But having to act through that filter was really interesting … for me it took away the self-consciousness of language.
In order to demonstrate the learners' interlanguage investment, features such as halts in speaking, thought processes, consciousness usage of language and etc. have been explored.
But to link levels of consciousness to language ability is a very slippery slope, especially for schoolteachers being pushed by intrusive testing programs to accept this spurious connection as a way to evaluate and rank their students: I read, write and answer the teacher's questions, therefore I am.
All interesting poems do this to a degree, poetry being a recognition that consciousness is made of language, but concrete poems are an extreme example, which accounts for a substantial part of their poetic pedigree (and high-class license).
A central idea animating "Mrs. Dalloway" and embodied in its stream-of-consciousness language is that people who never meet, like Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Warren Smith, are connected by experiencing the same external events.
Elsewhere he asserts: "I suspect that a feeling for stories, for narrative, is a universal human disposition, going with our powers of language, consciousness of self, and autobiographical memory".
He disposed of most of his books, and from 1894 until the end of his life he would rise at dawn each day, meditate for several hours on scientific method, consciousness, and the nature of language, and record his thoughts and aphorisms in his notebooks, which were later to be published as the famous Cahiers.
Source Code is an interrogation of consciousness and language, drawing on the traditions of woven textiles.
My mother -- whose voice (like the sound of waves, a kind of sea of words) is one of my earliest memories, my first sense of consciousness and language -- gave me this gift.
