Shift Linguals

Shift Linguals

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  • Author: Edward S. Robinson
  • Publisher: Rodopi
  • ISBN: 9042033045
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 289

Shift Linguals traces a history of the cut-up method, the experimental writing practice discovered by Brion Gysin and made famous by Beat author William S. Burroughs. From the groundbreaking works of Dada and Surrealism that paved the way for BurroughsOCO breakthrough, through the countercultural explosion of the 1960s, Shift Linguals explores the evolution of the cut-ups within the theoretical frameworks of postmodernism and the avant-garde to arrive at the present and the digital age.Some 50 years on from the first OCydiscoveryOCO of the cut-ups in 1959, it is only now that we are truly able to observe the methodOCOs impact, not only on literature, but on music and culture in a broader sense. The result of over nine years of research, this study represents the first sustained and detailed analysis of the cut-ups as a narrative form. With explorations of the works of Burroughs, Gysin, Kathy Acker, and John Giorno, it also contains the first critical writing on the works of Claude P(r)lieu and Carl Weissner in English, as well as the first in-depth discussion of the writing of Stewart Home to date."


Reversing Language Shift

Reversing Language Shift

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  • Author: Joshua A. Fishman
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 9781853591211
  • Category : Psychology
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 452

This book is about the theory and practice of assistance to speech-communities whose native languages are threatened because their intergenerational continuity is proceeding negatively, with fewer and fewer speakers (or readers, writers and even understanders) every generation.


Language Maintenance and Shift

Language Maintenance and Shift

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  • Author: Anne Pauwels
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1107043697
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 221

A comprehensive discussion of the key aspects of this important sub-field of language contact and multilingualism studies.


The Verticalization Model of Language Shift

The Verticalization Model of Language Shift

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  • Author: Joshua R. Brown
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 0192633589
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 257

This book introduces a new and still emerging theoretical framework for understanding language shift and uses this approach to explore a range of minority language communities in the United States. To date, approaches to language shift have typically relied on explaining the process through descriptive sociolinguistic models, i.e., how the community first becomes bilingual in both the majority and minority languages and then eventually shifts entirely to the majority language. The contributions in this volume instead attribute shift to a change from local control of tightly interconnected 'horizontal' institutions within a community to more external or 'vertical' control of those increasingly autonomous institutions outside the community; in short, language shift is driven by specific changes in community structure. In addition, unlike previous approaches to language shift, the one proposed here is generalizable. Following an introduction to the theory, the main five chapters in the book offer case studies of individual language communities, in different contexts and different periods. The final three chapters of the book take a broader perspective, looking beyond the United States: two leading specialists in the field provide critical commentaries on the theoretical approach and offer refinements to a theory of language shift, before a concluding chapter draws together the findings of the case studies and reflections on the commentaries. The volume will appeal to researchers and students in the fields of language revitalization, community studies, sociolinguistics, and social history.


Scandinavian Object Shift and Optimality Theory

Scandinavian Object Shift and Optimality Theory

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  • Author: E. Engels
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 1137431644
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 154

This book presents an account of object shift, a word order phenomenon found in most of the Scandinavian languages where an object occurs unexpectedly to the left and not to the right of a sentential adverbial. With new and original observations, it is an important addition to the fields of phonology, optimality theory and theoretical syntax.


A Theory of Indexical Shift

A Theory of Indexical Shift

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  • Author: Amy Rose Deal
  • Publisher: MIT Press
  • ISBN: 0262359138
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 196

A comprehensive overview of the semantics and syntax of indexical shift that develops a constrained typology of the phenomenon across languages. The phenomenon of indexical shift--whereby indexicals embedded in speech or attitude reports draw their meaning from an attitude event rather than the utterance context--has been reported in languages spanning five continents and at least ten language families. In this book, Amy Rose Deal offers a comprehensive overview of the semantics and syntax of indexical shift and develops a constrained typology of the phenomenon across languages--a picture of variation that is both rich enough to capture the known facts and restrictive enough to make predictions about currently unknown data points.


Beat Drama

Beat Drama

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  • Author: Deborah Geis
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
  • ISBN: 1472567897
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 376

Readers and acolytes of the vital early 1950s-mid 1960s writers known as the Beat Generation tend to be familiar with the prose and poetry by the seminal authors of this period: Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Diane Di Prima, and many others. Yet all of these authors, as well as other less well-known Beat figures, also wrote plays-and these, together with their countercultural approaches to what could or should happen in the theatre-shaped the dramatic experiments of the playwrights who came after them, from Sam Shepard to Maria Irene Fornes, to the many vanguard performance artists of the seventies. This volume, the first of its kind, gathers essays about the exciting work in drama and performance by and about the Beat Generation, ranging from the well-known Beat figures such as Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs, to the "Afro-Beats†? - LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), Bob Kaufman, and others. It offers original studies of the women Beats - Di Prima, Bunny Lang - as well as groups like the Living Theater who in this era first challenged the literal and physical boundaries of the performance space itself.


William S. Burroughs

William S. Burroughs

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  • Author: Barry Miles
  • Publisher: Hachette UK
  • ISBN: 0297867261
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 416

Authoritative biography of cult writer and author of NAKED LUNCH, William Burroughs (1914-1997). It has been 50 years since Norman Mailer asserted, 'I think that William Burroughs is the only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed by genius.' This assessment holds true today. No-one since then has taken such risks in their writing, developed such individual radical political ideas, or spanned such a wide range of media - Burroughs has written novels, memoirs, technical manuals and poetry, he has painted, made collages, taken thousands of photographs, made visual scrapbooks, produced hundreds of hours of experimental tapes, acted in movies and recorded more CDs than most rock groups. Made a cult figure by the publication of NAKED LUNCH, Burroughs was a mentor to the 1960s youth culture. Underground papers referred to him as 'Uncle Bill' and he ranked alongside Bob Dylan and the Beatles, Buckminster Fuller and R.D. Laing as one of the 'gurus' of the youth movement who might just have the secret of the universe. Based upon extensive research, this biography paints a new portrait of Burroughs, making him real to the reader and showing how he was perceived by his contemporaries in all his guises - from icily distant to voluble drunk. It shows how his writing was very much influenced by his life situation and by the people he met on his travels around America and Europe. He was, beneath it all, a man torn by emotions: his guilt at not visiting his doting mother; his despair at not responding to reconciliation attempts from his father; his distance from his brother; the huge void that separated him from his son; and above all his killing of his wife, Joan Vollmer.


Foundations of Programming Languages

Foundations of Programming Languages

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  • Author: Kent D. Lee
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 3319133144
  • Category : Computers
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 354

This clearly written textbook introduces the reader to the three styles of programming, examining object-oriented/imperative, functional, and logic programming. The focus of the text moves from highly prescriptive languages to very descriptive languages, demonstrating the many and varied ways in which we can think about programming. Designed for interactive learning both inside and outside of the classroom, each programming paradigm is highlighted through the implementation of a non-trivial programming language, demonstrating when each language may be appropriate for a given problem. Features: includes review questions and solved practice exercises, with supplementary code and support files available from an associated website; provides the foundations for understanding how the syntax of a language is formally defined by a grammar; examines assembly language programming using CoCo; introduces C++, Standard ML, and Prolog; describes the development of a type inference system for the language Small.


Principles of Dental Imaging

Principles of Dental Imaging

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  • Author: Olaf E. Langland
  • Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
  • ISBN: 9780781729659
  • Category : Medical
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 486

This new edition successfully combines elements of radiographic technique with interpretation information for readers. Five sections cover the concepts of radiologic imaging, radiographic techniques and procedures, special imaging techniques, radiation health, and assessment and interpretation. Based on the Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology guidelines published by the American Association of Dental Schools, this unique book features numerous high-quality photographs, radiographs, and line drawings. New information on digital radiography, radiation health, periodontal disease, and image assessment is included, as well as chapter review questions, case-based questions, and workshop and laboratory exercises. To help readers prepare for certification, sample multiple-choice and case-based questions for the National and State Board Certification Examinations are also included.