المحاضرة 2\3
Language has a magical property: when we speak or write we craft what we have to say to fit the situation or context in which we are communicating
This is rather like the “chicken and egg” question:
if institutions, committees, and committee meetings didn’t already exist, speaking and acting this way would be nonsense.
Whenever we speak or write, we always and simultaneously construct or build six things or six areas of “reality
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
Conversations” with a capital “C,” that is, long-running and important themes or motifs
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