Listening to the Past
Title | Listening to the Past PDF eBook |
Author | Raymond Hickey |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 607 |
Release | 2017-04-20 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1316867374 |
Audio recordings of English are available from the first half of the twentieth century and thus complement the written data sources for the recent history of the language. This book is the first to bring together a team of globally recognised scholars to document and analyse these early recordings in a single volume. Looking at examples of regional varieties of English from England, Scotland, Ireland, the USA, Canada and other anglophone countries, the volume explores both standard and vernacular varieties, and demonstrates how accents of English have changed between the late nineteenth century and the present day. The socio-phonetic examinations of the recordings will be of interest to scholars of historical linguistics, the history of the English language, language variation and change, phonetics, and phonology.
Listening to the Past
Title | Listening to the Past PDF eBook |
Author | Raymond Hickey |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 607 |
Release | 2017-04-20 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1107051576 |
The first edited volume to document and analyse early audio recordings of the English language.
Listening to the Past
Title | Listening to the Past PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen R. Holmes |
Publisher | Paternoster |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Religion |
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Listening to the Past comprehensively examines the doctrine of communion of saints, bringing together wisdom concerning atonement, free will, theology, politics, and the importance of listening to and learning from tradition and history. Each individual chapter focuses on a different aspect of modern-day questions and conundrums involving God and faith, in a succinctly written study of lessons already learned throughout the centuries. Listening To The Past is especially recommended for non-specialist general readers with an interest in Christian Doctrine & Theology.
Listening to America
Title | Listening to America PDF eBook |
Author | Stuart Berg Flexner |
Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
Pages | 596 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780671248956 |
An illustrated survey of the origins, evolutions, and meanings of thousands of phrases, and expressions unique to American English adds up to an entertaining, reliable history of modern American idioms and speech.
Hearing History
Title | Hearing History PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Michael Smith |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Pages | 444 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780820325828 |
Hearing History is a long-needed introduction to the basic tenets of what is variously termed historical acoustemology, auditory culture, or aural history. Gathering twenty-one of the fields most important writings, this volume will deepen and broaden our understanding of changing perceptions of sound and hearing and the ongoing education of our senses. The essays stimulate thinking on key questions: What is aural history? Why has vision tended to triumph over hearing in historical accounts? How might we begin to reclaim the sounds of the past? With theoretical and practical essays on the history of sound and hearing in Europe and the United States, the book draws on historical approaches ranging from empiricism to postmodernism. Some essays show the historian of technology at work, others highlight how With theoretical and practical essays on the history of sound and hearing in Europe and the United States, the book draws on historical approaches ranging from empiricism to postmodernism. Some essays show the historian of technology at work, others highlight how military, social, intellectual, and cultural historians have tackled historical acoustemologies. Investigating soundscapes that include a Puritan meetinghouse in colonial New England, the belfries of a French village at the close of the Old Regime, the court hall of Elizabeth I, and a Civil War battlefield, the essays vary just as widely in their topics, which include noise as a marker of social and cultural differences, the privileging of music as the sound of art, the persistence of Aristotelian ideas of sound into the seventeenth century, developments in sound related to medical practice, the advent of sound-recording technology, and noise pollution.
The Audible Past
Title | The Audible Past PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Sterne |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 478 |
Release | 2003-03-13 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780822330134 |
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Listening for the Text
Title | Listening for the Text PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Stock |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780812216127 |
"Stock has opened up lines of thinking about the medieval world--and our modern one too--which lead in fascinating directions."--