Semantic and semiotic flows: Examining variations and changes of “the N-Words” within an indexical field of dynamic meanings

Washington, Adrienne Ronee

doi:10.1080/14788810.2023.2235204

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“…As such, the indexical field of a form can vary across individuals and communities (Calder 2021;Beaton and Washington 2015). Indexical fields also change with time, place, and space (Washington 2023). For instance, if a Black American travels outside of the U.S., they may face challenges navigating the indexical meanings of racialized terms in another country.…”

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Racialized Sociolinguistic Processes in the Spanish Learning Journeys of Non-Latinxs in the U.S.

Exford

2024

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Sociolinguistic frameworks of race have not been widely applied to non-Latinx Spanish learners in the United States. Consequently, there is limited insight into the impact of race on different learners’ use of Spanish in their communities, including the local or national raciolinguistic dynamics between Latinxs and non-Latinxs that inform these outcomes. This article examines ethnographic interviews of women recounting interactions and experiences of using Spanish in different U.S. contexts. In their accounts, I identify three racialized sociolinguistic processes central to their Spanish learning journeys, which I title racialized positionality, racialized embodiment, and indexical fields of racialization. These processes highlight, respectively, (1) the raciolinguistic dynamics enacted by Spanish language usage in the U.S. by non-Latinxs, (2) the sociolinguistic input a learner comes across as raciogendered subjects, and (3) the social meaning they ascribe to racialized terms and discourses in Spanish. As critical approaches to Spanish language learning and pedagogy continue to emerge, more research is warranted on these three processes to trace the impact of race on Spanish language learning and use.

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Racialized Sociolinguistic Processes in the Spanish Learning Journeys of Non-Latinxs in the U.S.

Exford

2024

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Book Review: Language in African American Communities

Washington

2024

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Advantages and pitfalls of machine translation for party research: the translation of party manifestos of European parties using DeepL

Plenter

2023

Front. Polit. Sci.

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Parties are the central actors in representative democracies as they perform important democratic functions. Thus, the identification of party positions is a crucial concern. Party researchers mainly rely on party manifestos to estimate policy positions. However, the analysis of manifestos is accompanied by challenges—one of the biggest being cross-national comparisons because of different institutional settings and languages. This article discusses machine translation (MT) as a new option for party research, and reports on the author's experiences with the translation of more than 200 party manifestos using the commercial artificial intelligence (AI) translation tool DeepL. To make this approach widely applicable, the (technical) procedure, including its problems and workarounds for large-scale projects, is presented as a step-by-step guide using R. Additionally, drawing on the most recent German, Estonian, Italian and Polish parliamentary election manifestos this article evaluates the quality of the DeepL translations by applying both back translation and Wordfish analyses. The main findings indicate that DeepL offers high-quality translations as more than 90% of the checked sentences are reproduced word-for-word or at least synonymously and with stable positioning on the left-right scale of both original and English translation. The results have greater implications for political science research as they speak to the reliability of machine translation for political texts.

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Semantic and semiotic flows: Examining variations and changes of “the N-Words” within an indexical field of dynamic meanings

Cited by 3 publications

References 44 publications

Racialized Sociolinguistic Processes in the Spanish Learning Journeys of Non-Latinxs in the U.S.

Racialized Sociolinguistic Processes in the Spanish Learning Journeys of Non-Latinxs in the U.S.

Book Review: Language in African American Communities

Advantages and pitfalls of machine translation for party research: the translation of party manifestos of European parties using DeepL

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