Language Socialization and the Senses

[Leila Monaghan]

Lakshmi Fjord had a very nice piece in the Journal of Visual Anthropology (I
think 2000-2001) comparing US and Swedish approaches to kids with cochlear
implants and how language socialization did or did not take account of the
fact that kids were deaf.  Some of the Deaf education literature is also
interesting.  The 2010 Annual Review also has a piece on the anthropology of
senses that you have probably seen as well but is worth looking at.

all best,

Leila

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 7:18 PM, Nathaniel Dumas <
ndumas at linguistics.ucsb.edu> wrote:

> Thanks Dan! I forgot to mention I've seen that study--the papers just came
> out in Senses and Society, for those who are interested. I'm more curious
> about how the socialization part in naturally-occurring interactions work in
> making people cultural and institutional subjects who can (and cannot) sense
> in a particular way and also reproduce power through valued hierarchies of
> the senses. I could be wrong, but I think that is where we may be coming up
> short on in linguistic anthropology, due to our own biases towards the
> visual and aural senses (which is to be expected), and where the
> sociocultural anthropology discussions may be great interlocutors in pushing
> language socialization researchers to think about the roles of the other
> senses in making subjects.
>
>
> On Jul 21, 2011, at 6:09 PM, Dan Slobin wrote:
>
>  Check out mpi.nl for a big study on crosslinguistic difference in
>> lexicons of the senses at Max Planck Nijmegen.
>>
>> Sent from Dan's iPhone
>>
>> On Jul 21, 2011, at 21:03, Nathaniel Dumas <ndumas at LINGUISTICS.UCSB.EDU>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  Dear Colleagues,
>>>
>>> I hope everyone is well. Does anyone know of any studies that focus
>>> specifically on the language socialization of the senses? (i.e., work that
>>> directly connects cultural ideas of the senses, as framed in the
>>> anthropology of the senses, to becoming a competent member of a community).
>>> As far as I know, there are tons of studies that use the concepts of
>>> professional vision and professional/lay hearing aspects. However, does
>>> anyone know of language socialization studies that also focus on how touch,
>>> smell, and taste (besides Ochs et al. 1996's "Socializing Taste," to a
>>> degree) are constituted as senses through language to newcomers and how
>>> these ideologically-laden senses are also shaped by language ideologies?
>>>
>>> Thank you in advance,
>>> Nathaniel "Nate" Dumas
>>>
>>
> Nathaniel Dumas
> UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow
> Department of Linguistics
> University of California, Santa Barbara
> http://ucsb.academia.edu/**NathanielDumas/About<http://ucsb.academia.edu/NathanielDumas/About>
>



-- 
Leila Monaghan, PhD
Department of Anthropology
University of Wyoming
Laramie, Wyoming