Language Socialization and the Senses

[Nathaniel Dumas]

Thanks Leila! I also forgot, Lanita Jacobs-Huey (2006) does deal with  
"touch" as a sense that is laden with religious overtones in her book,  
 From the Kitchen to the Parlor: Language and Becoming in African  
American Women's Hair Care, for those who are interested too. (Chapter  
3) It's not so much from a language socialization perspective because  
we don't have the longitudinal aspect to see what was/was not acquired  
by novices, but it's worth thinking about.

Nate

On Jul 21, 2011, at 10:38 PM, Leila Monaghan wrote:

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

Nathaniel Dumas
UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Linguistics
University of California, Santa Barbara
http://ucsb.academia.edu/NathanielDumas/About