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Lois Presser, "Unsaid: Analyzing Harmful Silences" (U California Press, 2022)

New Books in Language

CHAPTER

The Culture of the Unsaid

Culture is creating a lot of the unsaid. I would love if you could share with listeners about some of the cultural structures you write about in this chapter, and how these facilitate different types of unsaid. The an example that I sort of just passed through in passing through the work of Arthur Frank and other people who studied like illness stories. And so, there's an example of where a sort of big story in the culture just sort of pushes away alternatives. It really does kind of poke holes in the idea that we're going to eradicate everything that doesn't make any sense.

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