Article published in:
Dialogue in institutional settingsEdited by Franca Orletti and Letizia Caronia
[Language and Dialogue 9:1] 2019
► pp. 149–171
Names and the transidioma
Language and power in the 21st century
Marco Jacquemet | University of San Francisco (USA)
The experience of linguistic globalization, and the communicative disorder it entails, requires a serious
retooling of most basic units of semiotic analysis. The complexity and indeterminacy of late-modern communication affects
most sociolinguistic assumptions behind social interactions. In particular, we can no longer assume a model of dialogue based
on shared indexical knowledge. By introducing the concept of transidioma – i.e. the ensemble of
communicative practices of people embedded in translingual environments and engaged in interactions that blend face-to-face
and digitally-mediated communication – this paper documents the renewed reliance on denotational references, especially
proper names, as a primary strategy to handle dialogue during asylum hearings.
Keywords: transidioma, translanguaging, crosstalk, multimodality, interactional power, asylum
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Translingualism, power, and institutional settings
- 3.Credibility, referentiality, and proper names
- 3.1Personal names
- 3.2Place names
- 4.Conclusion
- Notes
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References
Published online: 05 July 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/ld.00036.jac
https://doi.org/10.1075/ld.00036.jac
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