...Elizabeth Cox Wright Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 The Defining Function of Vocabulary in Conrad s The Rover Elizabeth Cox Wright None of Conrad s novels has been more contradictorily assessed than The Rover. It is his Tempest, on one hand, and the prime example of his powers...

... of this article is to contribute to expanding the political vocabulary through which the Palestinian question is apprehended. The ability to think about Palestinian identity and Palestinian political claims through an expanded vocabulary that takes into account the affective realm and the realm of the ordinary...

... struggle to find vocabulary to describe the loss. Often the effect of this discursive gap is testimony that blurs the distinction between fetus and baby. While my research suggests that many women giving their testimonies were not engaged with the discursive effects of this on abortion politics, those who...

... problems and his claim that a new vocabulary is needed for politics now that the categories of the citizen and the worker have lost their original meanings. It is argued that Agamben treats political topics with the tools of philological analysis and merely presumes the explanatory hold of extreme examples...

... Deal and the Red Deal as a way to contribute to critical thinking about demands in popular struggles from below and the left. The author’s aim is to push us toward a stickier vocabulary through which to think with today’s movements and their demands, as a way to participate in building popular...

...—are creating an anticapitalist ethics of care and a political vocabulary that grapples with how to imagine futures amid proximity to death. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 abortion anticapitalist feminism loss reproductive futurity politics of care...

... our approaches to un/wellness and radically expand our vocabularies through the arts and humanities. This essay, written in the form of love letters, journeys through the relationships, experiences, and curatorial processes that inform Open in Emergency ’s interventions, particularly what the author...

... on the title page: A Glossarial Study of the Low Element in the English Vocabulary . . . Circulation restricted to students of linguistics, folk-lore, abnormal psychology, and allied branches of the social sciences. Though such folk epigraphy might seem inconsequential to the nonlinguist, what Read later...

... very choice of vocabulary suggested the perhaps uncon­ scious, fantasy-bred intimacy to which his political stance gave ex­ pression: he described artisans as merely occupied at a work­ bench, while, for the farmer, a more appealing relatedness was assured by that immensity of land courting...

... demonstrates well enough, readers who are not conversant with the vocabulary and formulations of Tolman and Hull will find this book hard going. Even readers possessed of this advantage will face the neces­ sity of mastering a long series of new terms, such as adequacy, am­ biguous sign, analytic...

... that their six- and eight-syllable words sent me scurrying to the dictionary. This preciousness of vocabulary leaves me cold, for I found one- and two-syllable equivalents for most of them. My understanding has acquired a dozen or more words, but I do not need them for my vocabulary. I shall keep them where...

.... Though its intonation may thus be African, its vocabulary is English; English along the line of the least resistance para­ doxically, the part that the African has added to it is that which he has omitted, or deliberately taken from it and aban­ doned, by elision, by muteing, by nuances of sound covering...

... to respond under certain conditions by response-sequences of this behavior-family, then A is a sign (p. io). As perhaps this one quotation demonstrates well enough, readers who are not conversant with the vocabulary and formulations of Tolman and Hull will find this book hard going. Even readers possessed...

.... And he has always shown a reluctance to consider the seamier aspects of his shining city; even when he admits their existence, he perfumes them from the atomizer of his vocabulary until even degradation seems to have a jocund side. It would be misleading to dwell too heavily on any elements of wisdom...

... where inflections had once served; fixing of word order; more complicated verb phrases. To ignore or minimize these changes and to overplay the accretions to the vocabulary a rela­ tively trivial matter, not so much linguistic history as external cultural history is to distort the record. In other...

... of the Oslo process and the second intifada, the con- flict in Israel-Palestine has increasingly been couched in international legal terms. This legal vocabulary may now seem natural. Historically, this was not always the case. In this context, the possibilities and the limitations of the call...

..., and with that revival comes a spirited or spiritual component: vocabulary fosters the alteration of vocation or calling. The rebel intellec- tual, the former native intellectual, has family obligations and duties that extend to the mass of people. The life or death of that expansive kinship is determined...

... of scorpions. Above all else Brann was a master of vocabulary. Gen­ eralization is dangerous; but probably no other American auth­ or has equalled him in range of vocabulary. This is the more remarkable when one considers that Brann s entire work has recently been issued in two small volumes and that he...

... is unpredictable and requires new vocabularies; affect may be present when overt forms of sexuality are not. Affect not only expands the field of sexuality studies but also transforms its methods. In her work in medieval studies, for example, Carolyn Dinshaw suggests that historical inquiry can...

... definition of those already acquired, which result from good translation, are useful in promoting subsequent thought, for thinking is in a notable degree dependent upon vocabulary. Indeed highly developed and complex thought is simply impossible without a rich possession of language. In so far as accurate...