First Person Singular: Papers from the Conference on an Oral Archive for the History of American Linguistics (Charlotte, N. C., 9-10 March 1979)

Language ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 701
Author(s):  
Robert A. Hall ◽  
Boyd H. Davis ◽  
Raymond K. O'Cain
Keyword(s):  
First Person ◽  
History Of

On the Ancient History of the Direction of the Motion Aftereffect

Perception ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 25 (10) ◽  
pp. 1177-1187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frans A J Verstraten
Keyword(s):  
Visual Illusion ◽  
Motion Aftereffect ◽  
First Person ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
De Rerum Natura ◽  
History Of ◽  
Correct Direction

Scientists agree that Aristotle in his Parva Naturalia was the first to report a visual illusion known as the motion aftereffect (MAE). But there is less consensus as to who was the first to report the direction of the MAE. According to some, Aristotle only described the phenomenon without saying anything about its direction. Others have defended the position that Aristotle did report a direction, but the wrong one. Therefore, it has been suggested that Lucretius in his poem De Rerum Natura was the first to report the correct direction of the MAE. In this paper it is shown why and how it can be inferred that Aristotle did not write about the direction of the MAE, only about its occurrence. It is also argued that it is indeed likely that Lucretius was the first person to report the direction of the MAE. However, this is not as obvious as it might appear at first sight.

The rise of demonstrative-based first/second-person markers in the history of Japanese

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 250-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toshiko Yamaguchi
Keyword(s):  
Early Stage ◽  
First Person ◽  
Semantic Approach ◽  
Second Person ◽  
History Of ◽  
Point Of Departure

This paper explores the rise of demonstrative-based person markers in the history of Japanese and takes Ishiyama’s spatial semantic approach as its point of departure. Despite the claim that demonstrative-based person markers remained functionally demonstrative, I argue that they began to manifest the category of person from an early stage of their development; that is to say, thanks to speaker innovation, demonstratives underwent semantic re-analysis to become markers representing the speaker’s ego in the reality of discourse. This paper also pinpoints that two notions, distancing and dissimilarity, are not spelled out in Ishiyama’s framework. In conclusion, the substitution of the first-person marker for the second-person marker is analysed tentatively using Keller’s theory of linguistic signs.

Philippe Hurault de Cheverny (1528–99) and the Making of Memoirs in Early Modern France

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolae Virastau
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
French Literature ◽  
Private Life ◽  
First Person ◽  
Early Modern France ◽  
Privileged Position ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Modern France ◽  
Public Persona ◽  
History Of

Abstract Memoirs occupy a privileged position in the history of French literature. Historians of French memoirs consider the Memoires d’Estat of Chancellor Philippe Hurault de Cheverny to be a stepping stone in the history of self-writing because they seem to mark a transition from self-narratives focusing on the author’s public persona to a self-writing that emphasizes the author’s private life, that is, to something more akin to modern autobiography. Unlike most autobiographical works printed at the time, Cheverny’s memoirs integrate details about the author’s private life and family affairs into the more common first-person chronicle of his public career. A closer examination reveals, however, that multiple practices of self-writing are at work in Cheverny’s book, and that its apparent originality in the history of memoirs and their relation to autobiography more generally are an effect of editorial changes made after the author’s death. The article argues that practices of collective writing and editing of personal documents were common in the early modern age.

scholarly journals First person objects, antipassives, and the political history of the Southern Kirant

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Balthasar Bickel ◽  
Martin Gaenszle
Keyword(s):  
Political History ◽  
Geographical Area ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
The Political ◽  
First Person ◽  
The Family ◽  
Politeness Strategies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Formal Style

AbstractSeveral Kiranti languages (Tibeto-Burman, Nepal) from different genealogical sub-groups show multiple parallel developments from antipassive constructions with generic, non-specific objects into agreement markers registering first person objects. The developments span a relatively contiguous geographical area in the southernmost part of the family. We explain the developments by contact with politeness strategies of speaker-effacement in Maithili (Indo-Aryan) formal style, with which southern Kiranti elites have been in intense contact in about the same time frame as can be assumed for the emergence of the antipassive-based agreement forms. These findings illustrate a particularly tight interaction between natural (functional) strategies of politeness with specific historical contingencies.

scholarly journals Positioning the Portrayal of White Protagonists in O.A Bushnell’s the Return of Lono and Ka’a’awa

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-67
Author(s):  
Kristiawan Indriyanto ◽  
Ida Rochani Adi ◽  
Muh. Arif Rokhman
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
First Person ◽  
Kanaka Maoli ◽  
Central Figure ◽  
Western Discourse ◽  
Hybrid Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
Universal Truth ◽  
White Settlers

This paper explores the role of literature in the post-truth age through reading on O.A Bushnell’s the Return of Lono and Ka’a’awa. A Hawai’ian novelist, Bushnell contextualizes the earliest interactions between the native Hawai’ian (Kanaka Maoli) and the white settlers which began with the arrival of Captain Cook’s expedition in 1778. Through his fictions, Bushnell underlines positive portrayal of the white characters to provide a counter-discourse to the generally accepted history of Hawai’ian colonialism. Through first person point of view, white characters become the central figure in both of Bushnell’s fictions. Through reading on O.A Bushnell’s narration, this paper aims to elaborate how the Hawai’ian natives also become a willing partner in western colonialism which highlights their colonial complicity. The concept of colonial complicity is employed to highlight the participation of the natives in promoting Western way of thinking. The analysis argues that although Bushnell contextualizes the complicity of the Hawai’ians in promoting Western discourse, resistance also occurs through creation of a hybrid culture.  This paper concludes that in the post truth era, literature should always strive to uncover the truth based on subjective interpretation instead of abiding of a universal truth.

scholarly journals "No Sumbe, ou é poeira ou é lama": um inventário de memórias sobre minha experiência de ensino em Angola / "In the Sumbe, it is dust or it is mud": a briefing of memoirs...

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 238
Author(s):  
Milena Magalhães
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
First Person ◽  
Text Production ◽  
History Of ◽  
Educational Sciences ◽  
The University ◽  
Travel Accounts

Neste texto, o uso da primeira pessoa justifica-se logo nas primeiras linhas. Misto de memórias e reflexões, busco traçar um percurso da minha experiência de ensino em Angola nos anos de 2018 e 2019, quando ministrei os Componentes Curriculares Teoria da produção do texto literário e História da arte contemporânea, no Mestrado em Ciências da Educação, no Instituto Superior de Ciências da Educação do Cuanza Sul, da Universidade Katyavala Bwila, no município do Sumbe. O texto existe como uma tentativa de compreender o que significa estar em outro país como professora. Parto do princípio que, mais do que sobre lugares, os relatos de viagem falam sobre nós mesmos, expondo as fraturas de nossos pensamentos que determinam as relações em sala de aula.Palavras-chave: Angola; Ensino; Relato; Literatura; Artes. ABSTRACT: In this text, the use of the first person is justified in the first lines. A mix of memories and reflections, I try to trace a course of my teaching experience in Angola in 2018 and 2019, when I taught the Curricular Components Theory of literary text production and History of contemporary art, in the Master’s in Educational Sciences course, in the Superior Institute of Sciences of the Education of Cuanza Sul, of the University Katyavala Bwila, in the municipality of Sumbe. The text exists as an attempt to understand what it means to be in another country as a professor. I assume that, rather than being about places, travel accounts speak about ourselves, exposing the fractures of our thoughts that determine the relationships in the classroom.Keywords: Angola; Teaching; Report; Literature; Arts.

scholarly journals Narrar e ser: a pessoalidade do narrador de Eu receberia as piores notícias de seus lindos lábios / Narrating and Being: The Us Narrator’s Personality Eu receberia as piores notícias de seus lindos lábios

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 170
Author(s):  
Netanias Mateus De Souza Castro
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
First Person ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Safe Distance ◽  
History Of The Novel ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Us ◽  
Third Person ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Third Person

Resumo: A história do romance viu, diante de si, formas diversas de narrar, conforme aponta os escritos de Theodor W. Adorno, por exemplo. Desde narradores impessoais, mantendo a distância segura que lhe confere a narrativa em terceira pessoa até os casos em que o que se narra é algo diretamente relacionado ao próprio narrador. Esse parece ser o caso do romance de Marçal Aquino, Eu receberia as piores notícias de seus lindos lábios, que conta o envolvimento amoroso de Cauby e Lavínia a partir do olhar do próprio Cauby. Esse narra de um modo cuja relação de si mesmo com a narrativa fica explícita, tamanha é sua passionalidade em relação às suas vivências e ao ato de narrar. Isso se manifesta tanto na linguagem, em termos de escolhas narrativas, quanto nas ações do narrador-personagem-protagonista que narra e vive aquilo que narra. Suas características mais notáveis são a passionalidade, a capacidade de registrar fotograficamente detalhes da narrativa e o rompimento com técnicas narrativas tradicionais.Palavras-chave: narrador; primeira pessoa; romance brasileiro contemporâneo; Eu receberia as piores notícias de seus lindos lábios.Abstract: The history of the novel saw, before it, different ways of narrating, as pointed out by the writings of Theodor W. Adorno, for example. From impersonal narrators, maintaining the safe distance that the third person narrative gives him until the cases in which what is narrated is something directly related to the narrator himself. This seems to be the case with Marçal Aquino’s novel I would receive the worst news from his beautiful lips, which tells of Cauby and Lavínia’s loving involvement from the point of view of Cauby himself. He narrates in a way whose relationship with himself and the narrative is explicit, such is his passion for his experiences and the act of narrating. This manifests itself both in language, in terms of narrative choices, and in the actions of the narrator-character-protagonist who narrates and experiences what he narrates. Its most notable characteristics are passionality, the ability to photographically record details of the narrative and break with traditional narrative techniques.Keywords: narrator; first person; contemporary Brazilian romance; Eu receberia as piores notícias de seus lindos lábios.

MEMORY IN LIMBO: THE RECONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITY IN MATING BIRDS (1986) BY LEWIS NKOSI

Imbizo ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-56
Author(s):  
Phomolo Mosito
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Black People ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Black Writers ◽  
First Person ◽  
Protest Literature ◽  
History Of ◽  
African Writer ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Memory And Recall

Lewis Nkosi’s novel, Mating birds (1986) offers a significant intervention in a history as dispersed and fragmented as South Africa’s, by focusing on those specific and critical episodes of South Africa’s past. This much-colonised country has had an extended history of perennial violence under colonialism and apartheid Some fiction by Black writers on this phenomenon may be seen to be reactive, what Njabulo Ndebele (South African writer) terms ‘Protest Literature’-and seeks to show black people as victims (Ndebele 1994). Nkosi’s novels, Mating birds (1986) in particular reverse this order through the narratives of different characters, illustrating that black people were not the passive victims of apartheid but played an active role towards its opposition and eradication. This is achieved through complex portrayal of the first-person narrative technique and interstices of memory and recall. This article explores how identity as a porous and fluid, and fragmented and fractured concept that could be used to describe the individual or communa traits of some characters, and space (prison) are portrayed in Lewis Nkosi’s Mating birds (1986).

scholarly journals “WHAT IS THE HISTORY OF BOOKS?” REVISITED

2007 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 495-508 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROBERT DARNTON
Keyword(s):  
Book History ◽  
First Person ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Books

Having accepted the invitation to revisit my essay of 1982, “What Is the History of Books?”, I find that I can do it only in the first person singular and therefore must ask to be excused for indulging in some autobiographical detail. I would also like to make a disclaimer: in proposing a model for studying the history of books twenty-four years ago, I did not mean to tell book historians how they ought to do their jobs. I hoped that the model might be useful in a heuristic way and never thought of it as comparable to the models favored by economists, the kind in which you insert data, work it over, and arrive at a bottom line. (I do not believe that bottom lines exist in history.) It seemed to me in 1982 that the history of books was suffering from fissiparousness: experts were pursuing such specialized studies that they were losing contact with one another. The esoteric elements of book history needed to be integrated into an overview that would show how the parts could connect to form a whole—or what I characterized as a communications circuit. The tendency toward fragmentation and specialization still exists.

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