Adam Fox
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199251032
- eISBN:
- 9780191698019
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199251032.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History, Cultural History
This chapter focuses on the patterns of popular speech in 16th- and 17th-century England. There were numerous varieties of English in use in early modern England. English was enormously enriched and ...
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This chapter focuses on the patterns of popular speech in 16th- and 17th-century England. There were numerous varieties of English in use in early modern England. English was enormously enriched and expanded by the infusion of words and phrases from other languages, due to the influence of print culture and the cross fertilization in European intellectual life during the Renaissance. The perception of language saw a change to a more self-conscious identification of speech patterns with social status. New linguistic standards rendered alternative varieties of English objects of curiosity and academic interest. The interest in the dialect words of particular regions was a common feature of antiquarian scholarship during the 17th century.Less
This chapter focuses on the patterns of popular speech in 16th- and 17th-century England. There were numerous varieties of English in use in early modern England. English was enormously enriched and expanded by the infusion of words and phrases from other languages, due to the influence of print culture and the cross fertilization in European intellectual life during the Renaissance. The perception of language saw a change to a more self-conscious identification of speech patterns with social status. New linguistic standards rendered alternative varieties of English objects of curiosity and academic interest. The interest in the dialect words of particular regions was a common feature of antiquarian scholarship during the 17th century.
Michael S. Gorham
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801452628
- eISBN:
- 9780801470578
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801452628.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Russian Politics
This book presents a cultural history of the politics of Russian language from Gorbachev and glasnost to Putin and the emergence of new generations of Web technologies. The book begins from the ...
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This book presents a cultural history of the politics of Russian language from Gorbachev and glasnost to Putin and the emergence of new generations of Web technologies. The book begins from the premise that periods of rapid and radical change both shape and are shaped by language. It documents the role and fate of the Russian language in the collapse of the USSR and the decades of reform and national reconstruction that have followed. The book demonstrates the inextricable linkage of language and politics in everything from dictionaries of profanity to the flood of publications on linguistic self-help, the speech patterns of the country's leaders, the blogs of its bureaucrats, and the official programs promoting the use of Russian in the so-called near abroad. The book explains why glasnost figured as such a critical rhetorical battleground in the political strife that led to the Soviet Union's collapse and shows why Russians came to deride the newfound freedom of speech of the 1990s as little more than the right to swear in public. It assesses the impact of Medvedev's role as Blogger-in-Chief and the role Putin's vulgar speech practices played in the restoration of national pride. The book investigates whether Internet communication and new media technologies have helped to consolidate a more vibrant democracy and civil society or if they serve as an additional resource for the political technologies manipulated by the Kremlin.Less
This book presents a cultural history of the politics of Russian language from Gorbachev and glasnost to Putin and the emergence of new generations of Web technologies. The book begins from the premise that periods of rapid and radical change both shape and are shaped by language. It documents the role and fate of the Russian language in the collapse of the USSR and the decades of reform and national reconstruction that have followed. The book demonstrates the inextricable linkage of language and politics in everything from dictionaries of profanity to the flood of publications on linguistic self-help, the speech patterns of the country's leaders, the blogs of its bureaucrats, and the official programs promoting the use of Russian in the so-called near abroad. The book explains why glasnost figured as such a critical rhetorical battleground in the political strife that led to the Soviet Union's collapse and shows why Russians came to deride the newfound freedom of speech of the 1990s as little more than the right to swear in public. It assesses the impact of Medvedev's role as Blogger-in-Chief and the role Putin's vulgar speech practices played in the restoration of national pride. The book investigates whether Internet communication and new media technologies have helped to consolidate a more vibrant democracy and civil society or if they serve as an additional resource for the political technologies manipulated by the Kremlin.
Deborah Chester
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781784992880
- eISBN:
- 9781526104199
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781784992880.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
Dialogue is a device of characterization, plot advancement, and setting reinforcement that helps keep a story’s pacing brisk while it supplies information or even non-viewpoint character motivation. ...
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Dialogue is a device of characterization, plot advancement, and setting reinforcement that helps keep a story’s pacing brisk while it supplies information or even non-viewpoint character motivation. Urban fantasy requires an edgy, modern tone while traditional fantasy leans sometimes toward more archaic speech patterns, yet writers must be careful not to go too far with either extreme. This chapter covers a range of pitfalls and mistakes, including dialogue of information, slang, dialect, and peculiar attributions.Less
Dialogue is a device of characterization, plot advancement, and setting reinforcement that helps keep a story’s pacing brisk while it supplies information or even non-viewpoint character motivation. Urban fantasy requires an edgy, modern tone while traditional fantasy leans sometimes toward more archaic speech patterns, yet writers must be careful not to go too far with either extreme. This chapter covers a range of pitfalls and mistakes, including dialogue of information, slang, dialect, and peculiar attributions.
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- March 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226720159
- eISBN:
- 9780226720166
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226720166.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, World Medieval History
This chapter discusses acculturation of eunuchs during the Byzantine period. Byzantine culture and society constructed a collective identity for its eunuchs, the result of which was something that ...
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This chapter discusses acculturation of eunuchs during the Byzantine period. Byzantine culture and society constructed a collective identity for its eunuchs, the result of which was something that modern gender analysis recognizes as perhaps the ultimate case of socially constructed gender. This is particularly the case if it is accepted that, in the Byzantine context, the primary indicators of gender were not sexual object choice but rather physical appearance, societal function, relationship to reproduction, and capacity for relating to the spiritual world. The chapter shows aspects of the acculturation process that defined these people both in their own eyes and in the eyes of the society around them. The process involved many things familiar to modern gender awareness: systematic preparation and education based on implicit assumptions; the appropriateness of specific forms of dress; and inculcation of distinctive speech patterns, facial expressions, and body language. The process normalized eunuchs as the appropriate agents for carrying out a variety of roles in society, particularly mediating between distinctive groups, defining the sacred space around the emperor, and connecting that space to the regular world.Less
This chapter discusses acculturation of eunuchs during the Byzantine period. Byzantine culture and society constructed a collective identity for its eunuchs, the result of which was something that modern gender analysis recognizes as perhaps the ultimate case of socially constructed gender. This is particularly the case if it is accepted that, in the Byzantine context, the primary indicators of gender were not sexual object choice but rather physical appearance, societal function, relationship to reproduction, and capacity for relating to the spiritual world. The chapter shows aspects of the acculturation process that defined these people both in their own eyes and in the eyes of the society around them. The process involved many things familiar to modern gender awareness: systematic preparation and education based on implicit assumptions; the appropriateness of specific forms of dress; and inculcation of distinctive speech patterns, facial expressions, and body language. The process normalized eunuchs as the appropriate agents for carrying out a variety of roles in society, particularly mediating between distinctive groups, defining the sacred space around the emperor, and connecting that space to the regular world.
Dale A. Olsen
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252037887
- eISBN:
- 9780252095146
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252037887.003.0003
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
This chapter works with a concept that seems common in many animistic cultures, where flutes talk rather than produce music. Many flutists in European-derived cultures often refer to their ...
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This chapter works with a concept that seems common in many animistic cultures, where flutes talk rather than produce music. Many flutists in European-derived cultures often refer to their instrument's sound as its “voice,” which is usually a reference to its tone color. In the jazz world, most notably with flutist (and saxophonist) Rahsaan Roland Kirk, humming into the flute while blowing it during improvisations creates very raspy tone colors. Flutist D. J. Sterling refers to his own playing/humming style as “the talking flute,” and others have imitated him. The chapter focuses on two flute techniques: imitation of speech tones on a flute and flute-speak or flute-think.Less
This chapter works with a concept that seems common in many animistic cultures, where flutes talk rather than produce music. Many flutists in European-derived cultures often refer to their instrument's sound as its “voice,” which is usually a reference to its tone color. In the jazz world, most notably with flutist (and saxophonist) Rahsaan Roland Kirk, humming into the flute while blowing it during improvisations creates very raspy tone colors. Flutist D. J. Sterling refers to his own playing/humming style as “the talking flute,” and others have imitated him. The chapter focuses on two flute techniques: imitation of speech tones on a flute and flute-speak or flute-think.
