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Verdant Vernaculars: Corsican Environmental Assemblages
Author(s) -
Mendes Alexander
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of linguistic anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.463
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1548-1395
pISSN - 1055-1360
DOI - 10.1111/jola.12264
Subject(s) - corsican , ethnography , trips architecture , construct (python library) , semiotics , field (mathematics) , sociology , linguistics , anthropology , computer science , philosophy , mathematics , parallel computing , pure mathematics , programming language
Environmental efforts on Corsica abound and often make use of the local language. In this article, I survey the semiotics of different ‘green’ artefacts and the use of Corsican therein. Based on ethnographic data including pedagogical tools (textbooks) and practices (field trips), artefacts from ecotourism (pamphlets) and everyday items (grocery bags), and photographs of the linguistic landscape, I illustrate the workings of minority language use in everyday environmental activism. Posthumanist orientations to language and communication underlie the analysis of green Corsican assemblages, products of and catalysts for the coming‐together of disparate resources that construct a unique stewardship.