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Introductory notes to a grammar of Cahuilla : [to appear in Linguistic Studies offered to Joseph Greenberg on the occasion of his 60th birthday]
No full textThese notes grew out of my preoccupation with writing a grammar of a particular language, Cahuilla, which is spoken in Southern California and belongs to the Uto-Aztecan family. [...] The Introduction to the Grammar as a whole – of which two sections are reproduced here in a modified version – tries to integrate the synoptic views of the different chapters into a series of comprehensive statements. The statements cluster around two topics: 1. A presentation of Cahuilla as a type of language. 2. Remarks on writing a grammar
A functional view on prototypes
No full textThe human mind may produce prototypization within virtually any realm of cognition and behavior. A "comparative prototype-typology" might prove to be an interesting field of study – perhaps a new subfield of semiotics. This, however, would presuppose a clear view on the samenesses and differences of prototypization in these various fields. It seems realistic for the time being that the linguist first confine himself to describing prototypization within the realm of language proper. The literature on prototypes has steadily grown in the past ten years or so. I confine myself to mentioning the volume on Noun Classes and Categorization, edited by C. Craig (1986), which contains a wealth of factual information on the subject, along with some theoretical vistas. By and large, however, linguistic prototype research is still basically in a taxonomic stage - which, of course, represents the precondition for moving beyond. The procedure is largely per ostensionem, and by accumulating examples of prototypes. We still lack a comprehensive prototype theory. The following pages are intended, not to provide such, a theory, but to do the first steps in this direction. Section 2 will feature some elements of a functional theory of prototypes. They have been developed by this author within the frame of the UNITYP model of research on language universals and typology. Section 3 will bring a discussion of prototypization with regard to selected phenomena of a wide range of levels of analysis: Phonology, morphosyntax, speech acts, and the lexicon. Prototypization will finally be studied within one of the universal dimensions, that of APPREHENSION - the linguistic representation of the concepts of objects – as proposed by Seiler (1986)
Lutz Seiler und das „Territorium der Müdigkeit“
No full textInternational audienceThe article focuses on two essays from Sonntags dachte ich an Gott (2004) by Lutz Seiler, in particular on two excerpts both establishing a special bond between tiredness, radioactivity of Seiler’s birthplace and his literary creativity. Far from merely being a paradoxical praise of the atom, the author describes the very origin of the act of writing in drawing upon his early years in eastern Thuringia: his receptiveness and awareness of the physical world and matter, which may have been fostered by his childhood spent in an uranium mining district.L’article est consacré à deux essais de Lutz Seiler parus dans le recueil Sonntags dachte ich an Gott (2004) et plus particulièrement aux sections respectives de ces essais qui établissent une relation singulière entre la fatigue, la radioactivité de la région de RDA natale de l’auteur et sa créativité littéraire. Il tente de montrer que, loin de se livrer seulement à un éloge paradoxal de l’atome, l’auteur décrit la source même de l’acte d’écriture, remontant à son enfance : une porosité et une attention face au monde physique et à la matière, qui pourraient précisément avoir été favorisées par son enfance passée près des mines d’uranium
Historia de la automoción (y de los conductores)
No full textAhora que la industria automovilística occidental pasa por su más profunda crisis, he pensado en recomendar algún volumen reciente que aborde de alguna manera este asunto. Me decido por Republic of Drivers. A Cultural History of Automobility in America, de Cotten Seiler, que, como no podía ser de otra manera, ha publicado University of Chicago Press. Dice Margaret Walsh en una reciente reseña que desde finales del pasado siglo ha aumentado el interés por estudiar este objeto, pero que hasta a..
Economics /
No full textBook VII: Municipal monopolies, by C. Linn Seiler, p. 310-339.Mode of access: Internet
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Tin Lizzie Dreams: Henry Ford and Antimodern American Culture, 1919-1942
Get PDF“Tin Lizzie Dreams: Henry Ford and Antimodern American Culture, 1919-1942” is an interdisciplinary cultural history combining close analyses of print and broadcast media, music and dance, technology, and built environments to argue that Henry Ford, one of the most popular modernizers in American history, actually espoused and popularized a personal philosophy that was distinctly antimodern. “Tin Lizzie Dreams” shows how Henry Ford’s cultural projects, most often discussed as a side item or supplement to his career as an automaker and industrialist, were in fact indicative of an essential antipathy and even resistance toward the modernity he was helping to create through the rise of the Ford Motor Company and Model T. With projects such as the renovation of the Wayside Inn in Sudbury, Massachusetts, and the practice of holding weekly “old fashioned dances” in Dearborn, Ford created a working antimodern philosophy related to that which T.J. Jackson Lears first traced among East Coast elites at the turn of the twentieth century. Ford then brought his anti-intellectual slant on antimodernism to a mass audience with the creation of the popular Edison Institute museum and Greenfield Village, opened in 1929, and the Ford Sunday Evening Hour radio show, which reached 10 million listeners a week at the height of its 1934-1942 broadcast run. The wider argument of “Tin Lizzie Dreams” is that antimodernism, as an American cultural phenomenon, was not only the purview of Gilded Age elites but also enjoyed broad popular appeal until the outbreak of World War II.American StudiesHenry Ford; Antimodernism; American studies; American histor
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