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Book Donations from the Estate of Nancy Schwartz
Book Donations from the Estate of Nancy SchwartzList of books and journals donated to the African Studies Library at Boston University by the estate of the late Nancy Schwartz
Building rapport and a sense of communal identity through play in a second language classroom
Many teachers would recognize that a certain amount of laughter and play in a classroom is one of the signs of a socially cohesive and contented group of learners. However, on the face of it, language play in a multinational second language classroom would seem to be highly constrained by an apparent lack of common cultural reference points and, at the lower end of the proficiency spectrum, by the linguistic abilities of the learners. This paper features an investigation into language play consisting of a teacher and two low-proficiency adult learners from different professional fields and nationalities, enrolled on an intensive Business English course. The analysis is informed by Goffman’s concept of frame, by Bakhtin’s ideas about the heteroglossic and dialogical nature of language, and by Bauman and Briggs’s notion of recontextualization. It shows how the learners build a common pool of prior talk and reference points, alluding to them humorously. The data consists of a series of short episodes which together trace the development of one such shared reference point. Over two days, the learners transform an incident which highlights their shortcomings in the language into a celebratory resource that they playfully use to build rapport and to help in the construction of a shared sense of identity and culture. I argue in this paper that the language play found in the featured data is very similar in kind to that in native speaker interactions
Book Review: LGBT Families
LGBT Families, by Nancy J. Mezey. Los Angeles, CA: Sage, 2015. 213 pp., $31.98 (paperback)
Love as Legal Methodology: Comments on \u3ci\u3eLove in a Time of Envy\u3c/i\u3e
In academic papers about emotion, it is not uncommon to find a kind of disconnect between the detachment of theoretical and scholarly language and the subject of the paper--the emotions. One of the lovely, and challenging, aspects of Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller\u27s article is that it not only conveys the emotions that are its subject, but it brims with its own emotion; it reads like a text written out of shattered love. Goldberg-Hiller takes up Jean-Luc Nancy\u27s contention that love is shattered by its very essence. It fragments the self at the same time as it refracts into many forms. Goldberg-Hiller understands Nancy as suggesting caution about trying to bridge the gap between love and law, and caution about any unifying theory of love. The author suspects that Goldberg-Hiller also finds in Nancy\u27s theory of fragmented love, a methodology and an emotional style. Goldberg-Hiller writes of love, envy, and law in ways that burst, cut, and multiply as Nancy suggests love does. The article throws out shards of theory, literature, politics, rhetoric, psychoanalysis, visual imagery, texts, and emotions.
In Goldberg-Hiller\u27s analysis of both of the emotional moments around which his article is built, the law remains submerged. Here the author goes back to the evocative analysis of love and especially envy to see if the law can be resurrected just a little by thinking about the conflict these emotional moments reflect and the ways in which law, like language, mediates emotional conflict and social change
Commited to the Environment
Nancy Broshot, this year’s Edith Green Distinguished Professor, put her passion for the environment to work in Portland’s Forest Park
Dorothee Soelle: mystic and rebel
Title: Dorothee Soelle : mystic and rebel : the biography Author: Renate Wind; Nancy Lukens; Martin Rumscheidt Publisher: Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress Press, 2012. ISBN: 978080069808
The iconographic brain: a critical philosophical inquiry into (the resistance of) the image
The brain image plays a central role in contemporary image culture and, in turn, (co)constructs contemporary forms of subjectivity. The central aim of this paper is to probe the unmistakably potent interpellative power of brain images by delving into the power of imaging and the power of the image itself. This is not without relevance for the neurosciences, inasmuch as these do not take place in a vacuum; hence the importance of inquiring into the status of the image within scientific culture and science itself. I will mount a critical philosophical investigation of the brain qua image, focusing on the issue of mapping the mental onto the brain and how, in turn, the brain image plays a pivotal role in processes of subjectivation. Hereto, I draw upon Science & Technology Studies, juxtaposed with culture and ideology critique and theories of image culture. The first section sets out from Althusser's concept of interpellation, linking ideology to subjectivity. Doing so allows to spell out the central question of the paper: what could serve as the basis for a critical approach, or, where can a locus of resistance be found? In the second section, drawing predominantly on Baudrillard, I delve into the dimension of virtuality as this is opened up by brain image culture. This leads to the question of whether the digital brain must be opposed to old analog psychology: is it the psyche which resists? This issue is taken up in the third section which, ultimately, concludes that the psychological is not the requisite locus of resistance. The fourth section proceeds to delineate how the brain image is constructed from what I call the data-gaze (the claim that brain data are always already visual). In the final section, I discuss how an engagement with theories of iconology affords a critical understanding of the interpellative force of the brain image, which culminates in the somewhat unexpected claim that the sought after resistance lies in the very status of the image itself
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