In grad school, one of the few articles we were assigned that I actually read has stuck with me for it’s vivid imagery and incredible insight. I’ll try to find it maybe so I can cite it properly, but for now I’ll just try to summarize it. We read this article in a linguistics course focused on the role of language in socialization (I’m simplifying, I think the word “socialization” was avoided for being too 60’s-era simplistic and vanilla. Not French-philosopher enough, for sure…anyway). Or was it the role of socialization in the learning of language? Literally every single thing in grad school could be flopped around like that Continue reading I suck at communicate-ifying