Category: Signs and Society

Table of Contents Click title to explore full text Front Matter 1. Introduction to “Synesthetic Encounters”Aliyah B.D. Dewar, Juliet Pascal Glazerpp. 277-284 2. Scatological Encounter: Scatoglossia, Adjectival Deixis, and Referential Practice across Sino-Tibetan Inter-Cultural Science CollaborationXiao Schutte Kepp. 285-306 3. Timbre Beyond Words: Communication about Sound in a Violin Crafter’s WorkshopJuliet Pascal Glazerpp. 307-327 4. From Berimbolo to Bolo-Player: Kinesic Enregisterment and

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Table of Contents Click title to explore full text Front Matter 1. Introduction to “Chronotopes of Gender”Elise Kramer, Catherine Tebaldipp. 455-459 2. Gendered Chronotopes on Social Media Through the Lens of Small Stories and Positioning Analysis: The Case of the “Pretty Girl” on Xiaohongshu (RedNote)Wei Wei, Alexandra Georgakopouloupp. 460-478 3. The Caveman in the Mirror: Masculinity and PaleofantasyElise Kramerpp. 479-496 4. Pearl Nationalism: Tradwives and

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Table of Contents Click title to explore full text Front Matter 1. The Translation Machine: Exploring the Infrastructures of Valorization under SemiocapitalismAurora Donzellipp. 311-325 2. Translations Interrupted: Italian Neorural Revivals and the Neodialect Poetics of NonscalabilityAurora Donzellipp. 326-354 3. Capitalism and the Semiotics of Corporate Personhood in a Law of Human PersonsMatthew S. Hullpp. 355-376 4. Translating Made-in-Italy Across Time and SpaceSabina M. Perrinopp. 377-394 5. Translating

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Table of Contents Click title to explore full text Front Matter 1. Poetics and Performance: Fanfa Bands and the Semiotic Landscape in Northern HaitiJonna Yarringtonpp. 123-135 2. The Chronotope of Piety in the Contested Space–Time of Islamic Modernity in PakistantArsalan Khanpp. 136-153 3. Semiotics of Naming: Narrating and Meaning-Making of the Place IeodoYunhee Leepp. 154-166 4. What Teachers Wear: Working the Wardrobe across 15 YearsElvira Katićpp.

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Table of Contents Click title to explore full text Front Matter 1. The Political Uses of Semiotic IndeterminacyIlana GershonRice University, USApp. 1–8 2. Revisiting the Strategically Deployable Shifter: Manipulating Indeterminacy for Semiotic Power and ProfitBonnie UrciuoliHamilton College, USApp. 9–24 3. “It Was Supposed to Be an Internship”: The Consequences of Semiotic Ambiguity for Labor and Learning in the New EconomyMatthew Wolfgram and Jonathan

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Table of Contents Click title to explore full text Front Matter 1. The Ideograph-Based Linguistic Chineseness: Evidence from the Disappearance of Derivational MorphologyLiulin ZhangSoochow University, Chinapp. 235–256 2. The Relations between Charles Goodwin’s Interactional Linguistics and Semiotics: Some Reflections on Multimodality and on the Diagram in Scientific DiscourseMaria Giulia DonderoUniversity of Liège, Belgiumpp. 142–163 3. Crowdsourcing Platforms for Ukrainian Refugees: Meaning Making in

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Table of Contents Click title to explore full text Front Matter 1. The Rise of Cross-Language Internet Memes: A Social Semiotic AnalysisXinyu Huang,Yifan Han,Yi Ran,Yakun Yang, andYixin YangNanjing University, Chinapp. 125–141 2. Beyond the Secret (gsang ba): The Performativity of Citation in an Exile Tibetan Buddhist RitualUrmila Nair LaCITO (Langues et Civilisations à Tradition Orale; CNRS, UniversitéSorbonne Nouvelle, INALCO), Francepp. 142–163

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Table of Contents Click title to explore full text Front Matter 1. Introduction: Unthinking Language from a Posthumanist PerspectiveBritta Schneider and Theresa HeydEuropean University Viadrina and Heidelberg University, Germanypp. 1–13 2. When Dogs Talk: Technologically Mediated Human-Dog Interactions as Semiotic AssemblagesMiriam LindEuropean University Viadrina, Germanypp. 14-36 3. More Than Signs: International Sign as Distributed PracticeAnnelies KustersHeriot-Watt University, United Kingdompp. 37-57

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