In this article, the central argument is that research on the semiotic repertoire should also focus on how repertoires are racialized, and race is evoked through the semiotic repertoire. The article uses data from the South African educational context to advance a position in which semiotic repertoires simultaneously give and restrict access, evoke evaluation and construct identities in particular ways because of their entanglement with (racialized) bodies. I propose that this simultaneity can be theorized by viewing the black body as ‘intercorporeal’ and ‘grotesque’ (Bakhtin 1984). By drawing on such an approach, processes of racialization are explicitly connected to how semiotic resources are evoked in discourse. This article thus theoretically contributes to the recent movements in applied linguistics that view language as embodied, re-examine repertoires, and view language as multiplex and entangled. In addition, it also offers a framing that can theoretically challenge discourses of post-racialism with its multi-layered account of how race continues to be experienced as a significant form of meaning-making.

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比赛曲目：作为多符号和种族化的语言曲目

在这篇文章中，中心论点是对符号剧目的研究也应该关注剧目是如何被种族化的，以及种族是如何通过符号剧目被唤起的。这篇文章使用来自南非教育背景的数据来推进一种立场，在这种立场中，符号曲目同时给予和限制访问，唤起评估和以特定方式构建身份，因为它们与（种族化的）身体纠缠在一起。我建议可以通过将黑体视为“肉体”和“怪诞”来理论化这种同时性（Bakhtin 1984）。通过利用这种方法，种族化过程与话语中如何唤起符号资源明确相关。因此，这篇文章在理论上有助于最近应用语言学的运动，这些运动将语言视为体现，重新审视曲目，并将语言视为多重和纠缠不清的。此外，它还提供了一个框架，可以从理论上挑战后种族主义的话语，它对种族如何继续作为一种重要的意义创造形式进行体验的多层次描述。