Category Archives: Thoughts on Language

Call for Papers (AML session of RMMLA)

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Kathleen Dalton-Woodbury

CALL FOR PAPERS The Association for Mormon Letters session of The ROCKY MOUNTAIN MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION (RMMLA) Conference Oct.  6-8, 2011 in Scottsdale, Arizona Theme for the session: The Contemporary LDS Novel Please email abstracts by March 1, 2011: HHansen@western.edu … Continue reading →

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Mormon LitCrit: Tolle Lege, This My Body

Posted on January 11, 2011 by Harlow Clark

Tolle Lege, This My Body If a metaphor is successful it becomes transparent. It dies, so to speak, except no one speaks so. We know a mummy was once a living person, and when I see Joseph’s face at the … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on Language: A Song in Pure Language

Posted on January 1, 2011 by Boyd Petersen

Simply titled “Sang by the gift of Tongs and Translated,” the text was composed in February 1833 and is in the handwriting of Fredgrick G. Williams with revisions by Williams, Oliver Cowdery, W.W. Phelps, an unknown scribe, and Joseph Smith. Continue reading →

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Thoughts on Language: Joseph Smith and Pure Language

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Boyd Petersen

By the end of November 1830, Joseph Smith had produced the verse in the Book of Moses that says Adam kept a book of remembrance “in the language of Adam” and that his children “were taught to read and write, … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on Language: The Search for a Pure Language

Posted on November 1, 2010 by Boyd Petersen

A restoration of the Adamic language was a life-long quest for Joseph Smith. The idea of a pure Adamic language is first raised in his translation of the Book of Mormon, where the text implies that the Jaredites (who came … Continue reading →

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