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Presence of Mind, Presence of Body: Embodying Positionality in the Classroom

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Ann Ardis
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Abstract

This essay focuses on how we embody the language we speak: how an audience “reads” the body of a speaker as it both constructs the positionality of that speaking subject and construes that subject's discursive authority. Buildingon the work of Linda Brodkey and Michelle Fine, 1 explore what is at stake when university students harass a faculty member by accusing that teacher of not embodying authority in the proper form (body).

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Hypatia , Volume 7 , Issue 2: Special Issue: Philosophy and Language , Spring 1992 , pp. 167 - 176
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Copyright © 1992 by Hypatia, Inc.

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