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SUMMARY:Linguistics Lounge: "Beauty over Pain: Corporeal Semiotic Landscapes, Breast Cancer Scars and Tattooing"
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CONTACT:Prof. Dr.  Isabelle Buchstaller ()
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Dr.  Isabelle Buchstaller ()
Linguistics Lounge: "Beauty over Pain: Corporeal Semiotic Landscapes, Breast Cancer Scars and Tattooing"
Isabelle Buchstaller, University of Duisburg-Essen
This paper addresses Bucholtz and Hall’s (2016) call to focus on the 
processes constituting ‘embodied sociolinguistics” by exploring the 
complexity of marking both trauma and tattoos on the body. We report on 
several months of ethnographic fieldwork in the Sydney area, following 
the social networks of the second author, a tattoo artist providing pro 
bono work for people bearing breast cancer surgery scars. Drawing on a 
corpus of photography and audio/video interviews, our research explores 
the relationship between tattooing and the physical reminders of breast 
cancer. We probe the notion of corporal expressions of agency in 
contexts where an individual paradoxically has none - and through this 
paradox, interrogate the role of embodied semiotics in the process of 
regaining spatial agency for non-normative bodies. 
Tuesday, 8. July 2025
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