Culture inside

Scale, intimacy, and chronotopic stance in situated narratives

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ID2865455
AuthorsE Pritzker (0000-0003-1713-4470, University of Alabama, corresponding author), Sabina Perrino, Sabina M Perrino (0000-0002-9984-9498, Binghamton University)
Year2021
Volume50
Issue3
Pages365-387
Publication date2021-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLanguage in Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-4045 • E-ISSN: 1469-8013
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0047404520000342
OpenAlexW3041512062
LanguageEN
Citations received26
References cited76

This article focuses on what we define asscalar intimacyin the stories people tell about their embodied experience as sociohistorical beings. Our analysis, based on ethnographic studies in Northern Italy (Perrino) and Beijing, China (Pritzker), examines the ways in which speech participants draw upon various discursive strategies to 'zoom in' and 'pan out' of both time and space, placing themselves and their activities in relation to various people, ideologies, and practices. Scalar intimacy, we argue, provides a novel framework for understanding the multiple ways in which people use language to scale their embodied experience in relation to culturally situated ideas and forms. Scalar intimacy thus extends the study of scales and fractal recursivity in linguistic anthropology and sociolinguistics. It also contributes to scholarship focusing on how culturally situated meanings are reproduced and challenged over time through specific interactions. (China, chronotope, identity, intimacy, narrative, Northern Italy, scales

Aesthetics · Art · Chronotope · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Ideology · Indexicality · Linguistics · Narrative · Performativity · Politics · Scholarship · Situated · Sociolinguistics · Sociology · Gender Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy

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