On Semiotization of Spirit Medium's Interface with Non-human Agencies in Vietnamese Language

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The article presents an attempt of deconstructing a Vietnamese spirit medium as a function of the Mother Religion in order to analyze it as a discursive subject, informed into varies ritual practices that involve non-human agency. The research is based on a discourse-analytical model by Potter and Wetherell, developed for studying socio-psychological functions of the discourse and the ways people perform discursive acts to construct their own identities and to use them for achieving their speech tasks. The analysis of in-depth interviews with a practicing medium reveals a number of interpretative repertoires that are built around key lexicalizations, explaining different aspects of medium’s experience and allowing to find out which social functions are related to the application of chosen discursive resources.

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A. Sh Sharipov

Institute for Linguistic Research RAS

Email: aligrapher@gmail.com
PhD (Philosophy), Researcher, Laboratory of Anthropological Linguistics

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