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Category Archives: Discourse – text
Unintended consequences of political correctness
Colbert I. King – Why Obama Stands With His Church – washingtonpost.com This history comes to mind as I listen to conservative commentators, chief among them MSNBC’s Pat Buchanan, brand as "racist" the slogan adopted by Trinity United Church of … Continue reading
Individual perspicacity, collective naïveté
Nicholas Kristof is puzzled and pleased that the US electorate is keeping two individuals as front runners who are willing to express unpopular opinions: The World’s Worst Panderer – New York Times All of this is puzzlingly mature on the … Continue reading
Two models of governance: Foundations of policy negotiation
Lakoff in ‘Moral Politics’ talks about how competing models of family influence policy and politics debates in the US. This model duality is not only present in a variety of contexts but I would claim is the very foundation of … Continue reading
Primogeniture: Negotiating the internal ‘logic’ of social change
BBC – Radio 4 Woman’s Hour -Male Primogeniture Jenni discusses the law of primogeniture with Liberal Democrat MP Lynne Featherstone, who has asked the Equality and Human Rights Commission to investigate the legality of this centuries old practice, and to … Continue reading
Convention over logic: Limits of implicature
Evening News 24 – Refuse fire near City Hall Arsonists sparked an emergency response after setting light to a rubbish container near City Hall on Saturday evening. The suspects started the fire shortly after 7pm on St Giles Street. Two … Continue reading
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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
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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
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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----escape_autolink_uri:efabb21a47c1067747e8492a93007103---- It is all too easy to make fun of speakers like this. But most commenters on … Continue reading
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From culture-specific to the universal in the US counter-insurgency manual
“Be polite, be professional, be prepared to kill.” Lt. Col. Nagel summarizing a new US Army counterinsurgency manual (on the Daily Show) This quote reminds of the critique of universalist pragmatics by Anna Wierzbicka. Wierzbicka and others (e.g. Goddard) points … Continue reading
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