The importance of what gets left out

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ID5965735
AuthorsD Kulick (0000-0001-9101-5539, New York University, corresponding author)
Year2005
Volume7
Issue4-5
Pages615-624
Publication date2005-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDiscourse Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1461-4456 • E-ISSN: 1461-7080
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1461445605054408
OpenAlexW2003608877
LanguageEN
Citations received29
References cited23

This article arguesthat language, interaction and culture cannot be reduced to literal performance - the ‘there’ in an interaction. Instead, language in interaction should also be understood in relation to what is barred from performance, what is not or cannot be performed - the not-there, or, rather, the unsaid traces, the absent presences, that structure the said and the done. If this is accepted, the question becomes: how can we engage with those processes, both theoretically and empirically? Drawing on work presented in the book Language and Sexuality(Cameron and Kulick, 2003), as well as research concerned with performativity, desire, and mimesis, this article presents a brief overview of the kinds of questions that appear when we turn our attention to what tends to get left out, both in specific linguistic interactions, and in our models of language

Epistemology · Linguistics · Performativity · Sociology · Unsaid · Communication · Computer Science · Gender Studies in Language · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Philosophy · Psychology · Translation Studies and Practices

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