This article develops a linguistic media theory that brings together Peircean materialist indexicality from Barthes, Bazin, Doane, Krauss, and others with linguistic anthropologist Michael Silverstein’s nonreferential (social) indexicality. Following Argentine sound artist Eduardo Costa’s practice with tape recording, the article challenges critical theory to account for the sonic meaning at play in pragmatic (nonsemantic) communication related to gender, race, and diasporic community. More than a mere supplement or limit, material sonic media expand aesthetic representation, and media archaeology opens new possibilities to intervene in language politics.

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本文开发了一种语言媒体理论，该理论将来自Barthes，Bazin，Doane，Krauss以及其他人类学家Peelcean唯物主义的索引性与语言人类学家Michael Silverstein的非引用性（社会）索引性结合在一起。继阿根廷声音艺术家爱德华多·科斯塔（Eduardo Costa）从事录音工作之后，本文对批判理论提出了挑战，以解释与性别，种族和流散社区有关的务实（非语义）交流中的声音含义。物质声音媒体不仅是补充或限制，还可以扩大审美表现，而媒介考古学为干预语言政治提供了新的可能性。