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glossolalia

The gift of speaking in tongues, usually claimed to be unknown by the speaker and interpreted by someone else. It is referred to in the New Testament, Acts 2:4, and is believed to be a gift of the Holy Spirit. It is a distinct feature of many revivals, especially the Pentecostal movement and the charismatic movement in this century.



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Language's beginnings may very well have been pure onomatopoeia, which led to humans mimicking sounds they heard in their immediate environment, utilizing vocalization in a purely glossolalic fashion.
For the birds by Moldof, Zachary Granger / ArtUS
But, once stripped of all extra-linguistic meaning and constituted as a subject of enunciation, the subject discovers that he has gained access not so much to a possibility of speaking as to the impossibility of speaking--or, rather, that he has gained access to being always-already anticipated by a glossolalic potentiality over which he has neither control nor mastery.
Reading in the in-between: pre-scripting the "postscript" to ... by Nethersole, Reingard / Journal of Literary Studies
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