For one, although the laborers demonstrated how a colloquialized written language could effectively check the phonocentric impulse for pure orality, their literacy program was retrospectively branded as the inaugural
moment of the phonocentric reinvention of baihua. or another, although the positive side of the phonocentric antinomies reached out to empower the illiterate laborers, there were still limits to what they could and should write. Finally, although the story of the “sacred laborers” was written out of the collective memory of World War I, the laborers’ writing stood as living testimony to the true postwar legacy that sought peace, equality, and justice, inspiring May Fourth and beyond.引自 3. Can Subaltern Workers Write?
These one thousand characters were later largely corroborated by a group of statisticians headed by Chen Heqin— Yen’s colleague and also a YMCA member— in the study “Determination of the Vocabulary of the CommonPeople.”34 Strengthened with statistical precision, one of the oldest literacy primers in Chinese literary tradition reemerged as a modern approach in combating illiteracy.引自 3. Can Subaltern Workers Write?
. If the linguistic materiality of the World War I literacy program was misnamed to conform to the phonocentric impulse of the May Fourth baihua revolution, then the critical content of the laborer’s writing has been eclipsed by the very brand of the Chinese enlightenment that it set out to critique引自 3. Can Subaltern Workers Write?
scientifically:科学理性的出现:语言的现代性力量,当语言可以被量化意味着什么。不用通过日常经验而是可以在一定时间段可以掌握的技能。并不负载着可以传播新的变化。传统白话存在于一个文言秩序的东西。但是白话并不是文言的青少年版,他比原本迟滞的典故更加丰富。展开了异国语言实践和中国内部是有区别的。是因为身份不同:海外工人。语言症候在遭遇的问题。writing is a technology如何暴露出自己的问题,是有自反性的,必须在迁转之中看到自己的问题。是另一个语境不同。这一刻关心的写下的,有没有可能借助语言的问题。放在什么样的框架去解读他。民族,跨民族,作为时代氛围的战争建立在终结性的关联。