The debate on the ethical status of sentimentality in response to art is ongoing. At the moment, ... more The debate on the ethical status of sentimentality in response to art is ongoing. At the moment, a world-wide conservative political ideology is reacting to years of majority liberal power in many countries, culminating in situations like Brexit and the election of Donald Trump. The movement has gained significant ground through the manipulation of memory performed in works of varying levels of fictionality—nothing less than an extensive propaganda campaign. In addition to providing a concrete analysis of the attacks on and defenses of sentimentality, this paper attempts to locate ethicality within the creation of the work of art by examining the effects of several historical and contemporary genres of music.
This paper addresses the orthography of an Austrian dialect of German by utilizing various sets o... more This paper addresses the orthography of an Austrian dialect of German by utilizing various sets of lyrics for two songs produced within the Middle Bavarian dialect area. These lyrics were written out by human transcribers and posted essentially anonymously to the Internet for the benefit of other users. The paper compares these sets of lyrics to each other and to Standard German, providing a new methodology for examining written dialect data in this context, facilitating further phonological fieldwork with Middle Bavarian, and questioning political and ideological attitudes towards dialect in the 21st century.
This study examines oaths in the ON Poetic Edda primarily from a linguistic and rhetorical standp... more This study examines oaths in the ON Poetic Edda primarily from a linguistic and rhetorical standpoint with the aim of deducing syntactic-rhetorical formulas for oath swearing. As J. Grimm (1816) said and Hibbitts (1992) reiterated, poetic formulations in oral performance cultures may have had mnemonic functions and likely closely resembled real performance, which lends further validity and benefit to this project. This report begins with an examination of the relevant scholarly literature on oaths from Indo-European through ON. Four examples of oaths from the Poetic Edda are then presented, compared, and read with rhetorical and syntactic strategies to discover the formulas. A discussion section presents three evident conclusions on the structure of oath formulas: oaths are indeed formulaic, formula pieces can be optional but ordering does not change, and certain morpho-syntactic choices are intricately tied to the setting of oaths. Finally, directions for future research are suggested.
This paper addresses the orthography of an Austrian dialect of German by utilizing various sets o... more This paper addresses the orthography of an Austrian dialect of German by utilizing various sets of lyrics for two songs produced within the Middle Bavarian dialect area. These lyrics were written out by human transcribers and posted essentially anonymously to the Internet for the benefit of other users. The paper compares these sets of lyrics to each other and to Standard German, providing a new methodology for examining written dialect data in this context, facilitating further phonological fieldwork with Middle Bavarian, and questioning political and ideological attitudes towards dialect in the 21st century.
This study examines oaths in the ON Poetic Edda primarily from a linguistic and rhetorical standp... more This study examines oaths in the ON Poetic Edda primarily from a linguistic and rhetorical standpoint with the aim of deducing syntactic-rhetorical formulas for oath swearing. As J. Grimm (1816) said and Hibbitts (1992) reiterated, poetic formulations in oral performance cultures may have had mnemonic functions and likely closely resembled real performance, which lends further validity and benefit to this project. This report begins with an examination of the relevant scholarly literature on oaths from Indo-European through ON. Four examples of oaths from the Poetic Edda are then presented, compared, and read with rhetorical and syntactic strategies to discover the formulas. A discussion section presents three evident conclusions on the structure of oath formulas: oaths are indeed formulaic, formula pieces can be optional but ordering does not change, and certain morpho-syntactic choices are intricately tied to the setting of oaths. Finally, directions for future research are suggested.
The debate on the ethical status of sentimentality in response to art is ongoing. At the moment, ... more The debate on the ethical status of sentimentality in response to art is ongoing. At the moment, a world-wide conservative political ideology is reacting to years of majority liberal power in many countries, culminating in situations like Brexit and the election of Donald Trump. The movement has gained significant ground through the manipulation of memory performed in works of varying levels of fictionality—nothing less than an extensive propaganda campaign. In addition to providing a concrete analysis of the attacks on and defenses of sentimentality, this paper attempts to locate ethicality within the creation of the work of art by examining the effects of several historical and contemporary genres of music.
This paper addresses the orthography of an Austrian dialect of German by utilizing various sets o... more This paper addresses the orthography of an Austrian dialect of German by utilizing various sets of lyrics for two songs produced within the Middle Bavarian dialect area. These lyrics were written out by human transcribers and posted essentially anonymously to the Internet for the benefit of other users. The paper compares these sets of lyrics to each other and to Standard German, providing a new methodology for examining written dialect data in this context, facilitating further phonological fieldwork with Middle Bavarian, and questioning political and ideological attitudes towards dialect in the 21st century.
This study examines oaths in the ON Poetic Edda primarily from a linguistic and rhetorical standp... more This study examines oaths in the ON Poetic Edda primarily from a linguistic and rhetorical standpoint with the aim of deducing syntactic-rhetorical formulas for oath swearing. As J. Grimm (1816) said and Hibbitts (1992) reiterated, poetic formulations in oral performance cultures may have had mnemonic functions and likely closely resembled real performance, which lends further validity and benefit to this project. This report begins with an examination of the relevant scholarly literature on oaths from Indo-European through ON. Four examples of oaths from the Poetic Edda are then presented, compared, and read with rhetorical and syntactic strategies to discover the formulas. A discussion section presents three evident conclusions on the structure of oath formulas: oaths are indeed formulaic, formula pieces can be optional but ordering does not change, and certain morpho-syntactic choices are intricately tied to the setting of oaths. Finally, directions for future research are suggested.
This paper addresses the orthography of an Austrian dialect of German by utilizing various sets o... more This paper addresses the orthography of an Austrian dialect of German by utilizing various sets of lyrics for two songs produced within the Middle Bavarian dialect area. These lyrics were written out by human transcribers and posted essentially anonymously to the Internet for the benefit of other users. The paper compares these sets of lyrics to each other and to Standard German, providing a new methodology for examining written dialect data in this context, facilitating further phonological fieldwork with Middle Bavarian, and questioning political and ideological attitudes towards dialect in the 21st century.
This study examines oaths in the ON Poetic Edda primarily from a linguistic and rhetorical standp... more This study examines oaths in the ON Poetic Edda primarily from a linguistic and rhetorical standpoint with the aim of deducing syntactic-rhetorical formulas for oath swearing. As J. Grimm (1816) said and Hibbitts (1992) reiterated, poetic formulations in oral performance cultures may have had mnemonic functions and likely closely resembled real performance, which lends further validity and benefit to this project. This report begins with an examination of the relevant scholarly literature on oaths from Indo-European through ON. Four examples of oaths from the Poetic Edda are then presented, compared, and read with rhetorical and syntactic strategies to discover the formulas. A discussion section presents three evident conclusions on the structure of oath formulas: oaths are indeed formulaic, formula pieces can be optional but ordering does not change, and certain morpho-syntactic choices are intricately tied to the setting of oaths. Finally, directions for future research are suggested.
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