Promise McEntire

Field(s) of Study

• The dynamics of attention, awareness, and salience in semiosis
• Interactionism, poetics & performativity, multimodality
• The role of prosody in language contact and change
• Human sociality and the evolution of communicative systems, self and (eu)socialty
• Symbolic systems, symbolic logic, and the limits of constructivism
• The role of bodily phenomena (sensations, emotions, "affect") in organizing social phenomena
• Intersections between semiotic ideologies, personhood, and social cognition
• Language and materiality
• Multilingualism
• Communication and globalization, communication and economics
• Media and performance, communications technologies
• Intertextuality and interdiscursivity
• Phaticity
• Imitation and mimicry
• Embodied cognition
• "Flow" and human performance
• Mass psychology, crowd psychology, group psychology
• Psychophysics, sensation and perception, vision, sound and "vibrations"
• Social change and social movements, networks, coventionalization processes
• Comparative feminisms and feminist anthropology, sex and gender
• Histories of science and technology, especially as they pertain to the social sciences, communication, linguistics, and technocratic governance
• Linguistic, semiotic, psychological, and cognitive anthropology