{"id":1446,"date":"2019-01-24T10:15:35","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T10:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/?p=1446"},"modified":"2019-05-17T06:36:16","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T06:36:16","slug":"family-lexicon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/?p=1446","title":{"rendered":"Family Lexicon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before I learned of Ginzburg&#8217;s book, I used the phrase &#8220;family lexicon&#8221;(incorrectly, I think in retrospect) as the domain name for a website of family photographs.  The project crashed and burned for the best of reasons. For more about that, see <a href=\"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/?p=1212\">here.<\/a>  Still, I feel a certain propriety toward the idea that certain words or phrases, through repetition and association, build family ties, establish identity.  I also suspect that some words &#8212; possibly the same ones, but possibly not &#8212; establish the identity of individuals, set boundaries, alliances, oppositions within that group.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I found Ginzburg&#8217;s book by googling the phrase.  It&#8217;s a splendid achievement &#8212; she really shows a reader how a particular string of words, repeated in changing,  expanding situations, comes to stand for an underlying sense of participation, an identity.  All members of the family seem to have<em> some <\/em>relationship to those words.  Whether these relationships are the <em>same<\/em> for individual members of the group seems quite a different question, one she didn&#8217;t examine. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before I learned of Ginzburg&#8217;s book, I used the phrase &#8220;family lexicon&#8221;(incorrectly, I think in retrospect) as the domain name for a website of family photographs. The project crashed and burned for the best&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1447,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[258,255,259,247],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","category-history","category-language","category-writing"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}