scholarly journals Gissing and the Auditory Imagination: Language, Identity, and Estrangement in Born in Exile

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 132-146
Author(s):  
Lynda Mugglestone
Keyword(s):  
Spoken Language ◽  
Standard English ◽  
Language Identity ◽  
Literary Device ◽  
Fault Lines ◽  
Cultural Estrangement

An interest in language, and especially spoken language, is a well-established feature of Gissing's work. Born in Exile (1892), however, inscribes a new salience for Gissing's exploration of language as literary device, not least in its relation to the modelling of identity, as well as in the evolutionary tropes of adaptation which mark Godwin Peak's rise and fall. This essay examines Gissing's use of language as a device of exile and socio-cultural estrangement, paying particular attention to his interest in form as semiotic resource, alongside the indexicalities which both standard English and Cockney can be made to reveal. Gissing's auditory imagination emerges as a key tool in his depiction of the anxieties and fault lines of Victorian society.

scholarly journals Роль процесса актуализации ориентализмов в формировании современного сараевского городского койне

2019 ◽  
Vol 169 ◽  
pp. 111-120
Author(s):  
Michail Chmelevskij
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Language Identity ◽  
Turkish Origin ◽  
The Media

The role of the process of updating orientalisms in the formation of Sarajevo’s modern urban koinéThe article discusses the process of updating orientalisms in the contemporary spoken language and the jargon of the inhabitants of Sarajevo. The examples illustrate the fact that lexemes of Turkish origin have expanded in recent decades their semantics in the language of Bosnian Muslims and have become a hallmark of their language identity. Particular attention was paid to the most characteristic terms and those reflecting the specificity of the mentality, culture and everyday life of the Muslim part of the BIH population. The material collected in 2009–2015 during scientific expeditions comes from interviews with Sarajevo residents, from new jargon dictionaries and texts present in the media and social networks.  Uloga procesa aktualizacije orijentalizama u formisanju savremenog sarajevskog gradskog žargonaU ovom članku se razmatra aktuelni jezički proces aktualizacije orijentalizama u savremenom razgovornom jeziku stanovnika grada Sarajeva i njihovom žargonu. Pomoću navedenih primera se prikazuju činjenice kako lekseme uglavnom turskog porekla u zadnjim decenijama proširuju svoju semantiku u govoru bosanskih Muslimana i postaju svojvrsno obeležje njihovog jezičkog identiteta. Posebnu pažnju smo obratili na izraze koje najviše karakterišu i odražavaju specifičnost mentaliteta, kulture i svakodnevnog života muslimanskog dela stanovništva BiH. Građa za ovo istraživanje je sakupljena tokom naučnih ekspedicija 2009. – 2015. g. putem anketiranja govornika sarajevskog žargona te novih žargonskih rečnika, medija i socijalnih mreža.

scholarly journals Fromsickertosure: the contact-induced lexical layering within the Medieval English adjectives of certainty

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 283-300
Author(s):  
RAFAŁ MOLENCKI
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Middle English ◽  
Old English ◽  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Standard English ◽  
Bilingual Speakers ◽  
Relative Paucity ◽  
Anglo Norman

The major Old English adjective of certainty was(ge)wiss, which in early Middle English came to be replaced withsickerderived from very weakly attested Old Englishsicor, a word of ultimate Romance origin (from Latinsēcūrus). The relative paucity of occurrences of both adjectives in theDictionary of Old Englishcorpus is attributed to their use in mostly spoken language. The rapid increase in the usage ofsickerin the thirteenth century is a mystery with possible, yet difficult to prove, Norse and/or Anglo-Norman influence. The fourteenth century marks the appearance ofsureandcertainborrowed from Anglo-Norman first by bilingual speakers and writers, and the quick diffusion of the new lexemes to all dialects and genres. This article looks at the adoption of the different senses of these polysemous adjectives into Middle English in the context of subjectification, which appears to affect not only semantic developments within one language but also the process of borrowing. Whensureandcertainwere used epistemically, they tended to occur in the predicative position, usually following the copula. It took several centuries of lexical layering (coexistence of synonyms) beforesickerwas lost from Standard English in the sixteenth century.

What Do We Want Them To Be When They Grow Up?

2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-31
Author(s):  
Lyn Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Hearing Aids ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Language Therapy ◽  
Profound Hearing Loss ◽  
Children With Hearing Loss ◽  
Learning To Listen

Abstract Learning to listen and speak are well-established preludes for reading, writing, and succeeding in mainstream educational settings. Intangibles beyond the ubiquitous test scores that typically serve as markers for progress in children with hearing loss are embedded in descriptions of the educational and social development of four young women. All were diagnosed with severe-to-profound or profound hearing loss as toddlers, and all were fitted with hearing aids and given listening and spoken language therapy. Compiling stories across the life span provides insights into what we can be doing in the lives of young children with hearing loss.

Red Flags: Barriers to Listening and Spoken Language in Children with Hearing Loss

2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-18
Author(s):  
Andrea Bell ◽  
K. Todd Houston
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Early Diagnosis ◽  
Skill Acquisition ◽  
Dynamic Process ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Red Flags ◽  
Careful Monitoring ◽  
Auditory Development ◽  
Children With Hearing Loss ◽  
Family Centered

To ensure optimal auditory development for the acquisition of spoken language, children with hearing loss require early diagnosis, effective ongoing audiological management, well fit and maintained hearing technology, and appropriate family-centered early intervention. When these elements are in place, children with hearing loss can achieve developmental and communicative outcomes that are comparable to their hearing peers. However, for these outcomes to occur, clinicians—early interventionists, speech-language pathologists, and pediatric audiologists—must participate in a dynamic process that requires careful monitoring of countless variables that could impact the child's skill acquisition. This paper addresses some of these variables or “red flags,” which often are indicators of both minor and major issues that clinicians may encounter when delivering services to young children with hearing loss and their families.

Research on Reading: What SLPs Want (or Need) to Know

2009 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judy Montgomery
Keyword(s):  
Spoken Language ◽  
Cognitive Skill ◽  
Language Intervention ◽  
Reading Teachers ◽  
Successful Therapy ◽  
Speech Language Pathologists ◽  
Reading Research ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
Language Problems

Abstract As increasing numbers of speech language pathologists (SLPs) have embraced their burgeoning roles in written as well as spoken language intervention, they have recognized that there is much to be gained from the research in reading. While some SLPs reportedly fear they will “morph” into reading teachers, many more are confidently aware that SLPs who work with adult clients routinely use reading as one of their rehabilitation modalities. Reading functions as both a tool to reach language in adults, and as a measure of successful therapy. This advanced cognitive skill can serve the same purpose for children. Language is the foundational support to reading. Consequently spoken language problems are often predictors of reading and writing challenges that may be ahead for the student (Juel & Deffes, 2004; Moats, 2001; Wallach, 2004). A targeted review of reading research may assist the SLP to appreciate the language/reading interface.

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