Abstract
Although “crossing” as a new concept comes from Rampton’s seminal work, this article argues that crossing defines linguistic communication in a perspective of process, act, and especially change. As a controlling principle for linguistic communication, it might be in a different way complementary to Husserl’s shared sense, Habermas’s reaching understanding, and Searle’s shared intentionality. Crossing denotes changes in phase, sphere, and universe, characterizing the process of communication and having a meaningful value for continuing interpersonal relationship and reinforcing communicative competence. Crossing is also constitutive of communicative order both in monolingual contexts and in superdiversity multilingual settings. Against the backdrop of globalization, a new communicative order is being shaped in the reality of mobility and diversity. This new order of linguistic communication is characterized by dramatic code-switching, rhetorical mirror effect, and focus on linguistic medium. The mobility of human resources requires crossing to take creative strategies to achieve what monolingual crossing could not.
Funding source: Beijing Social Science Foundation
Award Identifier / Grant number: 20ZDA22
About the author
Deping Lu (b. 1964) is a professor at Beijing Language and Culture University. His research mainly includes classic semiotic theories, pragmatism, urban sociolinguistics, and Chinese internationalization. His recent publications include “Peirce’s philosophy of communication and language communication” (2019), “Path selection for Chinese internalization” (2019), and “Toward political semiotics of linguistic landscapes in China” (2021).
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Research funding: This research is funded by Beijing Social Science Foundation as part of the project “Beijing Metropolitan Ecology of Sign Systems” (Project approval number: 20ZDA22) and Science Foundation of Beijing Language and Culture University (supported by “the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities”) (20YJ090003).
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