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Hello!<br>
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We are currently organizing a panel for the AAA meetings in Minneapolis
on voice, stereotyping, and graphic artifacts like typeface, logos, etc.
The draft abstract is below. If you're interested in participating,
please send a short description of what you'd like to present by March
30, 2016 to Keith Murphy (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:kmmurphy@uci.edu">kmmurphy@uci.edu</a>) and Anna Weichselbraun
(<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:weichselbraun@uchicago.edu">weichselbraun@uchicago.edu</a>).<br>
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Thanks!<br>
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keith<br>
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Anthropology and Linguistics<br class="">University of California,
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Stereo-types: voicing persons,
nations, and evidence through visual
artifacts
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Anna Weichselbraun (Chicago) & Keith M. Murphy (UC Irvine),
Co-Chairs<br>
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This panel’s theme turns on the multiple valences of the stereotype as a
means of exploring how graphic artifacts—text, letterforms, logos, and
related visual forms—come to be understood as typical or characteristic
of
particular persons, entities, or concepts. In contrast to the
cognitivist
frameworks that dominate most existing research on such graphic
signification, these papers draw from and extend the Bakhtinian notion
of
voice (Bakhtin 1983) as it has been taken up in linguistic anthropology
(Hill 1995, Bauman & Briggs 2003, Agha 2005) to investigate
precisely how
visual artifacts accrue and project stereotypical voicing effects in
linguistic and language-adjacent domains, including internet memes,
bureaucratic documents, product catalogs, and other graphic media. This
approach incorporates attention to the qualia (Munn 1986, Chumley &
Harkness
2013) that are bundled in material object-signs (Keane 2003) which also
enables insight into moments when previously ignored components of a
sign
are suddenly rendered "visible" in a process of materialization
(Nakassis
2013). This panel thus draws on recent interest in the material aspects
of
signification in order to ask a number of questions: what are the
felicity
conditions for graphic artifacts that allow these object-signs to be
apprehended as naturalized icons of entities or concepts? What are the
metapragmatic limits of awareness for viewers of graphic artifacts? How
and
where do they identify incongruities among graphic artifacts or
infelicitous
effects of such object-signs? When do incongruities call into question
the
authenticity of an object-sign? What can an exploration of the
materiality
of graphic artifacts contribute to an understanding of how we
communicate
across multiple modalities of representation? How do graphic ideologies
mediate relations between texts and the personas they purport to
animate? In
addition to addressing these specific concerns, this panel also seeks to
contribute to broader anthropological understandings of semiotic
processes
in the realm of the object-sign.
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