Mark A Sicoli
Biographic Data
| ID | 110420 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark A Sicoli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark A |
| FAMILY NAME | Sicoli |
| SIGNATURE | SICOLI M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2658-5700 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Cross-speaker repetition and epistemic stance in Tzeltal, Yucatec, and Zapotec conversations
Modality, Multimodality
Multimodality refers to a performative and interpretative order in which signs of different channels of communication, sensory perceptions, or modes of embodiment are integrated into emergent assemblages. In multimodal interactions, assemblages are built of multiple participants' talk, techniques of body motion, and actions with material objects. In a broader multimodal anthropology, assemblages may be built of multiple participants' uses of mult…
Differential coding of perception in the world’s languages
Is there a universal hierarchy of the senses, such that some senses (e.g., vision) are more accessible to consciousness and linguistic description than others (e.g., smell)? The long-standing presumption in Western thought has been that vision and audition are more objective than the other senses, serving as the basis of knowledge and understanding, whereas touch, taste, and smell are crude and of little value. This predicts that humans ought to …
Formulating Place, Common Ground, and a Moral Order in Lachixío Zapotec
People make reference to places in the variable formulations afforded by their languages and to multiple ends that in addition to picking out a referent, simultaneously build conceptual common ground about seen and unseen landscapes, including moral stances about the social geography. This paper examines the different ways that Lachixío Zapotec speakers of Oaxaca, Mexico, formulate and interpret place references in the dialogic narratives of thei…
Repair organization in Chinantec whistled speech
Repair organization in Chinantec whistled speech
This article examines how conversational repair is organized in the reduced communicative channel of whistled speech in San Pedro Sochiapam Chinantec of Oaxaca, Mexico. It argues that studies oflanguage channeled through different modalities affect our understanding of human language more generally. While repair in whistled speech shares the same universal sequence organization as repair in spoken speech, there are noteworthy differences in the p…
Marked Initial Pitch in Questions Signals Marked Communicative Function
In conversation, the initial pitch of an utterance can provide an early phonetic cue of the communicative function, the speech act, or the social action being implemented. We conducted quantitative acoustic measurements and statistical analyses of pitch in over 10,000 utterances, including 2512 questions, their responses, and about 5000 other utterances by 180 total speakers from a corpus of 70 natural conversations in 10 languages. We measured p…
Ideophones, rhemes, interpretants
This commentary considers the depictive quality of ideophones within the context of a general semiotic. I seek to expand the limited uptake of iconicity in linguistic theory from a resemblance between sign and object along Peirce’s second trichotomy (icon, index, symbol) to discuss iconicity from the often overlooked perspective of Peirce’s third trichotomy (rheme, dicent, argument). I examine ideophones as semiotic rhemes that affect iconic inte…
The Thickness of Pitch
Speakers use vocabulary for spatial verticality and size to describe pitch. A high—low contrast is common to many languages, but others show contrasts like thick—thin and big—small. We consider uses of thick for low pitch and thin for high pitch in three languages: Farsi, Turkish, and Zapotec. We ask how metaphors for pitch structure the sound space. In a language like English, high applies to both high-pitched as well as high-amplitude (loud) so…
Shifting voices with participant roles
Although an increasing number of sociolinguistic researchers consider functions of voice qualities as stylistic features, few studies consider cases where voice qualities serve as the primary signs of speech registers. This article addresses this gap through the presentation of a case study of Lachixío Zapotec speech registers indexed though falsetto, breathy, creaky, modal, and whispered voice qualities. I describe the system of contrastive spee…
Loanwords and Contact-Induced Phonological Change in Lachixío Zapotec
Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (2000)
Shifting voices with participant roles
Although an increasing number of sociolinguistic researchers consider functions of voice qualities as stylistic features, few studies consider cases where voice qualities serve as the primary signs of speech registers. This article addresses this gap through the presentation of a case study of Lachixío Zapotec speech registers indexed though falsetto, breathy, creaky, modal, and whispered voice qualities. I describe the system of contrastive spee…
Marked Initial Pitch in Questions Signals Marked Communicative Function
In conversation, the initial pitch of an utterance can provide an early phonetic cue of the communicative function, the speech act, or the social action being implemented. We conducted quantitative acoustic measurements and statistical analyses of pitch in over 10,000 utterances, including 2512 questions, their responses, and about 5000 other utterances by 180 total speakers from a corpus of 70 natural conversations in 10 languages. We measured p…
The Thickness of Pitch
Speakers use vocabulary for spatial verticality and size to describe pitch. A high—low contrast is common to many languages, but others show contrasts like thick—thin and big—small. We consider uses of thick for low pitch and thin for high pitch in three languages: Farsi, Turkish, and Zapotec. We ask how metaphors for pitch structure the sound space. In a language like English, high applies to both high-pitched as well as high-amplitude (loud) so…
Cross-speaker repetition and epistemic stance in Tzeltal, Yucatec, and Zapotec conversations
Repair organization in Chinantec whistled speech
This article examines how conversational repair is organized in the reduced communicative channel of whistled speech in San Pedro Sochiapam Chinantec of Oaxaca, Mexico. It argues that studies oflanguage channeled through different modalities affect our understanding of human language more generally. While repair in whistled speech shares the same universal sequence organization as repair in spoken speech, there are noteworthy differences in the p…
Loanwords and Contact-Induced Phonological Change in Lachixío Zapotec
Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (2000)
Shifting voices with participant roles
Although an increasing number of sociolinguistic researchers consider functions of voice qualities as stylistic features, few studies consider cases where voice qualities serve as the primary signs of speech registers. This article addresses this gap through the presentation of a case study of Lachixío Zapotec speech registers indexed though falsetto, breathy, creaky, modal, and whispered voice qualities. I describe the system of contrastive spee…
The Thickness of Pitch
Speakers use vocabulary for spatial verticality and size to describe pitch. A high—low contrast is common to many languages, but others show contrasts like thick—thin and big—small. We consider uses of thick for low pitch and thin for high pitch in three languages: Farsi, Turkish, and Zapotec. We ask how metaphors for pitch structure the sound space. In a language like English, high applies to both high-pitched as well as high-amplitude (loud) so…
Ideophones, rhemes, interpretants
This commentary considers the depictive quality of ideophones within the context of a general semiotic. I seek to expand the limited uptake of iconicity in linguistic theory from a resemblance between sign and object along Peirce’s second trichotomy (icon, index, symbol) to discuss iconicity from the often overlooked perspective of Peirce’s third trichotomy (rheme, dicent, argument). I examine ideophones as semiotic rhemes that affect iconic inte…
Marked Initial Pitch in Questions Signals Marked Communicative Function
In conversation, the initial pitch of an utterance can provide an early phonetic cue of the communicative function, the speech act, or the social action being implemented. We conducted quantitative acoustic measurements and statistical analyses of pitch in over 10,000 utterances, including 2512 questions, their responses, and about 5000 other utterances by 180 total speakers from a corpus of 70 natural conversations in 10 languages. We measured p…
Formulating Place, Common Ground, and a Moral Order in Lachixío Zapotec
People make reference to places in the variable formulations afforded by their languages and to multiple ends that in addition to picking out a referent, simultaneously build conceptual common ground about seen and unseen landscapes, including moral stances about the social geography. This paper examines the different ways that Lachixío Zapotec speakers of Oaxaca, Mexico, formulate and interpret place references in the dialogic narratives of thei…
Repair organization in Chinantec whistled speech
Repair organization in Chinantec whistled speech
This article examines how conversational repair is organized in the reduced communicative channel of whistled speech in San Pedro Sochiapam Chinantec of Oaxaca, Mexico. It argues that studies oflanguage channeled through different modalities affect our understanding of human language more generally. While repair in whistled speech shares the same universal sequence organization as repair in spoken speech, there are noteworthy differences in the p…
Differential coding of perception in the world’s languages
Is there a universal hierarchy of the senses, such that some senses (e.g., vision) are more accessible to consciousness and linguistic description than others (e.g., smell)? The long-standing presumption in Western thought has been that vision and audition are more objective than the other senses, serving as the basis of knowledge and understanding, whereas touch, taste, and smell are crude and of little value. This predicts that humans ought to …
Modality, Multimodality
Multimodality refers to a performative and interpretative order in which signs of different channels of communication, sensory perceptions, or modes of embodiment are integrated into emergent assemblages. In multimodal interactions, assemblages are built of multiple participants' talk, techniques of body motion, and actions with material objects. In a broader multimodal anthropology, assemblages may be built of multiple participants' uses of mult…
Cross-speaker repetition and epistemic stance in Tzeltal, Yucatec, and Zapotec conversations
Linguistics (9 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Communication (5 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Speech recognition (4 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (3 works)