From: mchopper-AT-eos.hitc.com
Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 13:26:08 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: about your list


Readers:

I'm a rookie on the list - so - please enlighten me, when did we officially 
run out of things to talk about?

M. Rick Chopper


>I find this question of language to be strange and ironic on a list that
>focuses on a writer whose work is composed predominantly IN FRENCH, not in
>English. I realize the question is more that of the lingua franca of the
>list, and not of Bourdieu's chosen language of expression, but still...
>Were I to discuss B's essays in French, or to post citations from him,
>large or small, in French, would that be a disservice to the list readers?
>Probably, but it would engage some readers as well. Hence, the language
>question cannot really be a rigid one, but rather quite fluid, and I suspect
>that it is also a question of 'habitus', of feel for the game, as well.
>In any event, I enjoy the spanish queries/discussion even if I miss quite
>a bit of what goes by, and do not feel capable of engaging these queries/
>discussion with any kind of answer. So, rather an approach the matter of
>language *qua* appropriate language, I consider how best to engage readers/
>potential contributors with material that might further stimulate discussion.
>That language seems to be English *at the moment*, but I see no hard and
>fast rule why that should necessarily be so. French would work as well, and
>if it meant non-francophones making a little effort, or even a large one,
>I don't see much wrong with that either given the topic of this list.
>
>Charles J. Stivale
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