Shifters, linguistic categories, and cultural description¶
Silverstein, M. (1976). Shifters, linguistic categories, and cultural description. Meaning in Anthropology.
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- Indexicality
- The relation is also fundamentally asymmetric and singular: the signification is demonstrative — "this fire" rather than "fire in general" — and the arrow runs from sign to object via a contact that has a direction (smoke comes from fire, not the reverse), an asymmetry Silverstein (1976) formalizes in his analysis of indexical orders and their causal directionality.
This sourceFormalizes a typology of indexical signs in language (referential vs. non-referential, presupposing vs. creative) and the directional, asymmetric structure of the sign-to-object link; foundational for linguistic-anthropological treatments of indexicality.
- The relation is also fundamentally asymmetric and singular: the signification is demonstrative — "this fire" rather than "fire in general" — and the arrow runs from sign to object via a contact that has a direction (smoke comes from fire, not the reverse), an asymmetry Silverstein (1976) formalizes in his analysis of indexical orders and their causal directionality.
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