Creating linguistic texture
From C. K. Ogden's Preface to James Joyce/Tales Told/of Shem and Shaun
(Paris, The Black Sun Press, Rue Cardinale, MCMXXIX)
There are ten main ways in which symbolic texture can be complicated and
comapacted:
Root cultivation
Tongue-gsture
Rhyme-slang
Analogical deformation
Onomatopoeia, phonetic and kinetic
Puns, select and dialect
Spoonerisms
Condensations
Mergers
Echoes
posted by RodneyPhillips @ 4:18 PM
2 Comments:
Making sure my two favorite (con)texturizers are accounted for here: do you think mergers account for oronyms? and would echoes account for homonyms?
And how do you think "condensation" here varies from the "compression" it's exemplifying? It's a better word for sure, but does it really mean something different? Here's to the condensory....
Whoops. I guess it's "compacted" not "compressed." Same comment goes, though.
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