The Language of Imagination
Author | : Alan R. White |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Alan R. White |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Daniel Dor |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 0190256621 |
The book presents a new general theory of language as a collectively-constructed communication technology - not unlike the social media on the Net today - that is dedicated to a very particular communicative function: the instruction of imagination. The theory re-frames all the major questions in the linguistic sciences, and opens the way towards the re-unification of the field.
Author | : Ernest LePore |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0198717180 |
How do hearers manage to understand speakers? And how do speakers manage to shape hearers' understanding? Lepore and Stone show that standard views about the workings of semantics and pragmatics are unsatisfactory. They advance an alternative view which better captures what is going on in linguistic communication.
Author | : Barry McCrea |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2015-03-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0300190565 |
This book argues that the sudden decline of old rural vernaculars – such as French patois, Italian dialects, and the Irish language – caused these languages to become the objects of powerful longings and projections that were formative of modernist writing. Seán Ó Ríordáin in Ireland and Pier Paolo Pasolini in Italy reshaped minor languages to use as private idioms of poetry; the revivalist conception of Irish as a lost, perfect language deeply affected the work of James Joyce; the disappearing dialects of northern France seemed to Marcel Proust to offer an escape from time itself. Drawing on a broad range of linguistic and cultural examples to present a major reevaluation of the origins and meaning of European literary modernism, Barry McCrea shows how the vanishing languages of the European countryside influenced metropolitan literary culture in fundamental ways.
Author | : Azar Nafisi |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2014-10-21 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0698170334 |
A New York Times bestseller The author of the beloved #1 New York Times bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran returns with the next chapter of her life in books—a passionate and deeply moving hymn to America Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her multimillion-copy bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of morality squads and executions, she taught The Great Gatsby and other classics of English and American literature to her eager students in Iran. In this electrifying follow-up, she argues that fiction is just as threatened—and just as invaluable—in America today. Blending memoir and polemic with close readings of her favorite novels, she describes the unexpected journey that led her to become an American citizen after first dreaming of America as a young girl in Tehran and coming to know the country through its fiction. She urges us to rediscover the America of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and challenges us to be truer to the words and spirit of the Founding Fathers, who understood that their democratic experiment would never thrive or survive unless they could foster a democratic imagination. Nafisi invites committed readers everywhere to join her as citizens of what she calls the Republic of Imagination, a country with no borders and few restrictions, where the only passport to entry is a free mind and a willingness to dream.
Author | : Steven G. Kellman |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780803227453 |
It is difficult to write well even in one language. Yet a rich body of translingual literature -- by authors who write in more than one language or in a language other than their primary one -- exists. The Translingual Imagination is a pioneering study of the phenomenon, which is as ancient as the use of Arabic, Latin, Mandarin, Persian, and Sanskrit as linguae francae. Colonialism, war, mobility, and the aesthetics of alienation have combined to create a modern translingual canon. Opening with an overview of this vast subject, Steven G. Kellman then looks at the differences between ambilinguals -- those who write authoritatively in more than one language -- and monolingual translinguals -- those who write in only one language but not their native one. Kellman offers compelling analyses of the translingual situations of African and Jewish authors and of achievements by authors as varied as Mary Antin, Samuel Beckett, Louis Begley, J. M. Coetzee, Joseph Conrad, Eva Hoffman, Vladimir Nabokov, and John Sayles. While separate studies of individual translingual authors have long been available, this is the first in-depth study of the general phenomenon of translingual literature.
Author | : Professor Northrop Frye |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2013-05-06 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781459664852 |
'What good is the study of literature? Does it help us think more clearly, or feel more sensitively, or live a better life than we could without it?'' Written in the relaxed and frequently humorous style of his public lectures, this remains, of Northrop Frye's many books, perhaps the easiest introduction to his theories of literature and literary education.
Author | : Marvin Lewis Jr. |
Publisher | : Xulon Press |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1606475606 |
The Language Of My Imagination is a book that was written over the course of a few months giving an account of the various stages in my life. Both the good and bad times have brought me closer to God and made me aware of His presence in my life. The poetry travels trough my actual life experiences and the fanciful worlds of my imagination. I hope that the spiritual aspects in many of these poems will be encouraging during moments of weakness and in times of fear to those who read this book. Marvin Lewis, Jr. was born and raised in Trenton, New Jersey to the parents of Mr. & Mrs. Marvin & Melanie Lewis. He received his education through home schooling along with his four younger sisters. At the age of 14 he began to study classical piano that provided a creative freedom that he soon unveiled. After a near fatal house fire the freedom was gone and obscurity, fear, and discontentment occupied the void. At the age of 16 he began writing prose, lyrics and poetry that served as a refuge from the discomfort of his present state. Only writing from a hopeless vantage point, the unflinching love of God caused him to see that there is more to life than what the eyes take in. With the unwavering freedom God has provided, he is now writing to convey God's power to heal, deliver and to make free.
Author | : Alison Fairlie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Dr. Daniel Dor |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2015-07-17 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 019025663X |
The book suggests a new perspective on the essence of human language. This enormous achievement of our species is best characterized as a communication technology - not unlike the social media on the Net today - that was collectively invented by ancient humans for a very particular communicative function: the instruction of imagination. All other systems of communication in the biological world target the interlocutors' senses; language allows speakers to systematically instruct their interlocutors in the process of imagining the intended meaning - instead of directly experiencing it. This revolutionary function has changed human life forever, and in the book it operates as a unifying concept around which a new general theory of language gradually emerges. Dor identifies a set of fundamental problems in the linguistic sciences - the nature of words, the complexities of syntax, the interface between semantics and pragmatics, the causal relationship between language and thought, language processing, the dialectics of universality and variability, the intricacies of language and power, knowledge of language and its acquisition, the fragility of linguistic communication and the origins and evolution of language - and shows with respect to all of them how the theory provides fresh answers to the problems, resolves persistent difficulties in existing accounts, enhances the significance of empirical and theoretical achievements in the field, and identifies new directions for empirical research. The theory thus opens a new way towards the unification of the linguistic sciences, on both sides of the cognitive-social divide.