On Tue, Oct 22, 1996 11:35:24 AM, Thomas Diez wrote:
> but then again, isn't
>the use of ANY language a subscription to some homogenizing
>discourse???
Well, I mean, a sort of a confirmation of a nationalist hegemonic discourse
might follow on some level from the use of a common language, but there are
any number of other reasons and effects that also might be at work in a
single language dialogue. It would be just as fair to say that
multi-lingual discouses confirm a bourgeois internationalist hegemony, no?
sb
> but then again, isn't
>the use of ANY language a subscription to some homogenizing
>discourse???
Well, I mean, a sort of a confirmation of a nationalist hegemonic discourse
might follow on some level from the use of a common language, but there are
any number of other reasons and effects that also might be at work in a
single language dialogue. It would be just as fair to say that
multi-lingual discouses confirm a bourgeois internationalist hegemony, no?
sb