Campus repertoires
Interrogating Semiotic Assemblages, Economy, and Creativity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4474793 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gabriel Simungala (0000-0001-5751-8191, University of the Western Cape, corresponding author), Deborah Ndalama-Mtawali (0000-0002-8016-6777, Mzuzu University , Mzuzu , Malawi) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 2024 |
| Issue | 256 |
| Pages | 137-152 |
| Publication date | 2024-03-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Semiotica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-1998 • E-ISSN: 1613-3692 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/sem-2020-0066 |
| OpenAlex | W4390265429 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 27 |
Framed within the broader theoretical context of social semiotics, we attempt to show how university students communicate using a variety of unique means, in particular social contexts. We privilege Pennycook and Otsuji's semiotic assemblages, Jimaima and Simungala's semiotic creativity, and the notion of semiotic economy as critical ingredients that conspire to give rise to the unique and complex coinages and innovations constituting students' repertoires. We argue that, born out of creativity, the students' repertoires are semiotically and economically charged discourses that generate extended narratives such that more is realized with less. We show that this reality undoubtedly constitutes a multi-semiotic meaning-making endeavor that enacts and sustains students' imagined and lived experiences in real sociocultural, historical, and political spaces in the multilingual landscapes of university campuses
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology) · Creativity · Epistemology · Linguistics · Narrative · Political science · Privilege (computing) · Semiotics · Social semiotics · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · Anthropology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Second Language Learning and Teaching · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |