tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34300389685180002622024-03-05T00:26:45.263-08:00degree zeroThis Blog shows all the books published by degree zero and available online or from bookshops worldwide. We will add extracts from reviews as they are published and information about forthcoming titles when ISBNs have been confirmed and entered into bookseller databases. There is also an author page at trevorpateman.comtrevor patemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01843120497490896242noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3430038968518000262.post-27528012750871693222020-07-27T06:34:00.000-07:002020-07-27T06:34:03.059-07:00Published 10 July 2020: Trevor Pateman, Sample Essays<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Nine short essays: Port Meadow Oxford 2019 - A Niqab and a Panama Hat 2019 - The Case Against Conceptual Art - Credulity - Is There a Right Not to be Conceived? - The Advanced Mathematics of Representation - A Degree from Oxford - Bag Ladies - The Patemans</div>
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Trevor Patemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01734478357185117445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3430038968518000262.post-41270040524613840902020-01-01T04:42:00.002-08:002020-07-27T06:35:47.937-07:00Published February 2020: Trevor Pateman, Between Remembering and Forgetting<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: medium;">A linked set of twenty six essays exploring topics around individual and collective memories. There are discussions of the internet as a prosthetic memory; memorials and statues; oral history, notably in the work of Svetlana Alexievich; sentimental objects; forgetfulness as part of what enables both individual and cultural change. </span></div>
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Trevor Patemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01734478357185117445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3430038968518000262.post-9068592151517817352018-04-14T05:11:00.001-07:002020-07-27T06:37:24.955-07:00Trevor Pateman, I Have Done This In Secret. ISBN 9780993587955 Published June 2018<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Trevor Pateman's memoir of childhood was published on 8 June 2018.</b></div>
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Trevor Patemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01734478357185117445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3430038968518000262.post-53752665413412235722017-08-27T00:46:00.000-07:002020-07-27T06:38:42.150-07:00Trevor Pateman Prose Improvements ISBN 9780993587948 Published November 2017<div style="text-align: center;">
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trevor patemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01843120497490896242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3430038968518000262.post-29793204243688485142017-03-15T06:58:00.000-07:002020-07-27T06:39:43.519-07:00Trevor Pateman Studies in Pragmatics ISBN 9780993587931 Published May 2017<div style="text-align: center;">
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<b>An academic book of seven studies in language pragmatics. Afterword by Adam Gargani. </b></div>
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<b>Includes careful discussions of Relevance Theory, Critical Discourse Analysis, Bakhtin / Volosinov, advertising communication, and human-computer interaction. There's also a re-statement of Freudian dream theory which draws on Chomskyan lingustics and contemporary language pragmatics.</b></div>
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<b>First academic citation: </b>This book is cited in the short list of references given in Professor Wolfgang Teubert's article "Dialogue and what it means for discourse", <i>Language and Dialogue</i>, vol 8 n 1, 66 - 83 (April 2018)</div>
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trevor patemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01843120497490896242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3430038968518000262.post-68915615254371406122016-11-28T11:03:00.001-08:002020-07-27T06:40:55.141-07:00Trevor Pateman, Silence Is So Accurate ISBN 9780993587924 Published February 2017<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>A book of twenty seven chapters including Memoir and literary & social criticism. In other words, literary non-fiction or<i> belles lettres</i>. Chapter titles shown on the front cover as above. Cameo appearances by Michel Foucault and Yasser Arafat, among others. </b></div>
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<b>A general, non-technical work in aesthetics, the title of each chapter shown on the inside cover flap. For a preview 1500 word extract, see BOOKLAUNCH, 11 January 2019, page 16</b></div>
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<b>Memoir and social criticism - the cover shows the twenty six chapter titles. Interesting chapter on the re-titling of paintings by Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum which has caused some re-thinking by the museum. </b></div>
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<b><i>My new book is </i>The Best I Can Do<i>, a collection of short essays in which the philosopher-turned-stamp-dealer Trevor Pateman reflects on everything from bus passes to the semiotics of lipstick - and whether scholarship should be a hobby rather than a salaried occupation.</i></b></div>
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