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‘What does language remember?’: Indexical inversion and the naturalised history of Japanese women
By emma.brooks, on 24 January 2021
Inoue, Miyako. (2004) What Does Language Remember?: Indexical Inversion and the Naturalized History of Japanese Women , Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 14(1): 39-56
Group reading, led by Peter Browning, UCL Institute of Education
Following the recommendation from Cat Tebaldi’s session last semester, we would like to open this term’s seminar series with conversations about this text and to think about how the themes and ideas can inform individual ongoing research. We propose the following questions to keep in mind, whilst reading the text and around which we will organise our discussions.
- (How) does history get semiotically mediated, and thus ideologised, in the dialectic interaction among language structure, language use, linguistic ideology, in the materially grounded context?
- (How) does this text speak to you in the context of your research?
