Archilochus and Lycambes

1986 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Carey
Keyword(s):  
Present Note ◽  
Old Comedy ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
The Voice

A persistent ancient tradition has it that a man named Lycambes promised his daughter Neoboule in marriage to the poet Archilochus of Paros, that he subsequently refused Archilochus, and that the poet attacked Lycambes and his daughters with such ferocity that they all committed suicide. When we reflect that the iambographer Hipponax drove his enemies Bupalus and Athenis and Old Comedy a man named Poliager to suicide, that the ancestress of iambos, Iambe, killed herself, and that all these suicides, like those of Lycambes and his daughters, took the form of hanging, we will not take too seriously the ending of the story of Archilochus' relations with Lycambes and his family.However, it seems now to be generally accepted, at least among English-speaking scholars, that the whole Lycambes tradition is to be rejected. The present note seeks to demonstrate that this extreme scepticism is misguided. I shall begin with a survey of Archilochus' references to Lycambes and his family to ascertain how far the indirect tradition is consistent with the surviving fragments.Lycambes appears to have played a consistent role in Archilochus, as far as the fragments allow us to see. In fr. 38 he appears as the father of two daughters (οἴην Λυκάμβεω παῖδα τ⋯ν ύπερτέρην), in fr. 33 (where the voice of ‘the daughter of Lycambes’ is mentioned) as the father of at least one daughter. In fr. 71 his role cannot be determined. But in fr. 54, if his name is correctly restored in v. 8, he may again figure as the father of a daughter, for a female is mentioned in the fragment, whether for good or ill. If his patronymic is correctly supplied in fr. 57.7, it may be significant that the letters πατρ occur in the same verse.

Construing negotiation

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-162
Author(s):  
Jenny Yau-ni Wan
Keyword(s):  
Customer Service ◽  
American English ◽  
Voice Quality ◽  
Call Centre ◽  
Prosodic Features ◽  
Quality Framework ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Customer Service Representative ◽  
Service Representative

Abstract The call centre conversation is a telephonic exchange of voices between the customer and the customer service representative (CSR). Both lexicogrammatical and prosodic features are used to construe emotional and attitudinal recognition. Studying these features can investigate how the call centre discourse is construed, and how the interpersonal meaning takes shape through the text. The spoken data are constructed by Filipino CSRs and American English-speaking customers. The findings show that participants tend to make specific paralinguistic voice quality choices to express their emotions in dialogue. This article first discusses the voice quality framework for its semiotic features in relation to interpersonal meaning, reviews previous voice quality studies and later delineates how voice quality relates to interpersonal meaning in the calls.

scholarly journals The Implementation of Classical Puppet Drama Performance to Improve English Speaking Skill for International Class Program Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 116-123
Author(s):  
Sari Famularsih
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Group Work ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Body Language ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Speaking Skill ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
The Voice

This study analysed the implementation of classical puppet drama performance to improve students’ speaking skill in International Class Program of one of universities in Salatiga. The teaching and learning processes in drama class were(1 ) asking the students with the question, (2) designing drama project plan, (3) creating drama preparation schedules, (4) monitoring the students in preparing the drama, (5) assessing the outcome, and (6) evaluating students’ drama performance. This study was qualitative research in the form of case study. To collect the data the researcher used observation, interview, documentation, and questionnaire. The results showed that by using drama performance, students can improve their pronunciation, fluency, accuracy, handle the voice, and body language to improve their self-confidence to speak in English. Moreover, the used of 4Cs skills activities namely critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity skills in the classroom can stimulate students to improve their group work and interaction among students.    

scholarly journals Biology, socialization, and identity: Accounting for the voices of female-to-male transsexuals

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Lal Zimman
Keyword(s):  
Ongoing Study ◽  
Women's Voices ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Male To Female ◽  
Biological Differences

Although dissimilarities between men’s and women’s voices are often attributed to biological differences between the sexes, a great deal of research shows that many of the phonetic indices of speaker gender are socially learned. A number of questions remain, however, surrounding the exact process through which speakers acquire these features. In this paper I present findings from an ongoing study of the voices of English-speaking female-to-male transsexuals. Although the voices of male-to-female transsexuals have been studied fairly extensively, work on female-to-male speakers is virtually nil. However, these speakers’ voices present an ideal testing grounds for understanding the relationship between biology, socialization, and identity in the development of phonetic styles associated with women and men. My findings, which reveal that female-to-male transsexuals’ voices are in most ways comparable to other men’s, demonstrate that identity, along with biology and socialization, makes a crucial contribution in shaping the gendered characteristics of the voice.

scholarly journals Lessons in writing the biography of the crossover poet, Olga Kirsch

2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-76
Author(s):  
Egonne Roth
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
The Other ◽  
The South ◽  
Dominant Culture ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
The Voice

Olga Kirsch was an English-speaking Jewess who wrote and published poetry in Afrikaans. As such she exemplifies a crossover poet who introduces the voice of the other into a national canon in her case, the only Jewish voice in Afrikaans poetry. Three questions were raised in the research and writing of her biography. The first concerns the extent to which she, as a Jew, was influenced by the dominant culture in which she grew up. The second seems more complex: What influence has Olga Kirsch had on the dominant culture was she able to influence the South African Afrikaans culture and literature in any way? Third, to what extent does the multi-culturalism of Kirsch affect the process of research and writing her biography; are there problems specific to writing the biography of a cross-cultural writer? 

Speech discrimination in the language-innocent and the language-wise: a study in the perception of voice onset time

1979 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca E. Eilers ◽  
Wesley R. Wilson ◽  
John M. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Categorical Perception ◽  
Voice Onset Time ◽  
Onset Time ◽  
English Learning ◽  
Speech Discrimination ◽  
Linguistic Processing ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Innateness Hypothesis ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Time Continuum

ABSTRACTDiscrimination of synthetically produced stimuli differing along the voice onset time continuum was assessed for infants and adults within the context of the Visually Reinforced Infant Speech Discrimination (VRISD) paradigm. English-learning infants' discrimination abilities were compared with two groups of English-speaking adults (a phonetically naive and a phonetically sophisticated group). Contrary to the predictions of the innateness hypothesis, English-learning infants showed evidence of discrimination only across the English phoneme boundary. Adults, on the other hand, were very successful in discriminating both across and within a range of phoneme boundaries. These results are discussed in terms of the presumed relationship between categorical perception and linguistic processing and in terms of synthetic speech continua.

scholarly journals Not Your Parents’ Internationalization: Next Generation Perspectives

2018 ◽  
pp. 7-9
Author(s):  
Laura Rumbley ◽  
Douglas Proctor
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Internationalization Of Higher Education ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Global North ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
The Voice

Although still young, internationalization of higher education has provided the stimulus for a burgeoning field of research, with concentrations in English speaking countries in the global North. New perspectives are now coming to the fore, exploring alternative contexts, topics, and methods in internationalization, and giving rise to the voice of a next generation of researchers.

Phrase-Final Syllable Lengthening and Intonation in Early Child Speech

1994 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 831-840 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Snow
Keyword(s):  
Speech Development ◽  
Production Constraints ◽  
Speech Timing ◽  
Developmental Relationship ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Final Syllable ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Children's Speech ◽  
The Voice

This research describes the development of phrase-final prosodic patterns in nine English-speaking children. The intonation feature of interest is the fall in the fundamental frequency of the voice that occurs in the final syllables of statements. The corresponding feature of speech timing is phrase-final lengthening. To test opposing theories about the relationship between intonation and syllable timing, these boundary features were compared in a longitudinal study of the children’s speech development between the mean ages of 16 and 25 months. The results suggest that young children acquire the skills that control intonation earlier than final syllable timing skills. The findings support the hypothesis that final lengthening in the speech of 2-year-olds is a learned prosodic feature that cannot be accounted for as a secondary effect of inherent speech production constraints. In addition, a consistent pattern of final lengthening began to emerge when the children were making the transition to combinatorial speech, suggesting a developmental relationship between the child’s learning of speech timing and syntax.

The Kodály Concept of Music Education

Tempo ◽  
1970 ◽  
pp. 15-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Winters
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
College Level ◽  
Recent Issue ◽  
Text Book ◽  
Nursery Rhyme ◽  
School Music ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Kodaly Concept ◽  
The Voice

The recent issue in this country of a 36-page textbook entitled The Kodály Concept of Music Education by Helga Szabó, accompanied by a set of three LP records, prompts me to examine the place such a scheme might have in the schools of this country. Kodály's ‘Choral Method’ has of course been available in this country for some years, and is now in the process of being reissued with new and improved texts for English speaking children by Geoffry Russell Smith. Mme Szabó's clear and vivid exposition will help to increase appreciation of its value. The book and records trace the use of the method from pre-school music activities to music college level, and the emphasis throughout is squarely placed on the development of aural ability through the use of the voice and solfa. The first musical example, on Side A, is of a two-year-old Hungarian singing a nursery rhyme; the last, on Side F, is of Kodály's Hymn of Zrinyi, sung by the choir of the Central Ensemble of the Ironworkers' Union. Each record is adequately banded, so that it is easy to locate any example, and in addition to the detailed commentary in the text book, each example is announced helpfully before it is performed. The quality of recording is lively, although somewhat marred by echo and pre-echo, and the stereophonic balance is realistic, especially in the circular games on Side A.

Aristophanes’ Lysistrata

Classics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niklas Holzberg
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Politics ◽  
Peace Treaty ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
Old Comedy ◽  
Public Figures ◽  
Main Action ◽  
Old Men ◽  
Complex Architecture ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Voice

Lysistrata was performed in the year 411 bce, either in winter at the Lenaia or in spring at the Dionysia. Athens, its position in the Peloponnesian War waged against Sparta since 428 now dangerously weakened by the catastrophic failure of the 413 Sicilian expedition, saw itself faced in early 411 with the prospect of having to submit to the enemy. Enter Lysistrata, who proposes a plan that, in its utopian character, is typical of Old Comedy: Athenian wives should declare a sex strike for as long as it takes their husbands to end the war. The storyline triggered by that begins in the first scene, but there very soon arises another line of action: the women of Athens occupy the Acropolis, the center of power over the polis, seize the treasury, and must now defend the citadel against the men. And when the old women who form one half of the chorus, prevent its other half, the old men, from setting the citadel alight, there ensues a fight between the two, and that develops into a third sequence of scenes which runs in counterpoint to the main action. All three, however, are integrated into a homogenous whole, and thus Lysistrata differs in its structure from Aristophanes’ earlier comedies: it does not merely consist in a series of loosely connected episodes. That, in turn, is reminiscent of the complex architecture created by the tragedians of the day, and as in one of those (Euripides), here too it is an exceptional woman who, probably for the first time in comedy and certainly for the first time as a citizen wife, stands center stage. Unity of action is also achieved by using the parabasis to have the chorus guide spectators from scene to scene rather than making it speak, as mostly in Aristophanes’ extant plays, with the voice of the poet; the traditional parabasis, in turn, appears in the (roughly comparable) form of Lysistrata’s speech 1112–1135 Again unlike the earlier comedies, Lysistrata contains but few verses in which public figures are ridiculed; that could be explained by Aristophanes’ intention to play his part in the necessary appeasement and conciliation, the above-mentioned crisis in Athens having had its effect on domestic politics. On the other hand, this comedy offers a conspicuous amount of obscenities, above all in scenes which show the men trying to persuade their wives to end the sex strike. But only when the former have declared themselves committed to negotiating a peace treaty are marriage and family restored in the oikos, the nucleus of the polis, and Lysistrata’s comic plan thus realized. Among all modern stage productions of Aristophanes’ comedies, it is Lysistrata that can claim the lion’s share.

scholarly journals Examining the “voice of interpreting” in speech pathology

Interpreting ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raffaela Merlini ◽  
Roberta Favaron
Keyword(s):  
First Generation ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Speech Pathology ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Qualitative Nature ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Professional Interpreting ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Selection Of

This paper investigates professional interpreting practice in the setting of speech pathology through a multifaceted analysis of the transcripts of three recorded sessions involving first-generation Italian-speaking immigrants to Australia and English-speaking healthcare professionals working in Melbourne. Applying Mishler’s notion of “voice” to the context of interpreter-mediated communication and focusing on a selection of linguistic features — ranging from turn-taking and topic development to the interpreter’s choice of footing, departures from the primary speakers’ utterances, and use of prosodic resources — the discussion identifies the voice that interpreters, as third participants in the interaction, choose to adopt between the “voice of medicine” and the “voice of the lifeworld”. The study is of a qualitative nature, although a general indication of the frequency of certain features is supplied, and interpreting conduct is described rather than prescribed. The reporting and interpretation of findings are, however, informed by and reflect issues of value revolving around the concept of “humane medical care”.

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