Thus, artists employ the tradition of photography's indexical function so digital images seem to represent reality to viewers. For example, Kerry Skarbakka creates multiple series in which his body is ...

The usage of these nicknames is dually indexical (Hill, 2007), meaning they point to a quality about Trump that the user wishes to emphasize, but by doing so, they also point to a quality about the ...

James “Jack” McCurdy Course: Language in US Society (Ling 1000) Advisor: GPTI Maureen Kosse, TA Irina Wagner LURA 2018 As a result, dialectical varieties such as African American Vernacular English ...

Having previously penned what he refers to as “post-prairie” and “post-lyric” verse, Fiorentino’s new collection stops short of identifying itself in opposition to what Tim Lilburn, Don McKay, and Jan ...

This article examines Roy Rappaports theory of ritual from the point of view of recent work on linguistic ideology. Rappaports theory, I argue, can best be understood as an attempt to marry the ...

In the debate over what determines the reference of an indexical expression on a given occasion of use, we can distinguish between two generic positions. According to the first, the reference is ...

In RoS Indexical, Yvonne Rainer is utterly dismissive of the grave weight of reputation and sprinkles her choreography with mannerisms of Groucho Marx and Robin Williams. Choosing whimsy over ...