The reference to the 'noses' of the chorus (l. 344) does not refer to their masks, or metaphorica... more The reference to the 'noses' of the chorus (l. 344) does not refer to their masks, or metaphorically to the sexual organs of the actors, or even to the comic phalli, but serves to characterize Strepsiades as an old rustic incapable of intellectual abstraction as he attempts to make sense, through a familiar kind of comic pun, of the extraordinary sight brought before him by Socrates. The article clarifies or corrects nose-related readings of Hipponax, Plato, Aristotle, Menander, and Aelian, and proposes a new interpretation of an inscription on a cup by Douris.
Paideia, rivista di filologia, ermeneutica e critica letteraria, 2018
In poem 11 Catullus commissions Furius and Aurelius with the task of delivering a bitter message ... more In poem 11 Catullus commissions Furius and Aurelius with the task of delivering a bitter message to Lesbia. I suggest that in so doing the poet alludes to a longstanding figure of invective, the iambic herald, whose marginal status supports an ironical reading of poem 11 and helps to answer the question of how the travelogue fits into this poem and the surrounding poems in the text of Catullus. Keywords: Catullus; iambic; herald; Archilochus.
This article is a contribution to our understanding of how Archilochean poetics may be situated i... more This article is a contribution to our understanding of how Archilochean poetics may be situated in the longer poetic tradition. In examining two fragments that have received little attention, I hope to illustrate how Archilochus’ poetry both engaged with its predecessors and was in turn engaged by its successors. Fragment 222W employs a theme that was perhaps already conventional for Hesiod, in which the incompatibility of the sexes is implicated in the cycle of seasons, an idea that also seems relevant to Archilochus’ quarrel with the daughters of Lycambes. Light is shed on 39W by comparing it to later words for skinning that serve as metaphors for cheating someone, the best known example of which is found in Catullus. In the first fragment the text can be elucidated by a look to Archilochus’ forerunners, and in the second by looking to his heirs.
Leibniz’s philosophical and philological interests overlapped at many points, and some of his fun... more Leibniz’s philosophical and philological interests overlapped at many points, and some of his fundamental philosophical notions shaped his views on language, particularly his thinking about language history, in decisive ways. Although he is better known for his work on universal language, his writings on natural language and language history are worth consideration both for their subtlety and for the insight they give into the complex history of thought on this topic. The principles of sufficient reason, praedicatum inest subjecto, and his doctrine of marks and traces are echoed in his work on natural languages and in his account of their histories. He attempted to reconcile philosophical investigations of the natural languages with the Biblical accounts of the confusion of languages at Babel, and in his approach to etymology he participated in a long tradition of thinking about language and its essence as hidden or secret, the truth of which remains scattered in signs and which etymology alone may occasionally reveal.
Inscription IvE 106 from Ephesus dated to the 4th or 3rd century BCE contains the enigmatic phras... more Inscription IvE 106 from Ephesus dated to the 4th or 3rd century BCE contains the enigmatic phrase ὀρειογυάδων καὶ ἐνέδρας. I propose that the -γυ- of ὀρειογυάδων be analyzed as a reflex of the PIE root *gweh2- ‘go, proceed’, with suffixal -u-, which appears as the second member in similar compounds in Greek (πρέσβυς < *pres-gwu-), Vedic (vanargú- ‘roaming in the forest’, etc.), and Lithuanian (žmogùs ‘Mensch’ < ‘auf der Erde gehend’). This new interpretation of ὀρειογυάδων makes better sense of the entire inscription, which, as several inscriptional and literary parallels show, identifies a temple of Dionysus and makes provision for its use by hill-roaming maenads (ὀρειογυάδες) and men laid in ambush (ἐνέδρα).
The prescriptive school of thought in terminology holds that terms should be fixed items and shou... more The prescriptive school of thought in terminology holds that terms should be fixed items and should not be prone to variation. More recently, however, descriptive studies have begun to reveal that many terms do in fact have variants. This poses a challenge for language professionals such as translators and terminologists, who need to decide which form of a term to use in a given context. This article explores one specific type of variant that occurs frequently in medical language — variants that can be formed by combining elements of a term in a different order (e.g. cardiovascular vs. vasculocardiac). By studying such variants in corpora, we have identified some regular patterns that appear to reveal conceptual, linguistic and social motivations behind term choice. An understanding of these factors may help translators and terminologists to choose the most appropriate term.
... Rondeau 1984: 135; Picht and Draskau 1985: 114; Sager 1990: 89; Dubuc 1997: 145); Conciseness... more ... Rondeau 1984: 135; Picht and Draskau 1985: 114; Sager 1990: 89; Dubuc 1997: 145); Conciseness: a term should be concise and in keeping with the principle of linguistic economy (Manuila and Manuila 1966: 42; Rondeau 1984: 134 ... 84 Lynne Bowker and Shane Hawkins ...
The reference to the 'noses' of the chorus (l. 344) does not refer to their masks, or metaphorica... more The reference to the 'noses' of the chorus (l. 344) does not refer to their masks, or metaphorically to the sexual organs of the actors, or even to the comic phalli, but serves to characterize Strepsiades as an old rustic incapable of intellectual abstraction as he attempts to make sense, through a familiar kind of comic pun, of the extraordinary sight brought before him by Socrates. The article clarifies or corrects nose-related readings of Hipponax, Plato, Aristotle, Menander, and Aelian, and proposes a new interpretation of an inscription on a cup by Douris.
Paideia, rivista di filologia, ermeneutica e critica letteraria, 2018
In poem 11 Catullus commissions Furius and Aurelius with the task of delivering a bitter message ... more In poem 11 Catullus commissions Furius and Aurelius with the task of delivering a bitter message to Lesbia. I suggest that in so doing the poet alludes to a longstanding figure of invective, the iambic herald, whose marginal status supports an ironical reading of poem 11 and helps to answer the question of how the travelogue fits into this poem and the surrounding poems in the text of Catullus. Keywords: Catullus; iambic; herald; Archilochus.
This article is a contribution to our understanding of how Archilochean poetics may be situated i... more This article is a contribution to our understanding of how Archilochean poetics may be situated in the longer poetic tradition. In examining two fragments that have received little attention, I hope to illustrate how Archilochus’ poetry both engaged with its predecessors and was in turn engaged by its successors. Fragment 222W employs a theme that was perhaps already conventional for Hesiod, in which the incompatibility of the sexes is implicated in the cycle of seasons, an idea that also seems relevant to Archilochus’ quarrel with the daughters of Lycambes. Light is shed on 39W by comparing it to later words for skinning that serve as metaphors for cheating someone, the best known example of which is found in Catullus. In the first fragment the text can be elucidated by a look to Archilochus’ forerunners, and in the second by looking to his heirs.
Leibniz’s philosophical and philological interests overlapped at many points, and some of his fun... more Leibniz’s philosophical and philological interests overlapped at many points, and some of his fundamental philosophical notions shaped his views on language, particularly his thinking about language history, in decisive ways. Although he is better known for his work on universal language, his writings on natural language and language history are worth consideration both for their subtlety and for the insight they give into the complex history of thought on this topic. The principles of sufficient reason, praedicatum inest subjecto, and his doctrine of marks and traces are echoed in his work on natural languages and in his account of their histories. He attempted to reconcile philosophical investigations of the natural languages with the Biblical accounts of the confusion of languages at Babel, and in his approach to etymology he participated in a long tradition of thinking about language and its essence as hidden or secret, the truth of which remains scattered in signs and which etymology alone may occasionally reveal.
Inscription IvE 106 from Ephesus dated to the 4th or 3rd century BCE contains the enigmatic phras... more Inscription IvE 106 from Ephesus dated to the 4th or 3rd century BCE contains the enigmatic phrase ὀρειογυάδων καὶ ἐνέδρας. I propose that the -γυ- of ὀρειογυάδων be analyzed as a reflex of the PIE root *gweh2- ‘go, proceed’, with suffixal -u-, which appears as the second member in similar compounds in Greek (πρέσβυς < *pres-gwu-), Vedic (vanargú- ‘roaming in the forest’, etc.), and Lithuanian (žmogùs ‘Mensch’ < ‘auf der Erde gehend’). This new interpretation of ὀρειογυάδων makes better sense of the entire inscription, which, as several inscriptional and literary parallels show, identifies a temple of Dionysus and makes provision for its use by hill-roaming maenads (ὀρειογυάδες) and men laid in ambush (ἐνέδρα).
The prescriptive school of thought in terminology holds that terms should be fixed items and shou... more The prescriptive school of thought in terminology holds that terms should be fixed items and should not be prone to variation. More recently, however, descriptive studies have begun to reveal that many terms do in fact have variants. This poses a challenge for language professionals such as translators and terminologists, who need to decide which form of a term to use in a given context. This article explores one specific type of variant that occurs frequently in medical language — variants that can be formed by combining elements of a term in a different order (e.g. cardiovascular vs. vasculocardiac). By studying such variants in corpora, we have identified some regular patterns that appear to reveal conceptual, linguistic and social motivations behind term choice. An understanding of these factors may help translators and terminologists to choose the most appropriate term.
... Rondeau 1984: 135; Picht and Draskau 1985: 114; Sager 1990: 89; Dubuc 1997: 145); Conciseness... more ... Rondeau 1984: 135; Picht and Draskau 1985: 114; Sager 1990: 89; Dubuc 1997: 145); Conciseness: a term should be concise and in keeping with the principle of linguistic economy (Manuila and Manuila 1966: 42; Rondeau 1984: 134 ... 84 Lynne Bowker and Shane Hawkins ...
Most digital humanists will at some point confront a series of important questions: who controls ... more Most digital humanists will at some point confront a series of important questions: who controls their data, what rights of possession and reproduction are involved, including access, copyright, intellectual property rights, or digital rights management? Who is allowed to reproduce or manipulate the data, and which data, how often, of what quality or to what degree, and at what (and whose) expense? This introductory chapter sets the context for the contributions in this volume, which present case studies and theoretical approaches based on experience with applications for digital technology in research, in classrooms, museums, archives, in the field, and with the general public, and which offer critical assessments of and answers to these problems from a variety of perspectives.
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The Digital Humanities Workshop was an occasion for an international group of scholars, curators, archivists, and artists who work in the field of digital humanities. It was designed to give both Canadian and international participants opportunities to learn from each other about the diverse and rapidly changing ways in which digital technologies are influencing the roles of scholars, creators, students, patrons, and clients in the Humanities.
The goal of the workshop was to create the opportunity for information sharing from a broad spectrum of the digital community and scholars connected to the humanities who can provide in-depth presentations from the perspective of those who are expert in digital technologies. The workshop took place at Carleton University, Ottawa, from May 13-15, 2016.
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The Digital Humanities Workshop was an occasion for an international group of scholars, curators, archivists, and artists who work in the field of digital humanities. It was designed to give both Canadian and international participants opportunities to learn from each other about the diverse and rapidly changing ways in which digital technologies are influencing the roles of scholars, creators, students, patrons, and clients in the Humanities.
The goal of the workshop was to create the opportunity for information sharing from a broad spectrum of the digital community and scholars connected to the humanities who can provide in-depth presentations from the perspective of those who are expert in digital technologies. The workshop took place at Carleton University, Ottawa, from May 13-15, 2016.