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Author : Roman Jakobson
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
ISBN 13 : 9780262600101
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Six Lectures on Sound and Meaning written by Roman Jakobson and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1981 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preface by C. Levi-Strauss
Author : Dennis Tedlock
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812205308
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book The Spoken Word and the Work of Interpretation written by Dennis Tedlock and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-06-03 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dennis Tedlock presents startling new methods for transcribing, translating, and interpreting oral performance that carry wide implications for all areas of the spoken arts. Moreover, he reveals how the categories and concepts of poetics and hermeneutics based in Western literary traditions cannot be carried over in their entirety to the spoken arts of other cultures but require extensive reevaluation.
Author : Michel Chion
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 082237482X
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Sound written by Michel Chion and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in French in 1998, revised in 2010, and appearing here in English for the first time, Michel Chion's Sound addresses the philosophical, interpretive, and practical questions that inform our encounters with sound. Chion considers how cultural institutions privilege some sounds above others and how spurious distinctions between noise and sound guide the ways we hear and value certain sounds. He critiques the tenacious tendency to understand sounds in relation to their sources and advocates "acousmatic" listening—listening without visual access to a sound’s cause—to disentangle ourselves from auditory habits and prejudices. Yet sound can no more be reduced to mere perceptual phenomena than encapsulated in the sciences of acoustics and physiology. As Chion reminds us and explores in depth, a wide range of linguistic, sensory, cultural, institutional, and media- and technologically-specific factors interact with and shape sonic experiences. Interrogating these interactions, Chion stimulates us to think about how we might open our ears to new sounds, become more nuanced and informed listeners, and more fully understand the links between how we hear and what we do.
Author : Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401104638
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The Logic of the Living Present written by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some might ask "Why Locke's theory of knowledge now?" Though appreciated for his social philosophy, Locke has been criticized for his work in the field of epistemology ever since the publication of the Essay. It is even as if Locke serves only as an example of how not to think. When people criticize Locke, they usually cite the hostile commen taries of Berkeley, Kant, Husserl, or Sellars. But, one might ask, are they not all so eager to show the excellence of their own epistemo logical views that they distort and underestimate Locke's thought? Russell aptly noted in his History of Western Philosophy that: No one has yet succeeded in inventing a philosophy at once credible and self-consis tent. Locke aimed at credibility, and achieved it at the expense of consistency. Most of the great philosophers have done the opposite. A philosophy which is not self-consis tent cannot be wholly true, but a philosophy which is self-consistent can very well be wholly false. The most fruitful philosophies have contained glaring inconsistencies, but for that very reason have been partially true. There is no reason to suppose that a self consistent system contains more truth than one which, like Locke's, is obviously more or less wrong. (B. Russell, A History of Western Philosophy [New York: Simon and Schuster, 1945], p. 613. ) Here Russell is uncommonly charitable with Locke.
Author : Leonard Bernstein
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674920019
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Unanswered Question written by Leonard Bernstein and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leonard Bernstein's Norton Lectures on the future course of music drew cheers from his Harvard audiences and television viewers. In the re-creation of his talks, the author considers music ranging from Hindu ragas through Mozart and Ravel to Copland, Shoenberg, and Stravinsky.
Author : Gary Genosko
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442699728
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Remodelling Communication written by Gary Genosko and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering major developments from post-war cybernetics and telegraphy to the Internet and our networked society, Remodelling Communication explores the critical literature from across disciplines and eras on the models used for studying communications and culture. Proceeding model-by-model, Genosko provides detailed explanations of mathematical, semiotic, and reception theory's encoding/decoding models, as well as Baudrillard's critique of models and general models that bring together a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Providing a dynamic, forward-looking reorientation towards a new universe of reference, Remodelling Communication makes a significant, productive contribution to communication theory.
Author : Abigail Child
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817351604
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)
Download or read book This Is Called Moving written by Abigail Child and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2005-06-26 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the writer, director, producer, and cinematographer of almost all her 30 films, videos, and shorts, Abigail Child has been recognized as a major and influential practitioner of experimental cinema since the early 1970s. Hallmarks of her style are the appropriation and reassembly of found footage and fragments from disparate visual sources, ranging from industrial films and documentaries to home movies, vacation photography, and snippets of old B movies. The resulting collages and montages are cinematic narratives that have been consistently praised for their beauty and sense of wonder and delight in the purely visual. At the same time, Child's films are noted for their incisive political commentary on issues such as gender and sexuality, class, voyeurism, poverty, and the subversive nature of propaganda. In the essays of This Is Called Moving, Child draws on her long career as a practicing poet as well as a filmmaker to explore how these two language systems inform and cross-fertilize her work. examining the parallels between them - words and frames, lines and shots, stanzas and scenes - she discovers how the two art forms re-construct and re-present social meaning, both private and collective.
Author : Keith Allan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317513037
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)
Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Linguistics written by Keith Allan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Linguistics offers a comprehensive introduction and reference point to the discipline of linguistics. This wide-ranging survey of the field brings together a range of perspectives, covering all the key areas of linguistics and drawing on interdisciplinary research in subjects such as anthropology, psychology and sociology. The 36 chapters, written by specialists from around the world, provide: an overview of each topic; an introduction to current hypotheses and issues; future trajectories; suggestions for further reading. With extensive coverage of both theoretical and applied linguistic topics, The Routledge Handbook of Linguistics is an indispensable resource for students and researchers working in this area.
Author : Bert Vaux
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725243741
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)
Download or read book Linguistic Field Methods written by Bert Vaux and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linguistic Field Methods approaches the elicitation of linguistic data from native speaker informants in a novel and engaging manner. The authors follow introductory chapters surveying the general enterprise of field research with chapters exploring methods of eliciting data in eight major areas of current linguistic interest: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics and dialectology, and historical linguistics.
Author : William F Hanks
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429973152
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Language And Communicative Practices written by William F Hanks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on major theories of language from several disciplines and aims to develop an approach to communicative practice that combines the formal properties of linguistic systems with the dynamics of speech as social activity.
Author : Carol Sanders
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521804868
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (48 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Saussure written by Carol Sanders and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-12-02 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Author : Greg Goodale
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252093208
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Sonic Persuasion written by Greg Goodale and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sonic Persuasion: Reading Sound in the Recorded Age critically analyzes a range of sounds on vocal and musical recordings, on the radio, in film, and in cartoons to show how sounds are used to persuade in subtle ways. Greg Goodale explains how and to what effect sounds can be "read" like an aural text, demonstrating this method by examining important audio cues such as dialect, pausing, and accent in presidential recordings at the turn of the twentieth century. Goodale also shows how clocks, locomotives, and machinery are utilized in film and literature to represent frustration and anxiety about modernity, and how race and other forms of identity came to be represented by sound during the interwar period. In highlighting common sounds of industry and war in popular media, Sonic Persuasion also demonstrates how programming producers and governmental agencies employed sound to evoke a sense of fear in listeners. Goodale provides important links to other senses, especially the visual, to give fuller meaning to interpretations of identity, culture, and history in sound.
Author : Marcel Danesi
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
ISBN 13 : 9781551302508
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Messages, Signs, and Meanings written by Marcel Danesi and published by Canadian Scholars’ Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Messages, Signs, and Meanings can be used directly in introductory courses in semiotics, communications, media, or culture studies. Additionally, it can be used as a complementary or supplementary text in courses dealing with cognate areas of investigation (psychology, mythology, education, literary studies, anthropology, linguistics). The text builds upon what readers already know intuitively about signs, and then leads them to think critically about the world in which they live - a world saturated with images of all kinds that a basic knowledge of semiotics can help filter and deconstruct. The text also provides opportunities for readers to do "hands-on" semiotics through the exercises and questions for discussion that accompany each chapter. Biographical sketches of the major figures in the field are also included, as is a convenient glossary of technical terms." "The overall plan of the book is to illustrate how message-making and meaning-making can be studied from the specific vantage point of the discipline of semiotics. This third edition also includes updated discussions of information technology throughout, focusing especially on how meanings are now negotiated through such channels as websites, chat rooms, and instant messages."--Jacket.
Author : Hwa Yol Jung
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821419552
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Transversal Rationality and Intercultural Texts written by Hwa Yol Jung and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-26 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2012 Edward Goodwin Ballard Prize sponsored by the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology. Transversality is the keyword that permeates the spirit of these thirteen essays spanning almost half a century, from 1965 to 2009. The essays are exploratory and experimental in nature and are meant to be a transversal linkage between phenomenology and East Asian philosophy. Transversality is the concept that dispels all ethnocentrisms, including Eurocentrism. In the globalizing world of multiculturalism, Eurocentric universalism falls far short of being universal but simply parochial at the expense of the non-Western world. Transversality is intercultural, interspecific, interdisciplinary, and intersensorial. Transversal Rationality and Intercultural Texts means to transform the very way of philosophizing itself by infusing or hybridizing multiple traditions in the history of the world. Like no other scholar, Jung bridges the gap between Asian and Western cultures. What is traditionally called “comparative philosophy” is not just a neglected branch of philosophy; it is poised to radically transform the very conception of philosophy itself.
Author : Michael Sells
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0861546792
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (615 download)
Download or read book Approaching the Qur'an written by Michael Sells and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-10-05 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approaching the Qur’an presents brilliant translations of the short, hymnic chapters, or Suras, associated with the first revelations to the Prophet Muhammad. These early Suras contain some of the most powerful, prophetic, and revelatory passages in religious history, offering the vision of a meaningful and just life that anchors the faith of one fifth of the world’s inhabitants. In addition to these translations, Michael Sells provides an introduction to the Qur’an, commentaries on the Suras, a glossary of technical terms, and discussions of the auditory nature and gender aspects of the Arabic text. An ideal resource for students and interested lay readers, this third edition also includes a new full Sura and associated commentary, a new preface, and a thoroughly updated bibliography.
Author : Jean-François Augoyard
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773576916
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Sonic Experience written by Jean-François Augoyard and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2006-04-05 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never before has the everyday soundtrack of urban space been so cacophonous. Since the 1970s, sound researchers have attempted to classify noise, music, and everyday sounds using concepts such as Pierre Shafer's sound object and R. Murray Schafer's soundscape. Recently, the most significant team of soundscape researchers in the world has been concerned with the effects of sounds on listeners.
Author : Marcel Danesi
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442695536
Total Pages : 753 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Media and Communication written by Marcel Danesi and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive encyclopedia for the growing fields of media and communication studies, the Encyclopedia of Media and Communication is an essential resource for beginners and seasoned academics alike. Contributions from over fifty experts and practitioners provide an accessible introduction to these disciplines' most important concepts, figures, and schools of thought – from Jean Baudrillard to Tim Berners Lee, and podcasting to Peircean semiotics. Detailed and up-to-date, the Encyclopedia of Media and Communication synthesizes a wide array of works and perspectives on the making of meaning. The appendix includes timelines covering the whole historical record for each medium, from either antiquity or their inception to the present day. Each entry also features a bibliography linking readers to relevant resources for further reading. The most coherent treatment yet of these fields, the Encyclopedia of Media and Communication promises to be the standard reference text for the next generation of media and communication students and scholars.
