scholarly journals Writing Between Cultures

2007 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-99
Author(s):  
Barbara Godard
Keyword(s):  
Theory Of Language ◽  
Literary System ◽  
Vertical Translation ◽  
Rhetorical Violence

Abstract Writing Between Cultures — This essay examines the traffic in languages or systematic interferences, the tropes of translation whereby the network of the Canadian literary system is produced. It focuses on two moments in that process, one whereby Canadian literatures are produced as Europe's other by vertical translation of Canadian concepts into classical languages and an erasure of horizontal translation among Amerindian languages as manifest in the writing of colonization, especially in the work of Marie de l'Incarnation. The second is the contemporary period where the theatre of cultures of Amerindian playwrights, Daniel David Moses in particular, restages the trope of non-translation to expose therein the rhetorical violence of imperialism and offers in its place a model of horizontal translation between Amerindian languages. Performance as repetition with a difference or rewriting is another mode of translation, characterized by a theory of language as event not as mimesis.

A Computational Theory of Language

1989 ◽  
Vol 34 (7) ◽  
pp. 686-687
Author(s):  
Stephen G. Pulman
Keyword(s):  
Computational Theory ◽  
Theory Of Language

Language policy: An economics perspective

2016 ◽  
pp. 128-140
Author(s):  
D. Kadochnikov
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Language Policy ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Economic Phenomenon ◽  
Market Situation ◽  
Theory Of Language ◽  
Methodological Aspects

Economic theory of language policy treats a language as an economic phenomenon. A language situation is considered to be an economic, or market, situation, while language policy becomes an element of economic policies. The paper aims to systematize and to further develop theoretical and methodological aspects of this promising research field situated between economics and sociolinguistics.

[review of:] Vyacheslav Ivanov & Peter Arkadiev, eds. 2013. Studies in the Typology of Slavic, Baltic and Balkan Languages

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 221-239
Author(s):  
Ilja Seržant
Keyword(s):  
Language Contact ◽  
General Meeting ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
Primary Reference ◽  
Theory Of Language ◽  
Vyacheslav Ivanov

Вячᴇᴄлᴀʙ Вᴄ. Иʙᴀнов (отв. ред.), Пᴇᴛᴘ М. Аᴘкᴀдьᴇв (сост.), Исследования по типологии славянских, балтийских и балканских языков (преимущественно в свете языковых контактов). Санкт-Петербург: Алетейя, 2013. / Vʏᴀᴄʜᴇsʟᴀv Ivᴀɴov & Pᴇᴛᴇʀ Aʀᴋᴀᴅɪᴇv, eds., Studies in the Typology of Slavic, Baltic and Balkan Languages (with primary reference to language contact). St Petersburg: Aletheia, 2013. ɪsʙɴ 978-5-91419-778-7. The main focus of the book is on various language contact situations as well as areal interpretations of particular phenomena against a wider typological background. The idea is to provide a broader overview of each phenomenon discussed, bringing in comparisons with the neighbouring languages. Two major linguistic areas are in the focus of the book: the Balkan and Eastern Circum-Baltic areas. The book is an important contribution to these fields as well as to areal typology and the theory of language contact in general, meeting all standards for a solid scientific work.

A Theory of Language and Mind

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ermanno Bencivenga
Keyword(s):  
Theory Of Language

The Modalities of Desire in Mimetic Rivalry

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Weisband
Keyword(s):  
Theory Of Language

This chapter analyses the modes of perpetrator performative transgression by distinguishing between torture, torment, and agony as outcomes desired by perpetrators that represent different kinds of suffering reflective of the comparative influences of culture. The analysis focuses on the language of perpetrators in terms of lies, empty euphemisms, and the anti-ironic to develop a theory of language that is framed by the willed desire of perpetrators to use cruelty to produce a form of post-factuality the analysis describes as “informativeness.” This chapter advances a theory of social antagonism based on an analysis of the dynamics of envy, jealousy, honor, shame, purity that in turn are anchored by theoretical explanations emphasizing the psychodynamics of lack and loss, encapsulated by the concept of rival self-other.

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