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“On the elementary level it has in effect a threefold “uttering” function: it is a process of appropriation of the topographic system by the pedestrian (just as the speaker appropriates and assumes language); it is a spatial realization of the site (just as the act of speaking is a sonic realization of language); lastly, it implies relationships among distinct positions, i.e. pragmatic “contracts” in the form of movements (just as verbal utterance is “allocution”, “places the others” before the speaker, and sets up contracts between fellow speakers. A first definition of walking thus seems to be a space of uttering.”

LanguageWalkingUtterance
Author:Michel de Certeau
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“Ох, філологіє! Ох, великомученице! Хто тебе не зважувався брати на муки! Кожен, хто пару слів тямить написати, та ще - не дай Боже - якусь чужу мову зна, - уже вважа себе коли не за справжнього лінгвіста, то хоч за таку людину, яка сміє авторитетно вирікати свій суд про філологічні й лінгвістичні справи. Всі інші науки не такі безталанні, не такі беззахисні перед профанами. Ніхто вам не зважиться (бо попросту посоромиться), не бувши спеціялістом, споритися проти астронома, ляпати дурниці проти техніка, плескати нісенітниці проти хіміка; ну, а в філологічних питаннях кожен-кожен забирає голос... і віщає.”

LinguisticsPhilology
Book:Виривки з мемуарів одного старого гріховоди. Вибране
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“We are, in the main, 'word-blind' to Pre-Raphaelite and Decadent verse. This blindness results from a major change in habits of sensibility. Our contemporary sense of the poetic, our often unexamined presumptions about valid or spurious uses of figurative speech have developed from a conscious negation of fin de siécle ideals.”

PoetryTranslationPhilologyPre Raphaelite
Book:After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation
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“That so far the material has been dealt with in a rather subjective way provokes the question whether a means can be found of handling it objectively. [...] This chapter considers the applicability of the statistical tests employed by Wilson and the general problem whether the Linear B data are suited to statistical analysis.”

StatisticsLanguagesPhilologyStatistical AnalysisDeciphermentLinear BMycenology
Book:Place-Names in the Knossos Tablets Identification and Location
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“If we had enough data then this statistical approach would undoubtedly sort out these things, and a lot of problems are arising precisely because we haven't got enough documents for the statistical approach to be wholly valid. I know you can calculate levels of probability and so forth, but to establish this really clearly we want a lot more information than we have actually got available. This is surely our major problem that we are still at the very limits at which you can use a technique of this sort. - John Chadwick”

PhilologyStatistical AnalysisLinear BMycenologyJohn Chadwick
Book:Place-Names in the Knossos Tablets Identification and Location
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