Nigel Fabb
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 114085 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Nigel Fabb |
| NOMBRES | Nigel |
| APELLIDO | Fabb |
| FIRMA | FABB N |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Strathclyde |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4820-7612 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 63 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1987 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Response to Hogan
I want to start, as Hogan does, by reflecting on our backgrounds as academics and how these can lead us into partisan positions, in particular around issues of culture, context-specific variation, and human psychological universals. Hogan and I, who are of the same generation, also inherit similar influences, notably Noam Chomsky’s strong view on linguistic universals, and take a similar stance on these issues. It is worth noting how strong our b…
“Non-linguistic” Browning
Sapir (1921) suggests that Robert Browning’s poetry is “non-linguistic” in the way he uses the English language to convey thought. We explore the meter of a much criticized example of his poetry, his “Pietro of Abano” (1880), and conclude otherwise. The poem is in trochaic metre with extensive and systematic catalexis, i.e. unrealized metrical constituents possible only at phrase boundaries. We show that Browning locates phrase and even word boun…
Brilliance as Cognitive Complexity in Aboriginal Australia
Writers on Australian Aboriginal ceremonial practices and contemporary commercial art have identified properties that can be described as producing 'brilliance', the term used by Howard Morphy (1989) for Yolngu visual art. Brilliance involves the emotionally charged knowledge that Ancestral power is manifest. We suggest that, in Australian Aboriginal ceremonial practices and art, two kinds of brilliance are at work, both of which we exemplify usi…
Language and Literature
The Verse-Line as a Whole Unit in Working Memory, Ease of Processing, and the Aesthetic Effects of Form
Verse is text which is divided into lines. In this paper I explore a psychological account of how verse is processed, and specifically the hypothesis that the text is processed line by line, such that each line is held as a whole sequence in the limited capacity of working memory. I will argue that because the line is processed in this way, certain low-level aesthetic effects are thereby produced, thus giving a partial explanation for why verse i…
Is literary language a development of ordinary language
Teaching & Learning Guide for
Author’s Introduction Linguistics can provide a technical vocabulary for talking about language, and an understanding of how everyday language is structured and functions. Literary texts are made from language, and although the relation between language in literature and language in general is not fully understood, linguistics can help theorize literary language, and suggest ways of thinking about literary form, and the relation between form and …
Linguistics in the Study and Teaching of Literature
Literary texts include linguistic form, as well as specialized literary forms (some of which also involve language). Linguistics can offer to literary studies an understanding of these kinds of form, and the ways by which a text is used to communicate meaning. In order to cope with the great variety of creative uses of language in literature, linguistics must acknowledge that some texts are assigned structure by non‐linguistic means, but the boun…
Weak monosyllables in iambic verse and the communication of metrical form
Language through literature
Verse constituency and the locality of alliteration
Morphology and mind
The difference between English restrictive and nonrestrictive relative clauses
A nonrestrictive relative clause (henceforth NRR) is shown in (I) and a restrictive relative clause (henceforth RR) in (2). (1) The swans, which are white, are in that part of the lake. (2) The swans which are white are in that part of the lake. Example (1) implies that all the swans under discussion are white. Example (2) implies that the white swans are being distinguished from some other not white swans which are also under discussion. There a…
Saussure and literary theory
This article is about why the state of affairs exists where Saussure has become a ‘prophet without honour’ in linguistics but a father-figure in literary and cultural studies. My argument is basically that Saussure’s linguistics is not appropriate to the study of language, though as a methodology it might be adopted in other areas
English suffixation is constrained only by selectional restrictions
Functions of Style
Dreaming Shakespeare
Bill Forsyth's films are adaptations of Shakespeare plays
The difference between English restrictive and nonrestrictive relative clauses
A nonrestrictive relative clause (henceforth NRR) is shown in (I) and a restrictive relative clause (henceforth RR) in (2). (1) The swans, which are white, are in that part of the lake. (2) The swans which are white are in that part of the lake. Example (1) implies that all the swans under discussion are white. Example (2) implies that the white swans are being distinguished from some other not white swans which are also under discussion. There a…
English suffixation is constrained only by selectional restrictions
Is literary language a development of ordinary language
Verse constituency and the locality of alliteration
Weak monosyllables in iambic verse and the communication of metrical form
Brilliance as Cognitive Complexity in Aboriginal Australia
Writers on Australian Aboriginal ceremonial practices and contemporary commercial art have identified properties that can be described as producing 'brilliance', the term used by Howard Morphy (1989) for Yolngu visual art. Brilliance involves the emotionally charged knowledge that Ancestral power is manifest. We suggest that, in Australian Aboriginal ceremonial practices and art, two kinds of brilliance are at work, both of which we exemplify usi…
Dreaming Shakespeare
Bill Forsyth's films are adaptations of Shakespeare plays
Saussure and literary theory
This article is about why the state of affairs exists where Saussure has become a ‘prophet without honour’ in linguistics but a father-figure in literary and cultural studies. My argument is basically that Saussure’s linguistics is not appropriate to the study of language, though as a methodology it might be adopted in other areas
English suffixation is constrained only by selectional restrictions
Functions of Style
The difference between English restrictive and nonrestrictive relative clauses
A nonrestrictive relative clause (henceforth NRR) is shown in (I) and a restrictive relative clause (henceforth RR) in (2). (1) The swans, which are white, are in that part of the lake. (2) The swans which are white are in that part of the lake. Example (1) implies that all the swans under discussion are white. Example (2) implies that the white swans are being distinguished from some other not white swans which are also under discussion. There a…
Morphology and mind
Language through literature
Verse constituency and the locality of alliteration
Weak monosyllables in iambic verse and the communication of metrical form
Linguistics in the Study and Teaching of Literature
Literary texts include linguistic form, as well as specialized literary forms (some of which also involve language). Linguistics can offer to literary studies an understanding of these kinds of form, and the ways by which a text is used to communicate meaning. In order to cope with the great variety of creative uses of language in literature, linguistics must acknowledge that some texts are assigned structure by non‐linguistic means, but the boun…
Teaching & Learning Guide for
Author’s Introduction Linguistics can provide a technical vocabulary for talking about language, and an understanding of how everyday language is structured and functions. Literary texts are made from language, and although the relation between language in literature and language in general is not fully understood, linguistics can help theorize literary language, and suggest ways of thinking about literary form, and the relation between form and …
Is literary language a development of ordinary language
The Verse-Line as a Whole Unit in Working Memory, Ease of Processing, and the Aesthetic Effects of Form
Verse is text which is divided into lines. In this paper I explore a psychological account of how verse is processed, and specifically the hypothesis that the text is processed line by line, such that each line is held as a whole sequence in the limited capacity of working memory. I will argue that because the line is processed in this way, certain low-level aesthetic effects are thereby produced, thus giving a partial explanation for why verse i…
Language and Literature
Brilliance as Cognitive Complexity in Aboriginal Australia
Writers on Australian Aboriginal ceremonial practices and contemporary commercial art have identified properties that can be described as producing 'brilliance', the term used by Howard Morphy (1989) for Yolngu visual art. Brilliance involves the emotionally charged knowledge that Ancestral power is manifest. We suggest that, in Australian Aboriginal ceremonial practices and art, two kinds of brilliance are at work, both of which we exemplify usi…
“Non-linguistic” Browning
Sapir (1921) suggests that Robert Browning’s poetry is “non-linguistic” in the way he uses the English language to convey thought. We explore the meter of a much criticized example of his poetry, his “Pietro of Abano” (1880), and conclude otherwise. The poem is in trochaic metre with extensive and systematic catalexis, i.e. unrealized metrical constituents possible only at phrase boundaries. We show that Browning locates phrase and even word boun…
Response to Hogan
I want to start, as Hogan does, by reflecting on our backgrounds as academics and how these can lead us into partisan positions, in particular around issues of culture, context-specific variation, and human psychological universals. Hogan and I, who are of the same generation, also inherit similar influences, notably Noam Chomsky’s strong view on linguistic universals, and take a similar stance on these issues. It is worth noting how strong our b…
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