Macro and Micro

[Scott Kiesling]

Lately I've been using Silverstein's orders of indexicality in a similar
way as Holly defines macro and micro. These orders are (at least) 2, as I
understand it: (1) linguistic forms which index aspects of current,
immediate context (roughly micro) (2) forms which index aspects of
nonpresent and more widely, culturally-available context (roughly macro).
Silverstein seems to use micro- and macro- context to differentiate these
levels in his SALSA contribution (1995, SALSA III, Texas Linguistic Forum
#36, UTexas Ling Dept.). Anyway, I like to use the indexical order terms
for a number of reasons, but it especially avoids miscommunication over
the terms macro and micro.

Scott


  Scott Fabius Kiesling

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