- Acadia University
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Bully for Brontosaurus
Reflections in Natural History
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
A collection of dicursive essays on natural history.
- Cunt: The History Of The C-Word
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1999
A study of this ancient and powerful word.
- Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
History of the world's great tongues, from the resilience of Chinese through twenty centuries of invasions to the self-regard of Greek and to the struggles that gave birth to the languages of modern Europe, these epic achievements and more are explored, as are the fascinating failures of once "universal" languages.
- Here's What Shakespeare's Plays Sounded Like With Their Original English Accent
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
In this short documentary, linguist David Crystal and his son, actor Ben Crystal, look at the differences between English pronunciation now and how it was spoken 400 years ago. They answer the most basic question you probably have right now — How do you know what it sounded like back then? — and they discuss the value of performing Shakespeare’s plays in the original accent…
- Keywords
A Vocabulary of Culture and Society
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1977
Williams examines more than 100 familiar words and explores how they are used.
- Language death
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A process that affects speech communities.
- The Nazis and Deconstruction: Jean-Pierre Faye's Demolition of Derrida
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1993
A review of Jean-Pierre Faye's book 'La raison narrative', which traces the Nazi origins of deconstructionist and post-modernist concepts and terminology. Faye shows, for example, that the concept of 'deconstruction' was introduced in a Nazi journal edited by M.H. Goering, and he shows how theorists who based themselves on Heidegger's writings, such as Derrida, Lyotard, and Lacoue-Labarthe, whitewashed Heidegger's Nazism, treating it as a mere 'detail'.
- The Oxford Companion to the English Language
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
- Perspectives On Power
Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
Chomsky sets down his thoughts on topics ranging from language and human nature, to the Middle East and East Timor.
- Politics of Communication
A Study in the Political Sociology of Language, Socialization, and Legitimation
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- Postmodernism: Paralysed by postmodernism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
A great deal of "theory" in the humanities and social sciences -- and not just postmodern theory -- involves the creating of a kind of conceptual landscape filled with curious kinds of abstract objects -- "language", "power", "justice", "state", "culture", "government", "the polity", "the economy" and a host of others, which are viewed "theoretically" from somewhere way "outside" or "above" them. But it is just this way of looking at things -- from "on high" -- that makes it so difficult to see how people in the landscape are able to create and re-create the world in which they live, and are not simply trapped or formed by it. In fashionable postmodernist treatments of identity or subjectivity, language, as the ultimately hollow and imprisoning object, is put together with the notion that anybody who uses words must be committed to the standard definition of those words, to produce the conclusion that "language" determines the meaning of "identity" words such as man, woman, gay, straight, black, white, natural, normal -- and thus "constructs" (as it is said) human identity or subjectivity itself.
- Problems of Knowledge and Freedom
The Russell Lectures
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
These lectures explore Bertrand Russell's work on empiricism, morality, linguistics and politics.
- The Professor of Parody
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2000
It is difficult to come to grips with Judith Butler’s ideas because it is difficult to figure out what they are.
- The Trouble with Theory
The Educational Costs of Postmodernism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2008
Postmodern theory has engaged the hearts and heads of the brightest students because of its apparent political and social radicalism. Yet Kitching writes: "At the heart of postmodernism is very poor, deeply confused, and misbegotten philosophy. As a result even the very best students who fall under its sway produce radically incoherent ideas about language, meaning, truth, and reality."
- A user's guide to artspeak
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
There is now a name for the pompous prose used by art galleries: International Art Speak. You need to speak it to be a part of art culture.
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