Concept
pidgin
2 writings
- deja is how the pidgin forgets itself Deja, treated as a structural concept rather than a neurological glitch, is the subjective signature of ritualization: the manufactured sense of return that accumulates until a crossing feels native, the phenomenology of how pidgins forget themselves.
- terroir at the crossing Choosing a metaphor is choosing a soil: the source domain's structural logic persists as terroir in target-domain thinking, making dead metaphors into shaped biases whose specific blindspots can be traced back to the origin domain.