This year, linguistic and semiotic anthropologists are responding in particular to multiple sources of uncertainty and discuss a growing sense of crisis and anxiety across several different settings and contexts. The politics of truth and the uncertainty about the future, as well as the shifts due to new communicative technologies, are well represented in this last year of publications. To consider this collective response, this article reviews published work in this field in three parts: (1) the semiotic interplay of certainty and uncertainty, especially in relation to evidence and agency; (2) the remediation of semiosis across media technologies and infrastructures; and (3) the semiosis of the state‐citizen divide. More generally, this review considers how linguistic/semiotic anthropologists are renewing foundational concepts and approaches at the same time as they express a strong desire to turn their expertise into a more public form of political agency. This process of renewal is leading to the emergence of new agendas. [language, semiotics, uncertainty, media, state]

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不确定的时代：2019年的语言人类学

今年，语言和符号人类学家特别对多种不确定因素做出回应，并讨论了在几种不同环境和背景下日益增长的危机感和焦虑感。去年的出版物很好地体现了真理的政治和关于未来的不确定性，以及由于新的通信技术而引起的变化。为了考虑这种集体反应，本文分三部分回顾了该领域已发表的工作：（1）确定性和不确定性的符号学相互作用，尤其是在证据和代理方面；（2）跨媒体技术和基础设施对符号的补救；（3）国家公民鸿沟的符号化。更普遍，这篇评论考虑了语言/符号人类学家在表达强烈希望将其专业知识转变为更具公共性的政治机构的同时如何更新基础概念和方法。更新过程导致出现新的议程。[语言，符号，不确定性，媒体，状态]