Catttt Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary
implicated and expressive locus
1. Does "it" refer to "city" or "argument"?
2. Does "in significance" mean "significantly" or "in terms of significance" meaning that it will become more significant than the other one?
3. Is my impression true that "city wants to supersede current preoccupation with a dominant thought in critical discourse that signifies human body as a place of both complication and expressiveness,"?
4. Does "implicated" mean "complicated" in contrast with "expressive" ?
Context:
There is an argument – a flippant one perhaps, in the first instance – to say the city has effectively become the ‘new body’. In other words, as an object of study – to say nothing of in practice – it promises to supersede in significance a previous preoccupation within critical discourse with the signifying human body as both implicated and expressive locus.
2. Does "in significance" mean "significantly" or "in terms of significance" meaning that it will become more significant than the other one?
3. Is my impression true that "city wants to supersede current preoccupation with a dominant thought in critical discourse that signifies human body as a place of both complication and expressiveness,"?
4. Does "implicated" mean "complicated" in contrast with "expressive" ?
Context:
There is an argument – a flippant one perhaps, in the first instance – to say the city has effectively become the ‘new body’. In other words, as an object of study – to say nothing of in practice – it promises to supersede in significance a previous preoccupation within critical discourse with the signifying human body as both implicated and expressive locus.
Top answer
1. "city", as far as I can tell. 2.
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1. "city", as far as I can tell.
2. The latter.
3/4. Don't know (don't understand it), but I am not aware that "implicated" can mean "complicated".
2. The latter.
3/4. Don't know (don't understand it), but I am not aware that "implicated" can mean "complicated".
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So what is your idea about the meaning of "implicated"? Does it mean that human body is a medium that not only expresses things but also participates in them?
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red appleSo what is your idea about the meaning of "implicated"? Does it mean that human body is a medium that not only expresses things but also participates in them?I think that is a reasonable guess, but, as I say, I find it hard to understand.
(As you probably realise, this book that you are reading is highly abstruse and is stuffed to the gills
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