A bodily sign of “doing nothing”: loitering or the silence before the storm
| dc.authorid | 0000-0002-0122-6365 | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Bağlı, Melike Türkan | |
| dc.contributor.author | Timur, Şebnem | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-07-12T20:36:40Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-07-12T20:36:40Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2006 | en_US |
| dc.department | Fakülteler, Eğitim Fakültesi, Okul Öncesi Öğretmenliği Bölümü | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | One of the writers of this paper visited America at the end of the ‘90s and came across a curious translation dilemma as a foreigner. In some of the seemingly inauspicious districts of the city, there were signs saying “No Loitering” on the displays of shops or walls of residencies. These signs were causing anxiety for her, because she did not know the actual meaning of the phrase of “No Loitering”. (Her dictionary was still packed away.) Apart from being curious about the meaning of the phrase, she was rather afraid of performing “the act of loitering” since she had no idea what it meant. When she was settled she looked up to the meaning of the term “loitering”: “waiting, hanging around, lingering, dallying, etc…” (Oxford Encyclopedia). The Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of Current English defined “to loiter” as “to stand in a public place, usually with no particular or obvious purpose.” Based on this, if a person spends time hanging around or dallying in a public place with no purpose, the act of this person is called “loitering”. In the eyes of the newcomer, we suggest that “loitering” might be equal to more or less “doing nothing”. A person who is acting in the way described is almost inactive. When we view the issue from this framework, the person does not seem to be doing anything dangerous or precarious. In essence, what right or reason does someone have to command another “do not stand here”? Actually, a person who comes across such a warning can comfortably (if ironically) say that they are doing “nothing”. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Bağlı, M. T. ve Timur, Ş.(2006). A bodily sign of “doing nothing”: loitering or the silence before the storm. Journal of Media and Culture, 9(3), | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0163-4437 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1460-3675 | |
| dc.identifier.issue | 3 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.scopusquality | Q1 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://www.academia.edu/11727864/A_Bodily_Sign_of_Doing_Nothing_Loitering_or_the_Silence_before_the_Storm | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12415/1087 | |
| dc.identifier.volume | 9 | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Journal of Media and Culture | en_US |
| dc.relation.publicationcategory | Uluslararası Hakemli Dergide Makale - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı | en_US |
| dc.rights | CC0 1.0 Universal | * |
| dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | en_US |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ | * |
| dc.snmz | KY01972 | |
| dc.subject | Sociology | en_US |
| dc.subject | Law and society | en_US |
| dc.subject | Cultural semiotics | en_US |
| dc.subject | Loitering | en_US |
| dc.subject | Nothing | en_US |
| dc.title | A bodily sign of “doing nothing”: loitering or the silence before the storm | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication |
