Nate writes:
> I like putting those " " around
>words yet my APA manual says I can't. Bringing attention to language is
>simply deemed inappropriate.
i remember in one of my first doctoral courses that the professor spent
some time explaining such things.
i squirmed and struggled in writing papers for that course, trying to put
into writing the emphases or cues or markers that give the spoken language
so much texture.
once i encountered the idea that language is not transparent, nor neutral,
i felt such relief.
i can make a face when i say "you have to write this following APA
guidelines," which will tell my audience that i wish they didn't.
but that's much more difficult to do in writing.
what's deemed inappropriate seems to me to be a good place to look for
normalizing and exclusionary practices.
kathie
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