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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Keller, Sandra

Titel

The Semiotics of Gallo Dictionaries: Indexing Modern Localness and Distributing Epistemic Authority in Minority Language Advocacy

Ist Teil von

• Journal of linguistic anthropology, 2019-05, Vol.29 (1), p.95-118

Ort / Verlag

Washington: Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Quelle

Wiley Online Library - AutoHoldings Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In this article, I explore the semiotics of print dictionaries for Gallo, a minority Romance language of Brittany, France. Although dictionaries are generally understood as authoritative representations of semantic content, I show how the materiality of dictionaries was central to their embedding in Gallo advocacy and art. Drawing on performance and interactional data collected during twelve months of ethnographic fieldwork, I explore how advocates and performers at language festivals displayed dictionaries as icons of Gallo's existence and “weight” and indexes of Gallo's complementarity with modern life. Rather than enforcing a standard, dictionaries prompted display of local, heterogeneous linguistic expertise.