Jennifer Dickinson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3645414 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Dickinson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer |
| FAMILY NAME | Dickinson |
| SIGNATURE | DICKINSON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vermont |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
What to Wear When Saving Ukraine
This paper reviews the development of Ukrainian comic book superheroes, with a focus on the period between 2014 and 2019. Ukrainian superhero comics serve as a popular medium for the continued construction of a national and civic Ukrainian identity that incorporates a range of contemporary symbols, including elements of folklore that are imbued with national significance. Since 2014, these representational practices have increasingly pulled not o…
Mallwalkers
Plastic letters
This article examines the complex intersection of language ideologies shaping alphabetic choices in Ukrainian outdoor advertising and shop signs, focusing on alphabet mixing through the insertion of Latin letters into Cyrillic texts and the juxtaposition of parallel or alternating texts using both of these writing systems. Drawing upon ethnographic data from work with graphic designers and consumers as well as analysis of language use in signs, I…
Emoji and Emoji Language
This entry offers a summary of the origins of emoji and recent scholarship on their meaning and use as part of electronically mediated communication. Emoji are, at their most basic, pictograms used in communications via texts, chat apps, and social media platforms, and are part of a broader group that some scholars have termed “graphicons,” a set of graphemes used in online communications that includes emoticons, stickers, and animated gifs. Sinc…
Language and Humor
A general definition of the humorous is anything that elicits laughter or evokes amusement; some definitions also presuppose intentionality in the creation of humorous moments. Drawing from theoretical and descriptive foundations in folklore, linguistics, sociology, psychology, and anthropology, linguistic anthropological approaches have highlighted humorous language as the outcome of complex interactions in which participants must gauge intentio…
Languages for the market, the nation, or the margins
The Zakarpattia region in southwestern Ukraine is stereotyped as an area of great linguistic diversity, with a number of discrete ethnic groups speaking their eponymous languages, as well as a range of local Slavic varieties that are variably perceived as dialects of Ukrainian or deployed as evidence of long-standing links to another Slavic language, Rusyn. In this article, I focus on the ways in which different language ideologies mediate langua…
Quality of life
Languages for the market, the nation, or the margins
The Zakarpattia region in southwestern Ukraine is stereotyped as an area of great linguistic diversity, with a number of discrete ethnic groups speaking their eponymous languages, as well as a range of local Slavic varieties that are variably perceived as dialects of Ukrainian or deployed as evidence of long-standing links to another Slavic language, Rusyn. In this article, I focus on the ways in which different language ideologies mediate langua…
Quality of life
Languages for the market, the nation, or the margins
The Zakarpattia region in southwestern Ukraine is stereotyped as an area of great linguistic diversity, with a number of discrete ethnic groups speaking their eponymous languages, as well as a range of local Slavic varieties that are variably perceived as dialects of Ukrainian or deployed as evidence of long-standing links to another Slavic language, Rusyn. In this article, I focus on the ways in which different language ideologies mediate langua…
Emoji and Emoji Language
This entry offers a summary of the origins of emoji and recent scholarship on their meaning and use as part of electronically mediated communication. Emoji are, at their most basic, pictograms used in communications via texts, chat apps, and social media platforms, and are part of a broader group that some scholars have termed “graphicons,” a set of graphemes used in online communications that includes emoticons, stickers, and animated gifs. Sinc…
Language and Humor
A general definition of the humorous is anything that elicits laughter or evokes amusement; some definitions also presuppose intentionality in the creation of humorous moments. Drawing from theoretical and descriptive foundations in folklore, linguistics, sociology, psychology, and anthropology, linguistic anthropological approaches have highlighted humorous language as the outcome of complex interactions in which participants must gauge intentio…
Plastic letters
This article examines the complex intersection of language ideologies shaping alphabetic choices in Ukrainian outdoor advertising and shop signs, focusing on alphabet mixing through the insertion of Latin letters into Cyrillic texts and the juxtaposition of parallel or alternating texts using both of these writing systems. Drawing upon ethnographic data from work with graphic designers and consumers as well as analysis of language use in signs, I…
Mallwalkers
What to Wear When Saving Ukraine
This paper reviews the development of Ukrainian comic book superheroes, with a focus on the period between 2014 and 2019. Ukrainian superhero comics serve as a popular medium for the continued construction of a national and civic Ukrainian identity that incorporates a range of contemporary symbols, including elements of folklore that are imbued with national significance. Since 2014, these representational practices have increasingly pulled not o…
Linguistics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · History (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Ukrainian (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Digital Communication and Language (2 works)