Xeno
Rae talks about 'xeno-', which pertains to the stranger, the guest, and above all to what counts as foreign. Once described in loaded terms by the science journal Nature as 'almost-virgin' on account of its under-utilisation in nomenclature, there is something unfamiliar about th...
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| Published in: | Contemporary theatre review Vol. 23; no. 1; pp. 83 - 87 |
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
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Abingdon
Taylor & Francis
01-02-2013
Taylor & Francis Ltd |
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| Summary: | Rae talks about 'xeno-', which pertains to the stranger, the guest, and above all to what counts as foreign. Once described in loaded terms by the science journal Nature as 'almost-virgin' on account of its under-utilisation in nomenclature, there is something unfamiliar about the prefix itself: belonging to an unassimilated rump of Ancient Greek more often found in the x-rating phonology of Sci-Fi than in the normal run of English phrase-making, 'xeno-' performs its otherness to the wider lexicon. |
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| ISSN: | 1048-6801 1477-2264 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/10486801.2013.765129 |