Discourse, Materiality, and Agency within Everyday Social Interactions
Series: Elements in Applied Linguistics;
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 31 December 2025
- ISBN 9781009675369
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages75 pages
- Weight 250 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This Element explores how objects, discourse, and material culture co-construct agency and social action in shops and everyday interactions.
MoreLong description:
This Element investigates the interplay between language, discourse, and materiality by focusing on everyday social practices within corner shops and markets in Sydney, Australia. Drawing on linguistic ethnography and data from interactions involving objects, talk, and people, it explores how discourse and materiality are co-constituted. Employing theoretical perspectives from actor-network theory and the concept of mediational means/tools, the study reconceptualizes the role of non-human entities in meaning-making processes. It demonstrates that objects actively participate in shaping cultural practices and social dynamics, offering new insights that broaden applied linguistics' engagement with materiality. By treating objects as agents in discourse, this Element highlights the entanglement of language, agency, and the material world. It foregrounds the dynamic relationships between humans and non-humans in everyday communicative practices, bringing to the fore the significance of material conditions in the production of meaning and interaction.
MoreTable of Contents:
1. Introduction; 2. Methodology and analytical tools; 3. Objects as mediators in the semiotic landscape; 4. Material objects and institutional agency in practice; 5. Entangling discourse, materiality, and identity in diasporic service encounters; 6. Conclusion; References.
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