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Qui Parle (2024) 33 (1): 195–210.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Annabel Barry Abstract This interview discusses how Bonnie Honig’s theorization of “the ordinary” has changed throughout her career, the importance of care for language in feminist thought, and Honig’s own practices of linguistic attention as an agonistic close reader of artistic and political...
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Qui Parle (2001) 12 (2): 107–142.
Published: 01 December 2001
...Benjamin Friedlander A SHORT HISTORY OF LANGUAGE POETRY /
ACCORDING TO "HECUBA WHIMSY"
Benjamin Friedlander
The following study, abridged from a much longer work, is an ex-
periment in criticism: a strict rewriting of Jean Wahl's A Short His-
tory of Existentialism which faithfully...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2024) 33 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Annabel Barry Abstract This introduction begins with Hortense J. Spillers’s return to the ordinary in her essay “Interstices: A Small Drama of Words,” first delivered as an address at the 1982 Barnard Center Conference on Sexuality. For Spillers, recovering the vernacular language and everyday...
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Qui Parle (2024) 33 (1): 17–34.
Published: 01 June 2024
..., finding therein a new foundation or new convictions, even purely practical ones. The study of everyday language use presents new problems, arduous in a different way from those of logical analysis, as J. L. Austin and the Oxford School later showed—the same school that, in coining the term Ordinary...
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Qui Parle (2024) 33 (1): 35–62.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Eesha Kumar Abstract Wittgenstein’s claims against private language and the existence of riddles have consolidated his reputation as a philosopher of the ordinary. This article makes a case for Wittgenstein as a thinker of enigma. His understudied remarks on riddles configure the ordinary...
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Qui Parle (2017) 26 (2): 271–280.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Marianne Constable The use of the saying “Actions speak louder than words” renders problematic both political and legal judgments. With its often excruciating attention to language, law in particular insists on maintaining relations between speech and reality or between words and the truths...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2017) 26 (2): 281–293.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Michael Lucey This article uses the writings of Erving Goffman, M. M. Bakhtin, and Edward Sapir to pose some questions about what is happening when spoken language is produced. In particular, it looks at certain complexities of the partial roles of “animator,” “author,” and “principal,” into which...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2019) 28 (1): 77–102.
Published: 01 June 2019
...Jan Mieszkowski Abstract Tracing a trajectory of literary and philosophical texts from the ancient atomists to the late twentieth century, this essay explores the surprisingly consistent role that dust has played in the conceptualization of language. In Lucretius, Sophocles, and the New Testament...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2023) 32 (1): 137–161.
Published: 01 June 2023
... through the historical-material conditions for the writing of the text. The essay then puts a close reading of Hilary Leichter’s Temporary in conversation with Sarah Brouillette’s account of the decline of the English-language literary novel to suggest how the formal properties of the contemporary gig...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2022) 31 (1): 109–142.
Published: 01 June 2022
... of biology premised on the analysis of space with attention to form over the analysis of language with attention to genetic code. In Canguilhem’s biology, form refers to both morphology and function, and a given morphology or a given function will be of negative value if it encumbers the polarity...
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Qui Parle (2021) 30 (1): 19–49.
Published: 01 June 2021
...Aaron Frederick Eldridge Abstract How does tradition, a transmission of body and language, disclose a form of life? This article takes as its point of departure Talal Asad’s methodological pivot away from the modern concept of “belief” to Ludwig Wittgenstein’s concept of “form of life...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2004) 15 (1): 97–114.
Published: 01 June 2004
...
his attention notably includes Holderlin and Heine, Adorno retains
his most passionate exegeses of poetic language for the conserva-
tive, restorative poets: George is defended against his circle; Eich-
endorff against the tradition; and Borchardt against the student
movement. Particularly...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2014) 23 (1): 213–238.
Published: 01 June 2014
...Anne Sauvagnargues Copyright © 2014 Qui Parle 2014 Cartographies of Style
Asignifying, Intensive, Impersonal
anne sauvagnargues
Translated by Suzanne Verderber
Style sweeps away, infi ltrates, and overturns the signifying compo-
nents of language, producing new percepts...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2004) 14 (2): 57–104.
Published: 01 December 2004
... expression. For this reason, the
problem of individual consciousness as the inner
word (as an inner sign in general) becomes one of the
most vital problems in the philosophy of language.
—V. N. Vologinov3
Qui...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2006) 16 (1): 71–94.
Published: 01 June 2006
... respond to
their translation, which in turn would have to be translated back to
Spanish, and so on endlessly. The concept of elsewheres seeks to
convey a radical alterity between languages, in this case between
what is usually referred to as Standard European Languages and
Mesoamerican...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2022) 31 (2): 305–307.
Published: 01 December 2022
... of thought in language and language in speech [ parole ]. To work on an object in thought is to put to the test (and to put oneself to the test of) a certain number of words and connections between words. The test is that of sense. Sense (which is not at all the fixed “signification” of words) is what...
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Qui Parle (2004) 14 (2): 105–116.
Published: 01 December 2004
... by speech and
not just in speech? Is there, in other words, a "voice" of language
that says things, whether or not we speakers say them? In her book
Words of Selves: Identification, Solidarity, Irony (2000), Denise
Riley examines the manifold, unaccountable ways in which things
get said and get...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2012) 21 (1): 71–83.
Published: 01 June 2012
... perception is so strongly privileged that, in modern as
in ancient languages, the terms corresponding to the English voice
(Latin: vox, Greek: pho¯ne¯) tend to denote a large spectrum of
sound phenomena with either animate or inanimate sources. This
means that voice is not primarily...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2013) 21 (2): 27–59.
Published: 01 December 2013
...).
In short, the riveting character of literature lies in its close rela-
tion to a child’s fi rst language- learning efforts, to early encounters
with printed matter, and to writing’s own childhood phase when,
in schoolroom manuals and picture books, it is still linked to im-
ages...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2023) 32 (2): 443–456.
Published: 01 December 2023
.... “Language probably had something to do with it,” Tengour writes. Arabic has multiple registers. Not only is there a difference between formal fuṣḥā , which is used in literature and the media, and colloquial ʿāmmiyya , but these dialects also vary between regions, even sometimes within the same country...
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