 enbar says: A couple of good quotations on the importance of being able to express yourself clearly and well, to the effect that proper language leads to clear thinking. Literary critics should read this. The title of this clip sounds like something Foucault would have written - this alone makes it worth popping & commenting. It's worth reading de Saussure's ideas on language and where the French thinkers of the 60's took them (language articulating power) if you like this sort of thing. I simply cannot resist a conversation about linguistics....First I have to say that the question of language and power is not exclusive to Faucoult and the rest of the post modern deconstructivists. People forget that Noam Chomsky was famous for his contribution to linguistics before his social critisism and in fact the two often inform one another. And it is he that makes an interesting point which appears to refute the sentiments of this clip. It is not "faulty" language which keeps people disempowered but the idea of faulty language which has been constructed as a covert means of control and power. There are no languages, not even patios and slang, that cannot translate any and all ... |
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