In this article, I explore the semiotics of print dictionaries for Gallo, a minority Romance language of Brittany, France. Although dictionaries are generally understood as authoritative representations of semantic content, I show how the materiality of dictionaries was central to their embedding in Gallo advocacy and art. Drawing on performance and interactional data collected during twelve months of ethnographic fieldwork, I explore how advocates and performers at language festivals displayed dictionaries as icons of Gallo's existence and “weight” and indexes of Gallo's complementarity with modern life. Rather than enforcing a standard, dictionaries prompted display of local, heterogeneous linguistic expertise.

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Gallo词典的符号学：在少数民族语言倡导中索引现代局部性和分配认知权威

在本文中，我探讨了法国布列塔尼少数民族浪漫语言加洛的印刷词典的符号学。尽管通常将字典理解为语义内容的权威表示，但我仍展示了字典的重要性对于将其嵌入Gallo倡导和艺术至关重要。借助在十二个月的民族志田野调查中收集的表演和互动数据，我探索语言节上的拥护者和表演者如何将字典显示为加洛的存在和“重量”的图标，以及加洛与现代生活的互补性指标。词典不是执行标准，而是提示显示本地的，异构的语言专业知识。