Musical Articulation

Meeùs, Nicolas

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“…Saussure (1916) famously wrote on the standing‐for relations obtaining between units of form (i.e., signifiers or sound‐images) and units of sense (i.e., signifieds or sense‐concepts) (see Agha, 2007; Lee, 1997). Decades later, Benveniste (1962) wrote on “form [ forme ] and sense [ sens ]” as “conjunct properties, necessarily and immediately given, inseparable in the functioning of language” (cited in Meeüs, 2002, 170). Regarding sense alone, we have already seen Whorf gloss the term with “meaning.” Writing in 1924 for a popular, educated audience in The American Mercury , Whorf's mentor Edward Sapir (1924, 151) characterized linguistic sense as the “secret” of language, one that establishes a “form‐feeling” or “a definite relational feeling or attitude towards all possible contents of expression and, through them, towards all possible contents of experience” (see Kockelman, 2017; Vološinov, 1986).…”

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In lieu of “keywords”: Toward an anthropology of rapport

Carruthers

2023

American Anthropologist

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The identification of socioculturally important "keywords" remains a distinctive feature of critical social theory. This article asks why this is so while offering a critique of "keyword projects" as they have been formulated and pursued across cultural studies and anthropology. Such projects often remain inattentive to wider patterns of sign relations, concealing from ethnographic view the very patterns within which key "words" emerge and are embedded. Overlooking these patterns precludes finer-grained considerations of what makes certain words situationally "key" within sociocultural life. Engaging with migrant mobilities across the borderlands and borderwaters of Indonesia and Malaysia, the article examines keywords not simply as sociocultural formations or semiotic regularities, per se, but as captions for and construals of fashions of speaking and forms of life. Connecting hitherto unconnected accounts of "rapport," it illustrates how anthropologists might move beyond "keyword talk" to more fully consider how rapport configures anthropological assumptions about "keyness" itself.

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