The Noblest Animate Motion

Author : Jeffrey Wollock
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1997-11-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789027275806

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The Noblest Animate Motion by Jeffrey Wollock Pdf

The body of theory on speech production and speech disorder developed prior to Descartes has been so neglected by historians that its very existence is practically unknown today. Yet it provides a framework for understanding the speech process which is not only comprehensive and coherent, but of great relevance to current debates on issues of language performance and applied linguistics. Current theoretical difficulties stem largely from initial errors of Descartes; whereas earlier theoretical formulations, while outlining a bio-mechanics of speech, retain the central role of the human agent. The discussions explicated in this book come mainly from the natural-philosophic and medical literature of Greco-Roman Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance and early 17th century. This uncharted territory is mapped by tracing its textual history and diffusion as well as explaining the theory on its own terms but in clear and comprehensible language. Interdisciplinary in perspective, the book encompasses topics of interest not only to the language sciences, but also to the biosciences, medicine, philosophy of human movement, psychology and behavioral sciences, neurosciences, speech pathology, experimental phonetics, speech and rhetoric, and the history of science in general.

Author : Jeffrey L. Wollock
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789027245717

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The Noblest Animate Motion by Jeffrey L. Wollock Pdf

The body of theory on speech production and speech disorder developed prior to Descartes has been so neglected by historians that its very existence is practically unknown today. Yet it provides a framework for understanding the speech process which is not only comprehensive and coherent, but of great relevance to current debates on issues of language performance and applied linguistics. Current theoretical difficulties stem largely from initial errors of Descartes; whereas earlier theoretical formulations, while outlining a bio-mechanics of speech, retain the central role of the human agent. The discussions explicated in this book come mainly from the natural-philosophic and medical literature of Greco-Roman Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance and early 17th century. This uncharted territory is mapped by tracing its textual history and diffusion as well as explaining the theory on its own terms but in clear and comprehensible language. Interdisciplinary in perspective, the book encompasses topics of interest not only to the language sciences, but also to the biosciences, medicine, philosophy of human movement, psychology and behavioral sciences, neurosciences, speech pathology, experimental phonetics, speech and rhetoric, and the history of science in general.

Author : Carla Mazzio
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780812293401

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The Inarticulate Renaissance by Carla Mazzio Pdf

The Inarticulate Renaissance explores the conceptual potential of the disabled utterance in the English literary Renaissance. What might it have meant, in the sixteenth-century "age of eloquence," to speak indistinctly; to mumble to oneself or to God; to speak unintelligibly to a lover, a teacher, a court of law; or to be utterly dumfounded in the face of new words, persons, situations, and things? This innovative book maps out a "Renaissance" otherwise eclipsed by cultural and literary-critical investments in a period defined by the impact of classical humanism, Reformation poetics, and the flourishing of vernacular languages and literatures. For Carla Mazzio, the specter of the inarticulate was part of a culture grappling with the often startlingly incoherent dimensions of language practices and ideologies in the humanities, religion, law, historiography, print, and vernacular speech. Through a historical analysis of forms of failed utterance, as they informed and were recast in sixteenth-century drama, her book foregrounds the inarticulate as a central subject of cultural history and dramatic innovation. Playwrights from Nicholas Udall to William Shakespeare, while exposing ideological fictions through which articulate and inarticulate became distinguished, also transformed apparent challenges to "articulate" communication into occasions for cultivating new forms of expression and audition.

Author : Oliver Goldsmith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1837
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023835561

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History of the earth and animated nature ... To which is subjoined an appendix ... By Captain Thomas Brown, etc by Oliver Goldsmith Pdf

Author : Cornelia Müller,Alan Cienki,Ellen Fricke,Silva Ladewig,David McNeill,Sedinha Tessendorf
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1148 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110261318

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Body - Language - Communication. Volume 1 by Cornelia Müller,Alan Cienki,Ellen Fricke,Silva Ladewig,David McNeill,Sedinha Tessendorf Pdf

Volume I of the handbook presents contemporary, multidisciplinary, historical, theoretical, and methodological aspects of how body movements relate to language. It documents how leading scholars from differenct disciplinary backgrounds conceptualize and analyze this complex relationship. Five chapters and a total of 72 articles, present current and past approaches, including multidisciplinary methods of analysis. The chapters cover: I. How the body relates to language and communication: Outlining the subject matter, II. Perspectives from different disciplines, III. Historical dimensions, IV. Contemporary approaches, V. Methods. Authors include: Michael Arbib, Janet Bavelas, Marino Bonaiuto, Paul Bouissac, Judee Burgoon, Martha Davis, Susan Duncan, Konrad Ehlich, Nick Enfield, Pierre Feyereisen, Raymond W. Gibbs, Susan Goldin-Meadow, Uri Hadar, Adam Kendon, Antja Kennedy, David McNeill, Lorenza Mondada, Fernando Poyatos, Klaus Scherer, Margret Selting, Jürgen Streeck, Sherman Wilcox, Jeffrey Wollock, Jordan Zlatev.

Author : Otto Zwartjes,Maria Cristina Salles Altman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027246004

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Lingüí?stica Misionera II by Otto Zwartjes,Maria Cristina Salles Altman Pdf

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Author : Sarah Nooter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107145511

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The Mortal Voice in the Tragedies of Aeschylus by Sarah Nooter Pdf

This book argues that the voice is a crucial link between bodies, thought, and mortal identity in the tragedies of Aeschylus. It first presents conceptions of the voice in Greek poetry and philosophy and then shows how Aeschylus' tragedies gain meaning from the rubric and performance of voice.

Author : Michael Rembis,Catherine J. Kudlick,Kim Nielsen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-19
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780190234966

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The Oxford Handbook of Disability History by Michael Rembis,Catherine J. Kudlick,Kim Nielsen Pdf

Disability history exists outside of the institutions, healers, and treatments it often brings to mind. It is a history where disabled people live not just as patients or cure-seekers, but rather as people living differently in the world--and it is also a history that helps define the fundamental concepts of identity, community, citizenship, and normality. The Oxford Handbook of Disability History is the first volume of its kind to represent this history and its global scale, from ancient Greece to British West Africa. The twenty-seven articles, written by thirty experts from across the field, capture the diversity and liveliness of this emerging scholarship. Whether discussing disability in modern Chinese cinema or on the American antebellum stage, this collection provides new and valuable insights into the rich and varied lives of disabled people across time and place.

Author : Shane Butler
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781935408918

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The Ancient Phonograph by Shane Butler Pdf

Long before the invention of the phonograph, the written word was unrivaled as a medium of the human voice. In The Ancient Phonograph, Shane Butler takes us back to an age, long before Edison, when writing itself was still relatively new. He meticulously reconstructs a series of Greek and Roman soundscapes ranging from Aristotle to Augustine. Here the real voices of tragic actors, ambitious orators, and singing emperors blend with the imagined voices of lovesick nymphs, tormented heroes, and angry gods. The resonant world we encounter in ancient sources is at first unfamiliar, populated by texts that speak and sing, often with no clear difference between the two. But Butler discovers a commonality that invites a deeper understanding of why voices mattered then, and why they have mattered since. With later examples that range from Petrarch to Puccini, Mozart to Jimi Hendrix, Butler offers an ambitious attempt to rethink the voice — as an anatomical presence, a conceptual category, and a source of pleasure and wonder. He carefully and critically assesses the strengths and limits of recent theoretical approaches to the voice by Adriana Cavarero and Mladen Dolar and makes a rich and provocative range of ancient material available for the first time to students and scholars in voice studies, sound studies, and media theory. The Ancient Phonograph will appeal not only to classicists but to anyone interested in the verbal arts — literature, oratory, song — and the nature of aesthetic experience.

Author : Lia Formigari
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1588115615

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A History of Language Philosophies by Lia Formigari Pdf

Theory and history combine in this book to form a coherent narrative of the debates on language and languages in the Western world, from ancient classic philosophy to the present, with a final glance at on-going discussions on language as a cognitive tool, on its bodily roots and philogenetic role.An introductory chapter reviews the epistemological areas that converge into, or contribute to, language philosophy, and discusses their methods, relations, and goals. In this context, the status of language philosophy is discussed in its relation to the sciences and the arts of language. Each chapter is followed by a list of suggested readings that refer the reader to the final bibliography."About the author" Lia Formigari, Professor Emeritus at University of Rome, La Sapienza. Her publications include: "Language and Experience in XVIIth-century British Philosophy." Amsterdam & Philadelphia: J. Benjamins, 1988; "Signs, Science and Politics. Philosophies of Language in Europe 1700 1830." Amsterdam & Philadelphia: J. Benjamins, 1993; "La semiotique empiriste face au kantisme." Liege: Mardaga, 1994.

Author : Eduardo Guimarães,Diana Luz Pessoa de Barros
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007-07-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789027292247

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History of Linguistics 2002 by Eduardo Guimarães,Diana Luz Pessoa de Barros Pdf

This volume brings together a selection of revised papers, originally presented at ICHoLS IX (São Paulo/Campinas). The papers in the first section deal with studies ranging from the Latin model in post-Renaissance grammars to new scientific propositions at the turn of the 19th century; the second part carries articles devoted to a variety of topics in 19th and 20th century linguistics; and in the third section are united papers based on plenary presentations, ranging from ancient Greek reflections upon language to developments in Brazilian linguistics beginning with the implantation of structuralist work by Joaquim Mattoso Câmara (1904–1970) in the 1960s. In the concluding contribution, a survey of advances in the history of the language sciences is offered.

Author : E. F. K. Koerner
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027209603

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Toward a Historiography of Linguistics by E. F. K. Koerner Pdf

The papers brought together in the present volume represent the essence of the author s reflections on issues concerning linguistic historiography and of particular investigations in 19th and 20th century linguistic thought. The papers are clustered in three sections: I. Towards a Historiography of Linguistics, II. Appraisals of Individual Scholars, and III. Trends and Traditions in Linguistics.

Author : Brian McGing,Judith Mossman
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781910589489

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The Limits of Ancient Biography by Brian McGing,Judith Mossman Pdf

The genre of biography in the ancient world is interestingly diverse and permeable and deserves intensive study, bearing as it does on ideas of characterization and the individual. This volume considers both the form and the content of biography across the ancient world, and is particularly interested in the frontiers with other related genres, such as history. The papers range from the Old Testament to the Arab world, from the New Testament to the Lives of Saints, from the classic Greek and Roman biographers to less well known practitioners of the art.

Author : E. F. K. Koerner
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027245946

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Essays in the History of Linguistics by E. F. K. Koerner Pdf

The present volume follows the author's tradition of bringing together at certain intervals selections of articles which more often than not had previously been published in not easily accessible places, or which had not been published before. These papers do not typically represent mere reprints but in most instances thoroughly revised versions.This volume contains twelve articles organized under three headings, "Programmatic Papers in the History of Linguistics," "Studies in Linguistic Historiography," and "Sketches historiographical and (auto)biographical," plus as an appendix a complete list of Zellig Harris' writings as an illustration of Koerner's penchant for and belief in the importance of good bibliographies as a basis for historical research. While the first two sections, which take up the bulk of the volume, either show the author as an historian engage or demonstrate his work as a historiographer of 19th and 20th century linguistics, the third section is much shorter and less heavy going. Indexes of Biographical Names and of Subjects, Terms & Languages round out the volume, which also contains a number of portraits of linguists and other illustrations.

Author : James Kilbury
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1976-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027209511

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The Development of Morphophonemic Theory by James Kilbury Pdf

The aim of this book is to provide a concise historical survey of linguistic investigation relating to the notion of morphophonemics. The study is essentially historical and thus does not offer its own theory of morphophonemics. Since attention is focused on the "development" of morphophonemic theory, contemporary work in this area is not of central concern. But the study was undertaken in the hope that a better understanding of earlier work would help to clarify present-day issues.