Philological coda. Noise: an appreciation

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 431-438 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROBERT D. FULK
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Present Collection ◽  
Language Study

Plainly, the effort to apply to historical language study the insights to be derived from synchronic linguistic analysis is fraught with difficulties. The problem is usually conceptualized – as it is by several of the contributors to the present collection of studies – as a difficult marriage of disciplined methods to obstreperous data, a mismatched union somehow to be mediated by the Uniformitarian Principle. To understand the issues properly, then, it would seem a prerequisite to be able to identify what, exactly, the Uniformitarian Principle is. Yet that question itself has no simple answer, in part because the question can be interpreted in at least two ways, both of them bearing directly upon the aims of this collection.

The Hebrew Translation of the Carolingian Lord's Prayer: A Case Study in Using Linguistics to Understand History

AJS Review ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-47
Author(s):  
Eitan Berkowitz
Keyword(s):  
Religious Life ◽  
Ninth Century ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Lord's Prayer ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Language Study ◽  
History Of ◽  
Textual Research ◽  
The Church

Through a linguistic analysis of the Hebrew Lord's Prayer, this article endeavors to reach a new understanding of the function of this text in the lives of its users, concluding that the ninth-century Carolingian writer/translator meant for this text to be sung aloud. This article goes back to the basics of textual research—philology and language study—in order to determine the correct historical framework through which to understand this much-debated text, thus adding to our understanding of the religious life and practice of the nuns of Essen at the polyglottic crossroads of Latin and German, Hebrew and Greek. This paper is also an invitation for future studies to continue its effort to rewrite the history of Hebrew in the church, for historians to broaden their toolbox, and for linguists and philologists to contribute their insights to other fields.

Re-Thinking Bloomfield’s Concepts of Meaning: Do Meaning Really as a Weak Point in Language Study?

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 84-89
Author(s):  
Cendy Lauren ◽  
Anggi Resti Rahmadani ◽  
Farni Wulandari
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Linguistic Meaning ◽  
Weak Point ◽  
Data Presentation ◽  
Language Study ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive

This paper aims to describe the concepts of meaning in Bloomfield’s Theory. The methodology used to gain data in this paper is a qualitative descriptive using documentation method. Sources of data consists of words, sentences, and discourses found in the book Language by Bloomfield published by Henry Holt in New York in 1933. This research collects its data in a descriptive manner by reducing data, presentation data then drawing conclusions. The results of the analysis of this study indicate that  Bloomfield underlines that meaning as a weak point in language study and believed that it might well be all expressed in behaviourist terms. Bloomfield also stressed the context of the situation was a very important level of linguistic analysis aside syntax, morphology, phonology, and phonetics, all of which support to linguistic meaning. This present study also found that Bloomfield considered words to be ambiguous notions both in everyday speech and in linguistics. 

scholarly journals Re-Thinking Bloomfield’s Concepts of Meaning: Do Meaning Really as a Weak Point in Language Study?

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 94-99
Author(s):  
Cendy Lauren ◽  
Anggi Resti Rahmadani ◽  
Farni Wulandari
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Linguistic Meaning ◽  
Weak Point ◽  
Data Presentation ◽  
Language Study ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive

This paper aims to describe the concepts of meaning in Bloomfield’s Theory. The methodology used to gain data in this paper is a qualitative descriptive using documentation method. Sources of data consists of words, sentences, and discourses found in the book Language by Bloomfield published by Henry Holt in New York in 1933. This research collects its data in a descriptive manner by reducing data, presentation data then drawing conclusions. The results of the analysis of this study indicate that Bloomfield underlines that meaning as a weak point in language study and believed that it might well be all expressed in behaviourist terms. Bloomfield also stressed the context of the situation was a very important level of linguistic analysis aside syntax, morphology, phonology, and phonetics, all of which support to linguistic meaning. This present study also found that Bloomfield considered words to be ambiguous notions both in everyday speech and in linguistics.

"A cross-language study of decontextualized vocabulary comprehension in toddlerhood and kindergarten readiness": Correction to Friend et al. (2018).

2018 ◽  
Vol 54 (7) ◽  
pp. 1289-1289
Author(s):  
Margaret Friend ◽  
Erin Smolak ◽  
Yushuang Liu ◽  
Diane Poulin-Dubois ◽  
Pascal Zesiger
Keyword(s):  
Kindergarten Readiness ◽  
Language Study ◽  
Vocabulary Comprehension ◽  
Cross Language

Linguistics: A Rhetor's Guide

1994 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dick Leith
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Primary Concern ◽  
Social Formation ◽  
Text Linguistics ◽  
The Social ◽  
Language Study ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Linguistic Inquiry ◽  
Dominant Paradigm

Abstract: To non-specialists, academic disciplines invariably seem homogeneous, even monolithic. But even a relatively young discipline such as modem linguistics is more diverse in its procedures and concerns than might appear to those working in other fields. In this paper I attempt to show how certain kinds of linguistic inquiry might be relevant to those whose primary concern is rhetoric. I argue that these practices are often opposed to what I call the dominant paradigm in modern linguistics, with its commitment to abstraction and idealization. I discuss first those strands of linguistics, such as discourse analysis, text-linguistics, and stylistics, which tend to take the social formation for granted; I end by considering recent trends in so-called critical language study. Finally, I offer some thoughts on how linguistics may proceed in order to achieve a more programmatic rapprochement with rhetoric.

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