Saying and Doing in Zapotec : Multimodality, Resonance, and the Language of Joint Actions

Dr Mark A. (University of Virginia Sicoli

ISBN 10: 1350204110 / ISBN 13: 9781350204119

Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Sep 2021, 2021

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Saying and Doing in Zapotec : Multimodality, Resonance, and the Language of Joint Actions
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Sep 2021
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350204110
• ISBN 13: 9781350204119
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 234W x 156H x 0D millimeters 234 millimeters width by 156 millimeters height by 0 millimeters depth
• Weight: 386 grams

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Synopsis

A multimodal ethnography of language as living process, this book demonstrates methods for the integrated analysis of talk, gesture, and material culture, developing a fresh way to understand human language through a focus on jointly achieved social actions to which it is part. Based on findings from a participatory, multimedia language documentation project in a highland Zapotec community of Oaxaca, Mexico, Mark A. Sicoli brings together goals of documentary linguistics and anthropological concern with the everyday means and ends of human social life with theoretical consequences for the analysis of linguistic and cultural reproduction and change. This book argues that resonances emergent in the whole of multiparticipant, multimodal interaction, are organizational of human social-cognitive process important for understanding both the shape linguistic utterances take in interaction (dialogic resonance) and the relationships built between distinct sign modes (intermodal resonance). In this way, Saying and Doing in Zapotec develops a new theory, characterizing the logic of resonance in human interaction as semiotic process that connects and juxtaposes interactional moves into assemblages of relations, resonances and collaborations that build an emergent lifeworld for a language.

About the Authors

Mark A. Sicoli is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics at the University of Virginia, USA.

Sabina M. Perrino is Associate Professor in Anthropology and Linguistics at Binghamton University, USA.

Paul Manning is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Trent University, Canada.

Jim Wilce is Professor of Anthropology at Northern Arizona University, USA.