Author: Christina Baillie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781897141984
Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Sister Language is a collaboration, a back-and-forth, composed mainly of letters and other writings, between two sisters, one of whom, Christina, is schizophrenic. She can barely function in the "real" world, partly because, though brilliant, she has an intense, all but all-consuming relationship with language that is English, but mostly an exploded English of her own. For her, oral communication using everyday English with almost anyone other than her sister, is terribly difficult. On the other hand, and a Real Big Other Hand it is, when she comes by a format that disciplines her linguistic rapids just a little, she shows herself to be a virtuoso of written English. The "difficult" writers she exults in reading, and in whose writing family she belongs, are what she calls the "triumvirate" of Samuel Beckett, Gertrude Stein, and James Joyce, he of Finnegans Wake especially. Writing that is a stretch for the normal English-speaking reader comes naturally to Christina Baillie, whether as reader or writer, because, like it or not, she is in that linguistic theatre. It's actually like it and not. Like the triumvirate, she has found ways to produce experimental writing; unlike them, she has only with the utmost difficulty been able to communicate with most other people. Martha's version of all this: "the less medication [Christina] takes, she tells me, the more insistently words decompose. 'Appear' becomes 'app' and 'ear'; seconds later, 'ap' and 'pear' send her thoughts in search of a still life. When every word she hears, or reads, shatters upon contact--her mind a windshield, every word a mess of feather and bone, spray of blood--imposing order exhausts her. 'To shut this down takes enormous energy, which can push me to the edge of passing out.'" So the idea, in setting up the conversation between sisters who can communicate with each other, was to provide a format in which the sister trapped in her own language might find a way to address the larger world. "Bridge" becomes one of the operative words: first between sisters, then between their collaborative text and other readers."--
Sister Language
Author: Christina Baillie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781897141984
Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Sister Language is a collaboration, a back-and-forth, composed mainly of letters and other writings, between two sisters, one of whom, Christina, is schizophrenic. She can barely function in the "real" world, partly because, though brilliant, she has an intense, all but all-consuming relationship with language that is English, but mostly an exploded English of her own. For her, oral communication using everyday English with almost anyone other than her sister, is terribly difficult. On the other hand, and a Real Big Other Hand it is, when she comes by a format that disciplines her linguistic rapids just a little, she shows herself to be a virtuoso of written English. The "difficult" writers she exults in reading, and in whose writing family she belongs, are what she calls the "triumvirate" of Samuel Beckett, Gertrude Stein, and James Joyce, he of Finnegans Wake especially. Writing that is a stretch for the normal English-speaking reader comes naturally to Christina Baillie, whether as reader or writer, because, like it or not, she is in that linguistic theatre. It's actually like it and not. Like the triumvirate, she has found ways to produce experimental writing; unlike them, she has only with the utmost difficulty been able to communicate with most other people. Martha's version of all this: "the less medication [Christina] takes, she tells me, the more insistently words decompose. 'Appear' becomes 'app' and 'ear'; seconds later, 'ap' and 'pear' send her thoughts in search of a still life. When every word she hears, or reads, shatters upon contact--her mind a windshield, every word a mess of feather and bone, spray of blood--imposing order exhausts her. 'To shut this down takes enormous energy, which can push me to the edge of passing out.'" So the idea, in setting up the conversation between sisters who can communicate with each other, was to provide a format in which the sister trapped in her own language might find a way to address the larger world. "Bridge" becomes one of the operative words: first between sisters, then between their collaborative text and other readers."--
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781897141984
Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Sister Language is a collaboration, a back-and-forth, composed mainly of letters and other writings, between two sisters, one of whom, Christina, is schizophrenic. She can barely function in the "real" world, partly because, though brilliant, she has an intense, all but all-consuming relationship with language that is English, but mostly an exploded English of her own. For her, oral communication using everyday English with almost anyone other than her sister, is terribly difficult. On the other hand, and a Real Big Other Hand it is, when she comes by a format that disciplines her linguistic rapids just a little, she shows herself to be a virtuoso of written English. The "difficult" writers she exults in reading, and in whose writing family she belongs, are what she calls the "triumvirate" of Samuel Beckett, Gertrude Stein, and James Joyce, he of Finnegans Wake especially. Writing that is a stretch for the normal English-speaking reader comes naturally to Christina Baillie, whether as reader or writer, because, like it or not, she is in that linguistic theatre. It's actually like it and not. Like the triumvirate, she has found ways to produce experimental writing; unlike them, she has only with the utmost difficulty been able to communicate with most other people. Martha's version of all this: "the less medication [Christina] takes, she tells me, the more insistently words decompose. 'Appear' becomes 'app' and 'ear'; seconds later, 'ap' and 'pear' send her thoughts in search of a still life. When every word she hears, or reads, shatters upon contact--her mind a windshield, every word a mess of feather and bone, spray of blood--imposing order exhausts her. 'To shut this down takes enormous energy, which can push me to the edge of passing out.'" So the idea, in setting up the conversation between sisters who can communicate with each other, was to provide a format in which the sister trapped in her own language might find a way to address the larger world. "Bridge" becomes one of the operative words: first between sisters, then between their collaborative text and other readers."--
The Languages of Scandinavia
Author: Ruth H. Sanders
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022675975X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Introduction: Dead man talking -- Prologue to history -- Gemini, the twins: Faroese and Icelandic -- East is East: heralding the birth of Danish and Swedish -- The ties that bind: Finnish is visited by Swedish -- The black death comes for Norwegian: Danish makes a house call -- Faroese emerges -- Sámi, language of the far North: encounters with Norwegian, Swedish, and Finnish -- Epilogue: the seven sisters now and in the future.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022675975X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Introduction: Dead man talking -- Prologue to history -- Gemini, the twins: Faroese and Icelandic -- East is East: heralding the birth of Danish and Swedish -- The ties that bind: Finnish is visited by Swedish -- The black death comes for Norwegian: Danish makes a house call -- Faroese emerges -- Sámi, language of the far North: encounters with Norwegian, Swedish, and Finnish -- Epilogue: the seven sisters now and in the future.
Shakespeare's Use of the Arts of Language
Author: Sister Miriam Joseph
Publisher: Paul Dry Books
ISBN: 158988048X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
Grammar-school students in Shakespeare's time were taught to recognise the two hundred figures of speech that Renaissance scholars had derived from Latin and Greek sources (from amphibologia through onomatopoeia to zeugma). This knowledge was one element in their thorough grounding in the liberal arts of logic, grammar, and rhetoric, known as the trivium. In Shakespeare's Use of the Arts of Language Sister Miriam Joseph writes: "The extraordinary power, vitality, and richness of Shakespeare's language are due in part to his genius, in part to the fact that the unsettled linguistic forms of his age promoted to an unusual degree the spirit of creativeness, and in part to the theory of composition then prevailing . . . The purpose of this study is to present to the modern reader the general theory of composition current in Shakespeare's England." The author then lays out those figures of speech in simple, understandable patterns and explains each one with examples from Shakespeare. Her analysis of his plays and poems illustrates that the Bard knew more about rhetoric than perhaps anyone else. Originally published in 1947, this book is a classic.
Publisher: Paul Dry Books
ISBN: 158988048X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
Grammar-school students in Shakespeare's time were taught to recognise the two hundred figures of speech that Renaissance scholars had derived from Latin and Greek sources (from amphibologia through onomatopoeia to zeugma). This knowledge was one element in their thorough grounding in the liberal arts of logic, grammar, and rhetoric, known as the trivium. In Shakespeare's Use of the Arts of Language Sister Miriam Joseph writes: "The extraordinary power, vitality, and richness of Shakespeare's language are due in part to his genius, in part to the fact that the unsettled linguistic forms of his age promoted to an unusual degree the spirit of creativeness, and in part to the theory of composition then prevailing . . . The purpose of this study is to present to the modern reader the general theory of composition current in Shakespeare's England." The author then lays out those figures of speech in simple, understandable patterns and explains each one with examples from Shakespeare. Her analysis of his plays and poems illustrates that the Bard knew more about rhetoric than perhaps anyone else. Originally published in 1947, this book is a classic.
It's Great to Have a Sister Like You
Author:
Publisher: Blue Mountain Arts
ISBN: 9780883964811
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Created by the bestselling poet and artist team of Susan Polis Schutz and Stephen Schutz, this distinctive series of hardcover books has a perfect title for every customer. Each book showcases a collection of verse and quotations by the world's most celebrated authors, poets, artists, scientists, philosophers, and political figures, both contemporary and classical. All new and bestselling titles are updated with elegant paper elements, including a handmade tissue spine covering and colorful accents among the petals and leaves in the handcrafted paper. A Gift Any Sister Will Love
Publisher: Blue Mountain Arts
ISBN: 9780883964811
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Created by the bestselling poet and artist team of Susan Polis Schutz and Stephen Schutz, this distinctive series of hardcover books has a perfect title for every customer. Each book showcases a collection of verse and quotations by the world's most celebrated authors, poets, artists, scientists, philosophers, and political figures, both contemporary and classical. All new and bestselling titles are updated with elegant paper elements, including a handmade tissue spine covering and colorful accents among the petals and leaves in the handcrafted paper. A Gift Any Sister Will Love
Sister Or Wife?
Author: J. Dorcas Gordon
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1850756856
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
This work investigates the social dynamics within the Corinthian community and the function of Paul's argumentation in the light of those dynamics. The models of Victor Turner and Mary Douglas, cultural anthropologists, guide the inquiry. Gordon concludes that the conflict in 1 Corinthians 7 arose as the result of two antithetical views of the root metaphor, 'In Christ all are children of God, no male and female'. One group supported a kinship system based on patrilineal marriage and hierarchical community structures. A second group demanded that an egalitarian sibling relationship should order the community. Paul attempts to persuade both factions that their commitment to each other and to him is primary. His arguments encourage each group to reconsider the absoluteness of its stance and to learn to live with ambiguity.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1850756856
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
This work investigates the social dynamics within the Corinthian community and the function of Paul's argumentation in the light of those dynamics. The models of Victor Turner and Mary Douglas, cultural anthropologists, guide the inquiry. Gordon concludes that the conflict in 1 Corinthians 7 arose as the result of two antithetical views of the root metaphor, 'In Christ all are children of God, no male and female'. One group supported a kinship system based on patrilineal marriage and hierarchical community structures. A second group demanded that an egalitarian sibling relationship should order the community. Paul attempts to persuade both factions that their commitment to each other and to him is primary. His arguments encourage each group to reconsider the absoluteness of its stance and to learn to live with ambiguity.
An Introduction to Language and Linguistics
Author: Ralph W. Fasold
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 131606185X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 857
Book Description
A clear and up-to-date introduction to linguistics. This best-selling textbook addresses the full scope of language, from the traditional subjects of structural linguistics (relating to sound, form, meaning and language change) to the more specialised subjects of contextual linguistics (including discourse, dialect variation, language and culture, and the politics of language). There are also separate chapters on language and the brain, computational linguistics, writing, and first and second language learning. Extensively classroom-tested, this second edition has been revised to further support student learning, with numerous new examples, exercises and textboxes to model and contextualise key concepts. Updated throughout to incorporate contemporary issues and events, it includes worked examples of phonological analyses and multiple examples of a variety of World Englishes. A rich collection of online resources completes the learning package.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 131606185X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 857
Book Description
A clear and up-to-date introduction to linguistics. This best-selling textbook addresses the full scope of language, from the traditional subjects of structural linguistics (relating to sound, form, meaning and language change) to the more specialised subjects of contextual linguistics (including discourse, dialect variation, language and culture, and the politics of language). There are also separate chapters on language and the brain, computational linguistics, writing, and first and second language learning. Extensively classroom-tested, this second edition has been revised to further support student learning, with numerous new examples, exercises and textboxes to model and contextualise key concepts. Updated throughout to incorporate contemporary issues and events, it includes worked examples of phonological analyses and multiple examples of a variety of World Englishes. A rich collection of online resources completes the learning package.
Dictionary of the English and German and German and English Languages
Author: Newton Ivory Lucas
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 2432
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 2432
Book Description
By Women, for Women, about Women
Author: Gertrud Jaron Lewis
Publisher: PIMS
ISBN: 9780888441256
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Publisher: PIMS
ISBN: 9780888441256
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Thank You Sister
Author:
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1582292744
Category : Gift books
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
The bond shared between sisters is like no other relationship on earth. When you hurt, she feels your pain. When you're happy, she shares your joy. When you're frightened, she understands. A sister knows the good and the not-so-good of you -- and loves you still. She shares your history and your dreams. She keeps your secrets and tells you hers. For all of this and so much more, this little book says thank you for who you are and what we've shared. Through stories, poems, quotes, prayers, and scriptures, this carefully crafted book says, Thank you, sister; I'm so glad you're mine.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1582292744
Category : Gift books
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
The bond shared between sisters is like no other relationship on earth. When you hurt, she feels your pain. When you're happy, she shares your joy. When you're frightened, she understands. A sister knows the good and the not-so-good of you -- and loves you still. She shares your history and your dreams. She keeps your secrets and tells you hers. For all of this and so much more, this little book says thank you for who you are and what we've shared. Through stories, poems, quotes, prayers, and scriptures, this carefully crafted book says, Thank you, sister; I'm so glad you're mine.
History of Language
Author: Steven Roger Fischer
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1861895941
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
It is tempting to take the tremendous rate of contemporary linguistic change for granted. What is required, in fact, is a radical reinterpretation of what language is. Steven Roger Fischer begins his book with an examination of the modes of communication used by dolphins, birds and primates as the first contexts in which the concept of "language" might be applied. As he charts the history of language from the times of Homo erectus, Neanderthal humans and Homo sapiens through to the nineteenth century, when the science of linguistics was developed, Fischer analyses the emergence of language as a science and its development as a written form. He considers the rise of pidgin, creole, jargon and slang, as well as the effects radio and television, propaganda, advertising and the media are having on language today. Looking to the future, he shows how electronic media will continue to reshape and re-invent the ways in which we communicate. "[a] delightful and unexpectedly accessible book ... a virtuoso tour of the linguistic world."—The Economist "... few who read this remarkable study will regard language in quite the same way again."—The Good Book Guide
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1861895941
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
It is tempting to take the tremendous rate of contemporary linguistic change for granted. What is required, in fact, is a radical reinterpretation of what language is. Steven Roger Fischer begins his book with an examination of the modes of communication used by dolphins, birds and primates as the first contexts in which the concept of "language" might be applied. As he charts the history of language from the times of Homo erectus, Neanderthal humans and Homo sapiens through to the nineteenth century, when the science of linguistics was developed, Fischer analyses the emergence of language as a science and its development as a written form. He considers the rise of pidgin, creole, jargon and slang, as well as the effects radio and television, propaganda, advertising and the media are having on language today. Looking to the future, he shows how electronic media will continue to reshape and re-invent the ways in which we communicate. "[a] delightful and unexpectedly accessible book ... a virtuoso tour of the linguistic world."—The Economist "... few who read this remarkable study will regard language in quite the same way again."—The Good Book Guide