Introduction

[Jim Wilce]

There is quite a lot of work dedicated to the notion of "exemplary 
centers" in linguistic anthropology, some of which I summarize in my 
article on linguistic anthropology in Wikipedia (obviously only "mine" 
insofar as no one I know of has edited, added to, or changed it thus 
far, but that is obviously inevitable and welcome), and this literature 
provides a rich vein to dig in in this regard, I should think. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_anthropology#Work_on_social_space.2C_ritual.2C_and_ritual_centers

Jim

scott wilkerson wrote:
> Jim,
>
>
> Thank you very much indeed. I'm not so sure it's that far afield. I 
> find that the discourse of spatiality, in any one particular sense, 
> opens a space for yet further connections and surprising 
> interpenetrations. So, while I do not claim it is all one narrative, I 
> do believe there exists a kind of rhizomic network of relations.
>
> Respectfully,
>
> Scott
>
>
>
> Scott Wilkerson
> Humanities Assistant Professor
> Humanities Coordinator
> Georgia Military College
> Columbus, Georgia
> Research Associate,
> Halawaukee Studio for the Arts
>
>
>
>
>
>> From: Jim Wilce <jim.wilce at NAU.EDU>
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>> Subject: Re: Introduction
>> Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 17:02:36 -0700
>>
>> Scott, this is a bit far afield areally, but here is a beautiful 
>> meditation on the poetics of spatial architectonics:
>>
>> Messick, Brinkley
>>    1993    The calligraphic state: Textual domination and history in 
>> a Muslim society. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> scott wilkerson wrote:
>>> Hello Friends,
>>>
>>>
>>> My name is Scott Wilkerson, and I am an Assistant Professor of 
>>> English in the Department of  Humanities at the Columbus campus of 
>>> Georgia Military College. I am writing my dissertation on certain 
>>> open questions in Charles Olson's poetics of spatial architectonics. 
>>> I am interested in the logological space of language and the 
>>> relationship between spatial grammar and the structures of 
>>> representation. I eagerly anticipate forming some good scholarly 
>>> relationships here, and I expect I shall also learn quite a lot from 
>>> the great minds here assembled.
>>>
>>> Respectfully,
>>>
>>> Scott Wilkerson
>>> Humanities Assistant Professor
>>> Humanities Coordinator
>>> Georgia Military College
>>> Columbus, Georgia
>>> Research Associate,
>>> Halawaukee Studio for the Arts
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> From: Ian Roderick <iroderick at WLU.CA>
>>>> Reply-To: The Discourse Studies List 
>>>> <DISCOURS at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>
>>>> To: DISCOURS at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
>>>> Subject: Introduction
>>>> Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 20:51:55 -0400
>>>>
>>>> Dear list members,
>>>>
>>>> My name is Ian Roderick and I am an assistant professor in the 
>>>> Communication Studies department at Wilfrid Laurier University in 
>>>> Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
>>>>
>>>> I became quite interested in CDA and social semiotics during my MA 
>>>> studies but slipped away from it while writing my doctoral 
>>>> dissertation. I have  recently come to find myself interested in 
>>>> returning to a more systemic form of discourse analysis in my own 
>>>> research. Presently I am interested in representations of 
>>>> autonomous technologies (robotics, UAVs, intelligent agents, etc.) 
>>>> particularly in a military context but I also have a strong 
>>>> interest in public space and exhibitionary spaces, in particular. I 
>>>> also hang out on the Language of New Capitalism list.
>>>>
>>>> As well as an introductory course on mass communication and another 
>>>> in print communication, I teach a course entitled The Cultural 
>>>> Political Economy of the Theme Park and another I call The 
>>>> Operating System of War.
>>>>
>>>> I expect that this is a quiet time for the list but I hope to 
>>>> contribute when and where I can.
>>>>
>>>> best regards,
>>>>
>>>> Ian Roderick
>>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Striving to teach and publish the best in linguistic anthropology--an 
>> ethnographic approach to the analysis of semiotic and discursive 
>> forms in relation to sociocultural processes
>>
>> Jim Wilce, Professor of Anthropology
>> Editor, Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture
>> Box 15200
>> Northern Arizona University
>> Flagstaff AZ 86011-5200
>> Bldg. 98D, Room 101E
>> 928-523-2729
>> jim.wilce at nau.edu
>> http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jmw22
>

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Striving to teach and publish the best in linguistic anthropology--an ethnographic approach to the analysis of semiotic and discursive forms in relation to sociocultural processes

Jim Wilce, Professor of Anthropology
Editor, Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture
Box 15200
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff AZ 86011-5200
Bldg. 98D, Room 101E
928-523-2729
jim.wilce at nau.edu
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jmw22