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The Materiality of Language

Author : David Bleich
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253007728
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Materiality of Language written by David Bleich and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Bleich sees the human body, its affective life, social life, and political functions as belonging to the study of language. In The Materiality of Language, Bleich addresses the need to end centuries of limiting access to language and its many contexts of use. To recognize language as material and treat it as such, argues Bleich, is to remove restrictions to language access due to historic patterns of academic censorship and unfair gender practices. Language is understood as a key path in the formation of all social and political relations, and becomes available for study by all speakers, who may regulate it, change it, and make it flexible like other material things.

Language and Materiality

Author : Jillian R. Cavanaugh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316851850
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (168 download)

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Download or read book Language and Materiality written by Jillian R. Cavanaugh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aimed at interdisciplinary audiences, and tailored especially to scholars of linguistic and cultural anthropology, sociolinguistics, and cultural studies, the book argues for the importance of analyzing language use with an eye toward new materialisms, semiotics, and ideology.

The Materiality of Language

Author : David Bleich
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253007739
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book The Materiality of Language written by David Bleich and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critique of male-dominated modes of language use, their roots in higher education, their effects, and their spill over into popular culture. David Bleich sees the human body, its affective life, social life, and political functions as belonging to the study of language. In The Materiality of Language, Bleich addresses the need to end centuries of limiting access to language and its many contexts of use. To recognize language as material and treat it as such, argues Bleich, is to remove restrictions to language access due to historic patterns of academic censorship and unfair gender practices. Language is understood as a key path in the formation of all social and political relations, and becomes available for study by all speakers, who may regulate it, change it, and make it flexible like other material things. “A potentially foundational text in an emergent field [of] language studies, whose work is to break up the monopoly Linguistics and Philosophy have had on the study of language. . . . The insight that the affective operation of language is elided in nearly all approaches to [language] acquisition is brilliant and astounding. . . . The analysis of subject creation as an affective process of recognizing and sharing the same affective state and language as the means for materializing affective states . . . is fascinating and persuasive. . . . One of the book’s distinctive features is the use of gender as a key normative analytical lens throughout. It would be difficult to exaggerate how rare this is among language thinkers, and how productive it is for the arguments here.” —Mary Louise Pratt, New York University “A powerful, first-rate book on a crucial topic. It offers a great interpretation of the sacralization and ascendancy of Latin as a language supporting what Bleich calls ‘an elite group of men.’ . . . This is a brilliant codebook to academic language and its coercions.” —Dale Bauer, University of Illinois“/B>/DESC> literary theory;semiotics;literary criticism;philosophy;language philosophy;philosophy of language;gender studies;social science;language studies;communication studies;language arts;language disciplines;gender;sex;language;rhetoric;academic language;colloquial language;language political aspects;language sex differences;language and gender LIT006000 LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory PHI038000 PHILOSOPHY / Language SOC032000 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies LAN004000 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies 9780253016508 Well-Tempered Woodwinds: Friedrich von Huene and the Making of Early Music in a New World Geoffrey Burgess

Language and Material Culture

Author : Allison Paige Burkette
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027267944
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Language and Material Culture written by Allison Paige Burkette and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative and provocative work introduces complexity theory and its application to both the study of language and the study of material culture. The book begins with a wide-ranging theoretical background, covering the areas of dialect geography, the anthropological study of material culture, and a general introduction to the study of complex adaptive systems. Following this general introduction, the principles of complexity theory are demonstrated in data drawn from linguistics and material culture studies. Language and Material Culture further highlights the principles of complexity through a series of case studies, using data from the Linguistic Atlas, colonial American inventories and the Historic American Building Survey. LMC shows that language and material culture are intertwined as they interact within the same cultural complex system. The book is designed for students in courses that focus on language variation, American English and material culture, in addition to general courses on applications of complex systems.

The Materiality of Writing

Author : Christian Mosbæk Johannessen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134986467
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book The Materiality of Writing written by Christian Mosbæk Johannessen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the materiality of writing. It adopts a multimodal approach to argue that writing as we know it is only a small part of the myriad gestures we make, practices we engage in, and media we use in the process of trace-making. Taking a broad view of the act of writing, the volume features contributions from both established and up-and-coming scholars from around the world and incorporates a range of methodological and theoretical perspectives, from fields such as linguistics, philosophy, psychology of perception, design, and semiotics. This interdisciplinary framework allows readers to see the relationships between writing and other forms of "trace-making", including architectural drawings, graphic shapes, and commercial logos, and between writing and reading, with a number of illustrations highlighting the visual data used in the forms and studies discussed. The book also looks forward to the future, discussing digital media and new technology and their implications for trace-making. This pioneering volume will be of interest to scholars and researchers in multimodality, literacy, cognitive neuroscience, design theory, discourse analysis, and applied linguistics.

Language and Relation

Author : Christopher Fynsk
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804727143
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (271 download)

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Download or read book Language and Relation written by Christopher Fynsk and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most recent version of the “linguistic turn,” the revolution in language theory shaped by Saussure’s structural linguistics and realized in a sweeping revision of investigations throughout the humanities and social sciences, has rushed past the most basic “fact”: that there is language. What has been lost? Almost everything of what Heidegger tried to approach under the name of “ontology” until the word proved too laden by common misapprehension to be of use. Most immediately, this is everything of language that exceeds the order of signification, together with the subject’s engagement with this “excess” that is the (non)ground of history and the material site of all relationality, beginning with that unthought that is widely termed “culture.” Language and Relation returns to this site in close readings of meditations on language by Martin Heidegger, Luce Irigaray, Paul Celan, Walter Benjamin, and Maurice Blanchot. It seeks to move with these authors beyond the order of signification and toward the an-archic grounds of relation (of all relations between self and other, and of relation in general), exploring the possibility for a strong link between issues in modern philosophy of language and contemporary socio-political concerns.

Uncreative Writing

Author : Kenneth Goldsmith
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231504543
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Uncreative Writing written by Kenneth Goldsmith and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can techniques traditionally thought to be outside the scope of literature, including word processing, databasing, identity ciphering, and intensive programming, inspire the reinvention of writing? The Internet and the digital environment present writers with new challenges and opportunities to reconceive creativity, authorship, and their relationship to language. Confronted with an unprecedented amount of texts and language, writers have the opportunity to move beyond the creation of new texts and manage, parse, appropriate, and reconstruct those that already exist. In addition to explaining his concept of uncreative writing, which is also the name of his popular course at the University of Pennsylvania, Goldsmith reads the work of writers who have taken up this challenge. Examining a wide range of texts and techniques, including the use of Google searches to create poetry, the appropriation of courtroom testimony, and the possibility of robo-poetics, Goldsmith joins this recent work to practices that date back to the early twentieth century. Writers and artists such as Walter Benjamin, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, and Andy Warhol embodied an ethos in which the construction or conception of a text was just as important as the resultant text itself. By extending this tradition into the digital realm, uncreative writing offers new ways of thinking about identity and the making of meaning.

The Materiality of Middle English Anchoritic Devotion

Author : Michelle Sauer
Publisher : ARC Humanities Press
ISBN 13 : 9781641894876
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (948 download)

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Download or read book The Materiality of Middle English Anchoritic Devotion written by Michelle Sauer and published by ARC Humanities Press. This book was released on 2021-10-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores materiality in Middle English anchoritic texts, encompassing guidance literature, hagiographies, miracle narratives, medical discourse, and mystic prose.

Rhetoric, Materiality, & Politics

Author : Barbara A. Biesecker
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820497402
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (974 download)

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Download or read book Rhetoric, Materiality, & Politics written by Barbara A. Biesecker and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rhetoric, Materiality, and Politics explores the relationship between rhetoric's materiality and the social world in the late modern political context. Taking as their point of departure a reprint of Michael Calvin McGee's 1982 call to reconceptualize rhetoric as the palpable +experience; of sociality, the authors in this volume grapple anew with the role of communication practices in contemporary collective life. Drawing upon the work of Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, and Jacques Derrida, these twelve original essays supplement, extend, and challenge McGee's position, collectively advocating on behalf of a shift in theoretical and critical attention from rhetorical materialism to rhetoric's materiality." --Book Jacket.

The English Writing System

Author : Vivian J Cook
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134643306
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book The English Writing System written by Vivian J Cook and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English is increasingly becoming the world's lingua franca. If we are not native speakers of one of the many varieties of English, then we may be students of English, or use English regularly for academic or business purposes. The English Language series, which is international in focus, aims to synthesize the wealth of existing linguistic research both on and in English. Each volume in the series is designed to present these findings in an accessible, enlightening and entertaining way not only to students of English linguistics but to learners and users of English across the globe. The English Writing System describes how writing is not simply ancillary to other aspects of language but vitally important to almost everything we do, from signing our wills to sending a text message. This book discusses the mechanics of the writing systems of English; the different ways people process words on a page and the mistakes they can make; how children and second language learners acquire these systems; the historical development of the language and the progress of writing technology: in short, the effectiveness of the writing systems of English. Combining an academic perspective from linguistics and psychology with insights into everyday spelling mistakes, The English Writing System will interest students and teachers of linguistics, literature, the English language, psychology and education.

The materiality of reading

Author : Theresa Schilhab
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
ISBN 13 : 8772193581
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book The materiality of reading written by Theresa Schilhab and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. This book was released on 2020-09-24 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We read e-books and printed books. But are there differences in how and where we read? And what opportunities does a digital reading environment bring for writers and designers? The materiality of reading explores the experience of reading by examining the interaction between the reader and the object of reading. Bringing together an array of disciplinary perspectives such as neurobiology, embodied reading and typography, we aim to understand how the materiality of the text enhances reader engagement with digital and physical books. The papers of this anthology are the result of academic discussions and empirical explorations at universities in Zadar, Vilnius, Reading and Stavanger as the authors are all members of the European research initiative, ‘Evolution of Reading in the Age of Digitisation’ (E-READ).

Interacting with Objects

Author : Maurice Nevile
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027269831
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Interacting with Objects written by Maurice Nevile and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Objects are essential for how, together, people create and experience social life and relate to the physical environment around them. Interacting with Objects: Language, materiality, and social activity presents studies which use video recordings of real-life settings to explore how objects feature in social interaction and activity. The studies consider many objects (e.g. paper documents, food, a camera, art, furniture, and even the human body), across various situations, such as shopping, visiting the doctor, interviews and meetings, surgery, and instruction in dance, craft, or cooking. Analyses reveal in precise detail how, as people interact, objects are seen, touched and handled, heard, created, transformed, planned, imagined, shared, discussed, or appreciated. With the companion collection Multiactivity in Social Interaction: Beyond multitasking, the book advances understanding of the complex organisation and accomplishment of social interaction, especially the significance of embodiment, materiality, participation and temporality. By focussing on objects in and for actual occasions of human action, Interacting with Objects: Language, materiality, and social activity will interest many researchers and practitioners in language and social interaction, communication and discourse, design, and also more widely within anthropology, sociology, psychology, and related disciplines.

Saying and Doing in Zapotec

Author : Mark A. Sicoli
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350142182
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Saying and Doing in Zapotec written by Mark A. Sicoli and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multimodal ethnography of language as living process, this book demonstrates methods for the integrated analysis of talk, gesture, and material culture, developing a fresh way to understand human language through a focus on jointly achieved social actions to which it is part. Based on findings from a participatory, multimedia language documentation project in a highland Zapotec community of Oaxaca, Mexico, Mark A. Sicoli brings together goals of documentary linguistics and anthropological concern with the everyday means and ends of human social life with theoretical consequences for the analysis of linguistic and cultural reproduction and change. This book argues that resonances emergent in the whole of multiparticipant, multimodal interaction, are organizational of human social-cognitive process important for understanding both the shape linguistic utterances take in interaction (dialogic resonance) and the relationships built between distinct sign modes (intermodal resonance). In this way, Saying and Doing in Zapotec develops a new theory, characterizing the logic of resonance in human interaction as semiotic process that connects and juxtaposes interactional moves into assemblages of relations, resonances and collaborations that build an emergent lifeworld for a language.

Modernism and the Materiality of Texts

Author : Eyal Amiran
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107136075
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Modernism and the Materiality of Texts written by Eyal Amiran and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that elements of modernist texts that are meaningless in themselves are motivated by their authors' psychic crises.

Discourses in Place

Author : Ron Scollon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134436904
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Discourses in Place written by Ron Scollon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-08 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discourses in Place is essential reading for anyone with an interest in language and the way we communicate. Written by leaders in the field, this text argues that we can only interpret the meaning of public texts like road signs, notices and brand logos by considering the social and physical world that surrounds them. Drawing on a wide range of real examples, from signs in the Chinese mountains, to urban centres in Austria, Italy, North America and Hong Kong, this textbook equips students with the methodology and models they need to undertake their own research in 'geosemiotics', the key interface between semiotics and the physical world. Discourses in Place is highly illustrated, containing real examples of language in the material world, including a 'how to use this book' section, group and individual activities, and a glossary of key terms.

Language, Madness, and Desire

Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452944938
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Language, Madness, and Desire written by Michel Foucault and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a transformative thinker of the twentieth century, whose work spanned all branches of the humanities, Michel Foucault had a complex and profound relationship with literature. And yet this critical aspect of his thought, because it was largely expressed in speeches and interviews, remains virtually unknown to even his most loyal readers. This book brings together previously unpublished transcripts of oral presentations in which Foucault speaks at length about literature and its links to some of his principal themes: madness, language and criticism, and truth and desire. The associations between madness and language—and madness and silence—preoccupy Foucault in two 1963 radio broadcasts, presented here, in which he ranges among literary examples from Cervantes and Shakespeare to Diderot, before taking up questions about Artaud’s literary correspondence, lettres de cachet, and the materiality of language. In his lectures on the relations among language, the literary work, and literature, he discusses Joyce, Proust, Chateaubriand, Racine, and Corneille, as well as the linguist Roman Jakobson. What we know as literature, Foucault contends, begins with the Marquis de Sade, to whose writing—particularly La Nouvelle Justine and Juliette—he devotes a full two-part lecture series focusing on notions of literary self-consciousness. Following his meditations on history in the recently published Speech Begins after Death, this current volume makes clear the importance of literature to Foucault’s thought and intellectual development.

Materiality

Author : Daniel Miller
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822386712
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Materiality written by Daniel Miller and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-18 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history and across social and cultural contexts, most systems of belief—whether religious or secular—have ascribed wisdom to those who see reality as that which transcends the merely material. Yet, as the studies collected here show, the immaterial is not easily separated from the material. Humans are defined, to an extraordinary degree, by their expressions of immaterial ideals through material forms. The essays in Materiality explore varied manifestations of materiality from ancient times to the present. In assessing the fundamental role of materiality in shaping humanity, they signal the need to decenter the social within social anthropology in order to make room for the material. Considering topics as diverse as theology, technology, finance, and art, the contributors—most of whom are anthropologists—examine the many different ways in which materiality has been understood and the consequences of these differences. Their case studies show that the latest forms of financial trading instruments can be compared with the oldest ideals of ancient Egypt, that the promise of software can be compared with an age-old desire for an unmediated relationship to divinity. Whether focusing on the theology of Islamic banking, Australian Aboriginal art, derivatives trading in Japan, or textiles that respond directly to their environment, each essay adds depth and nuance to the project that Materiality advances: a profound acknowledgment and rethinking of one of the basic properties of being human. Contributors. Matthew Engelke, Webb Keane, Susanne Küchler, Bill Maurer, Lynn Meskell, Daniel Miller, Hirokazu Miyazaki, Fred Myers, Christopher Pinney, Michael Rowlands, Nigel Thrift