Culture and interculturality as non-/sharing

Meaning-making beyond discourse

Bibliographic Data

ID12701769
AuthorsElisabetta Adami (0000-0003-3651-919X, University of Leeds, corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume25
Issue4
Pages462-480
Publication date2025-07-04
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLanguage and Intercultural Communication (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1470-8477 • E-ISSN: 1747-759X
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14708477.2025.2524699
OpenAlexW4413076009
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited29

I present a sociosemiotic approach to culture/interculturality reconceptualised as non-/sharing in semiotic practices. I illustrate the non-/sharing dimensions and degrees derived from attributions of provenance in food-related Facebook groups. Several socialisation dimensions compete and combine in interaction, opening lines of flight challenging essentialised boundaries and ideas of multi/interculturality as necessarily tied to nationalities/ethnicities and/or mother tongues. The approach provides an analytical lens/toolkit to examine diversity and sharing co-construction in semiotic resources/practices in any communicative contexts, making it useful vis-a-vis a landscape of growing nationalisms and anti-immigration propaganda on one hand, and internal societal divisions and polarisations on the other. L’articolo presenta un approccio sociosemiotico che riconcettualizza cultura/interculturalità in termini di non-/condivisione di pratiche semiotiche, articolato in dimensioni e gradi di non-/condivisione derivati dalle attribuzioni di provenienza in gruppi Facebook dedicati al cibo. Diverse dimensioni di socializzazione competono e si combinano nell’interazione, aprendo linee di fuga che minano confini essenzializzati, nonché concezioni di multi/interculturalità necessariamente legate a nazionalità/etnie/lingue. L’approccio fornisce una lente analitica per esaminare diversità e co-costruzione di condivisione in risorse/pratiche semiotiche in ogni contesto comunicativo, utile di fronte a un panorama crescente di nazionalismi e propaganda anti-immigrazione da un lato, e di divisioni interne e polarizzazioni sociali dall’altro

Discourse analysis · Epistemology · Intercultural communication · Interculturality · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Meaning-making · Pedagogy · Sociology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy

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