Comments on: Radical Language http://dissidentvoice.org/2007/07/radical-language/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:51:24 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Green Scribe http://dissidentvoice.org/2007/07/radical-language/#comment-3263 Green Scribe Tue, 24 Jul 2007 22:22:26 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/07/radical-language/#comment-3263 Taking back the vernacular? Or creating your own, liberated version? I like the sound of your disembodied speech....haha I have a linguistics project that perhaps might interest you. I am compiling a "green lexicon" as part of an ongoing linguistics degree, and the purpose follows: to make accessible, though not "dumbed down" in syntax, vocabulary or aesthetics, the language of our environment and the science necessary to comprehend and participate in solutions while contributing to a local intellectual and activist community. The finished product will be copy-lefted and made available to the public on my university's digital commons, and the nature of language change involved is one of eliminating propagandized phrasing common to advertising (per your above discussion) and instead focusing on a new linguistic reality, that of human and environmental interdependence, biodiversity and human intellectual diversity. The main focus now is a collection of misrepresented "buzz words" in the public discourse community regarding current environmental issues, and there are numerous other phases of the project planned as well, ranging from public rhetorical education to the aesthetics of language and a return to the beauty that exists in nature beyond mere profit or utility. If this sounds at all like a project you'd want to send a contribution to, let me know. My blog on word press is Green Scribe. thanks for the diverting thoughts... GS Taking back the vernacular? Or creating your own, liberated version?
I like the sound of your disembodied speech….haha
I have a linguistics project that perhaps might interest you. I am compiling a “green lexicon” as part of an ongoing linguistics degree, and the purpose follows: to make accessible, though not “dumbed down” in syntax, vocabulary or aesthetics, the language of our environment and the science necessary to comprehend and participate in solutions while contributing to a local intellectual and activist community. The finished product will be copy-lefted and made available to the public on my university’s digital commons, and the nature of language change involved is one of eliminating propagandized phrasing common to advertising (per your above discussion) and instead focusing on a new linguistic reality, that of human and environmental interdependence, biodiversity and human intellectual diversity. The main focus now is a collection of misrepresented “buzz words” in the public discourse community regarding current environmental issues, and there are numerous other phases of the project planned as well, ranging from public rhetorical education to the aesthetics of language and a return to the beauty that exists in nature beyond mere profit or utility.
If this sounds at all like a project you’d want to send a contribution to, let me know.
My blog on word press is Green Scribe.
thanks for the diverting thoughts…
GS

]]> By: Adam Engel http://dissidentvoice.org/2007/07/radical-language/#comment-3197 Adam Engel Sun, 22 Jul 2007 14:55:14 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/07/radical-language/#comment-3197 Yes, and both Hamlet and Captain Ahab were based on real people. Susie Asado, who Stein honored with an eponymous poem, was a living Flamenco dancer. The point of Stein's work, especially after "Three Lives," was that Rose may have been Rose, a living person, but the sentence, "Rose is a rose is a rose" is a sentence. It is not "Rose." Adam Engel Yes, and both Hamlet and Captain Ahab were based on real people. Susie Asado, who Stein honored with an eponymous poem, was a living Flamenco dancer. The point of Stein’s work, especially after “Three Lives,” was that Rose may have been Rose, a living person, but the sentence, “Rose is a rose is a rose” is a sentence. It is not “Rose.”

Adam Engel

]]> By: Dan Clore http://dissidentvoice.org/2007/07/radical-language/#comment-3196 Dan Clore Sun, 22 Jul 2007 09:26:34 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/07/radical-language/#comment-3196 The Gertrude Stein line was "Rose is a rose is a rose", and referred to a woman named Rose. The Gertrude Stein line was “Rose is a rose is a rose”, and referred to a woman named Rose.

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