The Semiotics of Gallo Dictionaries: Indexing Modern Localness and Distributing Epistemic Authority in Minority Language Advocacy
Dados Bibliográficos
| AUTOR(ES) | |
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| AFILIAÇÃO(ÕES) | Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures Illinois State University |
| ANO | 2019 |
| TIPO | Artigo |
| PERIÓDICO | Journal of Linguistic Anthropology |
| ISSN | 1055-1360 |
| E-ISSN | 1548-1395 |
| EDITORA | Sage Publications (United States) |
| DOI | 10.1111/jola.12212 |
| CITAÇÕES | 1 |
| ADICIONADO EM | 2025-08-18 |
| MD5 |
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Resumo
In this article, I explore the semiotics of print dictionaries for Gallo, a minority Romance language of Brittany, France. Although dictionaries are generally understood as authoritative representations of semantic content, I show how the materiality of dictionaries was central to their embedding in Gallo advocacy and art. Drawing on performance and interactional data collected during twelve months of ethnographic fieldwork, I explore how advocates and performers at language festivals displayed dictionaries as icons of Gallo's existence and 'weight' and indexes of Gallo's complementarity with modern life. Rather than enforcing a standard, dictionaries prompted display of local, heterogeneous linguistic expertise.