Life encapsulated: Addressivity in Japanese life writing

Nozawa, Shunsuke

doi:10.1016/j.langcom.2015.10.004

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“…Given our focus on the essentializing nature of collective addressivity, we first define addressivity more generally. Addressivity involves how social actors orient their utterances to particular imagined or actual recipients, which could include those in the immediate interlocutory interaction, or those positioned as real or imagined overhearers (see also Bakhtin 1981, 1986; LaDousa 2014; Lempert 2009, 2011, 2012; Lempert and Silverstein 2012; Nakassis 2017; Irvine 1996; Nozawa 2016). The notion overlaps with related concepts in discourse‐related scholarship.…”

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“…We show how collective addressivity is a strategy for hailing participants to larger group identities, particularly in online settings. Participants’ use of collective addressivity allows them to participate in a “fantasy of telecommunication” (Nozawa 2016: 95), where the online participants can imagine they are addressing all members of the category. We consider more generally how diasporic and nonmigrant Portuguese participants use strategies of collective addressivity to debate whether and how members of each category are part of a larger encompassing Portuguese ethnonational identity, a longstanding controversial topic online and offline.…”

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Multiaddressivity and Collective Addressivity in Vlog‐based Interactions between Diasporic and Nonmigrant Portuguese

Koven

Marques

2021

J Linguistic Anthropol

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We use the notion of addressivity to analyze interactions between diasporic Portuguese in France and nonmigrant Portuguese in Portugal, in a vlog by Jonathan Da Silva. Through sets of interlocutor‐oriented strategies, participants address one another not only as specific individuals but also as collective social types, as if addressing all diasporic and nonmigrant Portuguese. We thus consider how participants use collective addressivity to hail one another as essentialized tokens of social types in a fantasy of telecommunication (Nozawa 2016). These materials reveal not only the construction of ethnonationally Portuguese identified “we’s,” but also of the collectivized “you’s” such “we’s” address, in a genre of online interaction.

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Multiaddressivity and Collective Addressivity in Vlog‐based Interactions between Diasporic and Nonmigrant Portuguese

Koven

Marques

2021

J Linguistic Anthropol

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“…He examines how ideologies of linguistic appropriateness are evaluated across older and newer sign‐language varieties with regard to social positioning. Focusing on text, Shunsuke Nozawa () conceptualizes Japanese life writing as “semiotic time capsuling” that creates different timescales and lives across which individuals politicize their investment in Japanese nationalism. These and the volume's other articles emphasize that conceptions and manipulations of time are integral to how speakers use language.…”

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“…Media and mediatization remain topics of high interest, from media production to circulation and consumption (see Nakassis ; Shankar ). Reality television, according to Christopher Ball and Shunsuke Nozawa (), discursively creates “tribal society” in distinct geographic contexts of Japan and the United Kingdom. They argue that primitivist discourse is levied in both places to offer audiences paths to redemption.…”

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Linguistic Anthropology in 2016: Now What?

Shankar

2017

American Anthropologist

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In this review, I extend the ideological and discursive insights on prejudice and racism offered by Jane Hill in her work The Everyday Language of White Racism to consider the potential of linguistic anthropology to address social injustice. In a year marked by the global rise of right-wing politics, 2016 cannot simply be viewed as business as usual, but rather calls for a reevaluation of the potential of linguistic anthropology in light of what it can do now. The essay is thematically organized to focus on the production of value and the reproduction of inequality over a wide range of modalities and research contexts. I begin with the "Metrics of Analysis" to review conceptual frameworks through which ethnographic analysis has been undertaken, such as temporality, scale, multimodality, technology, discourse studies, and others. The sections that follow expand upon these themes across three broad headings. The first, "Participation and Social (In)Justice," addresses the complex agendas and institutional processes that mediate linguistic struggles for equality in settler colonial and indigenous contexts, political language, racism and social justice, and the affordances and limitations of language for young people. The second, "Global Ethnonationalism," builds on a language ideology framework to examine the study of minority languages, the language of right-wing religiosity, and the contradictions of national branding. The third explores "Epistemologies of Value" via performativity, embodiment, sound, materiality, ontology, and media. The essay concludes with potential directions for linguistic anthropologists to address the worldwide "alt-" realities that have come into clearer view. [ethnonationalism, language ideology, race, semiotics, social justice] RESUMEN En esta revisión extiendo el conocimiento ideológico y discursivo sobre prejuicio y racismo ofrecido por Jane Hill en su trabajo El lenguaje diario del racismo blanco para considerar el potencial de la antropología lingüística en el abordaje de la injusticia social. En un año marcado por el crecimiento global de las políticas de derecha, 2016 no puede simplemente ser visto de manera habitual, sino en cambio requiere una revaluación del potencial de la antropología lingüística a la luz de lo que puede hacer ahora. El ensayo está temáticamente organizado, concentrándose en la producción de valor y la reproducción de desigualdad sobre un amplio rango de modalidades y contextos de investigación. Empiezo con "Métricas de Análisis" para revisar marcos conceptuales a través de los cuales el análisis etnográfico ha sido emprendido, tales como temporalidad, escala, multimodalidad, tecnología, estudios discursivos, y otros. Las tres secciones siguientes expanden estos temas a través de tres líneas generales. La primera, "Participación e (In)Justicia Social", aborda las agendas complejas y los procesos institucionales que median las luchas lingüísticas por la igualdad en contextos de pobladores coloniales e indígenas, lenguaje político, racismo y justicia social, y l...

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“…Occasionally Joan is wrong and corrects herself. 10 For an interesting application of graphic artifacts, see Nozawa (2016). Nozawa's examples of life-story writings as graphic artifacts interestingly contrasts with the example here of a standardized test score as a graphic artifact.…”

Section: The Stance Of Things: Interobjectivity As a Ground For Stancmentioning

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Temporality, stance ownership, and the constitution of subjectivity

Thompson

2016

Language & Communication

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Life encapsulated: Addressivity in Japanese life writing

Cited by 6 publications

References 16 publications

Multiaddressivity and Collective Addressivity in Vlog‐based Interactions between Diasporic and Nonmigrant Portuguese

Multiaddressivity and Collective Addressivity in Vlog‐based Interactions between Diasporic and Nonmigrant Portuguese

Linguistic Anthropology in 2016: Now What?

Temporality, stance ownership, and the constitution of subjectivity

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