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From My Lecture Serie at the University of Freiburg (Germany) 2011 You could watch the full presentation via YouTube The Present Perfect tense in German and English share similarities but also have distinct differences in their formation and usage. Here's a detailed explanation: Formation of Present Perfect Tense German: The Present Perfect tense in German, also known as *Perfekt*, is formed using the auxiliary verbs *haben* (to have) or *sein* (to be) and the past participle of the main verb. 1. **Auxiliary Verb:** - *haben* is used with most verbs. - *sein* is used with verbs that indicate movement or a change of state, and with a few others. 2. **Past Participle:** - For regular verbs, the past participle is formed by adding *-ge-* to the verb stem and *-t* or *-et* to the end of the verb. - e.g., *machen* (to do) → *gemacht* - For irregular verbs, the past participle often involves a vowel change and ends in *-en*. - e.g., *sehen* (to see) → *gesehen* **Examples:** - Ich habe das Buch gelesen. (I have read the book.) - Er ist nach Hause gegangen. (He has gone home.) #### English: The Present Perfect tense in English is formed using the auxiliary verb *have* (in the appropriate form) and the past participle of the main verb. 1. **Auxiliary Verb:** - *have* for first and second person singular and all plural forms. - *has* for third person singular. 2. **Past Participle:** - Regular verbs form the past participle by adding *-ed* to the base form. - e.g., *walk* → *walked* - Irregular verbs have unique past participles. - e.g., *see* → *seen* **Examples:** - I have read the book. - He has gone home. ##Comparison of Present Perfect Tense in German and English: 1. **Formation:** - Both languages use an auxiliary verb and a past participle. - German uses either *haben* or *sein* as auxiliaries, while English uses only *have* (or *has*). 2. **Usage:** - In English, the Present Perfect tense is used to express actions that occurred at an unspecified time in the past and are relevant to the present. - e.g., I have eaten breakfast. (At some point before now, but the exact time is not important.) - In German, the Present Perfect is often used in spoken language to refer to past actions, taking the place of the simple past, especially in conversational contexts. - e.g., Ich habe gefrühstückt. (I ate breakfast.) Alignment with Simple Past in English: The Simple Past tense in English is used to describe actions that were completed at a specific point in the past. In contrast, the Present Perfect tense in English does not specify when the action occurred and is often used to indicate relevance to the present moment. **Examples:** - Simple Past: I ate breakfast. (Specifies a completed action in the past.) - Present Perfect: I have eaten breakfast. (Indicates the action was completed at some point before now, without specifying when.) In German, the simple past (*Präteritum*) is typically used in written language and formal contexts, while the Present Perfect (*Perfekt*) is preferred in spoken language for past events. **Examples:** - Simple Past (German): Ich aß Frühstück. (I ate breakfast. - more common in written form) - Present Perfect (German): Ich habe gefrühstückt. (I ate breakfast. - more common in spoken form)

*Linguistic Anthropology* The development of linguistics within the context of anthropology can be understood through the successive emergence and complex interplay of Folk Linguistics, National Philologies, and General Philology (or General Linguistics). This framework, while intentional in its evolutionary perspective, recognizes progress through specific criteria rather than implying a linear progression. It highlights the empirically observed stages of human culture, aligning with Julian Steward's concept of "multilinear" evolution, where different linguistic communities evolve in diverse ways. This framework mirrors sociolinguistic development, reflecting the dynamic and varied nature of linguistic communities from aboriginal dialects to contemporary linguistic forms. The development of linguistics and sociolinguistic types reveals that while both fields are intrinsically motivated by social needs, they reflect distinct aspects of linguistic study. Linguistics as a discipline serves as a tool to address social phenomena, and its history intersects with that of civilization, characterized by the emergence and interaction of societies justified by oral traditions, revered texts, and scholarly pursuits. Importantly, the distinction among the three levels—General Philology, National Philologies, and Folk Linguistics—does not suggest a simple evolutionary hierarchy. Folk linguistics persists in all societies, and new national philologies continue to emerge alongside General Linguistics. The relationship between these levels may not always follow a natural developmental trajectory; instead, they may represent divergent, reactive, or opposing intellectual movements. From an anthropological perspective, all three levels—Folk Linguistics, National Philologies, and General Philology—are vital for understanding the history of language study and its role in culture. The variation in how language is situated within different cultural and historical contexts necessitates a comparative approach, integrating historical insights with contemporary ethnographic studies. This comprehensive view underscores the integral role of language in shaping and reflecting human social life across diverse societies and historical periods.

 If you've taken Linguistics 101, you know what language is. It's a system for conveying meaning through speech. We build words out of sounds, and then complex ideas out of those words. Remarkably, the relationship between the sounds and the meanings they convey is purely arbitrary. Human language consists, in other words, of abstract symbols. Now, of course, there are also sign languages, but these operate in the same way, just in a different medium. This, anyway, is the view of language that has dominated and defined linguistics for many decades. But some think it gets some pretty fundamental things pretty wrong. Some think we need a new picture of language altogether.  My guest today is Dr. Neil Cohn. Neil is Associate Professor at the Tilburg Center for Cognition and Communication, in the Netherlands; he is also the director of the Visual Language Lab at Tilburg. For about two decades, Neil has been studying the rich properties of graphic systems—especially comics—and has built an argument that some constitute full-blown languages. His latest book, co-authored with, Joost Schilperoord, is titled A Multimodal Language Faculty. It challenges that longstanding, deeply held view of what language is. Instead, the book argues that the human language capacity combines three different modalities—the vocal modality (as in speech), the bodily modality (as in gesture), and the graphic modality (as in comics and other visual narratives). And each of these modalities is naturally able to support full-blown languages. Here, Neil and I talk about the basic assumptions of modern linguistics and where those assumptions come from. We discuss the idea that there are three expressive modalities that come naturally to humans, with each modality optimized for certain kinds of meaning. We talk about Neil's career, not only as an academic, but as an illustrator. We discuss cross-cultural differences and similarities in comics, and how comics have changed over the last century. And, finally, we consider how Neil's framework challenges current theorizing about the evolution of language. Along the way, Neil and I touch on sign languages and homesign systems, visual style vs visual language, Peircean semiotics, animal tracks, cave art, emoji, upfixes, sand drawing, Manga, the refrain "I can't draw," and the idea that the graphic modality is the only one that's truly unique to our species.  After this episode we'll be taking a bit of a summer break, but we'll be posting some old favorites to tide you over. Alright friends, hope you enjoy this one. On to my conversation with Neil Cohn. Enjoy!   A transcript of this episode will be available soon.   Notes and links 3:30 – An earlier paper by Dr. Cohn on the well-worn refrain “I can't draw.” His more recent Twitter thread covering the topic.  9:00 – An overview of research on homesign systems. For a broader discussion of differences between gesture, homesign systems, and established sign languages, see here.  15:00 – A comic, ‘Chinese Room,' commissioned by the philosopher Dan Dennett and drawn by Dr. Cohn. 19:30 – The webpage of Dr. Cohn's graduate mentor, Ray Jackendoff. 25:00 – A brief overview paper by Dr. Cohn and Dr. Schilperoord on the need to “reimagine language.” 25:30 – The classic book, based on lecture notes, by Ferdinand de Saussure, ‘Course in General Linguistics.'  44:00 – For an overview of “bimodal bilingualism,” see here.  50:00 – A study by Dr. Cohn and colleagues on the processing of emoji substituted for words. 56:00 – A recent study by Dr. Cohn and colleagues on anaphora in visual narratives.  58:30 – For our previous audio essay on animal (and human) tracks, see here.  1:01:30 – For examples of scholarship on non-Western methods of visual storytelling, including Aboriginal Australian sand drawing, see Dr. Cohn's earlier edited volume here. For a deeper dive into sand drawing, see the monograph by Jenny Green here.  1:03:00 – Dr. Cohn also recently published a book on cross-cultural aspects of comics, The Patterns of Comics. The book is the fruit of his lab's TINTIN project.  1:11:00 – For a video of Aboriginal Australian sand drawing, see here. 1:13:00 – See Dr. Cohn's earlier book, Who Understands Comics? 1:15:00 – A study on “upfixes” by Dr. Cohn and a colleague. 1:22:00 – A popular article by Dr. Cohn on the linguistic status of emoji. 1:31:00 – For a deep dive into Peircean semiotics, see here. 1:36:00 – For my own general-audience treatment of “gesture first” theories of language evolution and the “modality transition” problem, see here. 1:37:00 – A paper by Dr. Jackendoff and Eva Wittenberg outlining their “complexity hierarchy.”  ­­­­1:50:00 – For the Getty museum exhibit associated with Dr. Cohn's lecture, see here.   Recommendations The Texture of the Lexicon, by Jenny Audring and Ray Jackendoff Battle in the Mind Fields, by John Goldsmith and Bernard Laks History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences podcast, hosted by James McElvenny   Many Minds is a project of the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute, which is made possible by a generous grant from the Templeton World Charity Foundation to UCLA. It is hosted and produced by Kensy Cooperrider, with help from Assistant Producer Urte Laukaityte and with creative support from DISI Directors Erica Cartmill and Jacob Foster. Our artwork is by Ben Oldroyd. Our transcripts are created by Sarah Dopierala.  Subscribe to Many Minds on Apple, Stitcher, Spotify, Pocket Casts, Google Play, or wherever you listen to podcasts. You can also now subscribe to the Many Minds newsletter here! We welcome your comments, questions, and suggestions. Feel free to email us at: manymindspodcast@gmail.com.  For updates about the show, visit our website or follow us on Twitter: @ManyMindsPod.

First of all, I am going to have to admit - the quality of this audio is bad since I am experiencing some issues with my microphone. Still, I hope it won´t be too distracting and I apologize for the inconvenience.Slavic languages express the belonging of the person or object in question through the reflexive-possessive pronoun *

My guest this month is Ananya Vajpeyi (read more about her and her main publications here). Her current academic home is the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) in Delhi. As you will hear, I did not have a lot of work this time: Ananya only required minimal prompting to tell me the story of her life so far, which spans several countries in three continents and many fascinating encounters in and around academia. Ananya's many teachers include Arindam Chakrabarti, Madhu Khanna, Robert Young, Alexis Sanderson, Jim Benson, Matthew Kapstein, Patrick Olivelle, David Shulman,  Sheldon Pollock, Gayatri Spivak and Wendy Doniger. She has worked closely with Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Ashis Nandy and Rajeev Bhargava.She studied and did research at Lady Shri Ram College, the School of Languages at JNU, the University of Oxford, the University of Chicago, the University of Pune, Deccan College and the Bhandarkar Institute.Read more about Ferdinand de Saussure and his Course in General Linguistics, the volume resulting from the 'Ideology and Status of Sanskrit conference; about shudras, Shivaji, Ambedkar and Jim Laine; the Murty Library and the controversy around its editor; and about the fellowships at the Kluge Center and at CRASSH. 

What is the best way to think about language? Where does it come from? How do we use it? One important resource in answering these kinds of questions has been Ferdinand de Saussure's Course in General Linguistics (1916). In this episode I explore Saussure's view of language and speech and his theory of the linguistic unit or sign.

Season 3; Episode 1 "She not a lesbian, for P, she turn Pesbian" - Gunna ft. Future. What does this mean? Perhaps Swiss Linguist and Philosopher, Ferdinand de Sausser, can help us figure it out. Take a trip through our consciousness as we discuss music, language, and perspective. Sources: Sausser, Frederick. Course in General Linguistics. 1959. Claringbole, Tyler. Rap Music: Meaningful Rhythmic Songs or Garbage? Instagram / TikTok / Twitter: @philosophysayz Business Inquiries: streamourconsciousness@gmail.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Host Chris Wright will be exploring the origins of human language regarding onomatopoeia and word echoic bases. Could it be that all words originate from the sound that the object makes in nature? Point Counterpoint links: https://linktr.ee/PointCounterpoint References: Coker, L. (2016). Tolkien's linguistics: The artificial languages of quenya and sindarin., 1242-1249. http://libjournals.unca.edu/ncur/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/1881-Coker-Laura-FINAL.pdf​ Elijah Omwansa Mariera. (2020). Onomatopoeic infinitives and nouns in EkeGusii: Evidence for imagic and relative iconicity. Macrolinguistics, 8(12), 36-54. https://doi.org/10.26478/ja2020.8.12.3​ Forschner, M. (1981). Die stoische Ethik: Über den Zusammenhang von Natur-, Sprach- und Moralphilosophie im altstoischen System, Darmstadt 19952, 1st ed. pp. 67–84. https://www.academia.edu/37327154/Language_and_ontology_in_Stoic_philosophy​ Green, H. (CrashCourse), (2016). Language & meaning: Crash course philosophy #26. [Video/DVD] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmwgmt7wcv8&ab_channel=CrashCourse​ Kneis, A . (2011). “10 Common Words You Had No Idea Were Onomatopoeias.” Cracked. https://ajax.cracked.com/article_19568_10-common-words-you-had-no-idea-were-onomatopoeias.html. ​ LAING, C. (2019). A role for onomatopoeia in early language: Evidence from phonological development. Language and Cognition, 11(2), 173-187. doi:10.1017/langcog.2018.23​ Lemasson, A., Ouattara, K., Bouchet, H. et al. Speed of call delivery is related to context and caller identity in Campbell's monkey males. Naturwissenschaften 97, 1023–1027 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00114-010-0715-6 Mariera, E. O. (2020). Onomatopoeic infinitives and nouns in EkeGusii: Evidence for imagic and relative iconicity. Macrolinguistics, 8(12), 36-54. https://doi.org/10.26478/ja2020.8.12.3​ Online etymology dictionary. (2021). https://www.etymonline.com/​ Osaka, N. (1990). Multidimensional analysis of onomatopoeia : A note to make sensory scale from words. 音声科学研究 = Studia Phonologica, 24, 25-33. https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=jairo_______::0c333caf8e40423ec4cf2533b3b52e92​ Plato, Cratylus (c. 360 BCE). Trans. Jowett, B., https://freeclassicebooks.com/Plato/Cratylus.pdf​ Quinlan, K. C. (2021). Campbell's mona monkey. https://www.neprimateconservancy.org/campbells-mona-monkey.html​ Ramelow, A. (2008). Language without Reduction: Aquinas and the Linguistic Turn. Angelicum. https://www.academia.edu/37997108/Language_without_Reduction_Aquinas_and_the_Linguistic_Turn​ Smith, A.R. (2017). [Review of the book A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages, by J.R.R. Tolkien]. Tolkien Studies 14, 169-184. doi:10.1353/tks.2017.0013.​ Tolkien, J. R. R. (2016). A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages. United Kingdom: HarperCollins Publishers. http://libjournals.unca.edu/ncur/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/1881-Coker-Laura-FINAL.pdf Additional Resources: Borges, J. L. (1944). Pierre Menard, Autor del Quixote. Ficciones. Buenos Aires:​ Dingemanse, M. (2012). Advances in the cross-linguistic study of ideophones. Linguistics and Language Compass, 6, 654–672.​ Dingemanse, M. 2018. Redrawing the Margins of Language: Lessons from research on ideophones [J]. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, 3(1):4​ Frege, G. (1892). "On Sense and Reference" ["Über Sinn und Bedeutung"], Zeitschrift für Philosophie und philosophische Kritik, vol. 100, pp. 25–50​ Tolkien, J. R. R. (2012). The Hobbit. HarperCollins. Wittgenstein, L. (1921). Tractatus logico-philosophicus. W. Ostwald's Annalen der Naturphilosophie. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/pointcounterpoint/support

Semiotics came into being with the publishing of Ferdinand de Saussure's Course on General Linguistics in 1916. It contained distinctions such as langue vs parole as well as the signifier and signified that make up the Sign — Saussure's fundamental unit of language. The Semiotics school of thought would go on to be a major influence on the Existentialists such as Sartre, the Structuralists such as Jacques Lacan, Levi-Strauss and Roland Barthes and the Poststructuralists Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault. In this episode we examine what the Semiotics theory is through Ferdinand de Saussure's distinction between synchronic and diachronic linguistics, his distinction between langue and parole. With this foundation in place we will explore his contributions to this new science of language and what these explained — his definition of a Sign as being a signifier and a signified, the arbitrary nature of these and also the fact that language is a matter of difference and relations between signs in the system rather than naming. All of this will serve to have the basics of Semiotics explained. _________________ ⭐ Support the channel (thank you!) ▶ Patreon: https://patreon.com/thelivingphilosophy ▶ Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/thelivingphilosophy_________________⌛ Timestamps:0:00 Introduction1:45 Diachronic vs Synchronic3:01 Langue vs Parole6:06 Sign: Signifiers and Signifieds8:40 Arbitrary Language12:04 Language: Differences & Relations13:37 Summary

Antics ensue. We serve up a piping hot summary, chat about mannequins, rank this baby, and exeunt into the night.ResourcesThe Two Noble Kinsmen by William Shakespeare (Arden edition)Bill and Ted's Excellent AdventureBetween Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire by Eve Kosofsky SedgwickHair: The MusicalThe X FilesCourse in General Linguistics by Ferdinand de SaussureCurrent standings1 - The Two Noble Kinsmen2 - Troilus and Cressida

In Saussure’s Linguistics, Structuralism, and Phenomenology: The Course in General Linguistics after a Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), Beata Stawarska guides us to consider Ferdinand de Saussure’s Course in General Linguistics anew. By delving into Saussure’s autograph notes, letters, and student lecture notes Stawarska reframes all of the hierarchical pairs promoted as part of his doctrine—the signifier and the signified, la langue and la parole, synchrony and diachrony. The book performs reading and writing without borders that it also argues Saussure thought necessary to think about language. Along the way, it questions sedimented ideas about structuralism, post-structuralism, phenomenology, and the object of linguistics, which is to say, language Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Saussure’s Linguistics, Structuralism, and Phenomenology: The Course in General Linguistics after a Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), Beata Stawarska guides us to consider Ferdinand de Saussure’s Course in General Linguistics anew. By delving into Saussure’s autograph notes, letters, and student lecture notes Stawarska reframes all of the hierarchical pairs promoted as part of his doctrine—the signifier and the signified, la langue and la parole, synchrony and diachrony. The book performs reading and writing without borders that it also argues Saussure thought necessary to think about language. Along the way, it questions sedimented ideas about structuralism, post-structuralism, phenomenology, and the object of linguistics, which is to say, language Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Saussure’s Linguistics, Structuralism, and Phenomenology: The Course in General Linguistics after a Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), Beata Stawarska guides us to consider Ferdinand de Saussure’s Course in General Linguistics anew. By delving into Saussure’s autograph notes, letters, and student lecture notes Stawarska reframes all of the hierarchical pairs promoted as part of his doctrine—the signifier and the signified, la langue and la parole, synchrony and diachrony. The book performs reading and writing without borders that it also argues Saussure thought necessary to think about language. Along the way, it questions sedimented ideas about structuralism, post-structuralism, phenomenology, and the object of linguistics, which is to say, language Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Všetci dobre poznáte túto otázku: Čo bolo skôr? Sliepka alebo vajce? Čo ak by som sa vás ale spýtal, čo bolo skôr, teda, čo spôsobilo alebo od čoho záleží, že je niečo, čo poviem zmysluplné? Záleží od povahu vecí, o ktorých hovorím? Napríklad, že dom je dom, lebo existuje niečo, na čo viem ukázať a povedať, aha dom! Alebo záleží zmysluplnosť slova dom od toho, aké má miesto v celkovej štruktúre jazyka?----more---- Inými slovami, čo bolo skôr? Slová alebo vety? Objekty alebo štruktúra, ktorá ich spája? Ak ste naklonený k odpovedi, že zmysluplnosť nášho jazyka garantuje jeho štruktúra, tak potom vám blahoželám, a či už ste o tom vedeli alebo nie, ste štrukturalista! A o tom, kto štrukturalizmus vymyslel a prečo spôsobil začiatkom minulého storočia malú revolúciu si dnes povieme. Prečítajte si túto dávku aj ako článok na SME: https://bit.ly/SME_davka154  Súvisiace dávky: PD#144: Postmodernizmus, https://bit.ly/davka144PD#77: Závisí realita od náš či my od nej?, https://bit.ly/davka77PD#67: Heidegger a Sartre, https://bit.ly/davka67Použitá a odporúčaná literatúra: John E. Joseph, „Ferdinand de Saussure“ (Oxford Research Encyclopedias), https://bit.ly/315QuTlStephen West, „Structuralism and Context“, https://bit.ly/2AWZ4J9Paul H. Fry, „Semiotics and Structurelism“ z kurzu Introduction to Theory of Literature (Open Yale Courses), https://bit.ly/3hWWdkkScholz, Barbara C., Pelletier, Francis Jeffry and Pullum, Geoffrey K., „Philosophy of Linguistics" (SEP), https://stanford.io/3hTylOgFerdinand de Saussure, Course in General Linguistics (1916), https://amzn.to/3fND5DwStephen West, „Structuralism and Mythology pt. 1“, https://bit.ly/2zUbAc4Stephen West, „Structuralism and Mythology pt. 2“, https://bit.ly/37QmGLuLawrence Cahoon, „Culture, Hermeneutics, Structure“ z kurzu The Modern Intellectual Tradition: From Descartes to Derrida, https://bit.ly/3dkR55SStructuralism (Encyclopaedia Britannica), https://bit.ly/2Z0MwbF ***Dobré veci potrebujú svoj čas. Staň sa patrónom Tvojho obľúbeného podcastu cez Patreon ❤️ (https://bit.ly/PatreonPD) alebo nás podpor jednorazovo či trvalým príkazom (https://bit.ly/CHCEMpodporit). Ďakujeme!

In this episode, I discuss the relationship between Ferdinand de Saussure's Course in General Linguistics, from which we get the terms sign, signifier, and signified, and later iterations of structuralism, such as Roland Barthes' "The World of Wrestling" (from Mythologies, and available on Blackboard). 

On this episode, I am joined by Dr. Geoff Pullum, Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh where he has been since 2007. Previously, Dr. Pullum was a faculty member at University College London and at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and a fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Dr. Pullum has previously served as Dean of Graduate Studies and Research, as Distinguished Professor of Humanities, and as Head of Linguistics and English Language. Dr. Pullum was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003, a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of American in 2007, and a Fellow of the British Academy in 2009. He is the winner (with Mark Liberman) of the Linguistics, Language, and the Public Award from the Linguistic Society of America in 2009 for work on the group linguistic science blog Language Log. He is also the co-author (with Rodney Huddleston) of The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (2002), which won the Leonard Bloomfield Book Award from the Linguistic Society of America in 2004. Dr. Pullum also blogs at Lingua Franca for the Chronicle of Higher Education. Segment 1: What is theoretical research? [00:00-11:52] In this first segment, Geoff defines theoretical research and shares some examples from his own work. Segment 2: Explaining theoretical research to the public [11:53-22:12] In segment two, Geoff shares some of the ways he approaches sharing theoretical research with the public and how he employs humor. Segment 3: Co-authorship [22:13-33:39] In segment three, Geoff talks about a few of his many collaborations and how some of these experiences come to be. Bonus Clip: Being an Academic Blogger [00:00-5:18] In this bonus clip, Geoff shares how he began blogging as an academic and the insights he’s gained along the way. To share feedback about this podcast episode, ask questions that could be featured in a future episode, or to share research-related resources, contact the “Research in Action” podcast: Twitter: @RIA_podcast or #RIA_podcast Email: riapodcast@oregonstate.edu Voicemail: 541-737-1111 If you listen to the podcast via iTunes, please consider leaving us a review.

Dr Joe Bray from the School of English looks at Austen’s Style, drawing on examples from Sense and Sensibility (1811), Emma (1816) and Persuasion (1818). It is recommended that you download the accompanying PDF (found separately in this collection) in order to reference whilst watching this video. Joe's profile from the University of Sheffield website: "My main research interests are in literary stylistics, specifically the narrative style of the eighteenth and early nineteenth-century novel. I am also interested in book history, textual culture and experimental literature. I was awarded my PhD by the University of Cambridge in 1997, having previously taken a BA in English and an MPhil in General Linguistics there. The topic of my thesis was the emergence of free indirect discourse in the late eighteenth century, in the period between Samuel Richardson and Jane Austen. I then taught for two years (1997-9) at the University of Strathclyde and for five (2000-5) at the University of Stirling. In both departments I taught on literature and linguistic courses, as well as in the area of literary stylistics. At Strathclyde I taught on the MPhil in Literary Linguistics, and at Stirling I convened the core undergraduate course Language and Literature. In September 2005 I joined the University of Sheffield, where I teach on the Language and Literature undergraduate degree, the MA in English Language and Literature and various Literature modules."

A Student’s Guide to the History of Linguistics Based on Example Sentences; by Franz Neumayer; From Volume CLXII, Number 3, of Speculative Grammarian, August 2011 — The following sentences exemplify important concepts in linguistics, and relate them to the linguists whose names are most associated with their development. They are provided as a service to MA students reviewing for comprehensive exams. (Read by Trey Jones.)

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. University Professor Haun Saussy delivers his inaugural lecture entitled “Askance from Translation” on Friday, May 18, 2012, in Harper. Saussy examines interlinguistic exchange in such forms as loanwords, creoles, misunderstandings, and transliterations that constitute the awkward double of traditional translation. Saussy stresses that translation is not the only channel for communicative exchange and an investigation of the role of translation’s double is worthwhile in critical scholarship. Saussy was appointed University Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the College in July 2011. He specializes in classical Chinese poetry, the comparative study of oral traditions, and translation issues, among other subjects. His books include The Problem of a Chinese Aesthetic, Great Walls of Discourse, and new editions of modernist touchstones such as Saussure’s Course in General Linguistics and the Fenollosa/Pound essay On the Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry.

On Ferdinand de Saussure's Course in General Linguistics (1916) (Part I and Part II, Ch. 4), Claude Levi-Strauss's "The Structural Study of Myth" (1955), and Jacques Derrida's "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences" (1966). What is language? What is the relation between language and reality? With guest C. Derick Varn. Get the full discussion at partiallyexaminedlife.com.