William Sidney Allen 1918–2004

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
SIR JOHN LYONS
Keyword(s):  
The 1960S ◽  
General Linguistics ◽  
Comparative Philology ◽  
Principal Contribution

William Sidney Allen was an effective and charismatic teacher, and a significant number of those who attended his lectures or came into contact with him when they were students in Cambridge have made major contributions to the development of linguistics in the last thirty years or so. But the principal contribution he made to the promotion of linguistics in Cambridge was not as a teacher, but as someone who skilfully used his professorial authority and (in the early part of his tenure of his chair) his membership of the relevant university committees to get the Department of Linguistics established there and eventually a Chair of General Linguistics, separate from his own Chair of Comparative Philology. In the 1960s, when new departments of linguistics were being created in several British universities, Allen's advice was regularly sought, and on several occasions he served on the appointing committee or acted as an assessor for lectureships and chairs.

Wilhelm Von Humboldt and North American Ethnolinguistics

1990 ◽  
Vol 17 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 111-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. F. Konrad Koerner
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
North American ◽  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Wilhelm Von Humboldt ◽  
Franz Boas ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Language Structure ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
General Linguistics ◽  
The Relationship

Summary Noam Chomsky’s frequent references to the work of Wilhelm von Humboldt during the 1960s produced a considerable revival of interest in this 19th-century scholar in North America. This paper demonstrates that there has been a long-standing influence of Humboldt’s ideas on American linguistics and that no ‘rediscovery’ was required. Although Humboldt’s first contacts with North-American scholars goes back to 1803, the present paper is confined to the posthumous phase of his influence which begins with the work of Heymann Steinthal (1823–1899) from about 1850 onwards. This was also a time when many young Americans went to Germany to complete their education; for instance William Dwight Whitney (1827–1894) spent several years at the universities of Tübingen and Berlin (1850–1854), and in his writings on general linguistics one can trace Humboldtian ideas. In 1885 Daniel G. Brinton (1837–1899) published an English translation of a manuscript by Humboldt on the structure of the verb in Amerindian languages. A year later Franz Boas (1858–1942) arrived from Berlin soon to establish himself as the foremost anthropologist with a strong interest in native language and culture. From then on we encounter Humboldtian ideas in the work of a number of North American anthropological linguists, most notably in the work of Edward Sapir (1884–1939). This is not only true with regard to matters of language classification and typology but also with regard to the philosophy of language, specifically, the relationship between a particular language structure and the kind of thinking it reflects or determines on the part of its speakers. Humboldtian ideas of ‘linguistic relativity’, enunciated in the writings of Whitney, Brinton, Boas, and others, were subsequently developed further by Sapir’s student Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897–1941). The transmission of the so-called Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis – which still today is attracting interest among cultural anthropologists and social psychologists, not only in North America – is the focus of the remainder of the paper. A general Humboldtian approach to language and culture, it is argued, is still present in the work of Dell Hymes and several of his students.

scholarly journals Is that a new language coming?

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 373-384
Author(s):  
Nataša Crnjanski
Keyword(s):  
Music Theory ◽  
Music Cognition ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
General Linguistics

Music semiotics is a branch of music theory that has been particularly developing since the 1960s. As semiotics moved from general linguistics, structuralism and theory of communication to cognitive and psychological linguistics, as sources of understanding music cognition – that is, as it moved from “hard” to “soft” semiotics as Agawu calls them (1999: 154) – its vocabulary became strongly metaphoric and complex. At the same time, there was no strict convention concerning the usage of the vocabulary in question. In this paper, I will focus on some important interrelated issues of music semiotics vocabulary, such as the concept of meaning, and all rhetorical variations regarding this term in music. Special attention will be given to explanation of terminological issues of the two most prominent “languages” of music semiotics, that of Robert Hatten and Eero Tarasti.

A Century of Theological and Religious Studies in Britain, 1902-2002

2004 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
World Views ◽  
Historical Criticism ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Theological Thought

The chapters in this book give an account of how the agenda for theology and religious studies was set and reset throughout the twentieth century – by rapid and at times cataclysmic changes (wars, followed by social and academic upheavals in the 1960s), by new movements of thought, by a bounty of archaeological discoveries, and by unprecedented archival research. Further new trends of study and fresh approaches (existentialist, Marxian, postmodern) have in more recent years generated new quests and horizons for reflection and research. Theological enquiry in Great Britain was transformed in the late nineteenth century through the gradual acceptance of the methods and results of historical criticism. New agendas emerged in the various sub-disciplines of theology and religious studies. Some of the issues raised by biblical criticism, for example Christology and the ‘quest of the historical Jesus’, were to remain topics of controversy throughout the twentieth century. In other important and far-reaching ways, however, the agendas that seemed clear in the early part of the century were abandoned, or transformed and replaced, not only as a result of new discoveries and movements of thought, but also by the unfolding events of a century that brought the appalling carnage and horror of two world wars. Their aftermath brought a shattering of inherited world views, including religious world views, and disillusion with the optimistic trust in inevitable progress that had seemed assured in many quarters and found expression in widely influential ‘liberal’ theological thought of the time. The centenary of the British Academy in 2002 has provided a most welcome opportunity for reconsidering the contribution of British scholarship to theological and religious studies in the last hundred years.

scholarly journals Elizabeth Taylor and Illness as a Negotiation of Femininity in Fan Magazines, 1960-1965

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-19
Author(s):  
Julie Nakama
Keyword(s):  
Public Discourse ◽  
Female Sexuality ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Relationship

Fan magazines, primarily aimed at female audiences, provide a lens through which to analyze attitudes about female sexuality. In the 1960s, Elizabeth Taylor was one of the most popular stars in fan magazines. While coverage of her often focused on issues related to her marriages and children, another narrative about her health dominated headlines in the early part of the decade. Speculation about Taylor’s illnesses stood in for a larger discourse about female appetites, ambition, and containment. This illness discourse gave fans graphic access to Taylor’s body in ways that were gruesome rather than erotic as descriptions of her physical maladies reached ecstatic proportions. Public discourse about Taylor’s health functioned in complex ways that affirmed and challenged ideologically conservative constructions of femininity and motherhood. This essay explores Taylor’s appearances in fan magazines during the period 1960-1965 to examine the relationship between the star and notions of ambition, illness, and domesticity.

Wortbildung und Textsorte Verbalabstrakta in der spät(er)en Latinität

2020 ◽  
Vol 59 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 387-397
Author(s):  
Oswald Panagl
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Text Type ◽  
Quantitative Parameters ◽  
General Linguistics ◽  
The One ◽  
Comparative Philology ◽  
Taking Care

Summary:The paper deals with the derivational category of ‘action nouns’ both as a subject of general linguistics and as a problem of Indo-European morphology (primarily in the diachrony of Latin but also from the perspective of comparative philology). First of all, I elucidate the concepts used in the analysis of verbal abstracts – above all their well renowned definition by Walter Porzig as “Namen für Satzinhalte”. Subsequently, I interpret some passages occurring in comedies of Plautus and epigraphic documents of Old Latin illustrating the diachronic developments by accounting for some construction patterns under consideration of their ‘suprasyntactic’ aspects. In the paragraphs following, I discuss a variety of IE actional types (including the genesis of infinitives), also taking care of some significant relics of verbal constructions in Ancient Greek.The implication scale of increasing ‘concretization’, which I proposed and utilized in my studies so far, exhibits a development from action via the steps: result, instrument, location leading to (collective) agents. This thesis may also be corroborated by a number of Latin testimonies.According to my concept of correlation between frequency of nomina actionis and nomina acti on the one hand and the corresponding text type on the other, I present a number of examples taken from the authors Vitruvius, Frontinus, Petronius, Juvenalis, Justinus and Dares Phrygius. I describe and interpret them by means of qualitative criteria and quantitative parameters such as occurrence, semantic profile and competition in relation to alternative derivational types that employ cognate stems and affixes.

They Do Things Differently over There: Doctors, Drugs, and the “British System” of Treating Opiate Addiction

2005 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 779-797 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Witton ◽  
Francis Keaney ◽  
John Strang
Keyword(s):  
Drug Policy ◽  
Drug Users ◽  
Injecting Drug Users ◽  
Crime Reduction ◽  
Opiate Addiction ◽  
British System ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Core Features ◽  
Hiv Aids

The “British System” for treating opiate problems developed in the early part of the 20th century. Marked by an absence of a centrally coordinated policy, the system allowed doctors freedom and flexibility in prescribing to patients with opiate-related problems. These core features of the system have been retained despite buffetings from heroin epidemics among the young in the 1960s and 1980s and the challenge of HIV/AIDS among injecting drug users. Crime reduction became the focus of British drug policy in the 1990s, but nevertheless, treatment is still recognized as a key component of integrated UK drug policy in the early 21st century. Independence and diversity have thrived over this time. So what does the British System comprise today? And where is it going for tomorrow?

Marianne R. Sanua. Going Greek: Jewish College Fraternities in the United States, 1895–1945. American Jewish Civilization Series. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2003. 446 pp.

AJS Review ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 409-412
Author(s):  
Diana Turk
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
College Campuses ◽  
State University ◽  
Wayne State University ◽  
College Going ◽  
Time Period ◽  
The Social ◽  
American Jewish ◽  
The 1960S

Marianne R. Sanua offers a balanced examination of a largely unexplored topic, the Jewish Greek subsystem that developed on American college campuses in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and thrived until the closure, merger, or reorientation of many of these organizations in the 1960s and early 1970s. One of the first studies to take the Greek system seriously and recognize it for the social and cultural force it was during its heyday in the early part of the twentieth century, Sanua's book provides readers with rare access to the aspirations, concerns, and ideals of a large segment—estimated between one fourth and one third—of the American Jewish college-going population of this time period.

Phil Spector and the New Movie Soundtrack

2013 ◽  
Vol 148 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony May
Keyword(s):  
Pop Music ◽  
New Hollywood ◽  
Hollywood Films ◽  
The 1960S

This article looks at the changes that occurred in pop music during the 1960s, which established the foundation for the reconfiguration of its relationship with film. The focus is on the work of producer Phil Spector and the radical changes that he brought to the medium of pop music in the early part of that decade. While the article stops short of suggesting that Spector was directly responsible for the transformation in cinema soundtracks heard in New Hollywood films from 1968 onwards, it does contend that his influence rendered pop music more accessible for movie soundtracks. Spector's innovative studio manipulations, which were designed to remove the sonic dominance of the vocal, were at the centre of these transformations.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Michael Sy Uy
Keyword(s):  
Rockefeller Foundation ◽  
National Endowment ◽  
Arts Funding ◽  
The Arts ◽  
History Of ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Congressional Investigations

This chapter introduces the book’s sociocultural history of expertise as analyzed in arts and music grantmaking during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, It explains the origins of the Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation, and National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) as grantmaking institutions, the individuals involved, and how the missions of the two foundations eventually came to include arts funding. The 1960s and 1970s were a period of “cultural explosion,” as characterized by the popular press. During the early part of the Cold War, both foundations were also subject to congressional investigations which impacted their grantmaking. Finally, the introduction includes a chapter overview of the book, as well as its division into two parts: “Who Were the Experts?” and “Experts in Action.”

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