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areas of “reality”:
مجالات من الواقع وهي 6
1-
The meaning and value of aspects of the material world: I enter a
plain, square room, and speak and act in a certain way (e.g. like
someone about to run a meeting), and, low and behold, where I sit
becomes the “front” of the room.
2-
Activities: We talk and act in one way and we are engaged in
formally opening a committee meeting; we talk and act in another way
and we are engaged in “chit-chat” before the official start of the
meeting.
3-
Identities and relationships: peakiI talk and act in one way one moment and I am
speaking and acting as “chair” of the committee; the next moment I speak and
talk in a different way and I am speaking and acting as one peer/colleague
sng to another
4-
Politics (the distribution of social goods): I talk and act in such a way that a
visibly angry male in a committee meeting (perhaps it’s me!) is “standing his
ground on principle,” but a visibly angry female is “hysterical.”
5-
Connections: I talk and act so as to make what I am saying here and now in
this committee meeting about whether we should admit more minority
students connected to or relevant to (or, on the other hand, not connected to or
relevant to) what I said last week about my fears of losing my job given the new
government’s turn to the right.
6-
Semiotics (what and how different symbol systems and different
forms of knowledge “count”(: I talk and act so as to make the
knowledge and language of lawyers relevant (privileged), or not, over
“everyday language” or over “non-lawyerly academic language” in our
committee discussion of facilitating the admission of more minority
students
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tools of inquiry
ادواات التحقيق وهي 4
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“Situated identities,” that is, different identities or social positions we
enact and recognize in different settings.
2-
“Social languages,” that is, different styles of language that we use to
enact and recognize different identities in different settings
3-
“Discourses” with a capital “D,” that is, different ways in which we
humans integrate language with non-language “stuff,” such as different
ways of thinking
4-
“Conversations” with a capital “C,” that is, long-running and
important themes or motifs that have been the focus of a variety of
different texts and interactions