Francis Williams’s Bad Language: Historical Geography in a World of Practice
Francis Williams’s Bad Language: Historical Geography in a World of Practice
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弗朗西斯·威廉姆斯的《糟糕的语言：实践世界中的历史地理学》
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2009
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M. Ogborn
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我想从一个特殊的时刻开始开始。1724年11月，两个人在牙买加西班牙城的街上相遇：威廉·布罗德里克（William Brodrick），该岛法律的和政府机构的支柱，前司法部长，国王任命的军士长;弗朗西斯威廉姆斯（Williams），一个自由的黑人，他们互相辱骂和殴打。布罗德里克声称威廉姆斯“带着激情”走向他。布罗德里克举起一只手来挡开他，威廉姆斯打了他，撕破了他的衬衫和脖子上的衣服，好几次叫他“白色狗”，还用“许多脏话”告诉布罗德里克，他和他一样是个好人。反过来，Brodrick一再称威廉姆斯为“黑狗”，并留下了一个血淋淋的嘴。一个事件，一个场景，一个后来被重述并以戏剧性的语言写下来的时刻，以解决发生了什么的问题？谁造成了什么这意味着什么这是一个交换的话，但有更多的事情在这里不仅仅是语言。沿着的是辱骂，还有激情的高涨，殴打，嘴唇裂开和衣服撕破。有不良意图。有愤怒。已经造成了伤害。相遇，那一刻，是情感的，体现的，定位的和戏剧性的。借用人类学家和历史学家格雷格·德宁（Greg Dening）的著作《布莱先生的脏话》（Mr Bligh's Bad Language）中的标题，我想说的是，弗朗西斯威廉姆斯和威廉·布罗德里克（William Brodrick）的脏话，只有当我们认识到它不仅仅是关于
Iwant to begin with a particular moment. In November 1724 two men met in the street in Spanish Town, Jamaica: William Brodrick, pillar of the legal and governmental establishment of the island, a former attorney general and the king’s appointee as sergeant-at-law; and Francis Williams, a free black man. They traded insults and blows. Brodrick claimed thatWilliams had come “towards him in a passion.” Brodrick had raised a hand to fend him off, and Williams had struck him, torn his shirt and neck cloth, called him a “White Dog” several times and with “many opprobrious words” had told Brodrick that he was as good a man as him. In turn, Brodrick repeatedly called Williams a “Black Dog,” and left him with a bloody mouth.1 What do we have here? An event, a situated moment, a moment that is later retold and written down in dramatic terms in order to address the questions of what happened? Who caused what? And what does it all mean? It was an exchange of words, but there is more going on here than just language. Along with the name-calling, there are passions raised, blows struck, a split lip and torn clothes. There are bad intentions. There is anger. There is damage done. The encounter, the moment, is affective, embodied, situated and dramatic. Borrowing my title from the anthropologist and historian Greg Dening’s book Mr Bligh’s Bad Language, I want to argue that Francis Williams’s bad language, and that of William Brodrick, can only be understood if we recognize that it is about more than just