Philosophy of Nonsense: The Intuitions of Victorian Nonsense LiteratureRoutledge, 1994 - 245 էջ 'Jean-Jacques Lecercle's remarkable Philosophy of Nonsense offers a sustained and important account of an area that is usually hastily dismissed. Using the resources of contemporary philosophy - notably Deleuze and Lyotard - he manages to bring out the importance of nonsense' - Andrew Benjamin, University of Warwick Why are we, and in particular why are philosophers and linguists, so fascinated with nonsense? Why do Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear appear in so many otherwise dull and dry academic books? This amusing, yet rigorous new. |
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Արդյունքներ 26–ի 1-ից 3-ը:
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... coinages seem to be particularly abundant , to the point that the semantic gaps defy interpretation . We shall never know what a snagwap or a gumplet is . But if we look at it more closely , the situation is not as simple as it seems ...
... coinages seem to be particularly abundant , to the point that the semantic gaps defy interpretation . We shall never know what a snagwap or a gumplet is . But if we look at it more closely , the situation is not as simple as it seems ...
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... coinages , truly invented words are numerous in ' In the Gloaming ' , and they are of two kinds . Some , like ' mellado ' , are exotic : they boast of their alien origin , they obtrude . Some , like ' gibwink ' or even ' prout ' , are ...
... coinages , truly invented words are numerous in ' In the Gloaming ' , and they are of two kinds . Some , like ' mellado ' , are exotic : they boast of their alien origin , they obtrude . Some , like ' gibwink ' or even ' prout ' , are ...
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... coinages - now is the time to consider their morphology . - Not all coinages have a specific morphology . The easiest – one might even be tempted to say , the most inventive - way to coin a word is just to produce a string of phonemes ...
... coinages - now is the time to consider their morphology . - Not all coinages have a specific morphology . The easiest – one might even be tempted to say , the most inventive - way to coin a word is just to produce a string of phonemes ...
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Lewis Carroll and the Talmud | 5 |
Jabberwocky | 20 |
THE LINGUISTICS OF NONSENSE | 27 |
Հեղինակային իրավունք | |
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Adventures in Wonderland agon agonistic Alice books Alice's Adventures analysis Annotated Alice appears Bakhtin Carroll's chain chapter characteristic characters coherent coinages comic concept constraints context contradiction conversation cooperative course dialectics of subversion dialogue discourse Dumpty's Edward Lear English Ettelson exploitation expression fact fiction genre grammar historical Humpty Dumpty ibid implicatures implicit incoherence instance intention interpretation intertext intuitions inversion Jabberwocky King language Lear Lear's Lecercle Lewis Carroll limericks linguistic literary literary nonsense logical London Looking-Glass madness maxims meaning metaphor natural nonsense texts nursery rhymes object origin Oxford paradox Paris parody pastiche philosophical philosophy of language phrase poem politeness polyphony portmanteau-words possible pragmatic principle puns question reader reading recognise rules semantic sense sentence Snark speaker speech acts stanza subversion and support syntactic syntax Talmud textual theory tradition truth turn Tweedledee Tweedledum Tweedledum and Tweedledee understand utterance verb verbal Victorian nonsense words