Actually my Webster's dictionary defines the word interpellate as "to
question (as a foreign minister) formally concerning an official action or
policy or personal conduct" and dates it to 1874. As one would surmise, it
comes from th lation, interpellare, to interrupt, in turn from inter and
pellare to drive (hence it means to drive between, thus interrupt).
I doubt if that is the meaning intended here, but it is very difficult to
tell through the thick fog of verbiage and jargon.
Peter
At 08:10 15/12/98 -0800, Merry Maisel wrote:
>I have never heard of the coinage "interpellating," used in
>the CFP for this conference. Could Dr. Pels or someone else
>concerned with the conference please post a definition? I
>am curious about the roots of the several words that
>contributed body parts to the neologism...
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>M. Maisel
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