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- Title
The unspeakable gift: Jouissance and interdiction.
- Authors
Mey, Jacob
- Abstract
The article presents the reply of Jacob Mey to a review of his book, When Voices Clash: A Study in Literary Pragmatics. The lack of care with which the review has been edited is in stark contrast with its very careful, albeit sometimes rather difficult wording. Some of the obstacles to user enjoyment could have been removed by any low-level spelling checker. Others should have been caught at a higher level of editorial watchfulness. In quoting from the original Greek text of Plato's Republic one should take care that the words quoted are reproduced in their lexical form, not in the inflected form in which they are part of the original text. The nadir of editorial sloppiness is reached on the very first page of the article, where the list of keywords reads as follows: conitive poetics unconscious, archaic, metre rythm, Lacan, Frued, Monterlay, Michàle, Mey, Steppen. Clearly, no author is served by having his or her thoughts condensed in such a slipshod and misleading way. As to the author's style, in spite of the rather convoluted prose, which at times is of an almost Lacanian degree of density, her sentences are not reader-friendly.
- Subjects
MEY, Jacob; PRAGMATICS; GENERAL semantics; PHILOSOPHY of language; SEMANTICS; WHEN Voices Clash (Book)
- Publication
Pragmatics & Cognition, 2004, Vol 12, Issue 1, p93
- ISSN
0929-0907
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/pc.12.1.08mey