Review of Young, Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald (2018): The power of language: How discourse influences society

At the dawn of the nineteenth century, words were seen as artefacts that afforded insights into the mental capacities of the early humans. In this article I address the late Enlightenment foundations of this model by focusing on Professor Hugh Blair, a leading voice on the relationship between language, progressivism and culture. Whereas the writings of grammarians and educators such as Blair have received little attention in histories of nascent palaeoarchaeology and palaeoanthropology, I show that he addressed a number of conceptual themes that were of central relevance to the ‘primitive’, ‘ancient’ and ‘modern’ typology that guided the construction of ‘prehistoric minds’ during the early decades of the Victorian era. Although I address the referential power of language to a certain extent, my main point is that the rectilinear spatiality afforded by Western forms of graphic representation created an implicitly progressivist framework of disordered, ordered and reordered minds.

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Treating the patient in front of you and the power of language: integrating research into effective clinical practice

British Journal of Sports Medicine ◽

10.1136/bjsports-2021-104373 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 55 (13) ◽

pp. 705-706

Author(s):

Steve Aspinall

Keyword(s):

Clinical Practice ◽

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The power of language: Exploring values, empowerment dynamics and communication strategies for gender-inclusive energy service design in rural Uganda

Energy Research & Social Science ◽

10.1016/j.erss.2021.102379 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 85 ◽

pp. 102379

Author(s):

S.A. Hirmer ◽

A. Mazzone ◽

Alycia Leonard ◽

Costanza Conforti

Keyword(s):

Communication Strategies ◽

Service Design ◽

Energy Service ◽

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A PICTORIAL POWER OF LANGUAGE IN THE TEXTS OF TROBAIRITZ AND LES PRÉCIEUSES

PHILOLOGICAL STUDIES ◽

10.17072/1857-6060-2020-18-2-112-130 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 18 (2) ◽

pp. 112-130

Author(s):

Milena Mileva Blažić ◽

Keyword(s):

Fairy Tales ◽

Fairy Tale ◽

Julia Kristeva ◽

Literary Creation ◽

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The article presents the authors of literary creation, based on the theory of Julia Kristeva Tales of Love,1987andMarie Nikolajave Reading for Learning, 2015. Trial is the author of medieval trobairitz, enlightenment préciosité, romanticwomen fairy tale writersto contemporary trobairitz. The texts of the authors of the intertextual, dominated by emotional motifs (love, trust, loyalty), supported by actions (Love test) reflect the symbols (garden fountain, wall). Central emotionalekphrasis -love the emotion that has similar symptoms as anxiety (expectation,call andmeeting). The authors express themselves with metaphors, often asliterary parallelism -externalization of the inner landscape -literal and emotional winter. The authors are suggestible translate visuals into verbal world -songs(Azalais de Porcairagues, Comtessade Dia, Maria de Ventadorn), memories (Helena Kottanner), fairy tales (Jeanne Marie Leprince de Beaumont).

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