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Aug 3, 2023 · Perfume shows Süskind as the great linguistic stylist that he is, a talent in evidence throughout his work to date, but used here specifically to create an atmosphere of colloquial, relaxed, almost offhanded storytelling—the deceptively smooth and reader-friendly surface of the novel.
Showing the poverty of scent-words in language, Süskind has to resort to describing the scent in visual terms, here in terms of color. But to eat a human being? They would never, so they thought, have been capable of anything that horrible.
- Patrick Suskind
Aug 11, 2021 · Nothing about speech, language or ideas is predictable, and it gets worse when you try to study the way it's changed over thousands of years and billions of people. Luckily, there are a lot of linguists who have a sense of humor about the whole thing.
Though most memes I can think of are visual or behavioral. Perhaps accent and dialect stereotypes are used as memes. So, maybe a linguistic meme would be the adoption of some linguistic marker to convey a mentality or the background of some speaker.
Memes sort of function as a writing system used to tell stories—like 21st century hieroglyphics. If you're into both memes and linguistics, this batch of wordy memes about the quirks of language might be right up your alley.
This study provides a pragma-stylistic analysis of five of the most popular image macro families, as well as their most liked and disliked iterations. An existing framework for the analysis of internet memes (Shifman, 2014) is adopted and refined and applied in a qualitative analysis of the data.
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What makes language languagey? There are many people who’ve talked about this! There’s not a consensus on exactly what makes Language language … but there are a number of features which most folks agree on. If memes are language, they should fit these characteristics!
