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WHEN FINDING THE WORDS IS A MATTER OF LIFE, DEATH, AND SANITY
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For the last couple of months I have been reading, on and off, the
first volume of Victor Klemperer's diary of life during the Nazi
regime in Germany. Translated from the German by Martin Chalmers and
published under the title "I Will Bear Witness," it spans the years
1933 to 1945. The first volume extends to 1941 (Modern Library,
$14.95, paperback); the second, which covers the final four years,
will be published here soon (Random House, $25.95).
Klemperer - a Jewish convert to Christ...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research
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Defining whole language in a postmodern age.
Australian Journal of Language and Literacy
; Can whole language be 'defined' in the true sense of the word? Lorraine Wilson believes that while whole language can never be 'defined' in the sense suggested by the word's Latin root (definire = to finish, finalise), certain core principles and assumptions can be made explicit. In this article
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Will S. African Language Go Way of Apartheid?
The Washington Post
; ... Cola franchiser and its monopoly beer manufacturer had both decided to drop Afrikaans from the small type on their cans, the news drew howls of protest. Afrikaans-speakers saw the move as both an insult and a warning. They comprise about 3 million whites ...
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HUMAN BEHAVIOR AS LANGUAGE: SOME THOUGHTS ON WITTGENSTEIN
Behavior and Philosophy
; ABSTRACT: Language has been traditionally considered as a special psychological or behavioral phenomenon, with a logical status similar to other phenomena such as learning, memory, and thinking. Based on Wittgenstein's notion of language game, I argue that language is not limited to a psychological
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Our inflationary language: a metaphor of communication. (Metaphors in Action)
ETC.: A Review of General Semantics
; WE USE LANGUAGE, that marvelous technology, to talk about our lives, our past, our future. We can even use language to talk about language. But what happens when language changes its role in our lives -- when we start using it differently, or when it starts using us differently? How can we get a
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Language, history, and class struggle.
Monthly Review
; Language is the immediate actuality of thought. just as philosophers have given thought an independent existence, so they were bound to make language into an independent realm. We are witnessing today a new idealism, infecting large sections of the intellectual left, which has turned language not
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