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Colonialism And Language, Tony Crowley
Colonialism And Language, Tony Crowley
Scripps Faculty Publications and Research
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Marxism And Language, Tony Crowley
Marxism And Language, Tony Crowley
Scripps Faculty Publications and Research
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Nationalism And Language, Tony Crowley
Nationalism And Language, Tony Crowley
Scripps Faculty Publications and Research
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When Saturday Comes: The Boundaries Of Football Rudeness, Tony Crowley
When Saturday Comes: The Boundaries Of Football Rudeness, Tony Crowley
Scripps Faculty Publications and Research
There seems then to have been a modification to the 'structure of feeling' associated with this aspect of rudeness in British society. But there is one place in Britain which has been almost automatically linked with forms of rudeness which are socially unacceptable; a location where offensiveness, crudity, insulting behaviour and nastiness constitute not so much the exception as the norm. Or at least this is how it appears in the social imaginary. The aim of this chapter will be to explore this arena in order to determine what it reveals about both British society and its boundaries of rudeness. …
Book Chapter: The Politics Of Language, Tony Crowley
Book Chapter: The Politics Of Language, Tony Crowley
Scripps Faculty Publications and Research
The most familiar account of the connection between language, mind, and identity, however, comes to us in the work of the post-Kantian idealists such as Fichte and Humboldt. And it is with the legacy of their thought that I will be concerned here.
Book Chapter: The Return Of The Repressed: Saussure And Swift On Language And History, Tony Crowley
Book Chapter: The Return Of The Repressed: Saussure And Swift On Language And History, Tony Crowley
Scripps Faculty Publications and Research
Departures in linguistics are nothing new of course. Ideas come and go, "facts" appear and disappear along with the theories which first brought them to light, trends shift and alter. The language used to describe the history of the field, a field which once constituted a new departure in its own right, is replete with the language of innovation: "breakthrough," "advance," "progress," and even "revolution" are familiar enough epithets. In the face of all this novelty then the question must be, how to do something new? The answer which is proposed here might appear somewhat odd for the intention is …
Book Chapter: That Obscure Object Of Desire: A Science Of Language, Tony Crowley
Book Chapter: That Obscure Object Of Desire: A Science Of Language, Tony Crowley
Scripps Faculty Publications and Research
The task will be to bring to light the repressions necessary to sustain the new science of language and its newly found object and to examine its alleged scientific neutrality.
"The Power Of Speech/ To Stir Men's Blood": The Language Of Tragedy In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Gayle Greene
"The Power Of Speech/ To Stir Men's Blood": The Language Of Tragedy In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Gayle Greene
Scripps Faculty Publications and Research
In the Rome of julius Caesar, language is power and characters rise or fall on the basis of their ability to wield words. Their awareness of the importance of language is indicated by terms they associate with it.