[Linganth] Mark Scioli's book

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
Today Mark Sicoli discusses his book, *Saying and Doing in Zapotec:
Multimodality, Resonance, and the Language of Joint Actions *with Grace
East on the blog.

https://campanthropology.org

Well worth checking out,
Ilana

Press blurb: A multimodal ethnography of language as living process, this
book demonstrates methods for the integrated analysis of talk, gesture, and
material culture, developing a fresh way to understand human language
through a focus on jointly achieved social actions to which it is part.
Based on findings from a participatory, multimedia language documentation
project in a highland Zapotec community of Oaxaca, Mexico, Mark A. Sicoli
brings together goals of documentary linguistics and anthropological
concern with the everyday means and ends of human social life with
theoretical consequences for the analysis of linguistic and cultural
reproduction and change.

This book argues that resonances emergent in the whole of multiparticipant,
multimodal interaction, are organizational of human social-cognitive
process important for understanding both the shape linguistic utterances
take in interaction (dialogic resonance) and the relationships built
between distinct sign modes (intermodal resonance). In this way,* Saying
and Doing in Zapotec* develops a new theory, characterizing the logic of
resonance in human interaction as semiotic process that connects and
juxtaposes interactional moves into assemblages of relations, resonances
and collaborations that build an emergent lifeworld for a language.
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