Style articles from June 2005

Style archives from June 2005

Extemporaneous blending: conceptual integration in humorous discourse from talk radio.
June 22, 2005... An "Off the Leash" cartoon by W. B. Park depicts a dozen or so pigs feeding at a trough. One pig, however, has his head raised, as if addressing the approaching farmer. The pig's words are apparently expressed in the cartoon's caption,...

Repetition in free indirect style: a dialogue of minds?
June 22, 2005... 1. Repetition: A Problem in Narrative Studies? It is common and often passes unnoticed when people repeat a word in speech. The most common explanation for this is that the spoken medium puts a certain pressure on the speaker to formulate...

Hiatus of subject and verb in poetic language.
June 22, 2005... The thought behind, I strove to join Unto the thought before. --Emily Dickinson People speaking English generally pause slightly at the juncture of contiguous vowels not sounded as dipthongs (e.g., "When Brenda arrived, Mario opened...

Stress felt, stroke dealt: the spondee, the text, and the reader.
June 22, 2005... The spondee in English is usually defined as a metrical foot consisting of two stressed syllables. Since the word spondee was borrowed from the terminology of Greek meter, in which it referred to a foot of two equally long syllables, some doubt...

Cognitive science applied to Pauline metaphors in 1 Thessalonians: conceptual blending and the sleep and death motif.
June 22, 2005... In Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations, the possibilities of interpretation are opened by way of his iconoclastic destruction of the language of philosophy. Rather than assume the objectivity of objects directed through language,...

The self-deceptive and the other-deceptive narrating character: the case of Lolita.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2005... Many scholarly debates during the last decades have dealt with the issue of narrator reliability in specific fictional texts. Often these debates have yielded no agreed answer, since the text itself vacillates between two poles (from total...

Parody, heteroglossia, and chronotope in Don DeLillo's Great Jones Street.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2005... The "presence of parody," Mikhail Bakhtin wrote, "is in general very difficult to identify... in literary prose... without knowing the background of alien discourse against which it is projected, that is, without knowing its context. In world...

Todd F. Davis and Kenneth Womack. Formalist Criticism and Reader-Response Theory.(Book review)
June 22, 2005... Todd F. Davis and Kenneth Womack. Formalist Criticism and Reader-Response Theory. New York: Palgrave, 2002. x + 192 pp. $65.00 cloth; $21.95 paper. The general editor's preface to this volume from Palgrave's Transitions series...

Phillip Sipiora and James S. Baumlin, eds. Rhetoric and Kairos: Essays in History, Theory, and Praxis.(Book review)
June 22, 2005... Phillip Sipiora and James S. Baumlin, eds. Rhetoric and Kairos: Essays in History, Theory, and Praxis. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002. xiii + 258 pp. $71.50 cloth; $23.95 paper. The romantic notion that poetry and rhetoric...

Stephen G. Yao. Translation and the Languages of Modernism: Gender, Politics, Language.(Book review)
June 22, 2005... Stephen G. Yao. Translation and the Languages of Modernism: Gender, Politics, Language. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. xii + 291 pp. $65.00 cloth. Stephen Yao's study of the theory and practice of translation among Modernist poets and...

Terry Eagleton. Sweet Violence: The Idea of the Tragic.(Book review)
June 22, 2005... Terry Eagleton. Sweet Violence: The Idea of the Tragic. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2003. 328 pp. $24.95 paper. Terry Eagleton concludes his recent book After Theory by asserting that we will never be in a state of "post theory." After Theory...