‘Words, words, words, I’m so sick of words!’ (Eliza Doolittle in ‘My Fair Lady’)
As I dive deeper into my first doctoral class, I hear Eliza Doolittle in the musical “My Fair Lady” singing the above. All these made up words that don’t speak plainly – “processual” (Lave, p.158), “historicism” (Lave p. 159) and “positionality.” It almost seems as though the writers are working …