On Complex Communication

This essay examines liminality as space of which dominant groups largely are ignorant. The limen is at the edge of hardened structures, a place where transgression of the reigning order is possible. As such, it both offers communicative openings and presents communicative impasses to liminal beings....

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Published in:Hypatia 2006-08, Vol.21 (3), p.75-85
Main Author: LUGONES, MARÍA
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Borderlands
Conversation
Dialogism
Discourse
Gestures
Group dynamics
Interpersonal communication
Language
Limen
Liminality
Linguistics
Nonfiction
Oppression
Presuppositions
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Summary:This essay examines liminality as space of which dominant groups largely are ignorant. The limen is at the edge of hardened structures, a place where transgression of the reigning order is possible. As such, it both offers communicative openings and presents communicative impasses to liminal beings. For the limen to be a coalitional space, complex communication is required. This requires praxical awareness of one's own multiplicity and a recognition of the other's opacity that does not attempt to assimilate it into one's own familiar meanings. Refusing the assumption of transparency and operating with relational identities, the complex communication that occurs in the limen-often invisible to dominant groups-can enable genuine coalition and effective resistance to domination.
ISSN:0887-5367
1527-2001
DOI:10.1111/j.1527-2001.2006.tb01114.x