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Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway (or, the Privatization of the English Language) | Zen Habits
Hunting the Elusive First "Ms." : Word Routes : Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus
November 10, 1901, the writer suggests that "a void in the English language" may be filled by Ms., pronounced as "Mizz," as an alternative to Miss or Mrs.:
Stories of Silence | ABC Radio National
The series Stories of silence examines the idea of silence as a presence loaded with meaning, rather than as an absence of sound. It listens for the stories a young woman communicates without speech (El's story)and the peace that a composer creates throug
Lera Boroditsky, Cognation Research
cognation investigates the relationships between mind, world, and language. How do we construct knowledge from our experiences with the world? How do we use our knowledge to interpret new experiences? In what ways have languages and cultures allowed us to
Göran Kjellmer: "Literary Conventions and the Human Body" | Applied Semiotics / Sémiotique appliquée
This study has attempted to show, first, that authors’ reference to physical manifestations, such as facial expressions, head and hand movements, etc., in order to represent mental states and emotions and thereby to lend colour and life to the portrayal o
Niall Lucy & Steve Mickler: The War on English: An Answer to the Question, What is Postmodernism? | TRANSFORMATIONS Journal of Media & Culture
Postmodernism is denounced for consisting (allegedly) of five broad features, all of which are meant to be equally damning:
* postmodernism holds there to be no such thing as truth
* postmodernism equals moral relativism
* postmodernism is le
Carolyne Lee: Wordlings in a Web 2.0 world | First Monday
Drawing on Burke’s notion of human beings as ‘wordlings’, I argue for the centrality of well–crafted words, especially on the Internet, and offer examples of language crafted with care and passion, leading to distilled and vivid expression.
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