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Important theories in Linguistics

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Objective Correlative
a group of things or events which systematically represent emotions.
Imaginative geography
Imaginative geographies [are] representations of other places – of peoples and landscapes, cultures and 'natures' – that articulate the desires, fantasies, and fears of their authors and the grids of power between them and their 'Others'.
Sprung Rhythm
Sprung rhythm is a poetic rhythm designed to imitate the rhythm of natural speech.
Mirror stage
The young child's identification with his own image
False conciousness
o address the scenario where a subordinate class willfully embodies the ideology of the ruling class.
Negative Capability
being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.”
Trauma theory
attempts to understand the different ways by which traumatic occurrences are demonstrated, processed, exposed, and repressed throughout a variety of literary and historical texts.
Collective unconscious
the idea that a segment of the deepest unconscious mind is genetically inherited and not shaped by personal experience
Archetypal Criticism
Archetypal criticism is a literary theory that analyzes a text by focusing on recurring archetypes and myths.
Identity thinking
form of thinking which is the most expressive philosophical manifestation of power and domination.
Dialogism
a style of discourse in which characters express a variety of (potentially contradictory) points of view rather than being mouthpieces for the author
Carl Jung
Cathy Caruth
Edward Said
Friedrich Engels
GM Hopkins
Jacques Lacan
John Keats
Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin
Northorp Frye
Theodore W. Adorno
TS Eliot
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Level 16
May 5, 2024
Not a single one of these is a linguistic theory. Linguistic theories are things like Generative Grammar, X' Theory, Optimality Theory, Phase Theory, Bare Phrase Structure, the Farming/Language Dispersal Hypothesis, the Neo-Grammarian Principle, Lexical-Functional Grammar, HDPSG, Government and Binding Theory, Theta-Theory, Complex Dynamic Systems Theory, the Nostratic hypothesis, Distributed Morphology...