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Scaling Poetics: SinoEnglish from Artifactualization to Application

Scaling Poetics: SinoEnglish from Artifactualization to Application. Jonathan Stalling Associate Professor of English Curator of OU ’ s Chinese Literature Translation Collection. Embodying Interlanguages. Chinese Literature Translation Archive (digital collection repositories)

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Scaling Poetics: SinoEnglish from Artifactualization to Application

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  1. Scaling Poetics: SinoEnglishfrom Artifactualization to Application Jonathan Stalling Associate Professor of English Curator of OU’s Chinese Literature Translation Collection

  2. Embodying Interlanguages • Chinese Literature Translation Archive (digital collection repositories) • Lost Wax: Translation through the Void (poetry) • 吟歌丽诗 Yingelishi (poetry, performance art) • 英韵镜： English Rime Tables (poetry/art) • 拼英／Pinying: American English through Chinese Characters (software platforms, teaching methods and tools).

  3. Yingelishi, as a work of poetry and performance art seeks to challenge the historical reception of Chinese-English Interlanguages by reframing the “accent” as prosody and revealing a network of infinitely reflective and suggestive meanings.

  4. 吟哥丽诗Yíngēlìshī “English”: Chanted Songs Beautiful PoetryYunnan University, 2010 sssssss

  5. But how can one extend a work of interlangauge poetics to actually affect languages at scale?

  6. Writing systems must be specifically adapted to accurately communicate the sounds of each language One syllable becomes three • Chinese Characters and English are incompatible • Because each character is a syllable. • Historically using Chinese Characters to spell English • Adds extra sounds • Substitutes essential sounds • Delete essential sounds • Disrupts English Stress and Intonation 普 pǔ P L E A S E 利 lì 私 sī

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  15. Pinying fuses English and Chinese at the level of their phonetic DNA

  16. 拼英Pinying: a mobile dictionary of 130,000 English words, each with an interactive Sinophonic English map launches globally this week.

  17. Experimental poetics is experimental: Hypothesis:Poetics can scale by combining of self-aware artifactualization and utility driven applications. 拼英 (Pinying) goes live this week on the Apple App Store with a team of 10 OU student interns from across the humanities, engineering, computer science, graphic design, and business through the support OU’s CCEW and OTD.

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