The essay was published in a collective writing project titled “…but, who are we building for?”,
by:
The Danish Architectural Press, for the non-profit organization Building Diversity.
We and other
Does the personal pronouns really matter?
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Abstract
The article contains two layers. The first tackles the pronouns "we" by navigating the space of languages, cultures and politics in search for its wider meaning. This meaning builds itself gradually from "we" refers to singularity then to multiplicity and ending with an infinite connotation. In the second layer, the author is trying to take the verb "build" out of the narrow understanding of just constructing physical and spatial environments to a wider spectrum of generating communities and urbanising their characteristics. The article connects the two layers in the linguistic level analysing the structure of the question to define the role of "we" as a subject to the verb "build" and "who", refers to "others", as an object to the same verb.
Keywords: Immigration, Belonging, Identity, Community
14.10.2024
Stuttgart
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