The semiotics of Charles Saunders Peirce has become important to the analysis of meaning-making processes, from translation to everyday conversation. The concept of indexicality—whereby meaning is constructed through continguity or casuality—has been particularly productive for understanding how meaning is achieved within and across particular contexts. This lecture presents indexicality as a tool for analysis for anyone interested approaching linguistic meanings as contextually anchored and constructed, maintained, and always open to change.

Jillian Cavanaugh teaches linguistic and cultural anthropology at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center CUNY in New York City. She received her Ph.D. in anthropology from New York University. She has done ethnographic and linguistic anthropological research in Bergamo, Italy, focusing on language shift, language ideologies, language and gender, heritage food, and social change. She is professor of anthropology.

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