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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Originally published in French in 1957, these essays are an attempt to apply to everyday myth the tools of semiology, the science of signs sketched out in Barthes's earlier works and the works of his mentor, the linguist Saussure. Viewing all the products of culture as systems of signs, Barthes has created a kind of "pan-criticism" which, although it has made him best known as a literary critic, takes in anything from Racine to underground film to popular magazines...

Author: By Phil Patton, | Title: Myth and the Everyday | 2/6/1973 | See Source »

...most citizens that complaint seems illiterate. To a linguist it is a good example of Black English, a dialect with its own grammar and vocabulary. For three centuries, it has been the language of most American Negroes, but until recently, both its origins and its rules have remained a mystery. Scholars once thought that it was either an ignorant misuse of Standard English or a remnant of archaic British dialects learned by slaves from their Southern masters. Lately, however, a number of linguists have come to believe that the dialect originated with the slaves themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Black English | 8/7/1972 | See Source »

Pidgin. That theory receives its first book-length substantiation with the publication of Black English (Random House, $10). In it, Linguist J.L. Dillard of the University of Puerto Rico describes how slaves were forced to develop their own lingua franca because traders usually separated groups speaking the same language in order to hinder communication and thereby prevent revolts. The slaves taught each other pidgin varieties of their masters' language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Black English | 8/7/1972 | See Source »

British colonialism has produced a remarkable assortment of fruits and nuts, notably Lawrence of Arabia. But there have also been magnificent blossoms. Sir Richard Burton, the 19th century linguist and imperialist advance man, was an entire garden of delights. Gerald Hanley, the novelist and screenwriter (The Blue Max), is no Burton, although at one point in this memoir he claims to have succeeded where Burton failed-in discovering the secret of Wabaio, a potent arrow poison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Found Continent | 8/7/1972 | See Source »

...chatted it up and laughed a lot, and then Prince Charles, 23, drove her back to Windsor Castle. Georgiana Russell is the name-the 24-year-old daughter of Sir John Russell, Britain's Ambassador to Spain, and Lady Russell, a former Greek beauty queen. Georgiana, a gifted linguist (French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Russian), lives in London and works for Vogue. The gossip columnists are overjoyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 24, 1972 | 4/24/1972 | See Source »

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