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Semantics: A Reader STEVEN DAVIS BRENDAN S. GILLON, Editors OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Semantics This page intentionally left blank Semantics A Reader EDITED BY STEVEN DAVIS AND BRENDAN S. GILLON 1 2004 3 Oxford New York Auckland Bangkok Buenos Aires Cape Town Chennai Dar es Salaam Delhi Hong Kong Istanbul Karachi Kolkata Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Mumbai Nairobi São Pa...



WEEDS IN THE GARDEN OF WORDS If the English language is a glorious garden, filled with exotic hybrids and the continuing tradition of heritage specimens, then it is no surprise that we will also find some weeds. Linguistic weeds may have pronunciations we don’t want or constructions that are out of place. We may be trying to hold on to words and usage we should perhaps have said farewell to. B...

THE ART OF POETRY NO. 30 PHILIP LARKIN “Temperamentally and geographically remote,” The Times Literary Supplement wrote of Philip Larkin, “he has refused almost all invitations to judge, recite, review, lecture, pontificate, or to be interviewed.” When the notion of securing a Paris Review interview with Larkin arose, the staff was not sanguine. Much to the staff’s delight, Larkin consented w...

Noam Chomsky on Post-Modernism Noam Chomsky on Post-Modernism indignation. But instead of trying to provide an answer to this simple requests, the response is cries of anger: to raise these questions shows "elitism," "anti-intellectualism," and other crimes --- though apparently it is not "elitist" to stay within the self- and mutual-admiration societies of intellectuals who talk only to one a...

Lesson 4: Ezra Pound and the English Avant-Garde Poetics  In the 1920’s and 1930’s: there was a significant change in the conception of literary theory and criticism. Thanks to figures such as T.S. Eliot, I. A. Richards and his disciples F. R. Leavis and William Empson, the last remnants of the Victorian vision of literature were swept away.  However, this innovation flowering in the 1920s an...

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) • Prominent Irish literary figure • Aesthete origins • Member of Rhymers Club • Fascinated with myth • Wants to re-make myths and symbols Image borrowed from: http://encarta.msn.com/find/MediaMax.asp ?pg=3&ti=029FB000&idx=461535406 William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) • Begins to see his poetry linked to Irish culture • Becomes fascinated with Irish lore • Strong ...

"PL CATHAY EZRA POUND CATHAY CATHAY TRANSLATIONS BY EZRA/JPOUND FOR THE MOST PART FROM THE CHINESE OF RIHAKU, FROM THE NOTES OF THE LATE ERNEST FENOLLOSA, AND THE DECIPHERINGS OF THE PROFESSORS MORI AND ARIGA LONDON ELKIN MATHEWS, CORK STREET MCMXV RlHAKU flourished in the eighth century of our era. The Anglo-Saxon Seafarer is of about this period. The other poems fro...

HOW TO READ1 (1929) Ezra Pound Part I: Introduction Largely Autobiographical, Touching the Present, and More or Less Immediately Past, “State of Affairs.” Literary instruction in our “institutions of learning”2 was, at the beginning of this century, cumbrous and inefficient. I dare say it still is. Certain more or less mildly exceptional professors were affected by the “beauties” of various aut...

Modernism moves to New York       Jackson Pollock and Abstract Expressionism Faulkner “discovered” (1946, Nobel Prize, 1948) American film (trade agreement with post-war France) Nabokov in town (since 1940) Jazz and Popular Culture W.H. Auden reverses earlier expatriate pattern of Pound, Eliot, and Company – becomes an American citizen Other Postwar Poets Reflect Trend    Silvia ...

Poetry as a mediator of differences in national film *** Bent Sørensen poetry in two recent, popular American and British films. Poetry can be demonstrated to function as a device which both highlights difference (a major component in identity construction is to show how we are all different individuals), and universality of emotion (a major component of identity construction is to show how w...

Grades 12 - AP English A Terrible Beauty Is Born: Yeats’ Easter 1916 and Its Historical Sources Donna Shafer, WVPT Overview Topic: William Butler Yeats, Irish Revolt 1916-1922. Students will research the background of the Easter 1916 Rebellion and its relation to W. B. Yeats’ poem Easter 1916 They will also compare the ballad The Foggy Dew to the poem and analyze both for form and content. St...

Ernest Fenollosa, Ezra Pound, Chinese Ernest Fenollosa, Ezra Pound, Chinese Fenollosa, Pound and the Chinese Character In 1954 Ezra Pound published his translation of the third of the Chinese Classics under the title "The Classic Anthology Defined by Confucius." (Harvard University Press) It was immediately recognized that these translations, or "translucences", as some call them, stood in a ...

But good for anyone interested in expanding their English vocab



Hiragana Chart The following section introduces an alternative way to learn う-verb forms based on the hiragana chart. ​ ​ k g s z t d n h b p m y r w nn aあかがさざただなはばぱまやらわん i いきぎしじちぢにひびぴみ ​ りい ​ uうくぐすずつづぬふぶぷむゆるう ​ e えけげせぜてでねへべぺめ ​ れえ ​ oおこごそぞとどのほぼぽもよろを ​ Hiragana Chart (without gray columns above) ​ ​ k g s t nbmrw aあかがさたなばまらわ i いきぎしちにびみりい uうくぐすつぬぶむるう e えけげ



KANJI Introduction pp. 226-231 ORIGIN: originated in China Chinese way of reading + Japanese readings おんよみ (Chinese) くんよみ (Japanese) large (university) large FUNCTION: carries SOUND (like ひらがな、カタカナ) carries MEANING carries CONCEPTS, and ひらがな adds the grammatical details to the concepts スミスさんは毎日、図書館 に 行きます。 TYPES: pictographs 山川 月子 signs/symbols 上下 大小 ideographs 日+月→ 明 (るい) 人+木→ 休 (む)...