Language contextualization in a Hebrew language television interview: Lessons from a semiotic return to context
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Douglas J. Glick,
Douglas J. Glick (b. 1961) is an associate professor at Binghamton University 〈dglick@binghamton.edu〉. His research interests include linguistic anthropology, discourse and social interactional analysis, language style, and the mass media. His publications include “Some performative techniques of stand-up comedy: An exercise in the textuality of temporalization” (2007);Language, culture, and communication in the U.S. (2009); “Dangerous noncompliance: A narrative analysis of a CNN special investigation of mental illness” (with K. Applbaum, 2010); and “How Israelis represent the problem of violence in their schools: A case study of a discursive construction” (2011).
Abstract
An interview on a Hebrew language television show serves as the stage for a semiotic reading that documents a particular type of language contextualization. Drawing on Peirce and Jakobson, the analysis of the interview reveals that it is characterized by a repeating indexical icon that comes to organize meaning in real-time through a kind of poetic parallelism. This type is then juxtaposed to approaches that presume a pre-existing social or cognitive background as the organizing frame against which meaning in context emerges. On the assumption that the documented type may be far more common than expected, the implications for theorizing contextualization in social interaction are critically evaluated.
About the author
Douglas J. Glick (b. 1961) is an associate professor at Binghamton University 〈dglick@binghamton.edu〉. His research interests include linguistic anthropology, discourse and social interactional analysis, language style, and the mass media. His publications include “Some performative techniques of stand-up comedy: An exercise in the textuality of temporalization” (2007); Language, culture, and communication in the U.S. (2009); “Dangerous noncompliance: A narrative analysis of a CNN special investigation of mental illness” (with K. Applbaum, 2010); and “How Israelis represent the problem of violence in their schools: A case study of a discursive construction” (2011).
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