[Linganth] "Enregistering Emotion" CFP

[Janina Fenigsen]

Enregistering Emotion



This panel explores the enregisterment of emotion (Irvine,1990), a
performative process that establishes emotion as a semiotic system and-- by
textualizing emotion-- makes it recognizable, performable, and available to
register demand (Silverstein, 2003). By “enregisterment” we mean a
process “through
which a linguistic repertoire becomes differentiable [and] socially
recognized” (Agha, 2003:231). The panel approaches the category of
“emotion” as recently constructed, one whose global reach is a result of
circulation, and building on the broader category of “subjectivity”
(Desjarlais 1994). The focus of the panel is on processual dimensions of
enregisterment--i.e., in the practices through which semiotic
systematization of emotion discourse takes place—and snapshot comparisons
of registers of subjectivity across communities of speech and language,
including but not limited to, political discourse.


If interested, please contact Janina Fenigsen (NAU), jfenigsen at gmail.com
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