language

Le Guin: in //The Dispossessed,// Annaresti speak a constructed language (like Esperanto) called Pravic.

another feminist science fiction novelist, Suzette Haden Elgin Laadaan in //Native Tongue// Elgin's intellectual honesty: acknowledges her hypothesis (inspired by Godel Escher Bach) about subversive power of language was wrong...

see //Representing Rape// by Susan Ehrlich her idea of "the accused's grammar of non-agency" — applicable far beyond the context in which she considers it (Allan Wayde narrative decolonization ... ?) also Ehrlich defends a "weak" version of Sapir-Whorf acknowledging the problems with strong versions (passionately denounced by Pinker in The Language Instinct; exemplified by some early feminist approaches to language including Elgin's experiment).

Pinker's argument for civility not requiring more powerful defense...

nevertheless: problems in the ethics of representation

Roy Miki: all representation is violent...

but misrepresentation...

political correctness and policing of language, free speech? (free of what? Stanley Fish?

Chomsky and holocaust denial: free speech means defending the right to express views you despise.

discursive power

see Chomsky - Foucault debate...