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Solving for Nonsense: Mathematics and Lewis Carroll's Linguistic Play in the Alice Books
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In: Senior Projects Spring 2014 (2014)
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It is well known that Lewis Carroll wrote Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-glass and What Alice Found There, which are two of the most beloved, confusing, and studied pieces of children’s literature produced in the past two hundred years. However, it is not as widely known that Lewis Carroll, whose real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, was a mathematician and logician who taught at Christ’s Church, Oxford. “Solving for Nonsense” explores Carroll’s signature nonsense style in the Alice books and how his mathematical background affects it. His primary occupation shines through his narratives in many ways. In his linguistic play Carroll often utilizes mathematical structures or practices in conjunction with language. For example, throughout the text Carroll’s treatment of words mirrors a mathematician’s approach to variables. This approach allows him to replace key words in sentences with others, rearrange order as he pleases, and apply whatever definition he pleases to words (whether they are words he has made up himself or words that all ready have meaning). By applying mathematical structures and approaches to language Carroll created one of the most memorable works of children’s literature in history.
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Alice Wonderland Carroll Mathematics Nonsense Looking-glass; British Isles; Literature in English
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URL: https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1122&context=senproj_s2014 https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/senproj_s2014/304
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Means to enhance vocabulary acquisition by pre-beginning L2 students in an intensive English learning situation
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Working with Spanish-speaking Interpreters in a Family Health Setting: Assessing Language Needs and Implementing Training
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Semantic knowledge development of second language vocabulary among second language learners
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Urban versus suburban : the northern cities shift in Fort Wayne
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Talkin' Appalachian in Henry County, Indiana : measuring the retention of Appalachian English features in third-generation descendants ; Talking Appalachian in Henry County, Indiana
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“Hallo, Hallo! Achtung! Achtung!.” : a performer's guide to the Theresienstadt compositions of Viktor Ullmann for the mezzo-soprano
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A rhetorical investigation of terms used to describe multilingual clients in the Writing center journal, the Writing lab newsletter and Praxis
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Copying, Paraphrasing, and Academic Writing Development: A Re-Examination of L1 and L2 Summarization Practices
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In: English Faculty Publications and Presentations (2014)
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Understanding Teachers’ Writing: Authority in Talk and Texts
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In: English Faculty Publications and Presentations (2014)
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Participation and Collaboration in Digital Spaces: Connecting High School and College Writing Experiences
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In: English Faculty Publications and Presentations (2014)
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Chinese whispers Chinese rooms: the poetry of John Ashbery and cognitive studies
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'some kind of thing it aint us but yet its in us': David Mitchell and Russell Hoban
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"some kind of thing it aint us but yet its in us": David Mitchell, Russell Hoban, and metafiction after the millennium
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English and French [NN]N lexical units: A categorial, morphological and semantic comparison
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In: ISSN: 1750-1245 ; EISSN: 1755-2036 ; Word Structure ; https://hal.univ-lyon2.fr/hal-01988788 ; Word Structure, [Edinburgh]: Edinburgh University Press, 2014, 7, pp.1-28 (2014)
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The role of conceptual accessibility on word order alternations in French: Evidence from sentence recall Complement order
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In: International Workshop on Language Production ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01451790 ; International Workshop on Language Production, Jul 2014, Genève, Switzerland ; http://www.unige.ch/fapse/iwlp2014/ (2014)
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L'expression de la proéminence à valeur emphatique en anglais par des locuteurs francophones non débutants
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In: TIPA. Travaux interdisciplinaires sur la parole et le langage ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01836125 ; TIPA. Travaux interdisciplinaires sur la parole et le langage, 2014, Les proéminences à l'oral, 30, pp.1-23 ; http://tipa.revues.org/1294 (2014)
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