Intro to Semiotics Part 3: Performativity, Multifunctionality and Trolling
Channel: Electric Didact
Date: 2016-08-04

In which we cap off our introductory discussion of semiotics with the idea that language DOES stuff in addition to MEANING things. Case in point: all teh trollz.

Part 3 of a 3-part series of vlogs looking into how language and meaning function. 

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IizL7YwZVDI 
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMoG-7R-UDY 

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Works Cited: 
J.L. Austin, How to Do Things with Words, Clarendon Press, 1962

Laura M. Ahearn, Living Language: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology, Wiley-Blackwell, 2012

TEDx Talks, Why study villains, scoundrels, and rule breakers? Whitney Phillips at TEDxCCS, Dec. 19, 2013 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAubx3BBgLk) 

Rachel Barney, “[Aristotle], On Trolling,” Journal of the American Philosophical Association, Summer 2016 (http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=10413837&fileId=S2053447716000099)

SEE ALSO: 
Whitney Phillips, “We’re the reason we can’t have nice things on the internet,” Quartz, Dec. 29, 2015 (http://qz.com/582113/were-the-reason-we-cant-have-nice-things-online/)

Louis Hébert, “The Functions of Language,” Signo, 2011 (http://www.signosemio.com/jakobson/functions-of-language.asp)

Gretchen McCulloch, “A Linguist Explains How We Write Sarcasm on the Internet,” The Toast, June 22, 2015 (http://the-toast.net/2015/06/22/a-linguist-explains-how-we-write-sarcasm-on-the-internet/?platform=hootsuite) 

Sara Ahmed, “Declarations of Whiteness: The Non-Performativity of Anti-Racism,” Borderlands, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2004 (http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol3no2_2004/ahmed_declarations.htm) 

Michele Zappavigna, “Searchable talk: The linguistic functions of hashtags in tweets about Schapelle Corby,” Global Media Journal, Vol. 9, No. 2, 2015 (http://www.hca.westernsydney.edu.au/gmjau/?p=1762) 

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Assets:
J.L. Austin (http://hilobrow.com/2014/03/26/j-l-austin/) 

Roman Jakobson (http://alchetron.com/Roman-Jakobson-1306120-W#-) 

Promise (http://www.thewire.com/politics/2013/01/obama-oath-of-office-2013/61226/) 

Naming (http://www.simpsonsworld.com/) 

Sorry (http://wifflegif.com/)  

Forgive (http://giphy.com/gifs/doctorwho-doctor-who-david-tennant-forgive-8ggVeQfq7X33y 

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Music: 
Kai Engel, “Something,” Chapter Two / Mild, CC-BY-4.0 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel/Chapter_Two__Mild/Kai_Engel_-_Chapter_Two_-_Mild_-_09_Something_Bonus_Track)