Conversion as semiotic mechanism for urban palimpsesting
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“Conversion” as a semiotic mechanism for (urban) palimpsesting Borislav Gueorguiev @ 16 th EFSS, Sozopol, Sept 7 th , 2010
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“Conversion” as a semiotic mechanism for (urban)
palimpsestingBorislav Gueorguiev
@16th EFSS, Sozopol, Sept 7th, 2010
Borislav Gueorguiev, EFSS 2010 New Bulgarian University, 2010
What is “conversion”?
• Linguistics• Grammar• Morphology• Theory of Word FormationWith all chances to become such kind of
a metaphor as “paradigm”!
Borislav Gueorguiev, EFSS 2010 New Bulgarian University, 2010
Conversion/Zero derivation
• The creation of a word from an existing word without any change in form.
• Often a word of one lexical category (part of speech) is converted from a word of another lexical category.
• The boundary between conversion and functional shift (the extension of an existing word to take on a new syntactic function) is not well-defined.
Borislav Gueorguiev, EFSS 2010 New Bulgarian University, 2010
Example for linguistic conversion
WORK• Verb (he works)• Noun (a work)• The explicit link between the base and
the derivation (the new word) never disappears!
Borislav Gueorguiev, EFSS 2010 New Bulgarian University, 2010
Another definition
A kind of word formation by changing the grammar paradigm of an existing word without any formal change in the word.
Borislav Gueorguiev, EFSS 2010 New Bulgarian University, 2010
What is palimpsest?
A palimpsest is a manuscript page from a scroll or book that has been scraped off and used again. The word "palimpsest" comes through Latin from Greek and meant "scraped (clean and used) again."
Borislav Gueorguiev, EFSS 2010 New Bulgarian University, 2010
The palimpsest as a metaphor
The metaphor of palimpsest says that we never entirely delete the past in all its representations: narratives, traditions, manuscripts, books, inscriptions, images, architecture, music, etc.
Borislav Gueorguiev, EFSS 2010 New Bulgarian University, 2010
Main statement
We palimpsesting the culture by the conversion proceeding, i. e. by changing the paradigm and the context of something that already exists.
Borislav Gueorguiev, EFSS 2010 New Bulgarian University, 2010
Borislav Gueorguiev, EFSS 2010 New Bulgarian University, 2010
Borislav Gueorguiev, EFSS 2010 New Bulgarian University, 2010
Effects of palimpsesting culture
War of symbols:2. The ex Bulgarian Communist Party
Headquarter case.3. Folklore – “Whose is this song”?
Borislav Gueorguiev, EFSS 2010 New Bulgarian University, 2010
Borislav Gueorguiev, EFSS 2010 New Bulgarian University, 2010
Borislav Gueorguiev, EFSS 2010 New Bulgarian University, 2010
Which paradigm is changed?
1. Different intentionalities create different senses.
2. The background never changes – only the surface level changes, according to different intentionalities and generating different contexts.
3. MANUSCRIPTS NEVER BURN!
