Pre-existing value-forms channel how foreign cultural vocabularies enter.

Evidence

It is also, characteristically, the word for engraving, imprint. It is not by chance, then, that it is through this already-in-place value-form that the expressive repertoire of the Hollywood musical rushes in, culture-marked with the proper name “India,” ready for exchange. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 2072

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the Hotman/Boulainvilliers race-struggle motif of how a prior discourse-structure governs what can enter a field, connected to the reader’s research on strategic essentialism’s availability conditions. — connects to: Forms of interaction retain identity across varied contents and historical settings — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 202; Language changes through class culture acquisition and hegemonic national languages; Scholarly analysis can feed causally coherent terms back into participants’ vocabularies — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 302 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Forms of interaction retain identity across varied contents and historical settings #expands (0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 202
• Language changes through class culture acquisition and hegemonic national languages #exemplifies (0.70)