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Can you do the Vulcan salute?
Please reblog to spread this beyond my teeny tiny blog.
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Jewish culture (as a Star Trek fan) is getting WAY too excited when you get to explain the origins of the Vulcan Salute (🖖🏻) to someone, while taking pleasure in the fact that people who use it are giving each other blessings :)
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New Research Article: From Star Trek to The Hunger Games: Emblem gestures in science fiction and their uptake in popular culture
In this new article I get to bring together three of my favourite things: gesture, science fiction and working with the best collaborators. I teamed up with genre author and creative writing expert Dr Peta Freestone and corpus whiz Jess Kruk to look at the different ways scifi gestures also have lives in the real world.
We used emoji evidence to look at the ways use of the Vulcan Salute (🖖) on Twitter references Star Trek, as well as nerd culture in general. There’s no emoji for the Three Finger Salute from the Hunger Games (...yet?), so we used a newspaper corpus to see what we could learn about this gesture. It has become a gesture of protest by younger people against a variety of regimes across South and South East Asia, and is becoming untethered from its narrative origins. For this gesture, newspapers provided a good, nuanced understanding of the meaning and function of this gesture.
This article partially started out of a blog post where I was pondering fictional gestures in scifi and fantasy. The article is part of a special issue of Linguistic Vanguard on the linguistics of scifi, with a special focus on corpus methods, which was edited bySofia Rüdiger and Claudia Lange. It’s fun that this article stands alongside lots of great articles including work on the sociolinguistics of Firefly, the lexical influence of Star Wars and changing gender dynamics on Star Trek.
Abstract
Research on emblems to date has not drawn on corpus methods that use public data. In this paper, we use corpus methods to explore the use of original fictional gestures in the real world. We look at two examples from popular science fiction, the Vulcan salute from Star Trek and the three-finger salute from The Hunger Games. Firstly, a Twitter corpus of the Vulcan salute emoji shows that it is used to represent Star Trek fandom and wider nerd culture, alongside its use as a greeting. Secondly, a global news corpus shows the three-finger salute has come to be used as a pro-democracy protest gesture across political and cultural boundaries in South East Asia. These corpus studies show different trajectories for the two gestures, with the three-finger salute escaping the confines of its fictional world, while the Vulcan salute has come to stand in as a reference to the media it originated from. We conclude with a reflection on the opportunities, challenges and limitations of bringing corpus methods to gesture studies.
Reference
Freestone, P., J. Kruk & L. Gawne. 2023. From Star Trek to The Hunger Games: emblem gestures in science fiction and their uptake in popular culture. Linguistic Vanguard. doi: 10.1515/lingvan-2023-0006
See also
Fictional gestures in scifi and fantasy
How I made the Aramteskan language for P.M. Freestone’s Shadowscent
Gesture emoji: contributing to the Unicode standard
#linguistics#gesture#emblems#gestures#scifi#fantasy#sff#hunger games#star trek#vulcan salute#three finger salute
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GIFs from Lower Decks S01E04, "Moist Vessel" (again, sorry if you hate that word)
#star trek#lower decks#star trek lower decks#lwd#st lwd#stlwd#mariner#boimler#ransom#vulcan salute#tendi#freeman#captain freeman#carol freeman#beckett mariner#bradward boimler#jack ransom#ascension#moist vessel#sense-oars
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"Live long and prosper."
"Peace and long life."
all i want in life is for someone to bring this kind of energy my way.
hit me with that, "i hope your life is good bro, i hope it's long and everything you could ever want"
so that i can hit you with that "i hope peace for you, ultimate comfort for all your years and i hope that you have many more years ahead of you"
this is the kind of energy we should be bringing each other, it really is that simple
#star trek#vulcan salute#live long and prosper#peace and long life#spock#star trek aos#star trek tos#bring me that good good energy#starfeed
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"Guys, this is my new study buddy!"
Tendi + T'Lyn, Lower Decks, 3x10
#vulcan#vuhlkansu#vulcans#star trek#youtube#vulcan salute#comiccon#enterprise#t'lyn#lower decks#boimler#tendi#mariner#beckett mariner#becket#orion
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HAPPY NEW YEAR! 😁🖖
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Vulcan salute [I have seen it being referenced to as a ta'al but that is also the name of a political party :/] drawn in MS Paint.
#star trek#vulcan salute#my art#microsoft paint#ms paint#hands#zohar illogic time#what am i even doing
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So is Donnie going 👋 or 🖖?
#Toy Photography#Toy Shopping#Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles#Mutant Mayhem#Donatello#Star Trek#Vulcan Salute#Spock#Turtle Cosplay#TMNT
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Green Lantern/Green Arrow: Space Traveling Heroes (Green Lantern 1960-1986).
"Live long and prosper."
#dc comics#green lantern#hal jordan#green arrow#oliver queen#star trek#vulcan#vulcan green lantern#vulcan salute#live long and prosper#crossover#spock
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—Superman and Lois, “Pilot” 🖖
#Jordan Kent#Alex Garfin#Jon Kent#Jordan Elsass#Vulcan Salute#Text | Jordan and Sarah#The Fraternals#Jorah#Superman & Lois
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My sister in law and I with this fantastic tribute to Leonard Nimoy, one of Boston’s greatest .
Born in raucous Scollay Square - since razed and replaced with Government Center and Boston City Hall - Leonard Nimoy popularized the Jewish gesture of blessing 🖖 seen in the decor of the historic Vilna Shul.
#live long and prosper#leonard nimoy#mr Spock#Star Trek#Boston#Spock#star trek original series#vulcan salute#Judaism#🖖
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Spock’s famous Vulcan salute has a very Jewish origin. 😇
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This came up in my recommended videos on YouTube. I’ve known about this for decades, but wanted to share in case some new Trekkers didn’t. 🖖🏻
#Spock#Star Trek#Star Trek tos#vulcan salute#llap#live long and prosper#🖖🏻#leonard nimoy#may his memory be a blessing#Youtube
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Look at the Vulcan carrot that I have grown!!!
#star trek the original series#Star trek humor#star trek tos#Star trek#leonard bones mccoy#Spock#Mr. Spock#Cat Spock#Cat McCoy#Vulcan#Vulcan salute#Leonard Nimoy#DeForest Kelley#Dr. McCoy#Meowterprise#Enterprise#spones
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This is my last straw. What the fuck??? The Vulcans are about to get her ass for doing the salute wrong. Never watched one episode of Star Trek in her life.
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Apparently some Star Trek actors have been straight up unable to do the Vulcan salute and they had to use movie magic to get around it meanwhile I find it super easy… I wonder if it’s a genetic thing like being able to roll your tongue? Idk
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