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Week 13—Feeling our way
Week 13—Feeling our way
Main reading: Edwards (2023)
Ways of speaking and communicating are things we share with others. We have often emphasized the ways in which communication as a resource is unequally shared. This discussion of the experience of DeafBlind communication through touch helps to think about the phenomenal reality of communication itself and its implications for being in community.
Performativity and indexicality
- I promise to pay you back five dollars
- I apologize for stealing five dollars from you
Giving and giving off
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| Ripped jeans | Hip, stylish, bohemian | Poor, rural, simple (bilibilij) |
| Unwashed hair | Dirty, unhygienic | Respectful of father’s matrikin during a time of mourning |
Goffman: We need to distinguish between signals that we give and those we give off (Goffman 1973, 2).