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: Systems
Why I Care About Ontology
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
Schematic Construals in Favor of Ecological Transportation
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
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
Stone Soup, Bouillon Cubes, and Innovation
In my childhood I think it was the fable about Stone Soup that made me start to think about innovation. As I learned to cook and came further into the world of soup-lore… Read More
Doing Strategic Planning #2: Decision Making and Identifying Policy Material through Discourse Analysis
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
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
On the Second Law of Thermodynamics: a quote from one of my favorite books
“Sometimes initial conditions can exert such an all-pervasive influence that they create the impression that a new type of law is acting. The most familiar case is that of the so-called “second law… 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
finally a post remotely related to sports…
I admit it, the “Sport” in “SportLinguist” might lead you to believe that I write about sports. Well, I don’t…but this automated software does write about sports. In fact, all you have to… Read More
HighLevel Issues in EthnoBotany; Interdisciplinary Cross-Pollination
I started getting interested in botany during my undergraduate years when I wanted to complement the technical linguistics training with a tempered understanding of some practical skills. I have always planned on doing… 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
Why Linguists Can Always Have an Intelligent Comment on EVERYTHING.
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
CogDef #1 (cognitive definitions)
I have several friends who are strict Generativists/Formalists and I want to start a little series that summarizes information about topics that sometimes get muddled up in cross-theoretical discussions. This is the first… Read More
Language Is a System
Language makes use of ecological elements (symbolic function, communicative function, et cetera) to provide an integrated “tool” with which meaning can be expressed and understood. Being a system implies the interrelationship of components… Read More
