Real Life Applications of Cognitive Linguistics
I have said it before and I will say it again: ANYTHING that requires thought benefits from a cognitive linguistic perspective. We use language to help in making sense of the world, this… Read More
Category Archive: Sociology
Making eye contact as one form of coordination between store clerks and shoppers
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
Intention Directing, Self-Reporting, and the Transitive Constructions in Early Childhood Grammar (preschool, 2-5 years old)
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
Doing Strategic Planning #4: Adapting Existing Organization-External Materials for Internal Use
This is part of the continuing series about Strategic Planning and outlines the process I am using with a particular organization. I wanted to briefly explain something that I think is a viable… Read More
Inherent Narratives in Ad Hoc Collections
Part of my portfolio includes this project called Weaving Narratives: Possessions = Autobiographies, it is an exploration into how any ad hoc grouping of objects has some kind of inherent narrative, albeit a… Read More
Reflexivity and Recursion in Soulwax’s “Part of the Weekend Never Dies”
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
Slips of the Tongue…
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
Why I Believe in Cut & Paste as a Design Strategy
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
Overcoming Self-Consciousness Around Linguists
[NB: I have told this story before, but this time I have a better understanding that I think is worth sharing.] I had an experience a few years ago, a woman stood in… Read More
What I got for Christmas…
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
Think Like a Bacterium: OSMOS, Naïve Quorum Sensing, & the iPad
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
I changed my Twitter account…
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SWEET! My paper made a Top Ten Download List!
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
How I know it is finals week around the world
I have been laughing to myself each time that I go into the dashboard for this blog because I am noticing some fantastic trends. Over this past week the viewing patterns for particular… Read More
Timecard For My Future
I am going through the planning process for blog posts for 2011 and as a foreshadowing to a couple of guest posts (one on astrosociology and another on the singularity) I thought I… Read More
Post-Colonial Thought in Literature, Ethics, and Project Design
I wanted to let you know about an online ejournal about Post-Colonial Literature and Culture, here it is: Post-Colonial Studies in Literature & Culture eJournal Having formerly worked in two former colonies (one… Read More
Francophilia, Phoenix’s 1901 & Daft Punk… Why I Hate Not Living in New York
ugh. This makes my heart hurt because I wish I could have been there. This is a fine French thing to do… seeing Thomas Mars perform reminds me of the French Fauvist painter… Read More
Ground Before Figure Orientation and Divergent Activation in Bruno Mars & B.O.B.’s “Nothin’ On You” Lyrics
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
Playing a bar room piano like a lion…
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
In Praise of Literacy Efforts: Minority Languages Using Highway Signs
When I saw this I was so happy that I cried a little.
Cognitive Mindfulness #9(b)
This is part two of Cognitive Mindfulness #9, and continues the Evans & Green passage. “The difference between the domains of TIME and SPACE is that while TIME has the property of progression,… Read More
Overcome Writer’s Block With Semiotics [Free Download]
I just posted a free download of an excerpt of my semiotics project which will be available as a paperback in September. I encourage you to check it out and let me know… Read More
V is for Visceral, That’s Good Enough For Me…
I admire Lady Gaga’s desire to produce work that is more visceral and less conceptual (as she was recently quoted in a fashion magazine), but visceral presupposes the ability to conceptualize embodied experience… Read More
Who I’d Like To Meet
anyone who has a story to tell me. anyone who can see that they belong to numerous multidimensional plot lines. anyone who can see that they relate to society to solidify current culture.… Read More
Cognitive Mindfulness #7
Take this advice from Jack London: “When a man journeys into a far country, he must be prepared to forget many of the things he has learned, and to acquire such customs as… Read More
birthday wishes from my sister in law’s boyfriend…
So today was my birthday. I received this text message from my sister-in-law’s boyfriend: “Upon quoting Homer’s famous Illiad, Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus ended his rule by plunging a dagger into his… Read More
