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Monthly Archives: September 2007
Perspectives, views and child cognition
Media Blog on National Review Online What the BBC is telling children about the 9/11 attacks [Tom Gross] Here is what the BBC’s widely-read children’s section of their website (CBBC) is telling kids about the 9/11 attacks, the 6th anniversary … Continue reading
Posted in Cognition, Discourse - text, Society and politics
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Cognition, information, knowledge and the limits of serial computing
BBC – Radio 4 – Today Programme Listen Again 11 Sept 2007 08:50 It’s the 50th anniversary of the British Computer Society. But what can we expect over the next half century? Will our levels of dependence on the internet … Continue reading
Posted in Analogies, Cognition, Philosophy, Technology and life
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Poetry in blogs and cognitive persistence
Just Say No “Nonetheless I took the tomatoes away.” This is only partially a hermeneutic post. It’s so rare to see poetry in blogs (unless they’re poets’ blogs which I don’t read) but this last line in a post, turned … Continue reading
Posted in Cognition, Discourse - text, Linguistics, Poetry
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Changes in word meaning and folk theories of reasonable mappings
On The Media In the parlance of Republican-primary politics, âsanctuaryâ? â as in sanctuary city â has become a bad word. … GEOFFREY NUNBERG: Well, sometime around 2005, 2006, you begin to hear people on the right using the word, … Continue reading
Posted in Framing, Linguistics
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Lol cats and conventionalization of semiotic systems
Anil Dash: Cats Can Has Grammar The core behavior has existed for some time; “Image macro” is a generic term for this kind of folk art, and cats have always featured heavily in these types of Internet in-jokes. But a … Continue reading
Posted in Cognition, Discourse - text, Linguistics, Technology and life
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Searching for coherence in high-stakes utterances
YouTube – Miss Teen USA 2007 – South Carolina answers a question Miss Teen USA 2007 – Ms. South Carolina answers a question [youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww[/youtube] It is all too easy to make fun of speakers like this. But most commenters on … Continue reading
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