Open AccessFrom Ablation to Undergirding: Review of Stuart Cunningham's In the Vernacular: A Generation of Culture and Controversy
Author(s) -
Adrián Martín
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
cultural studies review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.116
H-Index - 2
eISSN - 1837-8692
pISSN - 1446-8123
DOI - 10.5130/csr.v16i1.1460
Subject(s) - vernacular , presentation (obstetrics) , literature , sentence , publishing , history , phrase , order (exchange) , linguistics , art , philosophy , medicine , finance , economics , radiology
I
have
always
learnt
new
words
from
the
writings
and
public
speeches
of
Stuart
Cunningham.
I
retain
a
vivid
memory,
from
1982,
of
needing
to
look
up
a
dictionary
after
his
Australian
Screen
Studies
conference
presentation
on
Roeg’s
Bad
Timing (1980),
in
order
to
find
out
exactly
what
ablation
was.
(And
it
wasn’t
pretty.)
Even
when
I
more
or
less
knew
the
word
in
question,
I
had
never
had
the
experience
of
(to
embroider
a
phrase
from
Clueless,
1995)
hearing
it
used
in
a
coherent
sentence
any
time
since
the
mid
twentieth
century:
gainsay,
commodious,
irredentist,
undergird