Culture and interculturality as non-/sharing: meaning-making beyond discourse
Article / Journal
Author(s) / editor(s):
Elisabetta Adami
Year: 2025
Language(s): English
Abstract:
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.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14708477.2025.2524699#abstract
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