PPT-Linguistic Features of the Absurd:

You and Me Dr Jane Lugea University of Huddersfield UK jlugeahudacuk Aims to investigate whether this play can be classed as absurd to use previous stylistic accounts of absurd fiction to do so. The lack of transparency introduced by poorly anchored math ematical models the psychological persuasiveness of stories and the way the profession neglects relevant issues are suggested as explanations for how what we perhaps should see as displays metamodelling. revisited: . A (failed) language use approach. By Matt Selway. KSE Lab Meeting – 6 March 2014. Eriksson, O., Henderson-Sellers, B., and . Agerfalk. , P.J. (2013), ‘Ontological and linguistic . The Theatre of the . Absurd. First, we must define the use of the word absurd…. In common colloquialism, we use the word to typically mean ridiculous or unreasonable. . In literature and art, the . Presented by : Hilary G., Kalau F., Isaac N., and Ben Y.. Oxford Dictionary definition: . Drama. using the abandonment of conventional dramatic form to portray the futility of human struggle in a senseless world.. Albert Camus. Freewrites. : Quotations by Camus. “. At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.” . “The . only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone. Vocabulary . Unit. #3. Like me!. Write one word for every three lines. If you run out of space, continue onto another paper.. a. bsurd, rational, dilemma, . moral, claim, concede, . refute (counterargument), explicit. 1920-1960. “I personally would like to bring a tortoise onto the stage, turn it into a racehorse, then into a hat, a song, a dragon and a fountain of water. One can dare anything in the theatre and it is the place where one dares the least.”. Overview of Linguistic Tools. Dictionaries. Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (. LIWC. ). Whissell’s Dictionary of Affective Language. WordNet. Parts of Speech Taggers (POS). Brown Corpus. Stanford POS. Topics to Consider. Absurdism. Existentialism. Nihilism. Albert Camus. In January 1955, Camus wrote:. I summarized . The Stranger. a long time ago, with a remark I admit was highly paradoxical: 'In our society any man who does not weep at his mother's funeral runs the risk of being sentenced to death.' I only meant that the hero of my book is condemned because he does not play the game.. AP Literature and Composition. K. Matteson. Absurdist Theater. Theater of the Absurd came about as a reaction to World War II.  It took the basis of existential philosophy and combined it with dramatic elements to create a style of theatre which presented a world which can not be logically explained, life is in one word, ABSURD! . accomplish. ascend. flimsy. dense. heroic. spectator. terminate. suspend. mimic. lumber. experiment. soar. significant. unwieldy. absurd. So unreasonable as to be laughable; foolish or silly. Absurd. NIME 2020 - Workshop Play M ake B elieve Giacomo Lepri 1 , Andrew McPherson 1 , Antonella Nonnis 1 Paul Stapleton 2 , Kristina Andersen 3 , Tom Mudd 4 , John Bowers 5 , Pete Bennett 6 , Sam Topley 7 “Let’s go.”____ “We Can’t.”. “Why Not?”. “We’re Waiting for . Godot. ”. With this infamous refrain, Samuel Beckett introduces the uncanny world of…. Waiting for . Godot. Main Focus . Why do we laugh?. AN . ESSAY . IN ABOUT 50 SLIDES. Remember …. Humour is SUBJECTIVE … i.e. . we laugh best if we can relate things . to OUR OWN experience … OR NOT !!. Why we laugh … 1. Self congratulation?.