Elizabeth Keating
Biographic Data
| ID | 589688 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Keating |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Keating |
| SIGNATURE | KEATING E |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2546-2733 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 118 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Duranti, Alessandro
Among contemporary linguistic anthropologists, Alessandro Duranti is unique in the breadth of his research and in his interdisciplinary engagement in theorizing relationships between language and culture. His work can be understood as a career‐long interest in human creativity as expressed in linguistic (and other semiotic) forms, and the mediating influence of these forms on culture and social life. His work is highly influenced not only by form…
Everyday interactions and the domestication of social inequality
This article examines the distribution of relationships of power and authority as an activity in gossip sessions among members of a community in Pohnpei, Micronesia. The position of Bourdieu, that the interactionist approach cannot elucidate important aspects of the sharing of power in society, is used as a starting place to examine ways in which interactants in everyday conversations manipulate and organize gendered identities and the entitlemen…
When do good communication models fail in global virtual teams
Words Matter: Communicating Effectively in the New Global Office
In a twenty-first-century global economy, in which multinational companies coordinate and collaborate with partners and clientele around the world, it is usually English that is the parlance of business, research, technology, and finance. Most assume that if parties on both ends of the conference call are fluent English speakers, information will be shared seamlessly and without any misunderstanding. But is that really true? Words Matter examines…
The eyes have it: Technologies of automobility in sign language
Cars present an unusual environment for human interaction and communication. For deaf people using sign language, a visual language, the car is far from ideal for establishing and maintaining conversation. This is due to the visual pre-occupation of the driver with watching the road, manual preoccupation with maneuvering the car, and the layout of seats for passengers. This article describes and analyzes particular conversational interactions of …
Interspatial subjectivities: Engineering in virtual environments
It is becoming increasingly common for workers to collaborate across continents in technologically-mediated spaces, where geography and time are related in new ways, where visual elements for interpreting the other's actions are reduced, and where quite diverse cultural practices and beliefs are encountered. Phenomenologically, intersubjectivity, or taking the point of view of the other, and imagining oneself in the other's space, requires a new …
Leslie Jarmon—1952-2009
Participation cues: Coordinating activity and collaboration in complex online gaming worlds
The development of digital communication technologies not only has an influence on human communicative practices, but also creates new spaces for human collaborative activity. In this article we discuss a technologically mediated context for interaction, computer games. Closely looking at interactions among a group of gamers, we examine how players are managing complex, shifting frameworks of participation, the virtual game world and the embodied…
Sensory Impairment
Anthropological studies of sensory impairment address biological conditions and cultural disablement while contributing to theoretical discussions of cultural competence, communicative practices, the role of narrative, and features of identity, ideologies, and technology. As boundary cases, impairments can disclose essential aspects of the senses in human life. Sensory impairment studies navigate the complexities of comparing dominant sensory dis…
Managing Misunderstandings: The Role of Language in Interdisciplinary Scientific Collaboration
This article explores how scientists communicate with each other in interdisciplinary collaborative work. It is based on ethnographic research conducted with one such group, which is building a predictive computer model of heat transfer in prostate tissues. The analysis identifies strategies scientists use in their communication practices, including managing different understandings of the validity of knowledge, partial understandings among parti…
Power and Pragmatics
Language is an important means through which power relations are created and negotiated. In addition to everyday choices speakers make about their own language use, variations in ways of talking are related to local theories of power, status, identity, self, ethnicity, class, and gender. Grammatical and lexical choices, choices in forms of address and reference, turn-taking, narratives of cause and effect, genre, and stylistic performance, as wel…
Cybersign and new proximities: Impacts of new communication technologies on space and language
What is Nanotechnology: New Properties of Words as Territories in a Cross-Disciplinary, Cross Border Flow
The cultural impacts of tools and technologies have always been of great interest to anthropologists, cognitive scientists, and developmental psychologists. Humans have a long history of inventing and using tools, both material and symbolic, and these have influenced the development of our societies in crucial ways, both cognitively and in terms of the specialization of social roles and relationships. Perhaps never before have technological innov…
Homo prostheticus: Problematizing the Notions of Activity and Computermediated Interaction
Computer-mediated interaction poses new challenges for theories and models of social interaction concerned with relationships between humans and tools. This article discusses deaf signers using sign language in computer-mediated space, a case in which a new technological ‘tool’ is integrated into existing practices and conventions, but also requires new innovations. An influential model for studying humans, tool use, and social interaction is Act…
The Sociolinguistics of Status in Pohnpei
Pohnpeian is one of several Pacific languages with a complex honorific speech register. Studying everyday interactions in which honorific speech occurs reveals that the use of these status-marking forms is not as regularized as native speakers imply or as theories would predict. This suggests that asymmetries of status may be context-specific in ways that are not revealed by generalized descriptions of a society's social organization. Looking at …
American Sign Language in virtual space: Interactions between deaf users of computer-mediated video communication and the impact of technology on language practices
According to some discussions concerning new information technologies and technologically enhanced communication, we are now in a revolution as profound as the printing press. The Internet is creating new kinds of meetingplaces and work areas and the possibilities of new types of relationships across time and space. This article reports on some ways that the Internet is shaping language practices in the Deaf community, with an interest in how new…
Examining Interactions across Language Modalities: Deaf Children and Hearing Peers at School
Deaf youth easily become communicatively isolated in public schools, where they are in a small minority among a majority of hearing peers and teachers. This article examines communicative strategies of deaf children in an American "mainstream " school setting to discover how they creatively manage their casual communicative interactions with hearing peers across multimodal communicative channels, visual and auditory. We argue that unshared sociol…
The Ethnography of Communication
Language, Identity, and the Production of Authority in New Discursive Contexts in Pohnpei, Micronesia
Many ships came to Ponape. 1 Many were the foreigners who settled on Ponape, and foreign things also became numerous, the kinds of animals and the kinds of plants, both large and small plants which could grow on Ponape. Moreover white people and black people-all kinds, as well as certain kinds of sickness, etc., also became numerous. And certain different kinds of enlightenment 2 also became well established in Ponape (Bernart, 1977 : Chapter 61,…
Moments of Hierarchy: Constructing Social Stratification by Means of Language, Food, Space, and the Body in Pohnpei, Micronesia
In this paper I examine relationships between multiple semiotic modes used to construct hierarchy, and I show the importance of going beyond our traditional notion of language to look at how social actors employ a range of semiotic resources in organizing and interpreting social relations. Using examples from Pohnpei, Micronesia, I show how notions of superior and inferior are compounded through several sign systems-spatial relations, food sharin…
Space
Contesting representations of gender stratification in Pohnpei, Micronesia
Both space and language are resourcesin the production of social hierarchies. In Pohnpei, Micronesia, the social categorization of space in the feasthouse creates a map of the social order that includes a subordinate identity for women, that of a wife whose status depends on her husband's. However, women orators at feasts discursively subvert characterizations of women's status as contingent on men. The orators invoke a more complex range of gend…
A woman's role in constructing status hierarchies: Using honorific language in Pohnpei, Micronesia
Article A woman’s role in constructing status hierarchies: using honorific language in Pohnpei, Micronesia was published on January 1, 1998 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1998, issue 129)
Honor and Stratification in Pohnpei, Micronesia
This article is an investigation of honor in a Micronesian society, particularly as it is constructed in language. I argue that honor is a set of practices through which people organize positive embodied attitudes about social hierarchy, according particularly high value to acts of self-depletion. A different notion of the self in the Pacific has implications for ideas about the universality of a personal notion of honor and suggests that the com…
Honorific possession: Power and language in Pohnpei, Micronesia
Mental categorization schemes, such as noun classification systems, can be productive sites for examining how experience is meaningfully and culturally structured through metaphorical and metonymic associations. Pohnpeian possessive classifiers not only constitute cultural categories of rank and power relations, but dynamically re-sort or re-classify these categories through honorific speech. Linguistic and interactional data are here combined wi…
American Sign Language in virtual space: Interactions between deaf users of computer-mediated video communication and the impact of technology on language practices
According to some discussions concerning new information technologies and technologically enhanced communication, we are now in a revolution as profound as the printing press. The Internet is creating new kinds of meetingplaces and work areas and the possibilities of new types of relationships across time and space. This article reports on some ways that the Internet is shaping language practices in the Deaf community, with an interest in how new…
Moments of Hierarchy: Constructing Social Stratification by Means of Language, Food, Space, and the Body in Pohnpei, Micronesia
In this paper I examine relationships between multiple semiotic modes used to construct hierarchy, and I show the importance of going beyond our traditional notion of language to look at how social actors employ a range of semiotic resources in organizing and interpreting social relations. Using examples from Pohnpei, Micronesia, I show how notions of superior and inferior are compounded through several sign systems-spatial relations, food sharin…
Managing Misunderstandings: The Role of Language in Interdisciplinary Scientific Collaboration
This article explores how scientists communicate with each other in interdisciplinary collaborative work. It is based on ethnographic research conducted with one such group, which is building a predictive computer model of heat transfer in prostate tissues. The analysis identifies strategies scientists use in their communication practices, including managing different understandings of the validity of knowledge, partial understandings among parti…
Cybersign and new proximities: Impacts of new communication technologies on space and language
Participation cues: Coordinating activity and collaboration in complex online gaming worlds
The development of digital communication technologies not only has an influence on human communicative practices, but also creates new spaces for human collaborative activity. In this article we discuss a technologically mediated context for interaction, computer games. Closely looking at interactions among a group of gamers, we examine how players are managing complex, shifting frameworks of participation, the virtual game world and the embodied…
Examining Interactions across Language Modalities: Deaf Children and Hearing Peers at School
Deaf youth easily become communicatively isolated in public schools, where they are in a small minority among a majority of hearing peers and teachers. This article examines communicative strategies of deaf children in an American "mainstream " school setting to discover how they creatively manage their casual communicative interactions with hearing peers across multimodal communicative channels, visual and auditory. We argue that unshared sociol…
Sensory Impairment
Anthropological studies of sensory impairment address biological conditions and cultural disablement while contributing to theoretical discussions of cultural competence, communicative practices, the role of narrative, and features of identity, ideologies, and technology. As boundary cases, impairments can disclose essential aspects of the senses in human life. Sensory impairment studies navigate the complexities of comparing dominant sensory dis…
Homo prostheticus: Problematizing the Notions of Activity and Computermediated Interaction
Computer-mediated interaction poses new challenges for theories and models of social interaction concerned with relationships between humans and tools. This article discusses deaf signers using sign language in computer-mediated space, a case in which a new technological ‘tool’ is integrated into existing practices and conventions, but also requires new innovations. An influential model for studying humans, tool use, and social interaction is Act…
Honorific possession: Power and language in Pohnpei, Micronesia
Mental categorization schemes, such as noun classification systems, can be productive sites for examining how experience is meaningfully and culturally structured through metaphorical and metonymic associations. Pohnpeian possessive classifiers not only constitute cultural categories of rank and power relations, but dynamically re-sort or re-classify these categories through honorific speech. Linguistic and interactional data are here combined wi…
Honor and Stratification in Pohnpei, Micronesia
This article is an investigation of honor in a Micronesian society, particularly as it is constructed in language. I argue that honor is a set of practices through which people organize positive embodied attitudes about social hierarchy, according particularly high value to acts of self-depletion. A different notion of the self in the Pacific has implications for ideas about the universality of a personal notion of honor and suggests that the com…
Interspatial subjectivities: Engineering in virtual environments
It is becoming increasingly common for workers to collaborate across continents in technologically-mediated spaces, where geography and time are related in new ways, where visual elements for interpreting the other's actions are reduced, and where quite diverse cultural practices and beliefs are encountered. Phenomenologically, intersubjectivity, or taking the point of view of the other, and imagining oneself in the other's space, requires a new …
Words Matter: Communicating Effectively in the New Global Office
In a twenty-first-century global economy, in which multinational companies coordinate and collaborate with partners and clientele around the world, it is usually English that is the parlance of business, research, technology, and finance. Most assume that if parties on both ends of the conference call are fluent English speakers, information will be shared seamlessly and without any misunderstanding. But is that really true? Words Matter examines…
Power and Pragmatics
Language is an important means through which power relations are created and negotiated. In addition to everyday choices speakers make about their own language use, variations in ways of talking are related to local theories of power, status, identity, self, ethnicity, class, and gender. Grammatical and lexical choices, choices in forms of address and reference, turn-taking, narratives of cause and effect, genre, and stylistic performance, as wel…
The Sociolinguistics of Status in Pohnpei
Pohnpeian is one of several Pacific languages with a complex honorific speech register. Studying everyday interactions in which honorific speech occurs reveals that the use of these status-marking forms is not as regularized as native speakers imply or as theories would predict. This suggests that asymmetries of status may be context-specific in ways that are not revealed by generalized descriptions of a society's social organization. Looking at …
Contesting representations of gender stratification in Pohnpei, Micronesia
Both space and language are resourcesin the production of social hierarchies. In Pohnpei, Micronesia, the social categorization of space in the feasthouse creates a map of the social order that includes a subordinate identity for women, that of a wife whose status depends on her husband's. However, women orators at feasts discursively subvert characterizations of women's status as contingent on men. The orators invoke a more complex range of gend…
A woman's role in constructing status hierarchies: Using honorific language in Pohnpei, Micronesia
Article A woman’s role in constructing status hierarchies: using honorific language in Pohnpei, Micronesia was published on January 1, 1998 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1998, issue 129)
Honorific possession: Power and language in Pohnpei, Micronesia
Mental categorization schemes, such as noun classification systems, can be productive sites for examining how experience is meaningfully and culturally structured through metaphorical and metonymic associations. Pohnpeian possessive classifiers not only constitute cultural categories of rank and power relations, but dynamically re-sort or re-classify these categories through honorific speech. Linguistic and interactional data are here combined wi…
Do You See What I Mean: Plains Indians Sign Talk and the Embodiment of Action
Do You See What. Mean: Plains Indians Sign Talk and the Embodiment of Action. Brenda Farnell. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995. 382 pp
A woman's role in constructing status hierarchies: Using honorific language in Pohnpei, Micronesia
Article A woman’s role in constructing status hierarchies: using honorific language in Pohnpei, Micronesia was published on January 1, 1998 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1998, issue 129)
Honor and Stratification in Pohnpei, Micronesia
This article is an investigation of honor in a Micronesian society, particularly as it is constructed in language. I argue that honor is a set of practices through which people organize positive embodied attitudes about social hierarchy, according particularly high value to acts of self-depletion. A different notion of the self in the Pacific has implications for ideas about the universality of a personal notion of honor and suggests that the com…
Space
Contesting representations of gender stratification in Pohnpei, Micronesia
Both space and language are resourcesin the production of social hierarchies. In Pohnpei, Micronesia, the social categorization of space in the feasthouse creates a map of the social order that includes a subordinate identity for women, that of a wife whose status depends on her husband's. However, women orators at feasts discursively subvert characterizations of women's status as contingent on men. The orators invoke a more complex range of gend…
Moments of Hierarchy: Constructing Social Stratification by Means of Language, Food, Space, and the Body in Pohnpei, Micronesia
In this paper I examine relationships between multiple semiotic modes used to construct hierarchy, and I show the importance of going beyond our traditional notion of language to look at how social actors employ a range of semiotic resources in organizing and interpreting social relations. Using examples from Pohnpei, Micronesia, I show how notions of superior and inferior are compounded through several sign systems-spatial relations, food sharin…
The Ethnography of Communication
Language, Identity, and the Production of Authority in New Discursive Contexts in Pohnpei, Micronesia
Many ships came to Ponape. 1 Many were the foreigners who settled on Ponape, and foreign things also became numerous, the kinds of animals and the kinds of plants, both large and small plants which could grow on Ponape. Moreover white people and black people-all kinds, as well as certain kinds of sickness, etc., also became numerous. And certain different kinds of enlightenment 2 also became well established in Ponape (Bernart, 1977 : Chapter 61,…
American Sign Language in virtual space: Interactions between deaf users of computer-mediated video communication and the impact of technology on language practices
According to some discussions concerning new information technologies and technologically enhanced communication, we are now in a revolution as profound as the printing press. The Internet is creating new kinds of meetingplaces and work areas and the possibilities of new types of relationships across time and space. This article reports on some ways that the Internet is shaping language practices in the Deaf community, with an interest in how new…
Examining Interactions across Language Modalities: Deaf Children and Hearing Peers at School
Deaf youth easily become communicatively isolated in public schools, where they are in a small minority among a majority of hearing peers and teachers. This article examines communicative strategies of deaf children in an American "mainstream " school setting to discover how they creatively manage their casual communicative interactions with hearing peers across multimodal communicative channels, visual and auditory. We argue that unshared sociol…
Homo prostheticus: Problematizing the Notions of Activity and Computermediated Interaction
Computer-mediated interaction poses new challenges for theories and models of social interaction concerned with relationships between humans and tools. This article discusses deaf signers using sign language in computer-mediated space, a case in which a new technological ‘tool’ is integrated into existing practices and conventions, but also requires new innovations. An influential model for studying humans, tool use, and social interaction is Act…
The Sociolinguistics of Status in Pohnpei
Pohnpeian is one of several Pacific languages with a complex honorific speech register. Studying everyday interactions in which honorific speech occurs reveals that the use of these status-marking forms is not as regularized as native speakers imply or as theories would predict. This suggests that asymmetries of status may be context-specific in ways that are not revealed by generalized descriptions of a society's social organization. Looking at …
What is Nanotechnology: New Properties of Words as Territories in a Cross-Disciplinary, Cross Border Flow
The cultural impacts of tools and technologies have always been of great interest to anthropologists, cognitive scientists, and developmental psychologists. Humans have a long history of inventing and using tools, both material and symbolic, and these have influenced the development of our societies in crucial ways, both cognitively and in terms of the specialization of social roles and relationships. Perhaps never before have technological innov…
Cybersign and new proximities: Impacts of new communication technologies on space and language
Managing Misunderstandings: The Role of Language in Interdisciplinary Scientific Collaboration
This article explores how scientists communicate with each other in interdisciplinary collaborative work. It is based on ethnographic research conducted with one such group, which is building a predictive computer model of heat transfer in prostate tissues. The analysis identifies strategies scientists use in their communication practices, including managing different understandings of the validity of knowledge, partial understandings among parti…
Power and Pragmatics
Language is an important means through which power relations are created and negotiated. In addition to everyday choices speakers make about their own language use, variations in ways of talking are related to local theories of power, status, identity, self, ethnicity, class, and gender. Grammatical and lexical choices, choices in forms of address and reference, turn-taking, narratives of cause and effect, genre, and stylistic performance, as wel…
Leslie Jarmon—1952-2009
Participation cues: Coordinating activity and collaboration in complex online gaming worlds
The development of digital communication technologies not only has an influence on human communicative practices, but also creates new spaces for human collaborative activity. In this article we discuss a technologically mediated context for interaction, computer games. Closely looking at interactions among a group of gamers, we examine how players are managing complex, shifting frameworks of participation, the virtual game world and the embodied…
Sensory Impairment
Anthropological studies of sensory impairment address biological conditions and cultural disablement while contributing to theoretical discussions of cultural competence, communicative practices, the role of narrative, and features of identity, ideologies, and technology. As boundary cases, impairments can disclose essential aspects of the senses in human life. Sensory impairment studies navigate the complexities of comparing dominant sensory dis…
Interspatial subjectivities: Engineering in virtual environments
It is becoming increasingly common for workers to collaborate across continents in technologically-mediated spaces, where geography and time are related in new ways, where visual elements for interpreting the other's actions are reduced, and where quite diverse cultural practices and beliefs are encountered. Phenomenologically, intersubjectivity, or taking the point of view of the other, and imagining oneself in the other's space, requires a new …
The eyes have it: Technologies of automobility in sign language
Cars present an unusual environment for human interaction and communication. For deaf people using sign language, a visual language, the car is far from ideal for establishing and maintaining conversation. This is due to the visual pre-occupation of the driver with watching the road, manual preoccupation with maneuvering the car, and the layout of seats for passengers. This article describes and analyzes particular conversational interactions of …
Words Matter: Communicating Effectively in the New Global Office
In a twenty-first-century global economy, in which multinational companies coordinate and collaborate with partners and clientele around the world, it is usually English that is the parlance of business, research, technology, and finance. Most assume that if parties on both ends of the conference call are fluent English speakers, information will be shared seamlessly and without any misunderstanding. But is that really true? Words Matter examines…
When do good communication models fail in global virtual teams
Everyday interactions and the domestication of social inequality
This article examines the distribution of relationships of power and authority as an activity in gossip sessions among members of a community in Pohnpei, Micronesia. The position of Bourdieu, that the interactionist approach cannot elucidate important aspects of the sharing of power in society, is used as a starting place to examine ways in which interactants in everyday conversations manipulate and organize gendered identities and the entitlemen…
Sociology (19 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (15 works) · Linguistics (13 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (8 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (7 works) · Social science (7 works) · Hearing Impairment and Communication (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works)