McLuhan in space : a cultural geography / / Richard Cavell

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910780525503321
• Autore: Cavell Richard <1949->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2002; ©2002
• ISBN: 1-281-99635-1; 9786611996352; 1-4426-7713-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (343 pages)
• Disciplina: 302.23092
• Soggetti: Space and time; Space and time in art
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Sigla -- PREFACE. 'Space' in McLuhan -- PART ONE. SPACED -- CHAPTER ONE. A Short History of Space -- CHAPTER TWO. Mechanization and Its Discontents -- CHAPTER THREE. The Physics of Flatland -- CHAPTER FOUR. Prosthetic Aesthetics -- INTERFACE. The Intellectual as Vates -- PART TWO. SCAPED -- CHAPTER FIVE. Artiste de livres -- CHAPTER SIX. Visible Speech -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Art without Walls -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Borderlines -- POSTFACE. McLuhan in Space -- Notes -- Details of Sigla -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The first book to propose that Marshall McLuhan be read as a spatial theorist, McLuhan in Space argues that space is the single most consistent concept in McLuhan's vast and eclectic body of work. Richard Cavell demonstrates how McLuhan extended insights derived from advances in physics and artistic experimentation into a theory of acoustic space, which he then used to challenge the assumptions of visual space that had been produced through 500 years of print culture. The notion of acoustic space provided McLuhan with a heuristic probe of prodigious range, allowing him to examine critically the many social and cultural forms of contemporary media production. It also enabled him to cross over intellectually from the purely theoretical ; realm into that of artistic production, where his interests in radical notions of spatial production were shared by a range of avant garde artists from bp Nichol to Glenn Gould, from John Cage to the Fluxus artists - an artistic milieu in which McLuhan increasingly came to situate his work. Cavell's book is the first to examine McLuhan's work in light of this artistic backdrop, and the first to examine his contribution to Canadian studies.

Language death in the Isle of Man : an investigation into the decline and extinction of Manx Gaelic as a community language in the Isle of Man / / George Broderick

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910955966803321
• Autore: Broderick George
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Tubingen, : Niemeyer, 1999
• ISBN: 9783110911411; 3110911418
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (316 pages) : maps
• Collana: Linguistische Arbeiten, , 0344-6727 ; ; 395
• Classificazione: EY 252
• Altri autori (Persone): MarstranderCarl J. S <1883-1965.> (Carl Johan Sverdrup); BroderickGeorge
• Disciplina: 491.6/4/09
• Soggetti: Manx language - History; Manx language - Social aspects; Language obsolescence - Isle of Man; Community life - Isle of Man; Isle of Man Languages
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "This work is a continuation of A handbook of late spoken Manx, a work in three volumes"--P. x.; Includes "Dagbok" of C.J.S. Marstrander in Norwegian with a translation into English (p. 203-252).; The author's Habilitationsschrift--Universitat Mannheim, 1998.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-201) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- 1. Language death -- 2. The sociolinguistic situation of Manx -- 3. Studies on language and language use in Man -- 4. The formal linguistic development of Manx -- 5. Excursus: Language revival ; and language maintenance in the Isle of Man -- Bibliography -- Appendix A: Dagbok. Carl J. S. Marstrander's Diary of his visits to the Isle of Man 1929, 1930, and 1933 (translation and text) -- Appendix B: Letters (1-5) for and against the use of Manx -- Appendix C: Census figures for the towns and parishes 1726-1891 -- Appendix D: Maps -- Appendix E: Texts -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Language death is an aspect of language contact which has occupied the interest of linguists from the past twenty-five years or so. Although the phenomenon of language death is occuring all over the world very few instances of it have been dealt with both from a sociolinguistic and formal linguistic standpoint. Those that spring to mind are the works of Nancy Dorian on East Sutherland Gaelic and Hans-Jürgen Sasse on the Albanian dialect of Arvanítika in Greece. In both instances it is dialects of languages that are treated and not complete languages themselves. The study of language death in the Isle of Man deals with the decline and extinction of Manx Gaelic as a community language, and as a language in its own right. After setting the scenario of language death this study then looks into the sociolinguistic reasons which led to the decline and death of Manx in Man. There then follows a detailed look into the study of language and language use in Man, from early observations to the present day. This section includes a detailed description of phonetic and sound recordings made of Manx over the period. This leads to an in-depth study into the formal linguistic situation of Manx, tracing the development in its phonology, morphophonology, morphology, morphosyntax and syntax, idiom and lexicon, which ultimately led to its demise. As language revival is in itself a facet of language death, the study concludes with a short excursus into the various efforts at language revival and maintenance in Man, from the latter part of the 19th century to the present day. The appendices include Professor Carl Marstrander's diary of his visits to Man (1929-33) published for the first time. The diary contains percipient observations of the state of Manx in its final phase. In short, this study looks in some detail into the mechanics of language death on a once thriving and vibrant community language.