How to Do Things With Words

We may not be able to make you love reading, but archaeology of knowledge will lead you to love reading starting from now. Book is the window to open the new world. The world that you want is in the better stage and level. World will always guide you to even the prestige stage of the life. You know, this is some of how reading will give you the kindness. In this case, more books you read more knowledge you know, but it can mean also the bore is full.

The archaeology of knowledge

萨义德以其独特的双重身份,对西方中心权力话语做了分析,通过对文学作品、演讲演说等文本的解读,将O rie n ta lis m——"东方学",做了三重释义:一门学科、一种思维方式和一种权力话语系统,对东方学权力话语做了系统的批判,同时将东方学放入空间维度对东方学文本做了细致的解读。

萨义德的“Orientalism”释义

but the threat they bring to artistic culture. From his opening mockery of the literary establishment’s tendency to theorize the world in terms of desire or gender to his disapproval of those who venerate art while denying its validity in the same breath, Jonathan Dollimore has created an easily understood, albeit at times too theoretical, synthesis of the literary and the experiential in Sex, Literature and Censorship. His arguments on critical theory do not necessarily reject the concept of theory; rather, he argues that critical theorists should strive to understand the contradictions within our lives and our literature and explore the daemonic power of the subjects that offend our sense of tradition.

Multimodal Discourse: The Modes and Media of Contemporary Communication:

Preface (1999) Preface (1990) 1. Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire I. 'Women' as the Subject of Feminism II. The Compulsory Order of Sex/Gender/Desire III. Gender: The Circular Ruins of Contemporary Debate IV. Theorizing the Binary, the Unitary and Beyond V. Identity, Sex and the Metaphysics of Substance VI. Language, Power and the Strategies of Displacement 2. Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix I. Structuralism's Critical Exchange II. Lacan, Riviere, and the Strategies of Masquerade III. Freud and the Melancholia of Gender IV. Gender Complexity and the Limits of Identification V. Reformulating Prohibition as Power 3. Subversive Bodily Acts I. The Body Politics of Julia Kristeva II. Foucault, Herculine, and the Politics of Sexual Discontinuity III. Monique Wittig - Bodily Disintegration and Fictive Sex IV. Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions Conclusion - From Parody to Politics

Postmodern Subjects, Postmodern BodiesThinking Fragments: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Postmodernism in the Contemporary WestYearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural PoliticsGender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

By extending the notion of metroethnicity, this paper proposes the notion of metrolingualism, creative linguistic practices across borders of culture, history and politics. Metrolingualism gives us a way to move beyond current terms such as ‘multilingualism’ and ‘multiculturalism’. It is a product of modern and often urban interaction, describing the ways in which people of different and mixed backgrounds use, play with and negotiate identities through language. The focus is not so much on language systems as on languages as emergent from contexts of interaction. Looking at data from workplaces where metrolingual language use is common, we show how the use of both fixed and fluid linguistic and cultural identities is part of the process of language use. The notion of metrolingualism gives us ways of moving beyond common frameworks of language, providing insights into contemporary, urban language practices, and accommodating both fixity and fluidity in its approach to language use.

Metrolingualism: fixity, fluidity and language in flux

Chapter 1 Morning markets and metrolingual multitasking The Produce Market: Salamu alaykum mate Languages of the market: lingo-ing in their own language Multilingualism from below Metrolingual multitasking in a restaurant Beyond monolingualism: Niemand ist Einsprachig Research notes and emergent themes Chapter 2: Constructing affiliations and growing foreign vegetables Gwai Lou Coi: Growing foreign vegetables Metrolingualism, the rural and the urban 'People are basically from everywhere': Ethnicity and language at work Ethnic business and ethnolinguistic repertoires Ethnography as process Chapter 3: Mobility, rhythms and the city Catching a train in Sydney The breathing city Metrolingualism, space and mobility: 'chef, iedi efu iki kishu' Research: Languages and the unexpected Chapter 4 Kitchen talk and spatial repertoires The Pizzeria: 'it's all part of the Greek culture' Kitchen repertoires Spatial repertoires: "Pizza mo two minutes coming" Location and locution Researching language, mobility and practices in place Chapter 5: Convivial and contested cities 'It's too many languages': Suburban diversities Conviviality and the city "I'll fix you up, ya Lebs!": Everyday contestation The contested city Aussies and 'the worst general Asian ever' Research and stories: The chicken mime Chapter 6: Talking food: Commensality and the city The Fanta is always greener back home Talking food 'Makanai des pauvres' "Ma fi fruit bi nom? (There's no fruit at all?)" Red celery and the negotiation of meaning Relocalization Multitasking and participatory research Chapter 7: Layers, spaces, signs, networks Out-of-place texts The historical layers of cities Port cities Layered languages Researching networks: The multilingual cucumber Chapter 8 Metrolingua francas Languages and the market " language !": From niche to metrolingua francas Metrolingual pedagogies and policies Conclusion: Writing it all together

Metrolingualism: Language in the City

Drawing on data from two restaurants in Sydney and Tokyo, this paper describes the ways in which linguistic resources, everyday tasks and social space are intertwined in terms of metrolingual multitasking. Rather than the demolinguistic enumeration of mappable multilingualism or the language-to-language or language-to-person focus of translingualism, metrolingualism focuses on everyday language practices and their relations to urban space. In order to capture the dynamism of the urban linguistic landscape, this paper explores this relationship between metrolingual multitasking – the ways in which linguistic resources, activities and urban space are bound together – and spatial repertoires – the linguistic resources available in a particular place – arguing that a focus on resources, repertoires, space, place and activity helps us understand how multilingualism from below operates in complex urban places.

Metrolingual multitasking and spatial repertoires: ‘Pizza mo two minutes coming’

The use of writing groups to support students undertaking post-graduate research within universities has begun to receive attention from academic supervisors and doctoral researchers Very little has been written by doctoral students themselves on the benefits of working within such writing groups In this article, the experiences of working within a doctoral writing group at an Australian University are presented, primarily from the perspective of students The authors identify two main benefits they have experienced through participating in a writing group using a ‘multi-voiced’ approach First, they discuss the kind of learning that they achieved through working in a writing group They do this with reference to key principles of peer learning and of peer review Second, they focus on the ways the group worked as a community of discursive social practice An overarching message for them in participating in the group and now writing this article is the shift in their thinking and experience of writing f

‘Becoming and being writers’: the experiences of doctoral students in writing groups

In this paper, we explore the implications of metrolingual language practices for how we understand social inclusion. A vision of social inclusion that includes bi- and multilingual capacities may comprise an appreciation of a diversity of languages other than English, and the skills and capabilities of multilingual language users, yet it is all too often premised on an understanding of language use that cannot escape its origins in statist understandings of language ideologies where a particular language is associated with a particular cultural, ethnic or geographical configuration. Recent studies show the creative ways in which language users cross linguistic and cultural boundaries to form new linguistic and cultural possibilities. In this paper, we therefore ask how we can open up an understanding of social inclusion to include not only the recognition of bilingual capacity but also the fluidity and flux of the metrolingual workplace where creative language use beyond static linguistic bounda...

Emi Otsuji

Papers

Metrolingualism: fixity, fluidity and language in flux

Metrolingualism: Language in the City

Metrolingual multitasking and spatial repertoires: ‘Pizza mo two minutes coming’

‘Becoming and being writers’: the experiences of doctoral students in writing groups

Social inclusion and metrolingual practices