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Category Archives: Linguistics
Metaphor hypostasis as a cohesive device
RealClearPolitics – Articles – Is the War on Terror Over? Do we still need to fight a war on terror? The answer seems to be no for an increasing number in the West who are weary over Afghanistan and Iraq … Continue reading
Homicide attacks and the restrictions on mapping in blending
The following segment from the Wikipedia entry on suicide attack is a good example of how the restrictions on mapping in conceptual integration can be negotiated even “against the grain” of the “logic” of some of the basic propositional structures … Continue reading
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Text worlds, anaphora and syntactic structures as spandrels
Politics, Lies, and 93 v. 8 – Swampland – TIME David Brooks has an excellent column today, and not for the usual reasons that liberals praise Brooks (and he drives conservatives crazy): because he comes halfway toward us. It’s because, … Continue reading
Posted in Analogies, Cognition, Discourse - text, Linguistics
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McJobs, the Dictionary Wars and Folk Theories of Meaning
Golden Arches Wants ‘McJob’ Removed: McDonald’s Targets the English McLanguage – International – SPIEGEL ONLINE – News McDonald’s Corp. on Tuesday restarted its push to get the word “McJob” removed from dictionaries — and has set its sights on the … Continue reading
Discursive diglossia and American racial politics
Eugene Robinson – An Inarticulate Kickoff – washingtonpost.com What is it, exactly, that white people mean when they call a black person “articulate”? … Biden explained Obama’s appeal as a presidential candidate by calling him “the first mainstream African-American who … Continue reading
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Frame negotiation through popular culture frame hypostasis
Media Matters – Conservatives continue to use Fox’s 24 to support hawkish policies conservative talk radio host Laura Ingraham told host Bill O’Reilly: “The average American out there loves the show 24. OK? They love Jack Bauer. They love 24. … Continue reading
What ‘Hillary’ should have said: Indeterminacy of metaphor integration
The Politico But it wasn’t revealing because she was suggesting her husband is “evil and bad.” It was revealing because — asked about dealing with evil men like Osama bin Laden — her mind seemed to go to her domestic … Continue reading
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Algorithms and everything
digg – The Digg Comment Algorithm Everything in this world can be shown as a flowchart algorithm. This, of course, applies to the complex and not well researched field of “Digg comments“. Here’s my humble attempt to define an algorithm … Continue reading
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Images of language and learning in mavenry
Limp language leaves kids with an awesome paucity of speech [Teenagers on which the author eavesdrops] They’ve got one all-purpose word — “awesome” — to cover everything from mild approval to exhilaration. When they’re indignant or angry, they have to … Continue reading
Tom Waits and the surface of text
ANTI- Album – Orphans What’s Orphans? I don’t know. Orphans is a dead end kid driving a coffin with big tires across the Ohio River wearing welding goggles and a wife beater with a lit firecracker in his ear. Just … Continue reading
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