Homegrown Homeland & the Felling-stones

[Terrance]

I don't do influences. Just had eye surgery. 


Not only may the feeling-tone change from one age to another (this, of
course, is true of the conceptual content as well), but it varies
remarkably from individual to individual according to the personal
associations of each, varies,
indeed, from time to time in a single individual's consciousness as his
experiences mold him and his moods change. To be sure, there are
socially accepted feeling-tones, or ranges of feeling-tone, for many
words over and above the force of individual association, but they are
exceedingly variable and elusive things at best. They rarely have the
rigidity of the central, primary fact. 


--Edward Sapir, Language

If a word derives its meaning from its context or linguistic
environment, the other words or sentences within which the specific
verbal symbol is embedded, than the word "homeland" in the paragraph we
are discussing can certainly mean the post 9-11 American homeland. The
context guides the reader in the process of selecting out--from the
range of inner possibilities and feeling-tones--the kinds of responses,
referential and affective, that are appropriate. Of course, the
flexibility of words, and the wide range of possible responses, are
delimited or stabilized when we deal with them within 
the text. That has not been the practice here. That being said, multiple
and equally valid possibilities are contextual to different readers at
different times under different conditions. 

http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/hopkins_guide_to_literary_theory/william_empson.html


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