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Voice and bodily deixis as manifestation of performativity in written texts

  • Sergey Proskurin EMAIL logo und Vladimir Feshchenko
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 13. Februar 2019
Semiotica
Aus der Zeitschrift Semiotica Band 2019 Heft 227

Abstract

This article deals with voice and bodily deixis as manifestations of performativity in written texts. A speech act of origin presents as both vocal and performative events. Ritual matrixes of culture contain performative complexes, as suggested by Austin. Such performative nuclei are neither true nor false, that is, their negation cannot be logically inferred from true premises. The term deixis describes the performative moment of the utterance, its active and transformative force. The first embodied deictic utterance in Western history would be the biblical phrase “And the word made flesh.” It is the first mythopoetical performative denoting the bodily incarnation of logos. In the article, the term bodily deixis is considered against the background of experimental poetry of E.E. Cummings.

Keywords: performativity; voice; bodily deixis; written text

Funding statement: This research was funded by grant no. 14–28–00130 of the Russian Science Foundation. The project was carried out at the Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences.

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https://doi.org/10.1515/sem-2017-0133
Schlagwörter für diesen Artikel
performativity; voice; bodily deixis; written text

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  1. Frontmatter
  2. Research Articles
  3. Spatializing food: Signs, spaces, and the legal (dis-)composition of what we eat
  4. A review of the comparative study of Mo Yan and Faulkner in China
  5. Expounding knowledge through explanations: Generic types and rhetorical-relational patterns
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  7. Talking green and acting green are two different things: An experimental investigation of the relationship between implicit and explicit attitudes and low carbon consumer choice
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  9. Using semantic tagging to examine the American Dream and the Chinese Dream
  10. Faith in fakes: Secrets, lies, and conspiracies in Umberto Eco’s writings
  11. The semiotics of breast cancer: Signs, symptoms, and sales
  12. Finite semiotics: Recovery functions, semioformation, and the hyperreal
  13. The urgency of engaging with oddities and ambiguities: Reciprocity and cooperation visited as semio-aesthetic notions in bridging nature and culture
  14. Concepts of narrative, founding violence, and multiculturalism in the Americas: Greimas, Girard, and Kymlicka
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