ABSTRACT
To use language is always to seize the world in a particular way, and at the same time to be seized. To teach language is never to dwell in a sanctuary free from questions of power, but to labour in its smithy. Questions of language are never merely neutral epistemological questions, but are always linked to a whole discursive cluster (notions of representation, meaning, value, subjectivity) whose boundaries trace the limits of our social space and its relational possibilities.
