<div dir="ltr"><font size="2">Dear colleagues, <br><br>This Thursday <font size="2">(April 07) EASA Linguistic Anthropology Network will host a workshop to discuss</font> <font size="2">a paper by <b>Dr. Julia Sonnleitner</b> from University of Vienna. <span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dr. Meghanne Barker</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Institute of Education, UCL)</span> will act as discussant for the paper.</font> It is my great pleasure to invite you to join us.<br><br>If you are interested in attending this workshop, please email me through <a href="mailto:sunnyleaf1984@gmail.com" target="_blank">sunnyleaf1984@gmail.com</a> for a copy of the paper.</font><br><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div>
<p style="line-height:150%;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="2"><b><span style="color:black" lang="EN-GB">Paper Title<span></span></span></b></font></p>
<p style="line-height:150%;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="2"><a name="m_322467067714256203_docs-internal-guid-71540ec6-7fff-8320-3e"></a><span style="color:black" lang="EN-GB"><b>Of Criminals, Beasts, and Ghosts:
The Becoming of Signs and Authors in Semiotic Landscapes</b><span></span></span></font></p>
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<p style="line-height:150%;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="2"><b><span style="color:black" lang="EN-GB">Abstract<span></span></span></b></font></p>
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<p style="line-height:150%;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-GB">Ethnographic approaches have challenged the idea that
semiotic landscapes are open for interpretation and have shifted the discussion
to the becoming of signs through speakers' positionality. While signs have
mostly been studied as products in Semiotic Landscape Research, this paper puts
emphasis on the emergence of signs as they are recognised, interpreted,
contested, and reaffirmed. I will discuss data from my ethnographic research on
the Vienna Central Cemetery and in particular, how semiotic items on the
micro-landscape of graves are interpreted from the perspective of people who
interact with its materiality. Taking a Peircean semiotic approach, I analyse
how interactants perceive semiotic items on the grave as indexing authorial
intention. However, because indexicality and iconicity are both
conventionalised and contested, determined and ambivalent, different strategies
are invested to achieve claims of truth. Indexicality is constantly stabilised
and destabilised, presupposing and creating worlds, and resting upon semiotic
ideologies that create potential agents and subjectivities. Finally, I suggest
that if people read authorial intention from semiotic landscapes, they perceive
them as acts of inscription, as performance with social consequences rather
than as products.</span></font></p><p style="line-height:150%;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-GB"><br></span></font></p><p style="line-height:150%;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-GB">Please do not circulate the paper outside the workshop.<br></span></font></p><p style="line-height:150%;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-GB"><br>Date and Time: Apr 7, 2022 12:15 PM <b>Dublin time (GMT)</b><br><br>Join Zoom Meeting<br><a href="https://playrix.zoom.us/j/81591722038?pwd=UVdoeTFnTjVGclBIMWtqRktWUjdrQT09" target="_blank">https://playrix.zoom.us/j/81591722038?pwd=UVdoeTFnTjVGclBIMWtqRktWUjdrQT09</a><br><br>Meeting ID: 815 9172 2038<br>Passcode: 211155</span></font></p><p style="line-height:150%;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-GB"><br></span></font></p><p style="line-height:150%;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-GB">Welcome! <br><br>Best wishes,<br>Lijing<font color="#888888"><span></span></font></span></font></p><font color="#888888">
</font></div><font color="#888888"><br></font><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><font size="3" face="Times New Roman, serif">Dr. phil. </font><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:16px">Lijing Peng</span><br><br></div><div>Trinity Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation</div><div>Dublin 2, Ireland<br></div><div>+353 877963633<br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>