Narges Montakhabi Bakhtvar
Volume 13, Issue 17 , October 2017, , Pages 245-268
Abstract
Ethics has undergone huge changes in postmodernism as many playwrights of the era have tried to capture the deep interconnection between language and subjectivity. The present essay is an attempt to unravel the new ethical dicta set forth on the American and British stage from the 1960s to 1980s. The ...
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Ethics has undergone huge changes in postmodernism as many playwrights of the era have tried to capture the deep interconnection between language and subjectivity. The present essay is an attempt to unravel the new ethical dicta set forth on the American and British stage from the 1960s to 1980s. The critical framework for this study relies on Giorgio Agamben’s thought and philosophical oeuvre. Agamben’s ethical renovations happen at the close proximity of language, ontology, and politics. He firmly asserts that experiencing the matter and being of language can be considered as an ethical act that questions cultural clichés imposed by power. Postmodern theater has witnessed an unprecedented shift in the role of language; it has forced the audience to venture the theatrical experience in order to be at the margins of communication and speech. This process can be deemed as ethical from Agamben’s point of view as it entices the viewers to see beyond and through the capitalist and ideological workings. Through such a limit experience, theater can find its true stance as a site for communality. The ultimate purpose of this study is to put forward the mechanisms through which performance can become an ethical gesture by installing the awareness of the fact that liminality of language can in itself be a new form of subjectivity.
Maryam Moradi; Marzieh Rahmani
Volume 12, Issue 16 , April 2016, , Pages 237-258
Abstract
It is more than one century that the issue of interactional relationship between language and culture has become the concern of scientists In many anthropologists’ opinions, Language is counted as an element among other elements in culture as socially acquired knowledge. Meanwhile, the transference ...
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It is more than one century that the issue of interactional relationship between language and culture has become the concern of scientists In many anthropologists’ opinions, Language is counted as an element among other elements in culture as socially acquired knowledge. Meanwhile, the transference of culture in learning the languages is effective and presence of a big extent of linguistic species depends on cultures’ existence as well. In each culture, there are thousands of symbolic artificial systems and all of them are such models of language reflecting its properties. On the other hand, language is a complete system that through utilizing its words and meaning is able to surround the culture with its all borders as well as the society with its all complexities within itself. In the present study, the relationship between language and culture in linguistic view as appeared mainly in the language relativism hypothesis is studied. In this paper, the authors’ aim is to describe and subsequently analyze the experts’ opinions in this field aiming to describe the relationship between language and culture in the form of different cognitive science approaches. The method used for this paper is library-oriented one. The study’s findings suggest that there is an interactional relationship between language and culture. On the one hand, language is the main instrument of culture and the necessary condition of it, on the other hand, it is considered as a part of the culture and cultural product.