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The study shows that English has shifted from being a fully
synthetic toward an analytic language through assimilation and analogy. More
fundamentally, when she describes the "leakages" between
metaphoric and analytic language, and between specialized vocabularies
(legal, astronomical, medical, botanical, and so many others), which
become fused by Shakespeare in a kind of poetic "ur-language,"
she uses her talent for rational distinctions to help us appreciate his
achievement in the sonnets. Indeed, Theweleit applies the analytic language of the
most adult, "male" world (by his definition) to the
description of object-choice: a man's partner is a question of
"strategy," of instruments, uses, and ends, of payoff, payout,
and payback - all unconscious to be sure, but impossible without
reference to rationalities of the social system really learned (at least
in modern Western society) only in adolescence. |
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