Intro to Semiotics Part 3 Performativity Multifunctionality and Trolling

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In which we cap off our introductory discussion of semiotics with the idea that language DOES stuff in addition to MEANING things. Case in point: all teh trollz. • Part 3 of a 3-part series of vlogs looking into how language and meaning function. • Part 1: • Intro to Semiotics Part 1: Donald Tru... • Part 2: • Intro to Semiotics Part 2: Sign, Myth... • ### • Twitter: / electricdidact • Reddit: / electricdidact • Blog/Author Site: https://electricdidact.wordpress.com/ • Follow @TheLitCritGuy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheLitCritGuy?ref... • TheLitCritGuy’s website: https://thelitcritguy.com/ • ### • Works Cited: • J.L. Austin, How to Do Things with Words, Clarendon Press, 1962 • Laura M. Ahearn, Living Language: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology, Wiley-Blackwell, 2012 • TEDx Talks, Why study villains, scoundrels, and rule breakers? Whitney Phillips at TEDxCCS, Dec. 19, 2013 ( • Why study villains, scoundrels, and r... ) • Rachel Barney, “[Aristotle], On Trolling,” Journal of the American Philosophical Association, Summer 2016 (http://journals.cambridge.org/action/...) • SEE ALSO: • Whitney Phillips, “We’re the reason we can’t have nice things on the internet,” Quartz, Dec. 29, 2015 (http://qz.com/582113/were-the-reason-...) • Louis Hébert, “The Functions of Language,” Signo, 2011 (http://www.signosemio.com/jakobson/fu...) • Gretchen McCulloch, “A Linguist Explains How We Write Sarcasm on the Internet,” The Toast, June 22, 2015 (http://the-toast.net/2015/06/22/a-lin...) • Sara Ahmed, “Declarations of Whiteness: The Non-Performativity of Anti-Racism,” Borderlands, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2004 (http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol3no2...) • Michele Zappavigna, “Searchable talk: The linguistic functions of hashtags in tweets about Schapelle Corby,” Global Media Journal, Vol. 9, No. 2, 2015 (http://www.hca.westernsydney.edu.au/g...) • ### • Assets: • J.L. Austin (http://hilobrow.com/2014/03/26/j-l-au...) • Roman Jakobson (http://alchetron.com/Roman-Jakobson-1...) • Promise (http://www.thewire.com/politics/2013/...) • Naming (http://www.simpsonsworld.com/) • Sorry (http://wifflegif.com/) • Forgive (http://giphy.com/gifs/doctorwho-docto... • ### • Music: • Kai Engel, “Something,” Chapter Two / Mild, CC-BY-4.0 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai...)

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