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Every now and then your head swims. 1 Citation Every now and then your head swims. Doesn?t it? It?s like the way your body sometimes shudders, that involuntary myoclonic twitch when you come awake from being half-asleep -it?s called the hypnic jerk, though it amuses me to call it the hylic jerk instead. Some say it happens because something in your brain thinks you?re a monkey falling out of a tree. Some say it means your soul is returning from wandering and bumped its shin on the catflap on its way back in -that would make it a pneumatic, technorati.com
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Much mouth much tongue: Chinese metonymies and metaphors of verbal behaviour 1 Citation from Cognitive Linguistics Abstract:This paper explores metonymical and metaphorical expressions of verbal behaviour in Chinese. While metonymy features prominently in some of these expressions and metaphor in others, the entire dataset can be best viewed as spanning the metonymy-metaphor-continuum. That is, we observe a gradation of conceptual distance between the source and target which corresponds to the gradation of figurativity. Specifically, roughly half of the expressions we encounte, technorati.com
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Oppermannian Greatness in Arcadia 1 Citation I just found this photo on a contact sheet from times that were directly arcadian. An evening where we were all drinking wine with Lisa Lane, Paul Raphaelson, Cresswell, Theresa, and myself. This image I think is great. Almost as great as Wolfgang Ambrose who is fucking great. There is something of the young Dylan also to this image. This is Oppermann in Praxis: and praxis intends a presence or intimacy of self. I have to start this series with this image of Oppermann in true praxis, with the, technorati.com
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1 Citation In my last post I introduced the ?panoptic model of power? as an explanation of where the name of this blog comes from. In doing so I touched briefly upon the concept of the panopticon, because at first glance ?panoptic? is the word in that phrase that needs to be explained. I was able to take for granted that anyone reading would have some previous understanding of the word power. However, in presenting a new model of power I also implicitly challenged that understanding. Therefore, I belie, technorati.com
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1 Citation If your opinion surfing hasn?t led you yet to one of her articles, let me introduce one of my favorite columnists, Maureen Dowd. She?s smart, funny, irreverent, and her awareness of language is keen: you can bet the house that she got a ?5? on her AP language exam. Today?s submission is so good that I could teach a whole unit of analytical vocabulary with it (irony, colloquialism, metonymy, metaphor, cliche, connotation, euphemism, pejoration?on and on). But for now, just enjoy her voice and, technorati.com
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1 Citation Open Left?s Stoller: ?From top to bottom, have destroyed their opponents within the party, stolen out from under them their base, and persuaded a whole set of individuals from blog readers to people in the pews to ignore intermediaries and believe in Barack as a pure vessel of change??compare this figuration with Sen. Obama the ?moral force? at the head of a self-organizing people?s network of activists and small donors July 5, 2008 ? 7:41 am ?In May, Matt Stoller, technorati.com
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Olympia is a city, a community, not a metonymic device 1 Citation Randy Neatherlin's new newspaper insert:Randy says that Olympia is to blame. Well, not literally "Olympia," as in the city I live in, but rather the place as it represents some other out there for citizens in the 35th LD.Yes, I understand the point of metonymy: the press is not literally a printing press, but the news media in general.But, in the case of using smaller city state capitols to signify "state government" is wrong. It lets voters off the hook for the decisions they make, who they dec, technorati.com
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1 Citation Style is the manner in which one expresses himself. Styles differ as men differ. But there are some cardinal qualities that all good style must possess. Perspicuity is opposed to obscurity of all kinds; it means clearness of expression. It demands that the thought in the sentence shall be plainly seen through the words of the sentence. Perspicuity is an indispensable quality of style; if the thought is not understood, or it is misunderstood, its expression might better have been left unattem, technorati.com
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What Will.i.am had to work with 1 Citation Obama's speeches are often called"poetic." In what sense is this so? He doesn't often wax metaphorical. He does employ a kind of stylized, compressed storytelling, taking listeners on quick marches through history (or an envisioned future) in which each era or event or action is evoked in a kind of metonymy, a naming of a thing by one of its attributes, or synechdoche, a substitution of a part for the whole. Take, for example, that 106 year-old woman whose story Obama told in his acceptance spee, technorati.com
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