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Linguistic landscaping from above in China: scale-making and language ideologies

Shang, Guowen

2024 Chinese Semiotic Studies

doi:10.1515/css-2024-2001

AbstractThe sociolinguistics of mobility is one of Jan Blommaert’s significant theoretical legacies vis-à-vis language interactions in the age of globalization. This paper investigates the mobilization of English as a semiotic resource in the public space of Chinese cities to reveal how the...

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Toward an ethnographic materialist semiotics: spatial scope, indexicality, and chronotope in a Chinese academic institution

Dong, Jie

2024 Chinese Semiotic Studies

doi:10.1515/css-2024-2002

AbstractJan Blommaert had a profound impact on studies of language in society, pushing many concepts, theories, and research approaches to the center of sociolinguistics. Materialist semiotics is one of the theories and research approaches that he argued for forcefully. Blommaert’s approach to...

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A study of the commodification of multilingualism in four cafés in China

Yan, Xi

2024 Chinese Semiotic Studies

doi:10.1515/css-2024-2004

AbstractSpace is constructed as a particular place by various agents and in a variety of ways, and languages play an important role in the semiotic construction of a space. This study adopts a linguistic landscape approach to explore how languages are commodified for consumption in sites of...

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Elder Biaoqing: investigating the indexicalities of memes on Chinese social media

Lu, Ying; Kroon, Sjaak

2024 Chinese Semiotic Studies

doi:10.1515/css-2024-2005

AbstractThis paper adopts a digital ethnographic approach to analyze concrete communicative practices with Elder Biaoqing, a type of graphic semiotic resources comparable to emojis and memes, typically designed for and used by older people on Chinese social media. Following Silverstein’s...

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A semiotic view of symbol and identity in the film Farewell My Concubine

Zhu, Wenxi

2024 Chinese Semiotic Studies

doi:10.1515/css-2024-2006

AbstractAdapted by Li Bihua and Lu Wei and directed by Chen Kaige, Farewell My Concubine was first released in mainland China and Hong Kong in 1993. It gained strong momentum and went on to break the box office for mainland Chinese literary films in the USA. Against the background of traditional...

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Transmuting the painterly sign

Ding, Ersu

2024 Chinese Semiotic Studies

doi:10.1515/css-2024-2007

AbstractAccording to renowned linguist and semiotician Roman Jakobson, translation can be divided into three general categories: intralingual translation, interlingual translation, and intersemiotic translation/transmutation. Unlike the first two categories, intersemiotic transmutation lacks the...

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Enchantment of things in the Chinese literary narrative tradition

Tang, Weisheng

2024 Chinese Semiotic Studies

doi:10.1515/css-2024-2008

AbstractThe enchantment of things has been found in the long tradition of Chinese literary narrative. This article explores the three salient ways Chinese people have developed of thinking about and writing about their (imagined) relationship with the things around them, i.e., Bo Wu 博物, Gan Wu...

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On the syntax and semantics of sluicing in Mandarin Chinese

Wang, Chengdong; Yuan, Yudi

2024 Chinese Semiotic Studies

doi:10.1515/css-2024-2009

AbstractThis article investigates the syntax of sluicing in Mandarin Chinese, including the syntactic constraints on predicates that might appear in sluicing, the reclassification of wh-phrases, the syntactic status of shi ‘be’ and you ‘have,’ and the syntactic derivation of typical sluicing and...

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Rational intuition: a study on semiotic subjectivity

Zhang, Jie; Yao, Tingting

2024 Chinese Semiotic Studies

doi:10.1515/css-2024-2010

AbstractAlthough scientific research usually emphasizes objectivity unaffected by any form of subjectivity, semiotic inquiries have to consider the role of subjectivity. In fact, social development, art, and literature always follow certain rules of objectivity, but these rules seem to be...

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