Papers by marco jacquemet
Duke University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2020
... 1 , C. Benchouk 1 , G. d'Agostini 1 , Y.... more ... 1 , C. Benchouk 1 , G. d'Agostini 1 , Y. Declais 1 , R. Nacasch 1 , P. Payre 1 , M. Talby 1 , W. Blum, H. Brettel, J. Fent, Z. Hajduk, G. Lutjens, W. Manner, H. Munch, A. Peisert, R. Richter, R. Settles, U. Stierlin, W. Tribanek, PK Weisbach, J. Boucrot, O. Callot, RL Chase, A. Cordier, M ...
Routledge eBooks, Feb 8, 2022
One consequence of European unification has been the transformation of the Mediterranean Sea into... more One consequence of European unification has been the transformation of the Mediterranean Sea into a defensive moat to stop the flow of unwanted migrants. In this techno-political moat, the communication networks of 'Fortress Europe' have established, through monitoring and interception technologies (and their corresponding speech acts), a buffer zone surrounding European Union (EU) territorial waters. In this buffer zone, the EU and its member states impose on refugees and migrants a survival test that stops all but the fittest from enteringa test that often results in serious and irreversible human rights violations. This paper examines the Mediterranean as a transidiomatic environment: a multilingual space shaped by the communicative practices of groups of people, either territorially defined or deterritorialized, who interact using an array of both face-to-face and long-distance media. These interactions are activated by two sets of opposing players: those involved in border reinforcement and those engaged in border crossing. Transidiomatic practices, in the form of either order-words or passwords, provide an effective angle for the analysis of the intense conflicts and struggles that today fill the Mediterranean borderscape.
WORD, 2021
The experience of linguistic globalization and the communicative disorder it entails require a se... more The experience of linguistic globalization and the communicative disorder it entails require a serious retooling of most basic units of linguistic analysis. The chaos and indeterminacy of contemporary flows of people, knowledge, texts, and commodities across social and geographical space challenge most sociolinguistic assumptions about social interactions. In particular, we can no longer assume that national territory is linked to a dominant language in ways that bind people together, facilitate interactions, or minimize conflicts. At the same time, communicative practices are still embedded in the territorial apparatuses of the nation-state (from control over the power grid to border enforcement and exclusions). By revisiting the concept of transidioma – i.e., the ensemble of communicative practices of people embedded in multilingual environments and engaged in interactions that blend face-to-face and digitally-mediated communication (Jacquemet 2005a) – as it applies to three diffe...
WORD, 2021
The experience of linguistic globalization and the communicative disorder it entails require a se... more The experience of linguistic globalization and the communicative disorder it entails require a serious retooling of most basic units of linguistic analysis. The chaos and indeterminacy of contemporary flows of people, knowledge, texts, and commodities across social and geographical space challenge most sociolinguistic assumptions about social interactions. In particular, we can no longer assume that national territory is linked to a dominant language in ways that bind people together, facilitate interactions, or minimize conflicts. At the same time, communicative practices are still embedded in the territorial apparatuses of the nation-state (from control over the power grid to border enforcement and exclusions). By revisiting the concept of transidioma – i.e., the ensemble of communicative practices of people embedded in multilingual environments and engaged in interactions that blend face-to-face and digitally-mediated communication (Jacquemet 2005a) – as it applies to three diffe...
Exploring (Im)mobilities, 2022
Technologies of Suspicion and the Ethics of Obligation in Political Asylum, 2019
1. Introduction: men of honour, men of truth Part I. Constructing a Criminal World: 2. For a hist... more 1. Introduction: men of honour, men of truth Part I. Constructing a Criminal World: 2. For a history of the present: how belonging to a community became a crime 3. The simulacra of the pentiti Part II. Constructing a convincing world: 4. On credibility (the pentito and the judge) 5. On knowledge (pentiti's narrative strategies) Part III. Constructing a Reliable World: 6. On indirectness (pentito v. defence lawyer) 7. On accountability (pentito v. judge) Part IV. Constructing an antagonistic world: 8. On respect (pentito v. defendant) 9. On truth (pentito v. pentito) Conclusions: 10. Justice, discourse, and society.
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Superdiversity, Feb 21, 2018
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 2013
Discourse & Society, 1994
Drifting along the imaginary boundary between communication and society, this article deals with ... more Drifting along the imaginary boundary between communication and society, this article deals with communicative practices during criminal trials taking place in Naples, Italy. It describes in detail pronominal violations and metapragmatic attacks used in court in the struggle for hegemony and control over the social construction of credibility. It analyzes the communicative impact that metalinguistic commentaries on pronominal violations have during conflict talk. Reviewing the literature on T/V, it introduces a new understanding of pronominal asymmetries based on the opposition marked/unmarked. Pronominal offenses in a dispute occur when (a) the unmarked address frame has either been disputed or purposefully challenged by one or more participants, and (b) a recipient has metapragmatically called attention, or metapragmatically attacked, the opposing party's choice of a marked code, interpreting the violation as a personal offense.
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 2013
Using ethnographic evidence from asylum hearings in various European countries, this article disc... more Using ethnographic evidence from asylum hearings in various European countries, this article discusses John Gumperz's legacy in the study of late-modern communication. Asylum hearings to determine refugee status are one of the most complex adjudication procedures currently performed by Western nation-states. Every year thousands of displaced people seek the protection of various European states by filing asylum claims, which are examined by national commissions. This article explores how Gumperz's focus on code-switching and crosstalk in multilingual communities has prepared the ground for the study of the transidioma, that is, the ensemble of asymmetrical technopolitical discourse strategies deployed over a multilingual, mixed-media interactional field—such as is found in asylum hearings.
This article seeks to assess the communicative mutations resulting from the intersection between ... more This article seeks to assess the communicative mutations resulting from the intersection between mobile people and mobile texts. Sophisticated technologies for rapid human mobility and global communication are transforming the communicative environment of late modernity. Until recently the majority of linguistic studies which concerned themselves with global phenomena tended to depict the worst possible scenarios: linguistic imperialism, endangered languages, language death. In this paper, I argue that the experience of cultural globalization, and the sociolinguistic disorder it entails, cannot be understood solely through a dystopic vision of linguistic catastrophe, but demand that we also take into account the recombinant qualities of language mixing, hybridization, and creolization. Using communicative data from the Adriatic region, this paper calls for a reconceptualization of what we consider the communicative environment, which must be no longer restricted to its default param...
Journal of Sociolinguistics
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