structures contributes to this process. As such, Cutting has brought us the closest we have ever been to conceptualizing the language of cinema. The Language of Cinema The study of cinema's “language” stems from the earliest film theories ( Stam et al
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A True Language of Cinema
Maria Belodubrovskaya
Language and a Continent in Flux
Twenty-First Century Tensions of Inclusion and Exclusion
Philip McDermott and Sarah McMonagle
where the fluidity of ‘superdiverse’ conditions ( Vertovec 2007 ) and postmodern identities are pitted against more hardened discourses of monocultural belonging rooted in a particular place. Languages provide a prism through which we can understand
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
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- 01 Sep 2019
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- 66–71 (6 total)
Totalitarian Language
Creating Symbols to Destroy Words
Juan Francisco Fuentes
This article deals with totalitarianism and its language, conceived as both the denial and to some extent the reversal of liberalism and its conceptual framework. Overcoming liberal language meant not only setting up new political terminology, but also replacing words with symbols, ideas with sensations. This is why the standard political lexicon of totalitarianism became hardly more than a slang vocabulary for domestic consumption and, by contrast, under those regimes—mainly Italian fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism—a amboyant universe of images, sounds, and metaphors arose. Many of these images revolved around the human body as a powerful means to represent a charismatic leadership and, at the same time, an organic conception of their national communities. Totalitarian language seems to be a propitious way to explore the “dark side” of conceptual history, constituted by symbols rather than words.
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Dec 2013
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- 45–66 (22 total)
Common Ground and Missing Links German Volkskunde and Language
Stefan Groth
Language and its relation to culture has been a topic of research in German Volkskunde [folklore studies] from the beginning of the discipline. While dialectological studies, linguistic specificities of local cultures and language in everyday life have been integral parts of Volkskunde for much of the first part of the twentieth century, the discipline saw a shift away from its philological elements towards a social science orientation in post-Second World War developments. During the last decades, the analysis of linguistic dimensions of everyday culture has been on the margin of scholarly activities in Volkskunde. Starting with a historic perspective on the role of language in the beginnings of the discipline, this article discusses the development and decrease of the study of linguistic aspects. It analyses the role of language in contemporary German Volkskunde both in theory and methodology, and offers perspectives on how the discipline could benefit from a renewed focus on linguistic dimensions of everyday culture.
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
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- 01 Mar 2015
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- 24–41 (17 total)
Linguistic Identities in Post-Conflict Societies
Current Issues and Developments in Northern Ireland
Freya Stancombe-Taylor
Introduction Languages are at the forefront of the current political stalemate in Northern Ireland, a disputed constituent region of the United Kingdom that, at the time of writing, has been without a working regional government for over two
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
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- 01 Sep 2019
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- 86–92 (7 total)
A Sacrament of Intellectual Self-Gratification
Giorgio Agamben swearing an Oath of his own State of Exception
Albert Doja
current post-modernist condition. In The Sacrament of Language , Agamben's central concerns converged in the ‘sacramental oath of language’ as a verbal utterance of a theological and political purpose. 1 Building on the double entendre of “oath
Translating Islam into Georgian
The Question of Georgian Muslim Identity in Contemporary Adjara
Ricardo Rivera
Introduction In my contribution to this forum, I demonstrate how language has become a key site in the negotiation and establishment of a specifically ‘Georgian Muslim’ identity in contemporary Adjara through one instance of contested
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
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- 01 Sep 2019
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- 72–78 (7 total)
Speaking of the Holocaust
From Silence to Knowledge and Back Again
Keith Kahn-Harris
beyond the reach of the Nazis: all were forced to confront it, to understand what happened, to grapple with what it meant to be a Jew and a human being after the genocide. One major component of that generational project involved finding a language in
Speaking in Celestial Signs
The Language of Western Astrology and the (Tenuous) Bonds of Occult Sociality
Omri Elisha
decidedly non-singular entity, instantiated by forms of affiliation—including professional associations, instructional programs, and, as we will see, distinctive uses and invocations of language—but otherwise diffuse and decentralized. This amorphous quality
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2021
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- 149–162 (14 total)
The Anti-Help
Accusations, Mutual Help and the Containment of Ugly Feelings in the Gusii Highlands, Kenya
Teodor Zidaru
proves untenable, ongoing acts of requesting, giving or expecting help descend into what I call the ‘anti-help’. The term picks up on my interlocutors’ concerns with the inherently antagonistic nature of both ordinary language and mutual help; hence my
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
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- 01 Sep 2019
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