Language And Silence

Author : George Steiner
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480411892
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language and Silence written by George Steiner and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evolution and manipulation of language from the celebrated author of After Babel. “A keenly discriminating literary mind at work on what it loves” (The New York Times Book Review). Language and Silence is a book about language—and politics, meaning, silence, and the future of literature. Originally published between 1958 and 1966, the essays that make up this collection ponder whether we have passed out of an era of verbal primacy and into one of post-linguistic forms—or partial silence. Steiner explores the idea of the abandonment of contemporary literary criticism, from the classics to the works of William Shakespeare, Lawrence Durell, Thomas Mann, Leon Trotsky, and more.

Author : Michal Ephratt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108471676
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silence as Language written by Michal Ephratt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-25 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With examples from a variety of contexts, this book provides a linguistic analysis of the role of silence in language.

Author : George Steiner
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571266509
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language and Silence written by George Steiner and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2010-12-09 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we evaluate the power and utility of language when it has been manipulated to circumvent the truth at high levels or charged with vulgarity and imprecision by mass-consumer culture? How can fractured language adapt to the demands of more exact speech required by mathematics and symbolic notation? These are some of the questions addressed in this elegantly written book, first published in 1967 to international acclaim.

Author : Leslie Kane
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838631874
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Language of Silence written by Leslie Kane and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of West German literature as it tries to come to terms with the holocaust and its impact on post-war German society.

Author : Ernestine Schlant
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135961824
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Language of Silence written by Ernestine Schlant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-11-23 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on individual authors from Heinrich Boll to Gunther Grass, Hermann Lenz to Peter Schneider, The Language of Silence offers an analysis of West German literature as it tries to come to terms with the Holocaust and its impact on postwar West German society. Exploring postwar literature as the barometer of Germany's unconsciously held values as well as of its professed conscience, Ernestine Schlant demonstrates that the confrontation with the Holocaust has shifted over the decades from repression, circumvention, and omission to an open acknowledgement of the crimes. Yet even today a 'language of silence' remains since the victims and their suffering are still overlooked and ignored. Learned and exacting, Schlant's study makes an important contribution to our understanding of postwar German culture.

Author : Dat Bao
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441128530
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Silence and Reticence written by Dat Bao and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the state of that which is not spoken? This book presents empirical research related to the phenomenon of reticence in the second language classroom, connecting current knowledge and theoretical debates in language learning and acquisition. Why do language learners remain silent or exhibit reticence? In what ways can silence in the language learning classroom be justified? To what extent should learners employ or modify silence? Do quiet learners work more effectively with quiet or verbal learners? Looking at evidence from Australia, China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, the book presents research data on many internal and external forces that influence the silent mode of learning in contemporary education. This work gives the reader a chance to reflect more profoundly on cultural ways of learning languages.

Author : Russell Martin
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 9780140247015
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Out of Silence written by Russell Martin and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring book that follows this family's journey as they struggle to restore an autistic son's speech.

Author : Natsuko Tsujimura
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498569250
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Expressing Silence written by Natsuko Tsujimura and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-03-03 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Expressing Silence: Where Language and Culture Meet in Japanese, Natsuko Tsujimura discusses how silence is conceptualized and linguistically represented in Japanese. Languages differ widely in the specific linguistic and rhetorical modes through which vivid depictions of silence are achieved. In Japanese, sounds in nature evoke silence, and onomatopoeia plays an important role in simulating silent scenes. These linguistic mechanisms mediate the perception of the symbiotic relationship between sound and silence, a perception deeply embedded in the Japanese cultural experience. Expressing Silence brings the tools of both linguistic and cultural analysis in examining the remarkably rich array of representations of silence in Japanese language and culture, finding that depictions of silence through language cannot be understood without exploring what sound or silence mean to the speakers.

Author : Jim King
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1788926781
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book East Asian Perspectives on Silence in English Language Education written by Jim King and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2020-06-22 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silence is a key pedagogical issue in language education. Seen by some as a space for thinking and reflection during the learning process, for others silence represents a threat, inhibiting target language interaction which is so vital during second language acquisition. This book eschews stereotypes and generalisations about why so many learners from East Asia seem either reluctant or unable to speak in English by providing a state-of-the art account of current research into the complex and ambiguous issue of silence in language education. The innovative research included in this volume focuses on silence both as a barrier to successful learning and as a resource that may in some cases facilitate language acquisition. The book offers a fresh perspective on ways to facilitate classroom interaction while also embracing silence and it touches on key pedagogical concepts such as teacher cognition, the role of task features, classroom interactional approaches, pedagogical intervention and socialisation, willingness to communicate, as well as psychological and sociocultural factors. Each of the book’s chapters include self-reflection and discussion tasks, as well as annotated bibliographies for further reading.

Author : A. Jule
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230596622
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender, Participation and Silence in the Language Classroom written by A. Jule and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-12-18 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first-hand study of the relationship of gender, ethnicity and the participation of children within an English-language teaching classroom, Julé re-assesses Lacan's approach to belonging with other theoretical approaches to gender and language, making use of case-study methods. She asks key questions: Are there observable tendencies in the way that boys and girls receive and use talk in the classroom? How might such tendencies be constructed or encouraged within an ESL classroom, where gender and ethnicity intersect in particular ways?