Expressives and the multimodal depiction of social types in Mundari

Choksi, Nishaant

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“…While they are concerned with depiction of sensory perception, they also have the power to exhibit and evoke feelings and emotions. Moreover, recent research suggests how expressives reflect ideas about ideal social types within a culture (Choksi 2019), as well as enacting moral propositions concerning shared norms of society (Badenoch et al 2019). Use of expressives enregister stereotypes so that they can be subverted and inverted as an act of resistance in hegemoic linguistic ecologies (Bermudez 2020).…”

Section: Bit Expressives: Marked But Not Marginalmentioning

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Silence, Cessation and Stasis: The Ethnopoetics of “Absence” in Bit Expressives

Badenoch

2021

J Linguistic Anthropol

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The study of expressive language has helped illustrate how ideophonicity operates between grammar and performance, as both syntax and poetics, across a wide range of phenomena experienced by speakers. In the Bit language, spoken in Laos and China by approximately 2,400 people, there is a rich vocabulary of expressives, or ideophones, used to depict a lack of movement, action or agency. In doing so, Bit speakers define silence in terms of sound, stillness in terms of potential or past movement, and absence through the experience of expectation or habit. It is widely recognized that silence is not simply the lack of sound, but this analysis shows how culturally specific conceptions of the meaning of silence can be represented with the marked poetic language of expressives to account for the experience of various forms of absence. As such the analysis is an exploration of how ethnopoetics and semiotic ideology intersect in the production of Bit linguistic culture. [ethnopoetics, expressives, ideophones, semiotic ideology, silence]

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Section: Bit Expressives: Marked But Not Marginalmentioning

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“…This text is in prosaic register, setting the stage for the highly contrasting, multimodal expressive performance (Choksi 2019; Dingemanse 2013) that follows. The man then takes up the rŋkɛɛn , and Khamsone begins a performance of the performance.…”

Section: Performing Silence: the Civet And The Panpipesmentioning

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Silence, Cessation and Stasis: The Ethnopoetics of “Absence” in Bit Expressives

Badenoch

2021

J Linguistic Anthropol

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“…Finally, FOLK DEFINITIONS round out the picture by bringing in an emic perspective on the contrasts most essential to ideophones in the language under study, as well as an opportunity to discuss deeper connotational meanings not touched on in other tasks (see e.g. Badenoch, Purti, and Choksi 2019;Choksi 2020a;Nuckolls 2010aNuckolls , 2010b. Additionally, the relatively unstructured setup in this task offers the flexibility to engage with a diversity of semiotic resources-gesture, drawings, stories etc.-in explaining the meanings of ideophones.…”

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A multi-methods toolkit for documentary research on ideophones

McLean,

Dingemanse

2024

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As lexicalized depictions, ideophones (also known as expressives or mimetics) differ fundamentally from other words both in the kinds of meanings they represent and the ways in which they represent them. This can make them difficult to capture using traditional methods for language description and documentation. We review some of the new and experimental techniques that have been used to elicit, describe, and analyse ideophones, and discuss how these can be used to address some of the unique challenges ideophones pose. They include stimulus-based elicitation; multimodal folk definitions; hybrid modes of analysis (combining images and text); and new ways of compiling and presenting multimodal ideophone corpora. We also review psycholinguistic methods for exploring the sensory properties of words and the organisation of the lexicon, such as sensory ratings and similarity judgment tasks, and discuss how these can contribute to our understanding of ideophone lexicons. Crucial to our approach is the combination of insights from multiple sources, the exploitation of polysemiotic resources (combining multiple modes of meaning making), and the integration of etic and emic perspectives. The discussion is structured around three key challenges: collecting ideophones, unravelling their slippery semantics, and representing them in ways that do justice to their special semiotic properties. The days when ideophones were just footnotes in grammars are long past. With more and more researchers working to document ideophones in languages around the world, and increasing interest in iconicity from across the language sciences, now is an excellent time to rethink the toolkit of documentary linguistics to make sure it can optimally deal with language in all its semiotic diversity.

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Typologies, Typifications, and Types

Sadre-Orafai

2020

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

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This article positions types at the center of anthropological knowledge production, considering them both from the abstract, analytical perspective of expert typologies and from the tacit, phenomenological perspective of everyday practices of typification. Proposing what an “anthropology of types,” broadly construed and across these two scales, might look like, I examine the histories and uses of types and typological thinking in anthropology, highlighting the empirical, analytical, methodological, ethical, and political questions they have raised. I then describe the phenomenological foundations of typification, how sociocultural and linguistic anthropologists have approached it, and the accompanying challenges related to translation and representation. Finally, I review ethnographies of expert practices of type production, tracing the circuit of typification–typology–type and back again to show how forms of expertise institutionalize lay knowledge in ways that further solidify the misrecognition of types as natural, and examine visual and arts-based interventions that draw attention to these processes. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Anthropology, Volume 49 is October 21, 2020. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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Expressives and the multimodal depiction of social types in Mundari

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Silence, Cessation and Stasis: The Ethnopoetics of “Absence” in Bit Expressives

Silence, Cessation and Stasis: The Ethnopoetics of “Absence” in Bit Expressives

A multi-methods toolkit for documentary research on ideophones

Typologies, Typifications, and Types

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