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Language Through the Looking Glass

Exploring Language and Linguistics

By: Marina Yaguello

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Language Through the Looking Glass

Exploring Language and Linguistics

By: Marina Yaguello

What can wordplay--as understood in the broadest sense--teach us about language, its functions, characteristics, structure, and workings? Using Lewis Carroll's Alice as a starting point, Yanguello takes the reader on a vivid and unconventional voyage into the world(s) of language, charting the major themes of linguistics along the way. This is an entertaining and original introduction to the nature of language that will appeal to students and teachers alike.

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0198700059

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9780198700050

Imaginary Languages

Myths, Utopias, Fantasies, Illusions, and Linguistic Fictions

By: Marina Yaguello

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Imaginary Languages

Myths, Utopias, Fantasies, Illusions, and Linguistic Fictions

By: Marina Yaguello

An exploration of the practice of inventing languages, from speaking in tongues to utopian schemes of universality to the discoveries of modern linguistics. In Imaginary Languages, Marina Yaguello explores the history and practice of inventing languages, from religious speaking in tongues to politically utopian schemes of universality to the discoveries of modern linguistics. She looks for imagined languages that are autonomous systems, complete unto themselves and meant for communal use; imaginary, and therefore unlike both natural languages and historically attested languages; and products of an individual effort to lay hold of language. Inventors of languages, Yaguello writes, are madly in love: they love an object that belongs to them only to the extent that they also share it with a community. Yaguello investigates the sources of imaginary languages, in myths, dreams, and utopias. She takes readers on a tour of languages invented in literature from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, including that in More’s Utopia, Leibniz’s “algebra of thought,” and Bulwer-Lytton’s linguistic fiction. She examines the linguistic fantasies (or madness) of Georgian linguist Nikolai Marr and Swiss medium Hélène Smith; and considers the quest for the true philosophical language. Yaguello finds two abiding (and somewhat contradictory) forces: the diversity of linguistic experience, which stands opposed to unifying endeavors, and, on the other hand, features shared by all languages (natural or not) and their users, which justifies the universalist hypothesis. Recent years have seen something of a boom in invented languages, whether artificial languages meant to facilitate international communication or imagined languages constructed as part of science fiction worlds. In Imaginary Languages (an updated and expanded version of the earlier Les Fous du langage, published in English as Lunatic Lovers of Language), Yaguello shows that the invention of language is above all a passionate, dizzying labor of love.

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MIT Press

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0262547155

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9780262547154

Language Through the Looking Glass

Exploring Language and Linguistics

By: Marina Yaguello

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Exploring Language and Linguistics

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Joan of Arc

The Image of Female Heroism

By: Marina Warner

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Joan of Arc

The Image of Female Heroism

By: Marina Warner

Examines the life of Joan of Arc and explores the meaning of Joan both to her contemporaries and succeeding generations--Joan as hero, prophet, heretic, androgyne, harlot, and saint.

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Univ of California Press

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0520224647

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9780520224643

Monuments and Maidens

The Allegory of the Female Form

By: Marina Warner

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Monuments and Maidens

The Allegory of the Female Form

By: Marina Warner

A brilliant examination of the allegorical uses of the female form to be found in the sculpture ornamenting public buildings as well as throughout the history of western art.

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487

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Univ of California Press

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0520227336

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9780520227330

Le sexe des mots

By: Marina Yaguello

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Le sexe des mots

By: Marina Yaguello

Pourquoi certains noms d'agent sont-ils privés de féminin ? (écrivain, ministre, docteur...) Qu'est-ce qui fait obstacle à leur féminisation ? La grammaire ou la société ? Pourquoi les termes " génériques " désignant des humains sont-ils masculins ? Le fait que les espèces animales soient désignées au masculin (le lion) ou au féminin (la souris) a-t-il un sens ? Comment se fait-il que des termes du registre militaire comme ordonnance ou sentinelle soient féminins alors qu'ils concernent des hommes ? Quels sont les noms d'agent dont le masculin est dérivé du féminin ? Pourquoi les injures comme fripouille ou canaille ont-elles tendance à être du féminin ? Qu'est-ce qu'un mot épicène ? Pourquoi les machines sont-elles du féminin ? En quoi la Lune s'oppose-t-elle symboliquement au Soleil ? Comment s'expliquent les changements de genre, si fréquents dans l'histoire de la langue ? (amour, aigle, horloge, jument...) Quels sont les mots à genre fluctuant ? (équivoque, astérisque, autoroute...) C'est à toutes ces questions que répond ici, de façon érudite mais jamais pédante, Marina Yaguello, professeur à l'université Paris VII, auteur, notamment d'Alice au pays du langage et du Catalogue des idées reçues sur la langue.

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159

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Seuil

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2020210959

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9782020210959

Book's by Marina Yaguello

Language Through the Looking Glass

Language Through the Looking Glass

Imaginary Languages

Imaginary Languages

Language Through the Looking Glass

Language Through the Looking Glass

Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc

Monuments and Maidens

Monuments and Maidens

Le sexe des mots

Le sexe des mots

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