Semiotic Expression Research Articles

Identidad étnica y manipulación cultural: La indumentaria inca en la época colonial

Precolonial Andean dress such as the uncu, the liclla or the acso served to express ethnic identity and the status or condition of the individual. Colonial powers tried, instead, to homogenize those differences through the imposition of a generic indigenous identity. This article considers the uses of dress as a semiotic expression of identity, and its manipulation in changing fields of reference. It intends to highlight the strategies used to express, control, conceal or transform the projection of a specific collective identity in contradictory social contexts .

Machinic Heterogenesis and Evolution

Machinic Heterogenesis and Evolution

The sociology of code-switching

Code-switching, a phenomenon commonly found in human communication, has begun to receive greater attention it deserves in sociolinguistics, although it had been a major part of British scholarship as may be represented by scholars like J. R. Firth. Perhaps, what is needed in sociolinguistics now is a micro-theory of code-switching in which the instrumental use of language and other forms of semiotic expression are readily explicated. The model described in this essay provides such a framework. It is based on research in symbolic interactionism and borrows from the rich tradition of dramaturgical sociology. It also relates to the concept of emergence and the negotiation of social reality in the field of ethnomethodology.