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The Lightning Flash

Language, longing and the facts of life

by Michèle Cooke (Author)
©2011 Monographs 164 Pages
Series: Translation Happens, Volume 1

Summary

We don’t say what we mean. We don’t mean what we say. No-one can tell the truth – especially when we stick to the facts.
Language isn’t about words, or information, or things. It’s always about us. As with music and painting, we use language to express what we are not able to say. And we can all do it. We all create our own poetry.
It is not words that we understand, but the myriad meanings of silence that lie beyond them.

Details

Pages
164
Year
2011
ISBN (Hardcover)
9783631597149
Language
English
Keywords
Denotative function art and language Emotive function of language Systemic communication
Published
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2011. 162 pp., 8 fig.

Biographical notes

Michèle Cooke (Author)

Michèle Cooke is Associate Professor at the University of Vienna, where she teaches translation and intercultural communication.

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