Microgenesis of language creativity: Innovation, conformity and incongruence in children's language play

2018 ◽  
Vol 65 ◽  
pp. 26-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asta Cekaite
Keyword(s):  
Language Play

Specificity in mother^toddler language^play relations across the second year.

1994 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 283-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda ◽  
Marc H. Bornstein
Keyword(s):  
Language Play ◽  
Second Year

Nilsen, Don L. F. and Alleen Pace Nilsen. Language Play: An Introduction to Linguistics. Rowley, Mass.: Newbury House, 1978; Akmajian, Adrian, Richard A. Demers and Robert M. Harnish. Linguistics: An Introduction to Language and Communication. Cambridge, Mass.: M.I.T. Press, 1979; Binnick, Robert I. Modern Mongolian: A Transformational Syntax. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1979; Mulder, Jan W. F. and Sandor G. J. Hervey. The Strategy of Linguistics. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1980; Hervey, Sandor G. J. Axiomatic Semantics: A Theory of Linguistic Semantics. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1980Nilsen, Don L. F. and Alleen Pace Nilsen. Language Play: An Introduction to Linguistics. Rowley, Mass.: Newbury House, 1978. Pp. xii, 249.Akmajian, Adrian, Richard A. Demers and Robert M. Harnish. Linguistics: An Introduction to Language and Communication. Cambridge, Mass.: M.I.T. Press, 1979. Pp. xvii, 357. $11.95.Binnick, Robert I. Modern Mongolian: A Transformational Syntax. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1979. Pp. xix, 133.Mulder, Jan W. F. and Sandor G. J. Hervey. The Strategy of Linguistics. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1980. Pp. v, 236. $17.50.Hervey, Sandor G. J. Axiomatic Semantics: A Theory of Linguistic Semantics. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1980. Pp. xxvii, 313. $20.00.

1982 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 380-381
Author(s):  
Marcel Danesi
Keyword(s):  
Academic Press ◽  
Language Play ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Axiomatic Semantics ◽  
Language And Communication

»Eigentümlicher Denkzauber« und »die Aura der Begriffe«

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 255-288
Author(s):  
Pola Groß
Keyword(s):  
Thought Style ◽  
Language Play ◽  
Thought Collective ◽  
Scientific Facts ◽  
Art And Language ◽  
Scholarly Attention

AbstractThis article approaches Ludwik Fleck’s work from a literary perspective. It argues that Fleck is not only concerned with how scientific facts emerge, but, in accordance with his broader epistemology, with how different knowledges of reality emerge, through intra- and intercollective migrations of concepts and thoughts through different styles of thinking. Thus, in order to comprehend such cognitive traversal, interpretation, which I take to be suggested in Fleck’s work, is required. In this, I draw on the work of Andrzej Przyłębski and Dimitri Ginev, who see an implicit hermeneutics anticipated in Fleck’s work. These writings are supplemented and expanded by considering the concept of style, including Fleck’s own style, before examining what role literature, art, and language play in Fleck’s conception of thought style and thought collective. To this end, Fleck’s article »The Problem of Epistemology« from 1936, which has received little scholarly attention so far, is highlighted.

Language, play, and attention at one year

1990 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda ◽  
Marc H. Bornstein
Keyword(s):  
Language Play ◽  
One Year

Walter Benjamin

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Student Interest ◽  
Children's Theater ◽  
Youth Movement ◽  
Language Play ◽  
Childhood Play ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Political Philosopher ◽  
English Speaking World

Cultural theorist and political philosopher Walter Benjamin (b. 1892–d. 1940) reflected on the thought processes and imaginative life of the child both in dedicated writings and, tangentially, in his major works. As a young man Benjamin wrote essays critical of high school education, and he was a supporter of the German Youth Movement until he became disillusioned with its nationalist tone. Subsequently Benjamin’s engagement shifted toward early childhood and took many forms: he collected antique children’s books; recorded the sayings and opinions of his infant son; made radio broadcasts for children; composed a memoir of his own childhood years in Berlin; and devoted a number of prose fragments to aspects of drama for young people, play, toys, and the numinous qualities of childhood reading. Influenced by the German Romantic view of the purity of a child’s vision that removes the subject-object barrier, Benjamin suggests in these works that in the course of developing an intense relationship with its immediate locality the child simultaneously absorbs and animates the innate qualities of the natural or manufactured object. Benjamin also regarded language play, witnessed in the utterances of his young son and the magical resonance of his own childhood misunderstandings, as essential to the formation of memory images and the imagination. He does not, however, present an idealized vision of childhood, since children are engaged in a cycle of destruction as well as renewal, and play with the detritus of daily life is essential to the growth of the child’s autonomy—as indeed are acts of mimesis and an immersion in the imaginative world of the book and its illustration. Alongside these observations on the child’s intellectual and imaginative development, Benjamin assumes the role of mentor in broadcasts for children that seek to encourage a historical and political consciousness in the young. He returns to his student interest in education in essays on the nature of colonial and proletarian pedagogy, and in a manifesto on proletarian children’s theater. Initially, little critical attention was paid to Benjamin’s writings on childhood in the English-speaking world, partly because of their gradual appearance in English translation. It is only in recent decades that the significance of Benjamin’s illuminating reflections on childhood, play, and education has become apparent, and that the autobiographical Berlin Childhood around 1900) has gained recognition as an expression in serial “thought-images” of the speculation on memory and materialist historiography that is essential to his philosophy.

scholarly journals MODERN POETIC DISCOURSE: THE LINGUISTIC NATURE OF HERMETICISM

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-108
Author(s):  
Galina V. Kuchumova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Word Formation ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Language Games ◽  
Modern Poetry ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Language Play ◽  
Poetic Discourse ◽  
Russian Poetry ◽  
Poetic Text ◽  
Hermetic Poetry

The paper provides review of the monograph by Ekaterina Evgrashkina The Semiotic Nature of Semantic Uncertainty in Modern Poetic Discourse (based on German and Russian poetry), published in the Russian language as part of the series NEUERE LYRIK. Interkulturelle und interdisziplinäre Studien. Herausgegeben von Henrieke Stahl, Dmitrij Bak, Hermann Korte, Hiroko Masumoto und Stephanie Sandler. BAND 5. Berlin: Peter Lang, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2019. 173 s. ISBN 978- 3-631-78193-7. The monograph deals with the main trends of German and Russian poetry of the last decades. The focus is on the phenomenon of hermetic poetry. Modern authors consciously choose writing strategies such as literary improvisation, language play, and various intermedial inclusions. The first chapter ‘The problem of poetic meaning’ provides a theoretical framework for the field of research. It introduces the definitions of discourse, the concepts ‘language games’ (developed by L. Wittgenstein), ‘text / discourse’, ‘text / work’, dialogical dimensions of poetic text. The second chapter ‘Semiotics of modern poetry’ covers the concept ‘mobile semiosis’ (J. Baudrillard) and some others. In hermetic poetic discourse, generation of meaning is based on mobile semiosis, in which the relationship of stability between the signifier and the signified is called into question. In The Role of the Reader, Umberto Eco describes two models of the reader, different strategies for interpreting text. Susan Sontag denies the possibility of final interpretation of a text, she suggests eroticism of art instead of hermeneutics. The third chapter ‘Linguistic installations’ considers various manifestations of poetic Hermeticism in modern poetry, the experience of concrete and visual poetry in German: Timm Ulrichs (1940), Klaus Peter Dencker (1941), Barbara Köhler (1959), Werner Herbst (1943–2008), Anatol Knotek (1977), Herta Müller (1953). The final chapter ‘The self-reflexive discourse’ deals with the trend of modern poetry towards free verse and construction of new complex poetic forms. The process of occasional word formation is shown in the lyrical texts by German poets Thomas Kling (1957–2005), Lutz Seiler (1963), Konstantin Ames (1979), Lioba Happel (1957), Thomas Böhme (1955), and by Russian authors Polina Andrukovich (1969), Alexander Ulanov (1963), Dmitry Vorobyov (1979). In poetic discourse, the constitution of the poetic subject correlates with the introduction of new elements of culture into the poetic text. Such innovations do not lead to a mechanical increment of the elementary meaning, but to a structural transformation of the whole picture. The reviewed monograph is significant in that it provides theoretical understanding of individual poetic practices and the analysis of specific empirical material – the latest German and Russian poetry.

scholarly journals Synkretismus jako jazykový jev, lingvistická kategorie a lingvistický termín

2018 ◽  
Vol 165 ◽  
pp. 429-440
Author(s):  
Ladislav Vobořil
Keyword(s):  
Language Play ◽  
Broad Definition ◽  
Universal Language ◽  
Linguistic Term ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Language Universal

Syncretism as language phenomenon, linguistic term and categoryThe author deals with syncretism as both non-linguistic, and linguistic term, notion, language universal, language phenomenon, resulting and deeply interconnected with the language economy principle. First, a broad definition of the term syncretism is given, then the author focuses on theoretical aspects of syncretic issues, taking into account research works by many world-known linguists, predominantly Russian, Czech and some others. Second, syncretism is compared with other notions and terms, used sometimes to described very similar language phenomena, very close to syncretism, such as neutralisation, homonymy, polyfunctionality, polysemy, contamination, language play. The author comes to the conclusion that very often the same language phenomena are called using various terms, syncretic phenomena are not the exception; in various studies the term and notion of syncretism can be understood in different ways.Синкретизм как языковое явление, лингвистический термин и категорияАвтором статьи рассматриваются нелингвистические и лингвистические аспекты син­кретизма как языкового термина и понятия, языковой универсалии, языкового явления, воз­никающего как следствие действия закона языковой экономии. Дается общепринятое опре­деление термина синкретизма, затем автор фокусируется на теоретическом обосновании явления синкретизма, опираясь на работы выдающихся мировых ученых, главным образом, русских, чешских и др. Во второй части статьи синкретизм сопоставляется с другими явлени­ями иизбранными для их наименования в лингвистике терминами, как, например, нейтрали­зация, омонимия, полифункциональность, полисемия, контаминация, языковая игра. Конста­тируется, что не всегда те же самые явления обозначены с помощью тех же самых терминов, явления синкретизма могут обозначаться, используя разные термины, и сама наполненность термина синкретизм варьируется от автора к автору.

scholarly journals Pragmatic essence of linguistic modality in media discourse

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (16) ◽  
pp. 54-59
Author(s):  
Victoria Haenko
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Aspect ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Functional Aspect ◽  
Language Play ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The People ◽  
Evaluative Meaning ◽  
Language Modality ◽  
And Control

The article deals with the problem of correlation between target socio groups in media discourse. It investigates the role modality plays as pragmatic-functional aspect of discourse analysis and studies modality as means of expressing evaluative meaning. The functional aspect of this view reflects the broad objectives of functional linguistics: i.e. relating linguistic structures to social structures. The pragmatic aspect reflects an emphasis that the reader is dependent on a corresponding view of the relationship between the reader, the writer and the text. The studies of modern linguists are broadly concerned with the analysis of ideology in discourse.  The article observes the effects language can have on people, whether through journalistic writing, advertising literature, politics, science.  The study became an attempt to investigate how and which aspects of language play more significant roles in ideology manipulating hearers / readers. It was seen that modality has not only received little consideration at the practical level, but that it had also been handled through the process of modal categorization; i.e. at the theoretical descriptive level. The theoretical aspect of the article is based on the belief that the speech is aimed at attaining certain goals or targets. The article deals with a problem of correlation and interaction between writer and reader, speaker and hearer, text producers and social actors in the process of interpretation. The article investigates the ways the problem can be settled in view of modality as a parameter of discourse analysis to define goals for the target groups outlined above. The study in the article refers to Halliday’s overarching functions: ideational, interpersonal and textual. The article concludes that the realiser of the interpersonal function of language, modality may be used as a linguistic tool to direct and control the behavior of the people.

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