12.1661, Qs: Austin Quotation,Language Change through Movies

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Subject: 12.1661, Qs: Austin Quotation,Language Change through Movies

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Date:  Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:57:34 PDT
From:  Geoffrey Nunberg <nunberg at parc.xerox.com>
Subject:  Source of Austin Quotation

2)
Date:  Mon, 25 Jun 2001 13:33:59 +0100
From:  "Grzega, Joachim" <Joachim.Grzega at ku-eichstaett.de>
Subject:  Language Change through Movies

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Date:  Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:57:34 PDT
From:  Geoffrey Nunberg <nunberg at parc.xerox.com>
Subject:  Source of Austin Quotation

Can anyone tell me the source of the following quotation from J. L. Austin?:

In the history of human inquiry, philosophy has the place of the
initial central sun, seminal and tumultuous: from time to time it
throws off some portion of itself to take station as a planet, cool
and well regulated, progressing steadily towards a distant final
state. This happened long ago at the birth of mathematics, and again
at the birth of physics: only in the last century we have witnessed
the same process once again, slow and at the time imperceptible, in
the birth of the science of mathematical logic.. . Is it not possible
that the next century may see the birth, through the joint labours of
philosophers, grammarians, and numerous other students of language,
of a true and comprehensive science of language?


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Date:  Mon, 25 Jun 2001 13:33:59 +0100
From:  "Grzega, Joachim" <Joachim.Grzega at ku-eichstaett.de>
Subject:  Language Change through Movies

Dear readers,

One of my students would like to analyze in how far German (or
German colloquial speech) changes due to the German translations of
originally English/American movies. Are any of you familiar with
studies that have already been carried out on this issue?

Joachim Grzega
(joachim.grzega at ku-eichstaett.de)

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