"Indian Country Radio" in NYT

[Tim Frazer]

Anna makes a good point.  I think Robin Lakhoff touches on this nicely in a
somewhat different (political) context in LANGUAGE WAR -- the way the
dominant culture sets itself up as "norm."

----- Original Message -----
From: Anna Fellegy <felle001 at TC.UMN.EDU>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 9:47 PM
Subject: Re: "Indian Country Radio" in NYT


> Imagine, Indian radio stations. Rumor has it Indians even have their own
> newspapers. Could it be true? Should we send the anthropologists in?
>
> Have you thought that some of the members on the listserv are Native?
> Have you ever thought about the assumptions that underlie the use of
> pronouns in your language in this forum? And if you consider the tone of
> this to be one that silences discussion, have you ever considered how
> being talked about as an object of study and curiosity by Ph.D.s is
> silencing at a much deeper level than that of discourse?
>
> Take a course on intercultural communication.