If you
like the English language, you’ll love Language
with Altitude.
It is the result of
a ten-year project by Paddy Gormley,
now fully drafted and ready for publication.
Paddy Gormley needs your help
with the next stage, which is to produce the first edition of Language
with Altitude: a top-quality,
full-colour, hardback book of about 320 A5 pages.
Click on the image on the right for a series of audio-visual
presentations that explain the project and how you can help. The
presentations include extensive background information, but there
are brief, "fast track" versions too: for
example, if you are only interested in the details concerning sponsorship.
If
you prefer to read for yourself, you may like to know that the
content of the audio-visual presentations is largely reproduced
on this page, elsewhere on this website and in the form of downloadable
PDFs.
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Click on the image below
for audio-visual presentations of
this project:
There are
short, "fast track" presentations
or you can explore the project in depth.
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Language
with Altitude is a writing primer like no other.
It is
a passionate appeal to lovers of language to preserve the beauty
and power of spoken and written English in the face of the growing
threat from non-stop news broadcasting, instant opinionation
and other mediocrities of modern media.
- Language
with Altitude shows how pattern recognition
in infancy is the foundation for language, memory and creativity.
- It examines language from the contrasting perspectives of
the intellect and the emotions, and concludes that, however
much we like to see ourselves as thinking people, our
lives are ruled to a large extent by our emotional responses
to the sounds and patterns of language.
- It sets out innovative techniques for both creative
and analytical writing, showing how readers’ and
listeners’ responses,
whether to prose, poetry or persuasive text, may be heightened
by speaking directly to their primeval selves through measured
use of sounds and rhythms.
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Whether you’re
a poet or a politician, a comedian or a columnist, a speech writer
or a storyteller, Language with Altitude has
something to say to you.
See the contents page for
further details.
All that remains now is to get the book into print. Here’s
how you can help.
Most of the funding
for Language with Altitude will
be established through the Founders’ Edition.
This is to be an exclusive, limited edition of specially stamped,
serially numbered, personalised, hard-backed copies in a special
presentation sleeve, for up to six hundred
people who are willing to commit GB£50 each as Founders
of the project.
You may also reserve
unstamped, unsleeved copies of the first edition for GB£25
each.
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Even if
you have no money to spare just now, you can still help by registering
as an introducer. If you persuade five
other people to register as Founders, for example, you too will
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There are opportunities for higher
levels of involvement, if you wish.
Paddy Gormley is looking for Benefactors
and Sponsors to help with specific aspects of the project:
the development and promotion of this website, the book launch,
and so on.
Paddy Gormley is able to offer
tangible benefits such as personal acknowledgement in the first
edition, personal invitation to the book launch and links from
this website to yours.
See the register page for
further details.
The downloads page of this site offers a series of PDFs including
- a detailed table of contents of Language
with Altitude,
- a sample chapter
- a summary of the benefits to supporters of the project
- and a formal statement of terms and conditions that will
apply if you choose to support the project.
Paddy Gormley's privacy
policy explains his approaches to:
- promoting
this website to individuals and organisations who may be interested
in Language with Altitude, and
- dealing with confidential information.
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