Thai veggies and hair removal products: space, objects and language in an urban greengrocery

TY - JOUR

T1 - Thai veggies and hair removal products: space, objects and language in an urban greengrocery

AU - Karrebæk, Martha Sif

PY - 2017/8/8

Y1 - 2017/8/8

N2 - This contribution investigates practices of meaning making in an urban greengrocery in Copenhagen. It deploys audio-recordings, small-scale ethnographic fieldwork and pictures as data. The paper argues that diversity is treated as an everyday condition, and conviviality as a communicative norm. Analytically, it focuses on the way that space, objects and language are all used as resources by participants. A particular focus is put on space, which obtains meaning and significance through the different relations into which it enters. The spatial repertoire connects space to the resources available here, e.g. objects, language, activities and practices. The resources are regarded as a meaning potential, which can be brought up and made relevant by participants. In addition, space is the locus of different activities, and space is emplacement. Last, space is discursively produced. Through discourse, space is related to time in the projection of (future and past) spacetimes, and to locations elsewhere to which the greengrocery is compared.

AB - This contribution investigates practices of meaning making in an urban greengrocery in Copenhagen. It deploys audio-recordings, small-scale ethnographic fieldwork and pictures as data. The paper argues that diversity is treated as an everyday condition, and conviviality as a communicative norm. Analytically, it focuses on the way that space, objects and language are all used as resources by participants. A particular focus is put on space, which obtains meaning and significance through the different relations into which it enters. The spatial repertoire connects space to the resources available here, e.g. objects, language, activities and practices. The resources are regarded as a meaning potential, which can be brought up and made relevant by participants. In addition, space is the locus of different activities, and space is emplacement. Last, space is discursively produced. Through discourse, space is related to time in the projection of (future and past) spacetimes, and to locations elsewhere to which the greengrocery is compared.

M3 - Journal article

SN - 1035-0330

SP - 451

EP - 473

JO - Social Semiotics

JF - Social Semiotics

IS - 27

ER -