Introduction: De-essentializing authenticity: A semiotic approach
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James M. Wilce
James M. Wilce (b. 1953) is a professor at Northern Arizona University 〈jim.wilce@nau.edu〉. His research interests include semiotics, linguistic anthropology, ethnopoetics, and performance. His publications include “Magical laments and anthropological reflections: The production and circulation of anthropological text as ritual activity” (2006); “Scientizing Bangladeshi psychiatry: Parallelism, enregisterment, and the cure for a magic complex” (2008);Language and emotion (2009); andCrying shame (2009).
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Janina Fenigsen
Janina Fenigsen (b. 1952) is a lecturer at Northern Arizona University 〈jfenigsen@gmail.com〉. Her research interests include intersections of language relations and language change with political economies, nation-building, identity, and the shifting fault lines of inequality. Her publications include “Language ideologies in Barbados: Processes and paradigms” (2003); “Meaningful routines: Meaning-making and the face value of Barbadian greetings” (2005); “From apartheid to incorporation: The emergence and transformations of modern language community in Barbados, West Indies” (2007); and “ ‘Flying at half-mast’: Voices, genres, and orthographies in Barbadian Creole” (2011).
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- De-essentializing authenticity: A semiotic approach
- Introduction: De-essentializing authenticity: A semiotic approach
- Culture as accent: The cultural logic of hijabistas
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- The semiotics and politics of “real selfhood” in the American therapeutic discourse of the World War II era
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Linguistic and literary aspects of perspectivity
- Introduction: Linguistic and literary aspects of perspectivity
- Context-dependent vantage points in literary narratives: A functional cognitive approach
- Authorial intention and global coherence in fictional text comprehension: A cognitive approach
- The role of perspectives in various forms of language use
- From trace to topical field: Toward a linguistic definition of point of view
- Indexicals, fiction, and perspective
- Why do we accept a narrative discourse ascribed to a “third-person narrator” as true? The classical, and a cognitive approach
- De-essentializing authenticity: A semiotic approach
- Introduction: De-essentializing authenticity: A semiotic approach
- Culture as accent: The cultural logic of hijabistas
- Why X doesn’t always mark the spot: Contested authenticity in Mexican indigenous language politics
- The semiotics and politics of “real selfhood” in the American therapeutic discourse of the World War II era
- Inauthentic authenticity: Semiotic design and globalization in the margins of China
