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
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Occasionally I read a good Generative book to balance my thinking in linguistic theory…I am drawn to the ideas of formalism, usually when I am thinking about how to develop anthropological linguistic approaches… Read More
I got a comment today on the CogLing 100 Book List page from a person with a slightly suspicious email address that I didn’t want to publish, but the content of the comment… 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
This comes from the introduction to a book edited by Dirk Geeraerts: If conceptual perspectivization is the central function of a grammar, the typical formal categories of grammatical description (like word classes or… Read More
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
The reality of everyday living is multifaceted in nature. For me, in my practice as an artist and as a scientist, I feel I need to integrate the various extensions of my reality,… Read More
