Bilkic, Maida (22 June 2018). Commemorative spectacles: The performativity of monumentalized bodies (Unpublished). In: The School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies. Victoria University of Wellington.
"There is nothing in this world as invisible as a monument" - Robert Musil, 1987
In this talk, I address commemorative atmospheres showing how space is controlled, rejected, appropriated and experienced. Combining the social semiotics and multimodality approaches, I offer a transdisciplinary reading (Halliday, 2001) of a range of semiotic resources and modalities of performance (Van Leeuwen, 2005; Bell & Gibons, 2011). When the denial of violence endures for too long, commemoration manifests itself through performative bodies filling the space with the loudest spectacles – louder than a static monument could ever produce. Such “living memorials” ultimately point to the dynamic entanglement of people and semiotic landscapes, achieved through an affective, monolithic, massive body and its experiences.
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06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of English Languages and Literatures 06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of English Languages and Literatures > Modern English Linguistics |
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Bilkic, Maida |
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400 Language 400 Language > 410 Linguistics 400 Language > 420 English & Old English languages |
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English |
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Federico Erba |
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24 Apr 2019 15:56 |
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14 Mar 2024 12:31 |
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https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/123606 |
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