This article examines the intersections between ritual speech, woodcarving, and painted sacred cloths among the Toraja of upland Sulawesi, Indonesia. The author argues that the longstanding division between studies of speechmaking and material culture has obfuscated significant overlaps between what in fact are related systems of semiotic expressions in Indonesia and beyond. By bringing within a single analytic field the forms of ritual speech, textiles, and woodcarving she documented during long-term intermittent fieldwork in Sulawesi (2002–2018), the author highlights fundamental commonalities in how these different semiotic codes operate and in the local conceptions of authorship and craftsmanship. She shows how key aspects of Toraja vernacular semiotics, aesthetics, and hermeneutics are embedded in a materialist ideology of language and suggests that a joint approach to meaning-making practice across different modalities, channels, and media may further our understanding of Indonesian figurative languages and help delineate the larger cultural poetics underlying Austronesian artistic productions.

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实质词：Toraja纺织品，雕刻和仪式语言的美学语法

本文考察了印度尼西亚苏拉威西山地的托拉佳（Toraja）之间的礼节性演讲，木雕和彩绘的神圣布料之间的交集。作者认为，言语研究和物质文化研究之间的长期分歧已经模糊了印度尼西亚乃至其他地区实际上是相关符号表达系统之间的重大重叠。通过将她在苏拉威西岛（2002-2018）的长期间断性田野调查中记录的仪式演说，纺织品和木雕的形式纳入一个单一的分析领域，作者强调了这些不同符号符号的运作方式和当地观念的基本共性。作者和工艺。她展示了Toraja白话符号学，美学，