Adami, E. orcid.org/0000-0003-3651-919X (2025) Culture and interculturality as non-/sharing: Meaning-making beyond discourse. Language and Intercultural Communication. ISSN 1470-8477
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.
L’articolo presenta un approccio sociosemiotico che riconcettualizza cultura/interculturalità in termini di non-/condivisione di pratiche semiotiche, articolato in dimensioni e gradi di non-/condivisione derivati dalle attribuzioni di provenienza in gruppi Facebook dedicati al cibo. Diverse dimensioni di socializzazione competono e si combinano nell’interazione, aprendo linee di fuga che minano confini essenzializzati, nonché concezioni di multi/interculturalità necessariamente legate a nazionalità/etnie/lingue. L’approccio fornisce una lente analitica per esaminare diversità e co-costruzione di condivisione in risorse/pratiche semiotiche in ogni contesto comunicativo, utile di fronte a un panorama crescente di nazionalismi e propaganda anti-immigrazione da un lato, e di divisioni interne e polarizzazioni sociali dall’altro.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
Keywords: | Social semiotics; foodlines of flight; Facebook groups; provenance |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Languages Cultures & Societies (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 18 Jul 2025 13:57 |
Last Modified: | 18 Jul 2025 13:57 |
Status: | Published online |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/14708477.2025.2524699 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:229315 |
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