Handling signs medially. On mediality and indexicality in semiotic media practices
- The mediality of linguistic signs is crucial to the understanding and analysis of language usage and the construction of meaning since language in use is always materially mediated. By raising the following fundamental questions from a semiopraxeological perspective, this paper seeks to make a theoretical and methodological, yet empirically grounded, contribution to media linguistics. How do semiotic, medial, and social aspects of practices relate to each other? How are materialised linguistic signs involved in the practical mediation of sociality and, thus, culture? How can historical data be used to trace and analyse semiotic media practices? I argue that, in addition to mediality, indexicality plays an essential role in answering these questions, and propose a triadic model of semiotic media practices. This argument is illustrated using prisoner files from the U.S. interrogation camp Fort Hunt during WWII.
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| Author: | Mark Dang-AnhORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-129108 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.348.09dan |
| ISBN: | 978-90-272-4645-5 |
| ISSN: | 0922-842X |
| Parent Title (English): | Media as procedures of communication |
| Series (Serial Number): | Pragmatics & beyond : new series (348) |
| Publisher: | Benjamins |
| Place of publication: | Amsterdam/Philadelphia |
| Editor: | Martin Luginbühl, Jan Georg Schneider |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2024 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2024/11/21 |
| Publishing Institution: | Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) [Zweitveröffentlichung] |
| Publicationstate: | Zweitveröffentlichung |
| Publicationstate: | Postprint |
| Reviewstate: | (Verlags)-Lektorat |
| Tag: | Second World War; eavesdropping; indexicality; media linguistics; mediality; praxeology; prisoners of war; semiotic media practices; semioticity; sociality |
| GND Keyword: | Deixis; Kriegsgefangener; Praxeologie; Semiotik; Sprachzeichen; Zweiter Weltkrieg |
| First Page: | 220 |
| Last Page: | 245 |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 400 Sprache, Linguistik |
| Open Access?: | ja |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Medienlinguistik |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Semiotik |
| Program areas: | Lexik |
| Licence (German): |  Urheberrechtlich geschützt |