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Singing the world: Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of language
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Our language is less emotional than its rudimentary forms. There would not have been an initial difference between the act of speaking and the act of singing.... The initial form of language, therefore, would have been a kind of song. Men would have sung their feelings before communicating their thought. Just as writing was at first painting, language at first would have been song.... It is through the exercise of this song that men would have tried out their power of expression.
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Language matters
et Cetera
; How we use language determines the way we evaluate our relationship with ourselves, others, and our world. Many human problems can be traced to our ignorance of the ways we use language and the ways language influences us. - Alfred Korzybski We use language to speak, write, read, and listen. We use
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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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 "The Economist (US)")
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A world empire by other means - The triumph of English; The English language.(The spread of English)
The Economist (US)
; The new world language seems to be good for everyone--except the speakers of minority tongues, and native English-speakers too perhaps IT IS everywhere. Some 380m people speak it as their first language and perhaps two-thirds as many again as their second. A billion are learning it, about a third
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Language and Cultural Change: Aspects of the Study and Use of Language in the Later Middle Ages and the Renaissance.(Book review)
Renaissance Quarterly
; Lodi Nauta, ed. Language and Cultural Change: Aspects of the Study and Use of Language in the Later Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Groningen Studies in Cultural Change 24. Leuven: Peeters Publishers and Booksellers, 2006. xiv + 224 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. [euro]45. ISBN: 90-429-1757-1. This
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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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