Pitch trace of the utterance "it's not that I", showing a peak on the negation not. A funky way of illustrating pitch? Pitch before Praat?
Labov, William & David Fanshel. 1977. Therapeutic discourse: psychotherapy as conversation. New York: Academic Press. [Figure 3, page 45]
A footnote explains the visualization this way: "Spectral Dynamics Real-Time Analyzer 301C with output displayed on a Tektronix 611 storage oscilloscope. The analyzer synthesizes 500 filters every
50 milliseconds over a variety of frequency ranges; the analysis can be terminated after any given number of filters and a new sweep started immediately. The pitch contour display used throughout this volume is made with a frequ ency range of 5,000 Hz. Each filter has a nominal bandwidth of 10 Hz and an effective bandwidth of 15 Hz. The sweep is terminated after the first 110 filters, so that a spectrum is generated every 11 milliseconds. The display on the oscilloscope is logarithmic and cuts off at 54 db below maximum. High-pass filtering at 12 db per octave begins at 3,000 Hz, and, in addition, the roll-off of the Nagra IV-S tape recorder - LS + FA - is used. Volume is then adjusted so that only the peaks of the wave forms are visible, thus tracing the path of the fundamental frequency without the interference of other signals"
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[Free eBook] Oplysningens verden: Idé, historie, videnskab, kunst [Danish 18th C Enlightenment World History & Culture]
Oplysningens verden (The World of the Enlightenment: Ideas, history, knowledge, art) edited by Ole Høiris & Thomas Ledet is a volume in their Verdensbøger (World Books) series of Danish-language self-contained titles which provide a comprehensive introductory overview to cultural and historical periods, free for a limited time courtesy of publisher the Aarhus University Press in Denmark.
This Danish-language series is fully equivalent in style and content to the Oxford University Press' The Oxford Illustrated History of… or Routledge's The World of… English series. This volume contains a comprehensive introduction to the Age of Enlightenment which followed the Renaissance in Western Europe, which was at its peak during the 18th century. Included are essays about art, literature, philosophy, etc. about both the Nordic regions and the wider world, lavishly illustrated with period paintings and photographs of documents and other artifacts.
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Free for a limited time, available worldwide throughout December as their featured Danish-language Free Book of the Month directly @ the university's dedicated promo page (DRM-free PDF, approximately 40 mb). You can also find more info about the book on its regular catalogue page.
Description (in Danish)
Feudalismens økonomi i Europa kulminerede, den industrielle revolution med dampmaskinen satte i gang, og europæerne systematiserede global arbejdsdeling og handel med totalt herredømme til søs og magtfulde kolonier rundt om i verden. Nu var verden og livet ikke længere styret af Gud, men af fornuftige love, som mennesket kunne erkende og udnytte, og de menneskelige fællesskaber baserede sig på frie og lige menneskers indgåelse af en fornuftig kontrakt.
Oplysningen var, med Immanuel Kants berømte definition, menneskets udgang af dets selvforskyldte umyndighed, og oplysningens valgsprog formulerede han som "Hav mod til at betjene dig af din egen forstand!".
Denne verdsliggjorte verdensopfattelse med dens udvikling af en empirisk erkendelsestradition har sammen med det globale udsyn været et helt specielt europæisk fænomen. Måske finder vi heri det egentlige grundlag for Europas politiske og økonomiske verdensherredømme, som derefter udviklede sig, og for den videnskabsopfattelse, som stadig er globalt dominerende. Dette var perioden, hvor de eksperimentelle videnskaber blev grundlagt, og hvor varetagelsen af dem blev lagt ind i det, der blev til det moderne universitet.
Både oplysningstidens mangfoldighed og dens grundlæggende betydning for nutiden viser sig i de mange forskellige bidrag, dette værks forfattere - alle forskere på det nye store Aarhus Universitet - ud fra mange forskellige faglige perspektiver bidrager med. Bogen er en mosaik af oplysningstidens vigtigste tanker og begivenheder og ligger i forlængelse af Renæssancens Verden.
[Free eBook] Obelisker i Rom [Danish Egyptian Archaeology & History]
Obelisker i Rom (Obelisks in Rome) by Lise Manniche, an assistant professor of Egyptology at the University of Copenhagen, is her Danish-language archaeological survey of Egyptian artifacts, free for a limited time courtesy of publisher Aarhus University Press in Denmark.
This is an accessibly-written Danish-language academic survey of the thirteen Egyptian obelisks in the city of Rome, covering their history from ancient times to the present day, lavishly illustrated with many colour photographs. Maps of the past and present locations of the obelisks are included, as well as translations of their associated original texts.
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I Rom står der 13 ægyptiske obelisker. De fleste har tre historier at fortælle: om deres fortid i faraonernes Ægypten, om deres genanvendelse i det gamle Rom og om deres nye liv i pavernes Rom. Fælles for dem er, at de har været anvendt med propaganda for øje.
I Ægypten var obeliskerne viet til solguden, samtidig med at de promoverede den farao, der fik dem brudt og rejst i templerne. I det gamle Rom blev de sat i en ganske anden sammenhæng, ofte i forbindelse med et circus. Efter Konstantin den Store blev de med et kors på toppen konverteret til kristne symboler. De invaderende gotere gøres ansvarlige for at omstyrte dem, og med tiden blev de gemt og glemt under metervis af mudder.
Den eneste obelisk, der blev stående, var den, der stod ved den gamle Peterskirke. Det var paverne, der begyndte at interessere sig for de andre forsvundne obelisker, og især i det 16. og det 18. årh. blev mange af de store rejst i forbindelse med de pavelige paladser.
Bogen er velegnet til at tage med på obeliskjagt i Rom. Alle hieroglyffer og latinske dedikationstekster er oversat, og et kort viser obeliskernes nuværende eller tidligere placering.
[Free eBook] Nuns Behaving Badly: Tales of Music, Magic, Art, and Arson in the Convents of Italy [Cultural History]
Nuns Behaving Badly: Tales of Music, Magic, Art, and Arson in the Convents of Italy by Craig A. Monson, a Professor Emeritus of Music at Washington University in St. Louis, is his cultural history book focusing on the lives of particular nuns during the Renaissance, free for a limited time courtesy of the University of Chicago Press.
This is an accessibly-written academic book about transgressive women in Italian religious orders in the 16th and 17th centuries, drawn from the Vatican Secret Archive, featuring anecdotes and biographical tales about nuns who dared to speak and act out against the status quo of the day, as well as their connection to the modern-day subversive religious devotees who are their spiritual successors.
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Description
Witchcraft. Arson. Going AWOL. Some nuns in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy strayed far from the paradigms of monastic life. Cloistered in convents, subjected to stifling hierarchy, repressed, and occasionally persecuted by their male superiors, these women circumvented authority in sometimes extraordinary ways. But tales of their transgressions have long been buried in the Vatican Secret Archive. That is, until now.
In Nuns Behaving Badly, Craig A. Monson resurrects forgotten tales and restores to life the long-silent voices of these cloistered heroines. Here we meet nuns who dared speak out about physical assault and sexual impropriety (some real, some imagined). Others were only guilty of misjudgment or defacing valuable artwork that offended their sensibilities. But what unites the women and their stories is the challenges they faced: these were women trying to find their way within the Catholicism of their day and through the strict limits it imposed on them. Monson introduces us to women who were occasionally desperate to flee cloistered life, as when an entire community conspired to torch their convent and be set free. But more often, he shows us nuns just trying to live their lives. When they were crossed—by powerful priests who claimed to know what was best for them—bad behavior could escalate from mere troublemaking to open confrontation.
In resurrecting these long-forgotten tales and trials, Monson also draws attention to the predicament of modern religious women, whose “misbehavior”—seeking ordination as priests or refusing to give up their endowments to pay for priestly wrongdoing in their own archdioceses—continues even today. The nuns of early modern Italy, Monson shows, set the standard for religious transgression in their own age—and beyond.
