‘Public-House Confidence’: The Indispensability of Sound Patterns

2010 ◽  
pp. 133-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Barney
Keyword(s):  
Public House ◽  
Sound Patterns

The Shop-Girl Revolutionary in Henry James's The Princess Casamassima

2008 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Mullin
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Social Change ◽  
The Sun ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Local Color ◽  
Literary Naturalism ◽  
Public House ◽  
Revolutionary Politics ◽  
Critical Attention ◽  
Marginal Characters

Abstract This essay argues that the complex political resonances of Henry James's The Princess Casamassima (1886) can be further elucidated through closer critical attention to one of its more marginal characters, the shop-girl Millicent Henning. Ebullient, assertive, and, for many early reviewers, the novel's sole redeeming feature, Millicent supplies the novel with far more than local color. Instead, James seizes on a sexual persona already well established within literary naturalism and popular culture alike to explore a rival mode of insurrection to that more obviously offered elsewhere. While the modes of revolution contemplated by Hyacinth Robinson and his comrades in the Sun and Moon public house are revealed to be anachronistic and ineffectual, Millicent's canny manipulation of her sexuality supplies her with an alternative, effective, and unmistakably modern mode of transformation. The novel's portrait of ““revolutionary politics of a hole-and-corner sort”” is thus set against Millicent's brand of quotidian yet inexorable social change.

Stereotypical sound patterns in humpback whale songs: Usage and function

2003 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduardo Mercado ◽  
Louis M. Herman ◽  
Adam A. Pack
Keyword(s):  
Humpback Whale ◽  
Sound Patterns ◽  
And Function

Authority as ‘Resultant Voice’: Towards a Stylistic and Musical Anthropology of Effective Speech in Archaic Rome

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 175-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maurizio Bettini
Keyword(s):  
Archaic Period ◽  
Roman Culture ◽  
Poetic Expression ◽  
Sound Patterns ◽  
Exceptional Character

Abstract Analysis of a large number of texts from the archaic period of Roman culture shows that the authoritative character of a solemn utterance (a prophecy, the formula uttered by a praetor, a religious praefatio) was based principally on specific sound patterns. From these utterances’ use of parallelisms, phonic echoes and syllabic repetitions there emerged a sort of ‘resultant voice’, which made their exceptional character immediately apparent. From the perspective of their intended hearers, the sound-construction of these pronouncements had the capacity to arouse what the Romans called delectatio: that is, the disposition to believe in the truth and validity of what they were hearing. That the Romans included all these acoustic phenomena within a single perceptual domain is demonstrated by the fact that music, too, had the power to produce delectatio—and by the fact that the verb cano and its derivatives refer as much to musical as to poetic expression.

scholarly journals The Devil's Altar? Crime and the Early Modern Public House

2004 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. **-**
Author(s):  
Beat Kümin
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Public House

On the Authenticity of the “Moral Dialogues” Playbill

1979 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
David D. Mays
Keyword(s):  
Young Lady ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public House

On Monday, June 10, at the Public House of the above Inn, will be Delivered a Series of MORAL DIALOGUES, IN FIVE PARTS, depicting the evil effects of jealousy and other bad passions, and proving that happiness can only spring from the pursuit of virtue.MR. DOUGLAS will represent a noble and magnanimous Moor named Othello, who loves a young lady named Desdemona, and after he has married her, harbors (as in too many cases) the dreadful passion of jealousy.

Predictability and phonology: past, present and future

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (s2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Shaw ◽  
Shigeto Kawahara
Keyword(s):  
Human Language ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Theoretical Context ◽  
Sound Patterns

AbstractMany papers in this special issue grew out of the talks given at the Symposium “The role of predictability in shaping human language sound patterns,” held at Western Sydney University (Dec. 10–11, 2016). Some papers were submitted in response to an open call; others were invited contributions. This introduction aims to contextualize the papers in the special issue within a broader theoretical context, focusing on what it means for phonological theory to incorporate gradient predictability, what questions arise as a consequence, and how the papers in this issue address these questions.

What Makes Sound Patterns Expressive?

1992 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reuven Tsur
Keyword(s):  
Sound Patterns

Truncation in message-oriented phonology: a case study using Korean vocative truncation

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (s2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shigeto Kawahara ◽  
Seunghun J. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Optimality Theory ◽  
Effective Communication ◽  
European Language ◽  
Sound Patterns ◽  
Faithfulness Constraint

AbstractThis paper analyzes the vocative truncation pattern in Korean from the viewpoint of Message-Oriented Phonology (MOP), which capitalizes on the idea that sound patterns are governed by a principle that makes message transfer effective. In the traditional naming pattern, Korean first names consist of a generation marker and a unique portion, and the order between these two elements alternates between generations. To derive vocative forms, the generation marker is truncated, and the suffixal [(j)a] is attached to the unique portion. We argue that MOP naturally predicts this type of truncation. As the generation marker is shared by all the members of the same generation, the generation marker is highly predictable and hence does not reduce uncertainty about the intended message. To achieve effective communication, predictable portions are deleted. Our analysis implies that MOP is relevant not only to phonetic implementation patterns, but also to morphophonological patterns. It also provides support for MOP based on data from a non-Indo-European language. Finally, we aim to integrate insights of MOP with a more formal proposal like Optimality Theory, by relating the predictability of a contrast to the ranking of the faithfulness constraint that it protects, following the spirit of the P-map hypothesis.

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