Drifting in a sea of semiosis

Rasenberg, M., & Dingemanse, M. (2024). Drifting in a sea of semiosis. Current Anthropology, 65(3), 14-15.
We welcome Enfield and Zuckerman’s (E&Z’s) rich exposition on how people congregate around shared representations. Moorings are a useful addition to our tools for thinking about signs and their uses. As public fixtures to which actions, statuses, and experiences may be tied, moorings evoke Geertz’s (1973) webs of significance, Millikan’s (2005) public conventions, and Clark’s (2015) common ground, but they add to these accounts a focus on the sign and the promise of understanding in more detail how people come to share and calibrate experiences.
Publication type
Journal article
Publication date
2024

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