![]() In the past, researchers have suggested that men and women as well as left and right ears experience differing amounts of temporary hear loss, called temporary threshold shift (TTS). The purpose of the following study is to study experimentally the differences in the amount hearing decreases after listening to loud noise. The essay concludes that Alexievich's work can offer the writer insights into how language marshals emotion and creates a sense of urgency by paying attention to the formal properties of language as writers we might listen to our own words in much the same way as Alexievich receives the testimony of her witnesses. The traumatic nature of the events being recounted and the fact that the text reflects her witnesses' speech acts contribute to the linguistic peculiarities of Alexievich's work. It considers the nature of Alexievich's role as a writer in curating the testimonies, and the performative nature of testimony as influencing the language used by her witnesses. the realm of literature, such as metaphor, repetition, parataxis and parallelisms, can be seen in Alexievich's testimonies. It argues that certain rhetorical and formal devices that otherwise belong to. It argues that the documentary novels of Svetlana Alexievich demonstrate some of the aesthetic similarities between the language of literature and the language of testimony. This essay considers what Svetlana Alexievich's documentary novels, which are collages of witness testimony might have to teach us about writing. What is the significance of this pervasive way of talking? Read more As a term of art, witnessing outshines more colorless competitors such as viewing, listening or consuming, reading, interpreting, or decoding, for thinking about the experience of media. The media claim to provide testimonies for our inspection, thus making us witnesses of the way of the world. Ordinary people can be witnesses in media (the vox pop interview, ‘tell us how it happened’), of media (members of studio audience), and via media (watching history unfold at home in their armchairs). Cameras and microphones are often presented as substitute eyes and ears for audiences who can witness for themselves. personae such as correspondents and newsreaders can be institutionalized as witnesses. Such titles as Eyewitness News, See it Now, Live at Five, or As it Happens advertise their program’s privileged proximity to events. Media institutions have enthusiastically adopted its rhetoric, especially for nonfiction genres such as news, sports, and documentary. Now they are ready for his next push.Witnessing is a common but rarely examined term in both the professional performance and academic analysis of media events. He never confronted them because that would only lead to resistance. He did it by leading them, pushing some emotional buttons and then pausing to let them think. The audience is now listening more intently to Marc Antony and they are rethinking their original position about the validity of killing Caesar. There’s not a nobler man in Rome than Antony.įOURTH CITIZEN. Poor soul, his eyes are red as fire with weeping. If it be found so, some will dear abide it. Therefore ’tis certain he was not ambitious.įIRST CITIZEN. Mark’d ye his words? He would not take the crown I fear there will a worse come in his place.įOURTH CITIZEN. Methinks there is much reason in his sayings. My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,Īnd I must pause till it come back to me.Īn emotional tug at their guilt and the setup for a pause on his part to allow the listeners to think and speak amongst themselves.įIRST CITIZEN. O judgement, thou art fled to brutish beasts,Īnd men have lost their reason. When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept Īmbition should be made of sterner stuff: Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill. He hath brought many captives home to Rome, And the claim about Brutus being a honorable man starts to rub listeners as untrue. It is effective because it anchors the crime of which Caesar was accused and executed for. He was my friend, faithful and just to me ![]() Praise your enemies and admit your faults to quiet the mob. Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest. Then he points out that Caesar has paid the price for that crime. He reminds them that the greatest crime according to the murderer of Caesar was that he was ambitions. This plants some doubt in the minds of the listeners, maybe even some guilt for already forgetting the good deeds. He starts to appeal to their thinking by suggesting that it is easy to forget about the good deeds and only remember the bad. The good is oft interred with their bones He addresses the listeners as equals just as many US presidents start their speeches with “fellow Americans.” And he puts them at ease by offering only to bury Caesar not praise him. I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears!
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