Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 literary language (idea) See all of literary language, there is 1 more in this node. (idea) by darl Thu Aug 10 2006 at 17:29:19 What is literary language? Introduction Many critics and poets have tried to nail this down. It's a slippery eel, it really is. It's been defined as "the familiar made strange" (Attridge), which is a nice way to put it. I got out a dictionary, the OED 2nd Ed. and looked up 'literary' to be pointed t...
An unnamed man and woman come together, slowly and arduously, over the course of a novel. She is a poet who has turned mute; he is a language teacher going blind. Her first bout of muteness, which struck when she was a teenager, was cured suddenly in French class by a single word: ‘bibliothèque’. Now she is attending classes in Ancient Greek to see if something in the language can dislodge her mysterious impediment. ‘She is almost entirely uninterested in the literature of Homer, Plato and H...
Suspending Syntax: Bodily Strain and Progressivity in TalkDepartment of Culture and Society, Linköping University, Linköping, SwedenPeople speak not only under relaxed conditions but also during strenuous activities, and grammatical resources can be used to achieve displays of strain. This study looks at the relationship between progressivity of talk and bodily strain, focusing on the practice of temporarily suspending syntax while the speaker is accomplishing a physically challenging task. B...