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Abstract

Relevance Theory (RT), by Sperber and Wilson (1986, 2012), has made fundamental contributions to the understanding of linguistic meaning. Research on iconic meaning, on the contrary, has few studies. In this article, a RT-based methodology for image analysis is developed and applied to several pictures from different Tinder profiles. The article has three goals. First, to demonstrate that pictures -from advertising, artistic or on Tinder- have a high degree of ostensive meaning as defined by the RT. Secondly, given the particular dominance in Tinder of the image over written text, to describe how the ostensive-inferential process is articulated when offering and processing gender identities. Finally, to analyze how the ostensive-inferential process affects the possibilities and limitations of the application to portray more or less hegemonic identities.

Alternate abstract:

La Teoria de la Relevancia (TR), de Sperber y Wilson (1986, 2012), ha hecho contribuciones fundamentales para la comprension del significado linguistico. La investigacion relevantista del significado iconico, en cambio, cuenta con pocos estudios. En este articulo se desarrolla una metodologia para el analisis de imagenes en base a la TR y se aplica a varias fotografias de perfiles distintos de Tinder. Los objetivos son tres. De entrada, demostrar que la fotografia -pub 1 icitaria, artistica o en Tinder- tiene un alto grado de significado ostensivo, tai y como lo define la TR. En segundo lugar, dada la particular dominancia en Tinder de la imagen sobre el texto, describir como se articula el proceso ostensivo-inferencial a la hora de ofrecer y procesar identidades de genero. Por ultimo, analizar como el proceso ostensivo-inferencial afecta a las posibilidades y limitaciones de la aplicacion para representar identidades mas o menos hegemonicas.

Details

Title
TINDER: OSTENSIÓN, INFERENCIA, PERFORMATIVIDAD E IDENTIDADES DE GÉNERO
Author
Girbal González, Edmon 1 

 Universidad Pompeu Fabra 
Pages
495-517
Publication year
2024
Publication date
2024
Publisher
Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia (UNED)
ISSN
11333634
e-ISSN
22549307
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
Spanish
ProQuest document ID
2919871164
Copyright
© 2024. This work is published under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.