History As Text

Author : Karine Chemla
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781402023217

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History of Science, History of Text by Karine Chemla Pdf

two main (interacting) ways. They constitute that with which exploration into problems or questions is carried out. But they also constitute that which is exchanged between scholars or, in other terms, that which is shaped by one (or by some) for use by others. In these various dimensions, texts obviously depend on the means and technologies available for producing, reproducing, using and organizing writings. In this regard, the contribution of a history of text is essential in helping us approach the various historical contexts from which our sources originate. However, there is more to it. While shaping texts as texts, the practitioners of the sciences may create new textual resources that intimately relate to the research carried on. One may think, for instance, of the process of introduction of formulas in mathematical texts. This aspect opens up a wholerangeofextremelyinterestingquestionstowhichwewillreturnatalaterpoint.But practitioners of the sciences also rely on texts produced by themselves or others, which they bring into play in various ways. More generally, they make use of textual resources of every kind that is available to them, reshaping them, restricting, or enlarging them. Among these, one can think of ways of naming, syntax of statements or grammatical analysis, literary techniques, modes of shaping texts or parts of text, genres of text and so on.Inthissense,thepractitionersdependon,anddrawon,the“textualcultures”available to the social and professional groups to which they belong.

Author : Sarah Barber,Corinna Peniston-Bird
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135688714

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History Beyond the Text by Sarah Barber,Corinna Peniston-Bird Pdf

Historians are increasingly looking beyond the traditional, and turning to visual, oral, aural, and virtual sources to inform their work. The challenges these sources pose require new skills of interpretation and require historians to consider alternative theoretical and practical approaches. In order to help historians successfully move beyond traditional text, Sarah Barber and Corinna Peniston-Bird bring together chapters from historical specialists in the fields of fine art, photography, film, oral history, architecture, virtual sources, music, cartoons, landscape and material culture to explain why, when and how these less traditional sources can be used. Each chapter introduces the reader to the source, suggests the methodological and theoretical questions historians should keep in mind when using it, and provides case studies to illustrate best practice in analysis and interpretation. Pulling these disparate sources together, the introduction discusses the nature of historical sources and those factors which are unique to, and shared by, the sources covered throughout the book. Taking examples from around the globe, this collection of essays aims to inspire practitioners of history to expand their horizons, and incorporate a wide variety of primary sources in their work.

Author : Elizabeth A. Clark
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0674015843

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History, Theory, Text by Elizabeth A. Clark Pdf

A historian of early Christianity considers various theoretical critiques to examine the problems and opportunities posed by the ways in which history is written. Clark argues for a renewal of the study of premodern Western history through engagement with the critical methods that have transformed other humanities disciplines in recent decades.

Author : Manfred Görlach
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110197167

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Text Types and the History of English by Manfred Görlach Pdf

The history of modern European languages has been largely determined by the range of functions they have acquired, particularly after 1500. This development necessitated a notable expansion of their syntax and lexis, but is most characteristically reflected in the conventionalization of text types. Starting from the German concept of Textsorte as developed from the 1960s onwards, the present account is a first comprehensive attempt at charting the field for the history and present-day situation of the English language. In text types, a designation is linked with a more or less stable form which guides the writer’s production as well as the reader's expectation, permitting one to recognize straightforward uses as well as deliberate misuses. Some two thousand of such designations are here listed with minimal definitions and dates for first occurrences. The discussion then concentrates on selected types, which are seen as especially illustrative for English: book dedications, cooking recipes, advertisements, church hymns, lexical entries, and jokes. Their functions and development over time are treated in correlation with their specific linguistic characteristics and adaptations to different period styles and social changes in the readership. The functional range of text types in traditions outside England and the consequences of the export of English categories are exemplified by the history of Scots/Scottish English and of English in India. The arguments are accompanied by a lavish supply of textual excerpts and more than fifty pages of facsimiles, which are especially relevant for insights derived from typographical features. A full bibliography and indices are provided at the end. The book will prove useful for decisions on the constitution of representative text corpora and stimulate research into a greater number of individual text types as well as contrastive analyses at least among European languages.

Author : Reinhold Seeberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 916 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1905
Category : Theology, Doctrinal
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025682670

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Text-book of the History of Doctrines by Reinhold Seeberg Pdf

Author : Karine Chemla
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 1402023200

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History of Science, History of Text by Karine Chemla Pdf

This book explores the hypothesis that the types of inscription or text used by a given community of practitioners are designed in the very same process as the one producing concepts and results. The book sets out to show how, in exactly the same way as for the other outcomes of scientific activity, all kinds of factors, cognitive as well as cultural, technological, social or institutional, conjoin in shaping the various types of writings and texts used by the practitioners of the sciences. To make this point, the book opts for a genuinely multicultural approach to the texts produced in the context of practices of knowledge. It is predicated on the conviction that, in order to approach any topic in the history of science from a theoretical point of view, it may be fruitful to consider it from a global perspective. The book hence does not only gather papers dealing with geometrical papyri of antiquity, sixteenth century French books in algebra, seventeenth century scientific manuscripts and paintings, eighteenth and nineteenth century memoirs published by European academies or scientific journals, and Western Opera Omnia. It also considers the problems of interpretation relating to reading Babylonian clay tablets, Sanskrit oral scriptures and Chinese books and illustrations. Thus it enables the reader to explore the diversity of forms which texts have taken in history and the wide range of uses they have inspired. This volume will be of interest to historians, philosophers of science, linguists and anthropologists

Author : Elaine Treharne,Claude Willan
Publisher : Stanford Text Technologies
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1503600483

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Text Technologies by Elaine Treharne,Claude Willan Pdf

This coursebook examines the material history of human communication, allowing students and teachers to examine how communication's production, form, materiality, and reception are crucial to our interpretations of culture, history, and society.

Author : Charles A. Perfetti,M. Anne Britt,Mara C. Georgi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136484988

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Text-based Learning and Reasoning by Charles A. Perfetti,M. Anne Britt,Mara C. Georgi Pdf

History is both an academic discipline and a school subject. As a discipline, it fosters a systematic way of discovering and evaluating the events of the past. As a school subject, American history is a staple of middle grades and high school curricula in the United States. In higher education, it is part of the liberal arts education tradition. Its role in school learning provides a context for our approach to history as a topic of learning. In reading history, students engage in cognitive processes of learning, text processing, and reasoning. This volume touches on each of these cognitive problems -- centered on an in-depth study of college students' text learning and extended to broader issues of text understanding, the cognitive structures that enable learning of history, and reasoning about historical problems. Slated to occupy a distinctive place in the literature on human cognition, this volume combines at least three key features in a unique examination of the course of learning and reasoning in one academic domain -- history. The authors draw theory and analysis of text understanding from cognitive science; and focus on multiple "natural" texts of extended length rather than laboratory texts as well as multiple and extended realistic learning situations. The research demonstrates that history stories can be described by causal-temporal event models and that these models capture the learning achieved by students. This text establishes that history learning includes learning a story, but does not assume that story learning is all there is in history. It shows a growth in students' reasoning about the story and a linkage -- developed over time and with study -- between learning and reasoning. It then illustrates that students can be exceedingly malleable in their opinions about controversial questions -- and generally quite influenced by the texts they read. And it presents patterns of learning and reasoning within and between individuals as well as within the group of students as a whole. By examining students' ability to use historical documents, this volume goes beyond story learning into the problem of document-based reasoning. The authors show not just that history is a story from the learner's point of view, but also that students can develop a certain expertise in the use of documents in reasoning.

Author : Paul Monroe
Publisher : Alpha Edition
Page : 806 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9353702259

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A Text-book in the History of Education by Paul Monroe Pdf

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

Author : Ronald J. Zboray,Mary Saracino Zboray
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 1572334711

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Everyday Ideas by Ronald J. Zboray,Mary Saracino Zboray Pdf

Everyday Ideas: Socioliterary Experience among Antebellum New Englanders takes an unprecedented look at the use of literature in everyday life in one of history's most literate societies-the home ground of the American Renaissance. Using information pulled from four thousand manuscript letters and diaries, Everyday Ideas provides a comprehensive picture of how the social and literary dimensions of human existence related in antebellum New England. Penned by ordinary people-factory workers, farmers, clerks, storekeepers, domestics, and teachers and other professionals-the writings examined here brim with thoughtful references to published texts, lectures, and speeches by the period's canonized authors and lesser lights. These personal accounts also give an insider's perspective on issues ranging from economic problems, to social status conflicts, to being separated from loved ones by region, state, or nation. Everyday Ideas examines such references and accounts and interprets the multiple ways literature figured into the lives of these New Englanders. An important aid in understanding historical readers and social authorship practices, Everyday Ideas is a unique resource on New England and provides a framework for understanding the profound role of ideas in the everyday world of the antebellum period.

Author : Philip S. Peek
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781800642577

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Ancient Greek I by Philip S. Peek Pdf

In this elementary textbook, Philip S. Peek draws on his twenty-five years of teaching experience to present the ancient Greek language in an imaginative and accessible way that promotes creativity, deep learning, and diversity. The course is built on three pillars: memory, analysis, and logic. Readers memorize the top 250 most frequently occurring ancient Greek words, the essential word endings, the eight parts of speech, and the grammatical concepts they will most frequently encounter when reading authentic ancient texts. Analysis and logic exercises enable the translation and parsing of genuine ancient Greek sentences, with compelling reading selections in English and in Greek offering starting points for contemplation, debate, and reflection. A series of embedded Learning Tips help teachers and students to think in practical and imaginative ways about how they learn. This combination of memory-based learning and concept- and skill-based learning gradually builds the confidence of the reader, teaching them how to learn by guiding them from a familiarity with the basics to proficiency in reading this beautiful language. Ancient Greek I: A 21st-Century Approach is written for high-school and university students, but is an instructive and rewarding text for anyone who wishes to learn ancient Greek.

Author : Jens Bruun Kofoed
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9781575060941

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Text and History by Jens Bruun Kofoed Pdf

Jens Bruun Kofoed addresses the methodological issues that must lie behind the use of the biblical text and its validation as a source for historical information. --from publisher desscription.

Author : P. Scott Corbett,Volker Janssen,John M. Lund
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1738998436

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U.S. History by P. Scott Corbett,Volker Janssen,John M. Lund Pdf

Printed in color. U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender.

Author : Maxine Hughes,Chris Hume
Publisher : Leckie & Leckie
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0007549342

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Cfe Higher History Course Notes by Maxine Hughes,Chris Hume Pdf

The Higher History Course Notes helps teachers and students map their route through the CfE programme, providing comprehensive and authoritative guidance for the course. Course Notes give a practical, supportive approach to help deliver the new curriculum and offer a blend of sound teaching and learning with assessment guidance. Progress and attainment for all * A complete course text with six of the most popular topics covered in depth (The Wars of Independence; Migration and Empire; The Making of Modern Britain; Germany; Russia and USA) * 'Activities' will get students thinking about what they have learned and help them to develop the skills needed for the assessment * 'Activities' are mapped and indexed by Outcome so you can see at a glance which criteria each activity fulfils Active learning * 'Make the link' features encourage broader thinking between and across subjects * 'Hints' give helpful tips to support learning and highlight important information * 'Historiography' will help students to analyse the importance of historical events Assessment and practice you can rely on * 'Exam style questions' for every section ensure that students will be fully prepared for the assessment * 'Summary' sections and 'Learning checklists' enable students to monitor progress regularly

Author : Alfred Dwight Foster Hamlin
Publisher : New York : [s.n.]
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Architecture
ISBN : HARVARD:FL321I

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A Text-book of the History of Architecture by Alfred Dwight Foster Hamlin Pdf