Other papers

Other papers Haugen(106) formulates suchrelations as a linguistic ecology. Theidea of a linguistic ecology is compatible with Hymes’s(125) and Jakobson’s (130) speech-event model, in which code is one of several ele- mentsof context, the interpretation of whichdependson functional relations amongthe whole.

Terence Ranger’s (1983) The Invention of tradition in colonial Africa 

Chomsky: The boundaries of a language are mutual spoken intelligibility. 

Vivek: Languages come into being at moments of upper-class consolidation

Saussure: Signifier / signified (Arbitrary sign)      Foucault      Deleuze skeptical 

Spivak      “You study it in a way that reconstitutes the terms of its exclusion”

————   —— ——  ——  Americans: Trying to graft a poststructuralist analysis onto the Peircian triangle Critique of Spivak: Speech is equated with empowerment or inclusing

Peirce / Americanist project of philosophical pragmatism       “For whom does what stand for what"      Intersubjectivity 

Goffman

Bakhtin      How an author enacts a performance by using character’s voices .       Ventriliquation, double-voicing.       the voicing structure—it’s not an individual phenonemon      A character is inhabiting a role which is part of a broader structure. 

Agha:       enregistering a Bahktinian dramaturgical view of our lived world.       Recruitmental roles. Role inhabitance. 

Super useful for “waking up” communities of practice

Narrative frame: Author writing the story Narrated frame: Relationship between authors in the story. 

Connect to books of emblems: Teaching us how to see the world. The analytical frame is seeing your subjects as characters in a story (I’m a character in teh sytory too), but speaking at the level of authorship. Kind of matrix-y; helping us to recognize the authorial presence in our narrated frame. 

Language ideology —> State. 

Unfold.studio as 

donna harraway: situated knowledge

Our overreliance on computation as a metaphor for human communication could be addressed by programs which had more agency to change their own behavior in context. That’s probably coming. 

Can the Subaltern Speak?

Quoting Deleuze: “It is when signifiers are left to look after themselves that verbal slippages happen”