Language related articleshttp://www.textator.lv/en/atom© Copyright 2005-2009 Textator2009-01-29T10:21:50+02:00Textatorhttp://www.textator.lvinfo@textator.lvTextator feed generatorhttp://www.textator.lv/en/writings/auditory-apparatus2009-01-29T10:21:50+02:002009-01-29T10:21:50+02:00<p>My grandfather is over eighty now. He has been having hearing difficulties for the last ten years or more, which is not surprising at that age. All the members of the family have taken to shouting ...http://www.textator.lv/en/writings/dandelions2009-01-29T10:19:05+02:002009-01-29T10:19:05+02:00<p class="right"><em>Dandelions' time...</em></p> <p>Dressed in forest green uniforms with yellow peaked caps of starched terry, the Dandelions march in groups of three along the empty morning street ...http://www.textator.lv/en/writings/looking-around2009-01-29T10:15:18+02:002009-01-29T10:15:18+02:00<p>You enter a small cafe, hoping for a cup of hot black coffee, which would fix you up after the meeting you’ve just had one block away from this place. You sit down at a round table by the window an ...http://www.textator.lv/en/writings/nationality2009-01-29T10:12:31+02:002009-01-29T10:12:31+02:00<p>Today’s the day when the results of the national contest are going to be announced. Lots of people have come together on a green meadow outside the town to witness the magnificent event. The town o ...http://www.textator.lv/en/writings/hamadryads2009-01-29T10:07:50+02:002009-01-29T10:07:50+02:00<p>Yesterday I saw my neighbour die. It was a violent and spectacular event. But then, of course, any departure from the ordinary run of things is entertaining, when you are in a position like mine. I ...http://www.textator.lv/en/writings/poetry2009-01-29T10:05:26+02:002009-01-29T10:05:26+02:00<p><strong>A Verse which Failed to Become a Ghazal</strong><br /> <br /> We will build our hotel in a yolk-coloured mansion<br /> And we’ll never have to worry anymore.<br /> <br /> Queer people on mo ...http://www.textator.lv/en/articles/text-perception/perceptual-bias2008-09-26T18:58:24+03:002008-09-26T18:58:24+03:00An illustration of perceptual bias based on the well-known “13” and “B” example. Our example is based on visual similarity between Cyrillic “bl” and Latin “BL” when lower-case.http://www.textator.lv/en/articles/literature/defamiliarization2007-07-11T18:05:23+03:002007-07-11T18:05:23+03:00The concept of defamiliarization (dehabitualization, also bestrangement), as reflected in Victor Shklovsky’s “Art as technique”, is a very good way of explaining what “artfulness” of art and, consequently, “literariness” of literature are all about.http://www.textator.lv/en/articles/internet-texts/instant-messaging2007-07-11T16:30:57+03:002007-07-11T16:30:57+03:00Communication by means of instant messaging software, as many users recognize, is different from oral face-to-face communication with the same interlocutor, so is the image that one creates of oneself while communicating in that way.http://www.textator.lv/en/articles/semiotics/david-lynchs-films2007-07-11T12:10:16+03:002007-07-11T12:10:16+03:00Sigmund Freud, who was, strangely enough, suffering from a neurotic disorder, never looked into his patients’ eyes. Never admitting that a neurotic disorder was the reason, Freud and his followers – later theoreticians of psychoanalysis – explained that it was only possible to get the “freedom of association” if the doctor’s and the patient’s eyes did not meet. Lynch goes further in this wish to get free associations: he reveals the subconscious of his characters without even being present beside them or anywhere in the near, not speaking about looking into their eyes.http://www.textator.lv/en/articles/semiotics/woody-allens-scoop2007-07-11T11:39:29+03:002007-07-11T11:39:29+03:00This 2006 comedy by Woody Allen has been heavily criticized in numerous newspaper/Internet reviews for reasons that remain a mystery to me. Among the main arguments for such unfavourable judgments the following seem to outnumber all the rest: it lacks meaning, being just a trifling time-killer at best; the plot is unconvincing and abounds in holes; there is nothing original in it – all that this film has to offer has been already seen somewhere else and better done, too. Well, all these things I completely disagree with and I will try to explain why.http://www.textator.lv/en/articles/useful/referencing-citations2007-07-04T12:26:43+03:002007-07-04T12:26:43+03:00This article contains useful information on referencing quoted sources.http://www.textator.lv/en/articles/text-perception/printed-text-perception2007-06-29T19:03:12+03:002007-06-29T19:03:12+03:00“If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write” — that’s how Epictetus saw the ideal state of affairs back in the 1st century AD. Having failed to comply with his expectations we all read and write nowadays, so learning a bit more about how we read, would do no harm for us as readers and as writers.http://www.textator.lv/en/articles/literature/musicalisation-of-fiction2007-06-13T18:21:53+03:002007-06-13T18:21:53+03:00The article is devoted to the problem of perceiving and analyzing the notion of the musicalisation of fiction (both poetry and prose) in the beginning of the 21st century. To a significant extent, the problem of studying musicalisation in the 21st century is the problem of definition. In the author’s opinion, the academically significant notion of musicalisation was defined and put in practice in the beginning of the 20th century by T. S. Eliot – an imagist highly influenced by the revolutionary epoch of jazz.