Yep, CA is a field of linguistics these days, though it originally grew out of sociology. (More information here (http://www-staff.lboro.ac.uk/~ssca1/sitemenu.htm), if you're curious.)
As for the topic at hand, are we talking specifically about "dialogues focusing on issues of race and racism," or are we talking about conversations in which a person of colour starts discussing his or her experience with same? Because I think that's where what papersky is saying comes in.
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Date: 2006-06-04 05:51 pm (UTC)As for the topic at hand, are we talking specifically about "dialogues focusing on issues of race and racism," or are we talking about conversations in which a person of colour starts discussing his or her experience with same? Because I think that's where what
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