language

Minor irritations from rosclarke 849 days old

I'm becoming increasingly irritated by the misuse of certain parts of speech by people who really should know better. The most frequently observed ...

Metaphorical language from rosclarke 856 days old

This is a terrific little article on metaphor, language and poetry. HT: Mindy

Scholarly eavesdropping from rosclarke 957 days old

Here's a thought I had a few weeks ago when Dr Poythress was talking about meaning. If the Bible is God's way of communicating to his people, should ...

Things I have been reading from rosclarke 1018 days old

[ ... ] the Sumerian language. One of the few that does is a word that means 'Mazda-worshipper'. I kid you not. Now, I'm quite fond of my Mazda 626, on ...

More than the sum of its parts from rosclarke 1039 days old

Alter, dealing with the issue of multiple sources in the OT, uses the analogy of the film montage. He quotes Sergei Eisenstein: The juxtaposition of ...

Alter on language from rosclarke 1039 days old

[ ... ] importance of language: Language in the biblical stories is never conceived as a transparent envelope of the narrated events or an aesthetic ...

On metaphor from rosclarke 1050 days old

See this for a nice illustration of the way far too many people view metaphor.

Text and meaning from rosclarke 1066 days old

Something which has been niggling at the back of my mind as I think through all this hermeneutics stuff (see my previous posts) is the issue of text ...

Divided by a common language (ii) from rosclarke 1069 days old

This Wikipedia page contains a list of words having different meanings in British and American English, which may be of use to some reading this blog. ...

Divided by a common language from rosclarke 1072 days old

So, I can't quite work out how this came up, but yesterday over lunch I discovered that 'boob tube' is an American expression for the TV. Not in the ...