Harry Levin
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 112201 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Harry Levin |
| PRENOMES | Harry |
| SOBRENOME | Levin |
| ASSINATURA | LEVIN H |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Cornell University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 51 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 76 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 51 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1949 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1994 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
The effects of lexical formality and accent on trait attributions
Frequencies of Latinate and Germanic words in English as determinants of formality
Formality‐informality is an often cited descriptive dimension of language. The purpose of this study was to discover some properties of the formal lexicon in English. Subjects listened to five sets of utterances, each containing six interrelated items, and for each item chose a probable listener. The items were composed predominantly either of Latinate or of Germanic words, and of high and low frequency words within each etymology. Also, in each …
Sentence structure and formality
The evidence is practically unequivocal that left-branching (LB) sentences are more difficult to process than right-branching (RB) sentences. In this study, the hypothesis was tested that LB sentences are judged to be more formal than RB ones and that center-branching (CB) sentences would behave like LB ones. Three groups of subjects, university students in England, Wales, and the United States, ordered three versions of 18 sentences in terms of …
Playboys and Killjoys
Playboys and Killjoys
An accommodating witness
America in Europe
Santayana
Learning to play doctor
Twenty‐one children aged 4 to 9 years enacted four social roles—doctor, nurse, mother of sick child, and father of sick child—on two occasions, once shortly before and once shortly after the children themselves were hospitalized for minor elective surgerv. Measures were taken of the children's skill at talking appropriately in each of the four roles, and at using specific features of the sick‐room register, that is, a nurturant style and the medi…
Le Miroir de l'esprit dans le théâtre élisabéthain
Marie-Madeleine Martinet. Le Miroir de I'esprit dans le théâtre élisabéthain: variations dramatiques sur une idée philosphique, littéraire, et artistique. (Publications de la Sorbonne, Littératures 16, Collection Etudes Anglaises 79.) Paris: Didier Erudition, 1981. Illustrated. 501 pp. - Volume 37 Issue 1
Nurturant Talk to Children
The speech addressed to children, usually called Baby Talk, is not homogeneous. As Brown suggested, one dimension, "Communicative Clarity," controls the variables that contribute to simplifying the task of communicating to the child. The second dimension, "Affection/Nurturance," controls the variables that express a particular kind of social relationship between adult and child. The speech of mothers (and sometimes fathers) to 21 children aged fo…
The Implication of Explication
wish he would explain his said Byron of Coleridge. Readers of contemporary critics may often find themselves entertaining a similar wish. English is fortunate in making use of two related but distinctive terms: explanation, which is more general, and explication, which has been specialized, whereas French must make do with a single word for both purports, explication. Hence its particular application to literature must be specified by explication…
The Lecturer's OK
Shakespeare and Tragedy
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The Prosodic and Paralinguistic Features of Reading and Telling Stories
Four teachers read and told preschool children well-known stories which were recorded. Two composite tapes were prepared from the recordings. Ten-second sections of tape were spliced together to form 112 randomly intermixed examples of each teacher reading and telling stories to two groups of children. Fifty-six items were treated by a low-pass filter which removed all content information but preserved prosodic and paralinguistic information. Two…
Children's Use of a Social Speech Register
The purpose of this study was to trace the changes in a social speech register, talking to an animal, as used by children between the ages of five and 12 years. Each child's speech was recorded while she/he played alone with a rabbit. There were no changes in the nature of such speech between the age groups. However, boys and girls spoke differently to the rabbit. Boys used simpler speech, more imperatives and more annoyed utterances. Girls were …
[Letter from Harry Levin]
The Formality of the Latinate Lexicon in English
The hypothesis tested is that under instructions to be formal or in tasks that very in formality, English words whose origins are Latinate will be chosen in preference to words whose etymologies are Anglo-Saxon. In the first experiment, instructions to be neutral, moderately formal or very formal led to the completion of sentences by words that were Latinate and rare in preference to Anglo-Saxon synonyms. The second study asked subjects to imagin…
What Is Not Art
It may well be pretty, it may well be clever, it may even be human; but, as the Devil whispered when Adam first tried to scratch a line or two in the primal mud, is it art? That early refrain of Kipling's may sound an outmoded note of skepticism today, when orthodoxies or snobberies of taste have given way to pluralism not to say populism and old-fashioned highbrows and lowbrows both are being homogenized into middlebrows. Zuleika Dobson now coul…
Trope and Allegory
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The Marlovian World Picture
W. L. Godshalk. The Marlovian World Picture. The Hague-Paris: Mouton, 1974. 244 pp. Dfl.48. - Virginia Mary Meehan. Christopher Marlowe, Poet and Playwright: Studies in Poetical Method. The Hague-Paris: Mouton, 1974. 100 pp. Dfl.28 - Volume 29 Issue 2
Poison, Play, and Duel
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Constraints and the Eye-Voice Span in Right and Left Embedded Sentences
The nature of grammatical constraints and of reading are compared in left and right embedded sentences. Given the task of completing sentences with various parts deleted, subjects most frequently insert relative phrases after the main verb and use a variety of constructions before the verb. In each of three experiments, the eye-voice spans are larger in the right branching sentences indicating that processing is directed by the nature of the cons…
Poe, Poe, Poe, Poe, Poe, Poe, Poe
Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe is the exploration by a distinguished American poet and critic of his own lifelong fascination with the work of Edgar Allan Poe. Examining Poe's achievement as poet, as aesthetician, as inventor of the modern detective and science fiction genres, and as master of the psychological tale of terror, Hoffman revels in his subject. The result is a comprehensive, arresting interpretation of the oeuvre and a compassionate, pe…
Grounds for Comparison
Hesitation Phenomena in Children's Speech
Forty-eight children told two stories in each of two situations: to an audience of four adults, or to a microphone while no one was listening. Various fluency and hesitation variables were scored from the tapes. Subjects are consistent in their fluency and hesitations. A factor analysis of the speech measures yielded four factors. Deliberate hesitations are predictable, for boys, from the personality characteristic, exhibitionism. Stressful hesit…
The Lecturer's OK
The Prosodic and Paralinguistic Features of Reading and Telling Stories
Four teachers read and told preschool children well-known stories which were recorded. Two composite tapes were prepared from the recordings. Ten-second sections of tape were spliced together to form 112 randomly intermixed examples of each teacher reading and telling stories to two groups of children. Fifty-six items were treated by a low-pass filter which removed all content information but preserved prosodic and paralinguistic information. Two…
The effects of lexical formality and accent on trait attributions
The Formality of the Latinate Lexicon in English
The hypothesis tested is that under instructions to be formal or in tasks that very in formality, English words whose origins are Latinate will be chosen in preference to words whose etymologies are Anglo-Saxon. In the first experiment, instructions to be neutral, moderately formal or very formal led to the completion of sentences by words that were Latinate and rare in preference to Anglo-Saxon synonyms. The second study asked subjects to imagin…
Constraints and the Eye-Voice Span in Right and Left Embedded Sentences
The nature of grammatical constraints and of reading are compared in left and right embedded sentences. Given the task of completing sentences with various parts deleted, subjects most frequently insert relative phrases after the main verb and use a variety of constructions before the verb. In each of three experiments, the eye-voice spans are larger in the right branching sentences indicating that processing is directed by the nature of the cons…
Grounds for Comparison
Sentence structure and formality
The evidence is practically unequivocal that left-branching (LB) sentences are more difficult to process than right-branching (RB) sentences. In this study, the hypothesis was tested that LB sentences are judged to be more formal than RB ones and that center-branching (CB) sentences would behave like LB ones. Three groups of subjects, university students in England, Wales, and the United States, ordered three versions of 18 sentences in terms of …
An accommodating witness
Eye-Voice Span (EVS) within Active and Passive Sentences
Intra-sentence contingency effects on the processing of sentences were examined by means of a technique which involved using the Eye-Voice Span (EVS) as a unit of decoding in oral reading. Target sentences, one half active and one half passive, were embedded in paragraphs which subjects read aloud. It was found that the EVS varied in accordance with intra-sentence constraints ; specifically, (1) the EVS was found to be greater in the more highly …
Audience stress, personality, and speech
The effects of emotional arousal on the retention of film content
Frequencies of Latinate and Germanic words in English as determinants of formality
Formality‐informality is an often cited descriptive dimension of language. The purpose of this study was to discover some properties of the formal lexicon in English. Subjects listened to five sets of utterances, each containing six interrelated items, and for each item chose a probable listener. The items were composed predominantly either of Latinate or of Germanic words, and of high and low frequency words within each etymology. Also, in each …
Children's Use of a Social Speech Register
The purpose of this study was to trace the changes in a social speech register, talking to an animal, as used by children between the ages of five and 12 years. Each child's speech was recorded while she/he played alone with a rabbit. There were no changes in the nature of such speech between the age groups. However, boys and girls spoke differently to the rabbit. Boys used simpler speech, more imperatives and more annoyed utterances. Girls were …
Patterns of Child Rearing
Learning to play doctor
Twenty‐one children aged 4 to 9 years enacted four social roles—doctor, nurse, mother of sick child, and father of sick child—on two occasions, once shortly before and once shortly after the children themselves were hospitalized for minor elective surgerv. Measures were taken of the children's skill at talking appropriately in each of the four roles, and at using specific features of the sick‐room register, that is, a nurturant style and the medi…
Nurturant Talk to Children
The speech addressed to children, usually called Baby Talk, is not homogeneous. As Brown suggested, one dimension, "Communicative Clarity," controls the variables that contribute to simplifying the task of communicating to the child. The second dimension, "Affection/Nurturance," controls the variables that express a particular kind of social relationship between adult and child. The speech of mothers (and sometimes fathers) to 21 children aged fo…
Some European Views of Contemporary American Literature
OCCASION to see ourselves, not merely as others see us, but as they reflect our own reflection of ourselves, through whatever glass, however darkly -such is the hall of mirrors our subject opens before us. To traverse it, to glance in passing at its multiplied and refracted images, is not a proud but a chastening experience. Possibly it may lead us, via those corridors which our publicists are now contriving, into the midst of the American Centur…
Essays in the History of Ideas . Arthur O. Lovejoy
Some European Views of Contemporary American Literature
OCCASION to see ourselves, not merely as others see us, but as they reflect our own reflection of ourselves, through whatever glass, however darkly -such is the hall of mirrors our subject opens before us. To traverse it, to glance in passing at its multiplied and refracted images, is not a proud but a chastening experience. Possibly it may lead us, via those corridors which our publicists are now contriving, into the midst of the American Centur…
From Priam to Birotteau
The French Education of Henry Adams
The Ivory Gate
The effects of emotional arousal on the retention of film content
The influence of the mother's presence on children's doll play aggression
Patterns of Child Rearing
Studies of Teachers' Behavior
The Power of Blackness
Joyce and Aquinas . William T. Noon
Hawthorne's Tragic Vision
Realismo e Simbolismo
The Power of Blackness
The Power of Blackness is a profound and searching reinterpretation of Hawthorne, Poe and Melville, the three classic American masters of fiction. It is also an experiment in critical method, an exploration of the myth-making process by way of what may come to be known as literary iconology
E. E. Cummings
Audience stress, personality, and speech
The research uses of doll play
The Gates of Horn
Reinforcement of agents of action in doll play
Hesitation Phenomena in Children's Speech
Forty-eight children told two stories in each of two situations: to an audience of four adults, or to a microphone while no one was listening. Various fluency and hesitation variables were scored from the tapes. Subjects are consistent in their fluency and hesitations. A factor analysis of the speech measures yielded four factors. Deliberate hesitations are predictable, for boys, from the personality characteristic, exhibitionism. Stressful hesit…
Toward a Sociology of the Novel
From Terence to Tabarin
Commercial distribution of contraceptives in beveloping countries
The history of the marketing of contraceptives can be divided into 3 periods: the Prehistoric Era (period to the end of World War 2) the Pre-Modern Era (1945-1960) and the Modern Era (1960 on). Much of the marketing of contraceptives has been in a restricted market due to restrictive legislation or moral attitudes. The first 2 periods saw condoms selling at the same rate as the total of all other traditional contraceptives (diaphragms jelly cream…
Eye-Voice Span (EVS) within Active and Passive Sentences
Intra-sentence contingency effects on the processing of sentences were examined by means of a technique which involved using the Eye-Voice Span (EVS) as a unit of decoding in oral reading. Target sentences, one half active and one half passive, were embedded in paragraphs which subjects read aloud. It was found that the EVS varied in accordance with intra-sentence constraints ; specifically, (1) the EVS was found to be greater in the more highly …
Evangelizing Shakespeare
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