Lesbian at the vanguard

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rusty Barrett ◽  
Robin Queen
Keyword(s):  
Language Play ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
Queer Linguistics ◽  
Fiction Writer

This tribute considers the work of linguist and novelist, Anna Livia (1955–2007). Anna was a noted fiction writer before becoming a linguist and much of her work considered language play in literature. Anna brought her experience as a lesbian activist to queer linguistics, where she played an important role in establishing the field. Her work continues to be an important example of linguistic research on lesbians, an area that continues to be underrepresented in the field.

scholarly journals Language mechanisms of building the ironic texts and ways of their linguistic research (linguistic pragmatic aspect)

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatiana Vladimirovna Chernyshova
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Court Case ◽  
Language Play ◽  
Linguistic Description ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
Pragmatic Aspect ◽  
Media Texts ◽  
Text Content

The article is devoted to the study of means and ways of modeling the comic effect in contemporary ironic media texts as well as to characterizing the method of their linguistic description in the linguistic pragmatic aspect. Special attention is paid to the ways of linguistic analysis of the conflict in ironic media text, which is the object of a court case. Within the complex linguistic analysis, including the semantic analysis to reveal the “semantic aspects,” and on the material of the editions Kommersant and Moskovsky Komsomolets, the authors described the signals of irony as language play and as a socially marked way of communication, defining their stylistic variety. On the example of ironic media text which is the object of a court case, it is established that the basic way to model the comic (ironic) subtext in contemporary media texts is the contrast used both at textual and subtextual levels. The article draws the conclusion that the comic form of presentation of the ironic text content cannot be the object of a court case because it is connected with the evaluation and expression of the author’s own opinion.

Transgender Language, Transgender Moment: Toward a Trans Linguistics

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lal Zimman
Keyword(s):  
Gender Difference ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
Grammatical Gender ◽  
Gender Variant ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
Linguistic Justice ◽  
Queer Linguistics ◽  
Linguistic Analyses ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Voice

This chapter sketches out trans linguistics as an emerging framework for research on language in populations defined by their deviation from gender norms. Although queer linguistics has always been concerned with both sexual and gender (non)normativity, some early queer linguistic analyses of transgender or otherwise gender-variant populations were limited by the absence of openly trans scholars and distinctively trans analytic perspectives. Trans linguistics, by contrast, centers trans practices and subjectivities not as rare exceptions, but as central to any understanding of gender. Three domains of language are discussed here, including grammatical gender, gender difference in the voice, and gender in discourse. In each case, trans linguistic research offers new perspectives on gendered power, the nature of categories, the significance of embodiment, and the linguistic navigation of persistent dehumanization. Crucially, trans linguistics is committed not only to trans analytic lenses, but also to social and linguistic justice for gender non-normative communities.

Nuance and normativity in trans linguistic research

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lex Konnelly
Keyword(s):  
Survival Strategy ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
Trans People ◽  
History Of ◽  
In Trans ◽  
History Of Violence ◽  
Queer Linguistics

Abstract While normativity has been central to queer linguistic research, the emergent field of trans linguistics (Zimman forthcoming) provides opportunities for greater nuance and elaboration on the concept. Drawing from interviews with non-binary people documenting their narratives of doctor-patient visits, I present a series of recounted interactional moments where what might be considered ‘normative’ is in fact a survival strategy, highlighting how we might view certain invocations of the transnormative (Johnson 2016) in more complicated ways. Notions of normativity and authenticity, which are too often weaponized against trans people as a means to measure their ‘success’ in approximating cisheteronormative ideals, are not easily transported from queer linguistics to trans linguistics. As concepts imbricated with a history of violence for trans people, they must be treated with care and responsibility, as part of an active devotion to dismantling transphobia.

Specificity in mother^toddler language^play relations across the second year.

1994 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 283-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda ◽  
Marc H. Bornstein
Keyword(s):  
Language Play ◽  
Second Year

Stolen from the Snows: John Kinsella as Poet and as Fiction Writer

CounterText ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 232-238
Author(s):  
Nicholas Birns
Keyword(s):  
Close Reading ◽  
Artistic Identity ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
Fiction Writer

This piece explores the fiction of John Kinsella, describing how it both complements and differs from his poetry, and how it speaks to the various aspect of his literary and artistic identity, After delineating several characteristic traits of Kinsella's fictional oeuvre, and providing a close reading of one of Kinsella's Graphology poems to give a sense of his current lyrical praxis, the balance of the essay is devoted to a close analysis of Hotel Impossible, the Kinsella novella included in this issue of CounterText. In Hotel Impossible Kinsella examines the assets and liabilities of cosmopolitanism through the metaphor of the all-inclusive hotel that envelops humanity in its breadth but also constrains through its repressive, generalising conformity. Through the peregrinations of the anti-protagonist Pilgrim, as he works out his relationships with Sister and the Watchmaker, we see how relationships interact with contemporary institutions of power. In a style at once challenging and accessible, Kinsella presents a fractured mirror of our own reality.

Thomas More et l’ouverture humaniste

Moreana ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 51 (Number 195- (1-2) ◽  
pp. 186-209
Author(s):  
Marie-Claire Phélippeau
Keyword(s):  
General Introduction ◽  
Thomas More ◽  
Major Work ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Fiction Writer

This article is to be understood as a general introduction to Thomas More, the humanist. Confronted with the new ideas coming from the rest of Europe, More is influenced by the rediscovery of Greek texts. With his humanist friends, William Lily and Erasmus, he becomes a translator, a poet, a polemicist and a fiction writer. The article starts by defining the terms Renaissance and Humanism, laying the stress of the secularization of thought, and continues by recalling Thomas More’s action against the rigidity of Oxford University in the battle about Greek. The humanist’s portrait then continues with the evocation of More’s qualities as a pedagogue, a poet and a dialogue writer to finish with More’s role as a reformer and an Epicurean in his major work Utopia. The conclusion insists on the re-affirmation of man in the Renaissance world.

THE BALANCE OF PROBABILITY: STATISTICS AND THE DIACHRONIC STUDY OF ANCIENT HEBREW

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 927-960
Author(s):  
Jarod Jacobs
Keyword(s):  
Dead Sea Scrolls ◽  
Dead Sea ◽  
Biblical Hebrew ◽  
Large Datasets ◽  
Dual Function ◽  
Statistical Tools ◽  
Masoretic Text ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
Recent Debate ◽  
Diachronic Study

In this article, I discuss three statistical tools that have proven pivotal in linguistic research, particularly those studies that seek to evaluate large datasets. These tools are the Gaussian Curve, significance tests, and hierarchical clustering. I present a brief description of these tools and their general uses. Then, I apply them to an analysis of the variations between the “biblical” DSS and our other witnesses, focusing upon variations involving particles. Finally, I engage the recent debate surrounding the diachronic study of Biblical Hebrew. This article serves a dual function. First, it presents statistical tools that are useful for many linguistic studies. Second, it develops an analysis of the he-locale, as it is used in the “biblical” Dead Sea Scrolls, Masoretic Text, and Samaritan Pentateuch. Through that analysis, this article highlights the value of inferential statistical tools as we attempt to better understand the Hebrew of our ancient witnesses.

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1982 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 380-381
Author(s):  
Marcel Danesi
Keyword(s):  
Academic Press ◽  
Language Play ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Axiomatic Semantics ◽  
Language And Communication
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