1. Form as Content, or, It's All Style
- Author
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Allen Guttmann
- Subjects
Literature ,History ,business.industry ,Statement (logic) ,Historiography ,Linguistics ,Style (sociolinguistics) ,Reflexivity ,Semiotics ,Sociology ,business ,Content (Freudian dream analysis) ,Emphasis (typography) ,Social Sciences (miscellaneous) - Abstract
How we say what we say is a part of what we say. In this sense, the form and the content of a statement are inseparable. Style matters semiotically as well as aesthetically. These three assertions are supported by a series of examples from a wide range of verbal and non-verbal sports-historical texts. In accordance with the post-modernist emphasis on reflexivity, several of my examples are taken from my own efforts to ‘do’ history.
- Published
- 2013
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