Juan Luis Rodríguez
Biographic Data
| ID | 83794 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Juan Luis Rodríguez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Juan Luis |
| FAMILY NAME | Rodríguez |
| SIGNATURE | RODRÍGUEZ J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queens College, CUNY |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6499-7004 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Fenómeno Lacava: Spectacle, Enjoyment, and Stance in Venezuela's Online Political Campaigning
On August 13, 2017, Rafael Lacava, the ex-mayor of the city of Puerto Cabello in coastal Venezuela, announced his intention to run for governor. He made the announcement via Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. Here, I follow Lacava’s campaign in the months before he became governor of Carabobo to trace the deployment of his affective and emotional performances in social media platforms. I argue that Lacava’s individual style and linguistic stance e…
The interplay of greetings and promises: Political encounters between the Warao and the new indigenous leadership in the Orinoco Delta, Venezuela
This paper addresses the use of greetings and the importance of promises in political speeches performed by Warao and non-Warao indigenous politicians to Warao audiences in the Orinoco Delta, Venezuela. It shows that lack of promises can jeopardize the rhetorical effectiveness of their performance regardless of their use of discursive framings, such as greetings in indigenous languages, and of traditional genres of speech. Promises are important …
I Don't Know How People on Minimum Wage Make it: The Semiotic Scaling of Political Crisis and Emotions in Venezuela
A finales del año 2016 la moneda venezolana comenzó a depreciarse aceleradamente. Los venezolanos de clase media y trabajadora vieron esto como una señal de altos índices de inflación para el mes de diciembre y para el año 2017. Durante este periodo, ejercicios comunicativos de comparación y escala tomaron lugar central en muchas conversaciones de la vida diaria. En este articulo argumento que tales ejercicios constituyen un registro contextual u…
The National Anthem in Warao: Semiotic Ground and Performative Affordances of Indigenous Language Texts in Venezuela
This paper analyzes how the translated text of the Venezuelan national anthem from Spanish to Warao has been put to new uses in Venezuela. It focuses on publicly available videos and written versions of the lyrics to understand how indigenous leaders and nonindigenous Spanish speakers use the anthem for new purposes. By analyzing the anthem as a text-artifact, I argue that translation produced a change on the semiotic ground of interpretation for…
Fluent Selves: Autobiography, Person, and History in Lowland South America ed. by Suzanne Oakdale, Magnus Course (review)
Reviewed by: Fluent Selves: Autobiography, Person, and History in Lowland South America ed. by Suzanne Oakdale, Magnus Course Juan Luis Rodriguez Fluent Selves: Autobiography, Person, and History in Lowland South America . Edited by Suzanne Oakdale and Magnus Course. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2014. Pp. xiv + 319. $75.00 (cloth). This volume takes its title from Kenneth Rexroth’s poem “Lute Music.” This poetic reference sets the tone …
Ordeals of Language and Political Agonistic Exchange in the Orinoco Delta, Venezuela
This paper argues that Ellen Basso’s notion of ordeals of language can help us understand the semiotic mechanisms that affect political agency in the relation between indigenous populations and the state in Venezuela. Here I describe how linguistic performance and the struggle over political gifts influenced the production of what Basso calls “texts of the self.” During the 2008 primary elections in the Orinoco Delta, Venezuela, gifts distributed…
Ordeals of Language: Essays in Honor of Ellen B. Basso
In this introductory piece we discuss Ellen Basso’s critical insight concerning ordeals of language as the framework for the papers of this special issue. An ordeal of language occurs when one’s voice is affected by powerful others. The papers included here deal with this and other issues that have driven Basso’s career. Here we take inspiration not only from her theoretical innovation but also her ethnographic journey between North America and A…
Materiality, Exchange, and History in the Amazon: A Growing Field of Study
Book Review| July 01 2011 Materiality, Exchange, and History in the Amazon: A Growing Field of Study The Occult Life of Things: Native Amazonian Theories of Materiality and Personhood. Edited by Santos-Granero, Fernando. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2009. 277 pp., introduction, figures, tables, index. $55.00 cloth.)Urarina Society, Cosmology, and History in Peruvian Amazonia. By Dean, Bartholomew. (Gainesville: University Press of Florid…
The Translation of Poverty and the Poverty of Translation in the Orinoco Delta
This essay will discuss contending language ideologies in early twentieth-century efforts at translating Warao into Spanish. It will analyze the linguistic and semiotic collision between the Warao and the emerging Venezuelan nation-state. Its main focus will be on the Catholic missionaries' production of dictionaries, grammars, and other forms of linguistic descriptions, and the Warao's own interpretation of the language encounter. At the beginni…
The National Anthem in Warao: Semiotic Ground and Performative Affordances of Indigenous Language Texts in Venezuela
This paper analyzes how the translated text of the Venezuelan national anthem from Spanish to Warao has been put to new uses in Venezuela. It focuses on publicly available videos and written versions of the lyrics to understand how indigenous leaders and nonindigenous Spanish speakers use the anthem for new purposes. By analyzing the anthem as a text-artifact, I argue that translation produced a change on the semiotic ground of interpretation for…
I Don't Know How People on Minimum Wage Make it: The Semiotic Scaling of Political Crisis and Emotions in Venezuela
A finales del año 2016 la moneda venezolana comenzó a depreciarse aceleradamente. Los venezolanos de clase media y trabajadora vieron esto como una señal de altos índices de inflación para el mes de diciembre y para el año 2017. Durante este periodo, ejercicios comunicativos de comparación y escala tomaron lugar central en muchas conversaciones de la vida diaria. En este articulo argumento que tales ejercicios constituyen un registro contextual u…
The Translation of Poverty and the Poverty of Translation in the Orinoco Delta
This essay will discuss contending language ideologies in early twentieth-century efforts at translating Warao into Spanish. It will analyze the linguistic and semiotic collision between the Warao and the emerging Venezuelan nation-state. Its main focus will be on the Catholic missionaries' production of dictionaries, grammars, and other forms of linguistic descriptions, and the Warao's own interpretation of the language encounter. At the beginni…
The Translation of Poverty and the Poverty of Translation in the Orinoco Delta
This essay will discuss contending language ideologies in early twentieth-century efforts at translating Warao into Spanish. It will analyze the linguistic and semiotic collision between the Warao and the emerging Venezuelan nation-state. Its main focus will be on the Catholic missionaries' production of dictionaries, grammars, and other forms of linguistic descriptions, and the Warao's own interpretation of the language encounter. At the beginni…
Materiality, Exchange, and History in the Amazon: A Growing Field of Study
Book Review| July 01 2011 Materiality, Exchange, and History in the Amazon: A Growing Field of Study The Occult Life of Things: Native Amazonian Theories of Materiality and Personhood. Edited by Santos-Granero, Fernando. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2009. 277 pp., introduction, figures, tables, index. $55.00 cloth.)Urarina Society, Cosmology, and History in Peruvian Amazonia. By Dean, Bartholomew. (Gainesville: University Press of Florid…
Ordeals of Language and Political Agonistic Exchange in the Orinoco Delta, Venezuela
This paper argues that Ellen Basso’s notion of ordeals of language can help us understand the semiotic mechanisms that affect political agency in the relation between indigenous populations and the state in Venezuela. Here I describe how linguistic performance and the struggle over political gifts influenced the production of what Basso calls “texts of the self.” During the 2008 primary elections in the Orinoco Delta, Venezuela, gifts distributed…
Ordeals of Language: Essays in Honor of Ellen B. Basso
In this introductory piece we discuss Ellen Basso’s critical insight concerning ordeals of language as the framework for the papers of this special issue. An ordeal of language occurs when one’s voice is affected by powerful others. The papers included here deal with this and other issues that have driven Basso’s career. Here we take inspiration not only from her theoretical innovation but also her ethnographic journey between North America and A…
Fluent Selves: Autobiography, Person, and History in Lowland South America ed. by Suzanne Oakdale, Magnus Course (review)
Reviewed by: Fluent Selves: Autobiography, Person, and History in Lowland South America ed. by Suzanne Oakdale, Magnus Course Juan Luis Rodriguez Fluent Selves: Autobiography, Person, and History in Lowland South America . Edited by Suzanne Oakdale and Magnus Course. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2014. Pp. xiv + 319. $75.00 (cloth). This volume takes its title from Kenneth Rexroth’s poem “Lute Music.” This poetic reference sets the tone …
The National Anthem in Warao: Semiotic Ground and Performative Affordances of Indigenous Language Texts in Venezuela
This paper analyzes how the translated text of the Venezuelan national anthem from Spanish to Warao has been put to new uses in Venezuela. It focuses on publicly available videos and written versions of the lyrics to understand how indigenous leaders and nonindigenous Spanish speakers use the anthem for new purposes. By analyzing the anthem as a text-artifact, I argue that translation produced a change on the semiotic ground of interpretation for…
I Don't Know How People on Minimum Wage Make it: The Semiotic Scaling of Political Crisis and Emotions in Venezuela
A finales del año 2016 la moneda venezolana comenzó a depreciarse aceleradamente. Los venezolanos de clase media y trabajadora vieron esto como una señal de altos índices de inflación para el mes de diciembre y para el año 2017. Durante este periodo, ejercicios comunicativos de comparación y escala tomaron lugar central en muchas conversaciones de la vida diaria. En este articulo argumento que tales ejercicios constituyen un registro contextual u…
The interplay of greetings and promises: Political encounters between the Warao and the new indigenous leadership in the Orinoco Delta, Venezuela
This paper addresses the use of greetings and the importance of promises in political speeches performed by Warao and non-Warao indigenous politicians to Warao audiences in the Orinoco Delta, Venezuela. It shows that lack of promises can jeopardize the rhetorical effectiveness of their performance regardless of their use of discursive framings, such as greetings in indigenous languages, and of traditional genres of speech. Promises are important …
Fenómeno Lacava: Spectacle, Enjoyment, and Stance in Venezuela's Online Political Campaigning
On August 13, 2017, Rafael Lacava, the ex-mayor of the city of Puerto Cabello in coastal Venezuela, announced his intention to run for governor. He made the announcement via Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. Here, I follow Lacava’s campaign in the months before he became governor of Carabobo to trace the deployment of his affective and emotional performances in social media platforms. I argue that Lacava’s individual style and linguistic stance e…
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