Designing Language: Installation
Language plays a central role in signifying identity and serves as a powerful resource to construct and understand meaning. People implicitly use language to project different social identities and form particular social relationships. Pauses, hesitations, pronunciation, speech overlaps, and other subtleties provide great clues as to how speakers plan and create themselves and their social interactions. The second-by-second flux of speech exhibits an expansive index of implications. We are using it so deeply, however, that these textures of attention are almost invisible.
Installation investigating intra-individual language variation within the study of linguistics.
See also: Designing Language: Process Book
Molly Desmond
