A Revolution In Language

Author : Sophia A. Rosenfeld,Sophia Rosenfeld
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003-08-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0804749310

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A Revolution in Language by Sophia A. Rosenfeld,Sophia Rosenfeld Pdf

What is the relationship between the ideas of the Enlightenment and the culture and ideology of the French Revolution? This book takes up that classic question by concentrating on changing conceptions of language and, especially, signs during the second half of the eighteenth century. The author traces, first, the emergence of a new interest in the possibility of gestural communication within the philosophy, theater, and pedagogy of the last decades of the Old Regime. She then explores the varied uses and significance of a variety of semiotic experiments, including the development of a sign language for the deaf, within the language politics of the Revolution. A Revolution in Language shows not only that many key revolutionary thinkers were unusually preoccupied by questions of language, but also that prevailing assumptions about words and other signs profoundly shaped revolutionaries' efforts to imagine and to institute an ideal polity between 1789 and the start of the new century. This book reveals the links between Enlightenment epistemology and the development of modern French political culture.

Author : David Crystal
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780745637976

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The Language Revolution by David Crystal Pdf

We are living through the consequences of a linguistic revolution. Dramatic linguistic change has left us at the beginning of a new era in the evolution of human language, with repercussions for many individual languages. In this book, David Crystal, one of the world’s authorities on language, brings together for the first time the three major trends which he argues have fundamentally altered the world’s linguistic ecology: first, the emergence of English as the world’s first truly global language; second, the crisis facing huge numbers of languages which are currently endangered or dying; and, third, the radical effect on language of the arrival of Internet technology. Examining the interrelationships between these topics, Crystal encounters a vision of a linguistic future which is radically different from what has existed in the past, and which will make us revise many cherished concepts relating to the way we think about and work with languages. Everyone is affected by this linguistic revolution. The Language Revolution will be essential reading for anyone interested in language and communication in the twenty-first century.

Author : Julia Kristeva
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780231561402

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Revolution in Poetic Language by Julia Kristeva Pdf

In Revolution in Poetic Language, Julia Kristeva explicates her foundational distinction between the semiotic and the symbolic and explores their interrelationships. Linking the psychosomatic to the literary and the literary to a larger political horizon, she questions the premises of linguistic, psychoanalytic, philosophical, and literary theories.

Author : Igal Halfin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135774646

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Language and Revolution by Igal Halfin Pdf

This work examines the role of language in forging the modern subject. Focusing on the idea of the "New Man" that has animated all revolutionaries, the present volume asks what it meant to define oneself in terms of one's class origins, gender, national belonging or racial origins.

Author : Benjamin Harshav
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520912960

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Language in Time of Revolution by Benjamin Harshav Pdf

This book deals with two remarkable events--the worldwide transformations of the Jews in the modern age and the revival of the ancient Hebrew language. It is a book about social and cultural history addressed not only to the professional historian, and a book about Jews addressed not only to Jewish readers. It tries to rethink a wide field of cultural phenomena and present the main ideas to the intelligent reader, or, better, present a "family picture" of related and contiguous ideas. Many names and details are mentioned, which may not all be familiar to the uninitiated; their function is to provide some concrete texture for this dramatic story, but the focus is on the story itself.

Author : David Crystal
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780745673141

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The Language Revolution by David Crystal Pdf

We are living through the consequences of a linguistic revolution. Dramatic linguistic change has left us at the beginning of a new era in the evolution of human language, with repercussions for many individual languages. In this book, David Crystal, one of the world’s authorities on language, brings together for the first time the three major trends which he argues have fundamentally altered the world’s linguistic ecology: first, the emergence of English as the world’s first truly global language; second, the crisis facing huge numbers of languages which are currently endangered or dying; and, third, the radical effect on language of the arrival of Internet technology. Examining the interrelationships between these topics, Crystal encounters a vision of a linguistic future which is radically different from what has existed in the past, and which will make us revise many cherished concepts relating to the way we think about and work with languages. Everyone is affected by this linguistic revolution. The Language Revolution will be essential reading for anyone interested in language and communication in the twenty-first century.

Author : William Hamilton Sewell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1980-10-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521299519

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Work and Revolution in France by William Hamilton Sewell Pdf

Sewell synthesizes the material on the social history of the French labor movement from its formative period to the first half of the 19th century. Centers on the Revolutions of 1789, 1830 and 1848.

Author : Fabrice Jaumont
Publisher : TBR Books
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781947626003

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The Bilingual Revolution by Fabrice Jaumont Pdf

The Bilingual Revolution is a collection of inspirational vignettes and practical advice that tells the story of the parents and educators who founded dual language programs in New York City public schools. The book doubles as a "how to" manual for setting up your own bilingual school and, in so doing, launching your own revolution.

Author : Julia Douthwaite Viglione,Antoinette Sol,Catriona Seth
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781603294010

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Teaching Representations of the French Revolution by Julia Douthwaite Viglione,Antoinette Sol,Catriona Seth Pdf

In many ways the French Revolution--a series of revolutions, in fact, whose end has arguably not yet arrived--is modernity in action. Beginning in reform, it blossomed into wholesale attempts to remake society, uprooting the clergy and aristocracy, valorizing mass movements, and setting secular ideologies, including nationalism, in motion. Unusually manifold and complicated, the revolution affords many teaching opportunities and challenges. This volume helps instructors seeking to connect developments today--terrorism, propaganda, extremism--with the events that began in 1789, contextualizing for students a world that seems always unmoored and in crisis. The volume supports the teaching of the revolution's ongoing project across geographic areas (from Haiti, Latin America, and New Orleans to Spain, Germany, and Greece), governing ideologies (human rights, secularism, liberty), and literatures (from well-known to newly rediscovered texts). Interdisciplinary, intercultural, and insurgent, the volume has an energy that reflects its subject.

Author : Jane Hodson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351923415

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Language and Revolution in Burke, Wollstonecraft, Paine, and Godwin by Jane Hodson Pdf

The Revolution in France of 1789 provoked a major 'pamphlet war' in Britain as writers debated what exactly had happened, why it had happened, and where events were now headed. Jane Hodson's book explores the relationship between political persuasion, literary style, and linguistic theory in this war of words, focusing on four key texts: Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Men, Thomas Paine's Rights of Man, and William Godwin's Enquiry Concerning Political Justice. While these texts form the core of Hodson's project, she ranges far beyond them to survey other works by the same authors; more than 50 contemporaneous books on language; and pamphlets, novels, and letters by other writers. The scope of her study permits her to challenge earlier accounts of the relationship between language and politics that lack historical nuance. Rather than seeing the Revolution debate as a straightforward conflict between radical and conservative linguistic practices, Hodson argues that there is no direct correlation between a particular style or linguistic concept and the political affiliation of the writer. Instead, she shows how each writer attempts to mobilize contemporary linguistic ideas to lend their texts greater authority. Her book will appeal to literature scholars and to historians of language and linguistics working in the Enlightenment and Romantic eras.

Author : Orlando Figes,B. I. Kolonit͡skiĭ
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0300081065

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Interpreting the Russian Revolution by Orlando Figes,B. I. Kolonit͡skiĭ Pdf

The authors examine the diverse ways that language and other symbols--including flags and emblems, public rituals, songs, and codes of dress--were used to identify competing sides and to create new meanings in Russia's political struggles of 1917. 32 illustrations.

Author : Douglas Schuler
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 619 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262693660

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Liberating Voices by Douglas Schuler Pdf

Inspired by the vision and framework outlined in Christopher Alexander's classic 1977 book, A Pattern Language, Schuler presents a pattern language containing 136 patterns designed to meet these challenges. Using this approach, Schuler proposes a new model of social change that integrates theory and practice by showing how information and communication (whether face-to-face, broadcast, or Internet-based) can be used to address urgent social and environmental problems collaboratively. Each of the patterns that form the pattern language (which was developed collaboratively with nearly 100 contributors) is presented consistently; each describes a problem and its context, a discussion, and a solution. The pattern language begins with the most general patterns ("Theory") and proceeds to the most specific ("Tactics"). Each pattern is a template for research as well as action and is linked to other patterns, thus forming a single coherent whole.

Author : Steven Blakemore
Publisher : Brown Publishing Company
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015014202793

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Burke and the Fall of Language by Steven Blakemore Pdf

Author : Lonny Harrison
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498597999

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Language and Metaphors of the Russian Revolution by Lonny Harrison Pdf

Language and Metaphors of the Russian Revolution: Sow the Wind, Reap the Storm is a panoramic history of the Russian intelligentsia and an analysis of the language and ideals of the Russian Revolution, from its inception over the long nineteenth century through fruition in early Soviet society. This volume examines metaphors for revolution in the storm, flood, and harvest imagery ubiquitous in Russian literary works. At the same time, it considers the struggle to own the narrative of modernity, including Bolshevik weaponization of language and cultural policy that supported the use of terror and social purging. This uniquely cross-disciplinary study conducts a close reading of texts that use storm, flood, and agricultural metaphors in diverse ways to represent revolution, whether in anticipation and celebration of its ideals or in resistance to the same. A spotlight is given to the lives and works of authors who responded to Soviet authoritarianism by reclaiming the narrative of revolution in the name of personal freedom and restoration of humanist values. Hinging on the clashes of culture wars and class wars and residing at the intersection of ideas at the very core of the fight for modernity, this book provides a critical reading of authoritarian discourse and investigates rare examples of the counter narratives that thrived in spite of their suppression.

Author : Kenneth Hudson
Publisher : Humanities Press International
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UOM:39015001741035

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The Language of the Teenage Revolution by Kenneth Hudson Pdf