Margaret Bender
Biographic Data
| ID | 3618645 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margaret Bender |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margaret |
| FAMILY NAME | Bender |
| SIGNATURE | BENDER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wake Forest University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Loftin, John D., and Benjamin E. Frey
Linguistic Landscape
Linguistic landscape (LL) labels a highly fruitful interdisciplinary discourse on visible language and the ways in which written language articulates with the social and physical public landscapes in which it appears. Linguistic landscapes consist most obviously of publicly visible signs (street, commercial, informational, etc.) but the context has extended to other meaningful elements of public space, sometimes with the broader label of semiotic…
Shifting Linguistic Registers and the Nature of the Sacred in Cherokee
The Bearer of This Letter
"Reflections on What Writing Means, Beyond What It "Says
Graphic representation is linked to meaning at a number of levels, among them those of orthographic system, text, and individual character. This essay explores the range of possible meanings of "the graphic" at these different levels, particularly in terms of political economy, language ideology, and multileveled semiotic functioning. As the illustrations discussed here suggest, writing and other forms of graphic representation powerfully connect…
Indexicality, voice, and context in the distribution of Cherokee scripts
Using illustrations from recent Cherokee literacy practices, this article demonstrates that the linguistic anthropological concepts of indexicality and voice may profitably be used to analyze the communicative function of scripts, and literacy in general, as well as spoken language. In Cherokee, alternation patterns between the two scripts in current use are linked, through their vocal qualities and indexical functioning, to social categories of …
Blood politics
Glimpses of Local Masculinities
The Southeast, Then and Now
Review Article| January 01 2004 The Southeast, Then and Now Margaret Bender Margaret Bender Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (1): 171–179. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-51-1-171 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Margaret Ben…
From "Easy Phonetics" to the Syllabary
Drawing on classroom participant-observation and interviews conducted among the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, this article describes the ways in which literacy practices in Cherokee language education perpetuate and teach local categories of knowledge, behavior, and persons. I describe the semiotic functioning of the native-developed Cherokee syllabary, as well as its place among four Cherokee orthographies. This work contributes to our under…
Cherokee Women
"Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835, by Theda Perdue." Canadian Journal of History, 36(3), pp. 595–596
Lexical Acculturation in Native American Languages
Lexical Acculturation in Native American Languages. Cecil H. Brown. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 259 pp
"Reflections on What Writing Means, Beyond What It "Says
Graphic representation is linked to meaning at a number of levels, among them those of orthographic system, text, and individual character. This essay explores the range of possible meanings of "the graphic" at these different levels, particularly in terms of political economy, language ideology, and multileveled semiotic functioning. As the illustrations discussed here suggest, writing and other forms of graphic representation powerfully connect…
From "Easy Phonetics" to the Syllabary
Drawing on classroom participant-observation and interviews conducted among the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, this article describes the ways in which literacy practices in Cherokee language education perpetuate and teach local categories of knowledge, behavior, and persons. I describe the semiotic functioning of the native-developed Cherokee syllabary, as well as its place among four Cherokee orthographies. This work contributes to our under…
Lexical Acculturation in Native American Languages
Lexical Acculturation in Native American Languages. Cecil H. Brown. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 259 pp
Lexical Acculturation in Native American Languages
Lexical Acculturation in Native American Languages. Cecil H. Brown. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 259 pp
Cherokee Women
"Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835, by Theda Perdue." Canadian Journal of History, 36(3), pp. 595–596
From "Easy Phonetics" to the Syllabary
Drawing on classroom participant-observation and interviews conducted among the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, this article describes the ways in which literacy practices in Cherokee language education perpetuate and teach local categories of knowledge, behavior, and persons. I describe the semiotic functioning of the native-developed Cherokee syllabary, as well as its place among four Cherokee orthographies. This work contributes to our under…
The Southeast, Then and Now
Review Article| January 01 2004 The Southeast, Then and Now Margaret Bender Margaret Bender Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (1): 171–179. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-51-1-171 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Margaret Ben…
Glimpses of Local Masculinities
Blood politics
Indexicality, voice, and context in the distribution of Cherokee scripts
Using illustrations from recent Cherokee literacy practices, this article demonstrates that the linguistic anthropological concepts of indexicality and voice may profitably be used to analyze the communicative function of scripts, and literacy in general, as well as spoken language. In Cherokee, alternation patterns between the two scripts in current use are linked, through their vocal qualities and indexical functioning, to social categories of …
"Reflections on What Writing Means, Beyond What It "Says
Graphic representation is linked to meaning at a number of levels, among them those of orthographic system, text, and individual character. This essay explores the range of possible meanings of "the graphic" at these different levels, particularly in terms of political economy, language ideology, and multileveled semiotic functioning. As the illustrations discussed here suggest, writing and other forms of graphic representation powerfully connect…
The Bearer of This Letter
Shifting Linguistic Registers and the Nature of the Sacred in Cherokee
Linguistic Landscape
Linguistic landscape (LL) labels a highly fruitful interdisciplinary discourse on visible language and the ways in which written language articulates with the social and physical public landscapes in which it appears. Linguistic landscapes consist most obviously of publicly visible signs (street, commercial, informational, etc.) but the context has extended to other meaningful elements of public space, sometimes with the broader label of semiotic…
Loftin, John D., and Benjamin E. Frey
Sociology (10 works) · History (7 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Cherokee (5 works) · Archaeology and Natural History (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (4 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (4 works) · Literacy (4 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (4 works)