecific Temporalities: Crafting Common Rhythms

Poetics of Cohabitation: An Ecosemiotic Theory of Oral Poiesis

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“Kox Kwai Kauv Kox Kwai “:¹ Ecopoetic Symbolisation in Pgaz K’nyau Oral Poetry

“Kox Kwai Kauv Kox Kwai “:¹ Ecopoetic Symbolisation in Pgaz K’nyau Oral Poetry