Last week I was featured in a column on the investment blog MindfulMoney.co.uk with some comments about financial crisis language like “crash” and “stagflation”. Check out the feature here. Like I have said… Read More
I love this image from the cover of The Glitch Mob’s We Can Make the World Stop: People occasionally describe winding canyons as if they were snakes, and this image makes that language explicit… Read More
Yesterday (a busy Saturday at 4pm) I went to a clothing store with my wife. While I was shopping I was almost run into by 4 employees who I felt were not looking… Read More
I just posted a seminar essay that I wrote a few months ago to the Cognitive Science Network. You can download the paper here (click the button that says “One-Click Download”) and read the abstract… Read More
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In a broad sense of the term, any particular ontology serves as a framework against which we interpret information; think of it like an organized perspective that we use as a lens to… Read More
If you say the admittedly odd sentence “The baby feeds on mother’s milk.” it accesses a parasitic construal for the act of eating. Pardon any offense this might cause you; I promise to… Read More
When I am writing a paper that has a page limit I use the first draft to make sure that I have a complete thought, I do not worry about exceeding the page… Read More
The acquisition of abstract grammatical constructions represents the maturation of a child’s linguistic productivity. This productivity means that a child can take constructions that have already been learned and extend the application of… Read More
Since constructions are learned through usage, constructions are accumulated as individual entities that begin to form collections and these collections of constructions begin to exhibit type frequency. I think that this type frequency… Read More
Reading Michael Israel’s The Way Constructions Grow taught me some things about how novel constructions actually emerge in a language. I encourage you to check out this classic article. The -Way construction in… Read More
As mentioned (yesterday’s post) three skills emerge from this acceptance of the triadic perspective: 1) Joint Attention Frame; 2)Intention Reading; and 3) Cultural Learning (Pattern Finding). Joint Attention is the ability to coordinate… Read More
In exemplar representation situation-specific tokens are decoded and classified as being instance-overlaps with existing exemplars and thereby reinforcing that exemplar instance, or else they are classified as having slight divergence from the existing… Read More
Continuing on the posts about strategic planning, today I want to share how I encourage people to develop policy. The organization that I am helping had a baseline report drafted by a committee… Read More
Since I am posting a lot about Soulwax this month, I thought I should include this clarifying snippet about the differences between the various acts which the Dewaele brothers lead. In “Part of the… Read More
Soulwax’s website extends an invitation for viewers to participate in DJing as they explore the website. From my first exposure this has been an amazing experience. The intuitive guided navigation doubles as a… Read More
So I am not sure why this happened, but it did: Last week I was introducing myself to the class I am TA-ing this semester and after I listed my academic qualifications I… Read More
Cut & Paste is not just a keyboard function. In fact, R.G. Collingwood coined the term in the mid 1940′s in his book The Idea of History, but being a more formal speaker… Read More
I recently created a short interview about my art project “Weaving Narratives” where I describe the process of reading objects that people own. I hope you check it out and let me know… Read More
When a specialist tries to talk about their specialist view of the world with a non-specialist it rarely ever goes smoothly. In fact, usually, the specialist either talks at too specific a level… Read More
Daft Punk’s film “Electroma” Daft Punk’s album “Human After All” Gilles Fauconnier’s & Mark Turner’s “The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending and the Mind’s Hidden Complexities” Stephen C. Levinson’s “Space in Language and… Read More
I was recently sucked into playing OSMOS on my iPad. I never play video games (usually I am too busy: wife, art, school, work) but I did happen to spend four hours straight… Read More
The –way construction is a structure that expresses a range of ideas like “manner” in relation to an activity that follows a path. The construction is elaborated by accessing an AGENT/Trajector, using a verb… Read More
I have a new link in my sidebar and I wanted to tell you a little about it. One of my three favorite poets is Conrad Aiken, a sincere and highly lucid poet… Read More
My wife and I were at an extended family party last night and as the night wore on we found ourselves sitting at a table and she was holding my cousin’s newborn girl.… Read More
I checked my email this morning and received a message telling me that my recently distributed paper “Figure-Ground Organization in Attention and Construal” made it on a top ten list for downloads yesterday… Read More
So there was a time, not too long ago, that I couldn’t stand reading .pdfs on a monitor. It didn’t matter if it was on a desktop or a laptop; I hated reading… Read More
As a feature of figure-ground organization, there is inherent flexibility in how the figure is aligned with the ground. In light of evidence that permits a ground to precede a figure in the… Read More
Driving home tonight I heard a song on the radio, on the local hip-hop and R&B station, and while the song kind of annoys me, I kind of like it too. Anyway, this… Read More
If you are a linguist you already know this. What is “this”? I’ve not said yet. Here it is: “Linguists have the ability to make an informed comment about anything.“ Disagree? Care to… Read More
So here is a video I made this afternoon, it has some excerpts from a song I have been composing this year. I chose this because it takes two basic chords: C Major… Read More
A reasonable summary of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis in its tractable form is that different cultures interpret the same world differently and this has an impact on how they both think and construct meaning… Read More
ICMs structure mental spaces by providing asymmetrical matching or mismatching between concepts, center-periphery models to structure categories, and encapsulated categories to structure to the scope of predication. Below is an assortment of these… Read More
Today I experienced one of those classic text-book cases of construing a category member at varying levels of categorization for different purposes. I was walking down the hall in my office today and… Read More
