ABSTRACT
We look at the title of our presentation, giving it readings. In our first reading, likely by habit, we see three master signifiers—“language,” “culture,” and “curriculum”—each a legitimated discipline in academe, the last named, “curriculum,” a young newcomer in the family of disciplines. In our second reading, we are drawn into spaces: first, the space between “language” and “culture” where a graphic mark we call “comma” urges us to pause a moment, then the space between “culture” and “curriculum” where we locate the word “and” claiming a conjoining, and then, the space marked “…” suggesting “more to come” and “incompleteness.”
