The term "index" was first used by Peirce, who defines it as the connection between a sign and its object, i.e., the sign points to its object. According to Levinson (1983, p. 57), Peirce "argued that they determined a referent by an existential relation between sign and referent (see Burks, 1949)," however they "have not been put to much effective use in linguistic pragmatics"[thanks Tatjana!]. Enter Michael! Who "created a
framework in which this concept could usefully become central
to understanding how language and other communicative codes
are contextualized/contextualizing" (personal correspondence).
research sources: August 2005 Archives
A free MA program for refugees to become interpreters at Cardiff University! (Still have to hunt for the specifics.)
Nikolas Rose (1999), Powers of Freedom.
"...commenting on a set of papers is itself an intertextual exercise. To point out connections among the papers, and tie them in various ways to one's own text, is a metalevel intertextual task that - if (as one hopes) one is perspicacious or just lucky - is to co-construct the papers' cumulative effect. It is an interdiscursive task [...] intertextualit -, or interdiscursivity - as a specific semiotic effect must be created in practice" (Commentary: Knots and Tears in the Discursive Fabric Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Vol 15, No 1, June 2005, p. 72).
I'm not sure if/how this youth protest movement might intersect with interpreting, but I it's definitely worth checking out. the movement was apparently tiggered by the book, Kanak Sprak, which doesn't seem to have been translated into English. YEt? :-( by Feridun Zaimoglu. More on Zaimoglu.
There's a film, an album, participation in a conference (sorry I missed it!), Fadaiat 2005:
"Fadaiat - which means "through spaces" in arabic - is a political, technological and artistic laboratory that takes place from 17th to 26th of June 2005 in Tanger (Spain) & Tarifa (Morocco) on both sides of the tense frontier dividing Europe from Africa.
What for? To advance in the construction of social, collaborative networks, local and transnational, connecting cognitarians, migrants and precarious, to research and develop tools, to exchange and share knowledge, to discuss common strategies and projects... within the reference framework of the new borders."
I’ve been practicing variations of discovering “bfe” and “bfo.” Neither is complimentary, but one phrase refers to the “boonies” from a US point-of-view, and the other refers to the “boonies” from a European point-of-view. Anyone ever hear of bum-f*ck ohio? :-)
I’ve been well-cared-for, yet again. Besides local connections that promoted my fieldwork, Ruediger and Helke treated me to a scrumptious Thai dinner, introduced me to “SSA” (soy sauce addiction), updated me on German politics (looks like chances are leaning toward the moderate right (Angela Merkel of the CDU?) taking over from the moderate left in upcoming national elections), and generally made me feel welcome.
I learned there was a bit of checking and coordination behind-the-scenes as to my whereabouts. (Surreptitious phone calls, “She got on the train at 9:08 pm” and careful calculations as to when I ought to arrive….with (apparently) a bit of worry when the appointed time passed – kinda sweet, eh?) One might think my reputation had preceded me! I only took the tram in the wrong direction twice! I’m sure I only changed my mind less than half-a-dozen times about when to leavea Berlin/arrive in Mannheim! And I’ve only had two or three alternatives as to when to actually leave for (Berlin or) Aalborg! (It could be the name of good horror film, eh? The Guest Who Wouldn’t Leave. :-)
Well, I was assured that given the entire three months of my journey in Europe, being ‘lost’ for mere hours hardly counts. Obviously I had time to make mistakes on the tram. Besides, I got to see more this way. And it hasn’t happened in EVERY city I’ve been in, just Brussels, Antwerpen, and now Mannheim. Not Budapest. Not Berlin. Not Ghent, Amsterdam or Strassbourg. Oh - it did happen in Strassburg when I booked in a room in Kiel (near Hamburg), instead of in Kehl - just across the border! :-) Uh….there was San Antonio,,,,and the pizza expedition in Quedlinburg. Dang. That makes it exactly 6:4, even if I don't get turned around in Aalborg I won't be able to break even! *alas!*
