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May 25 2011, 5:21am | Comments
Bookmark Wonderful: Robots Develop Own Language
Researchers at The University of Queensland and Queensland University of Technology have taught robots how to develop their own language. That way, when they're about to deal the finishing blow to…

May 19 2011, 2:11am | Comments
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March 11 2011, 9:35am | Comments
Bookmark Explain yourself: George-Lakoff, cognitive linguist
As part of our research on explanatory journalism, we’re interviewing experts in fields outside journalism about their approaches to explaining complex systems to non-specialtists. Our first expert is cognitive linguist George Lakoff,…

February 4 2011, 2:26am | Comments
Bookmark Language as Thought: Watch out for the Hype
Judging from how the Times magazine’s excerpt from Guy Deutscher’s new book has been one of the most read pieces in the paper for over a week now, the book is…

September 23 2010, 5:05am | Comments
Bookmark What concepts do not exist in the English language?
Carl Honoré (In Praise of Slow) says Canada's Baffin Island Inuit "use the same word—'uvatiarru'—to mean both 'in the distant past' and 'in the distant future.' Time, in such cultures, is…

September 10 2010, 4:17am | Comments
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June 15 2010, 2:35pm | Comments
Bookmark My bright idea: Guy Deutscher
Guy Deutscher is that rare beast, an academic who talks good sense about linguistics, his chosen field. In his new book, Through the Language Glass (Heinemann), he fearlessly contradicts the fashionable…

June 13 2010, 5:33am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Sacrifice, speech, writing and art Sacrifice, speech, writing and art: I am interested in the different ways in which a sacrifice, a sacrament, a spoken word and a written word act as signifiers. The notion for instance that the sacrament, at the point of its acceptance, is understood…

February 24 2010, 5:28am | Comments
Bookmark A Reporter at Large: The Interpreter
In the wake of the controversy that greeted his paper, Everett encouraged scholars to come to the Amazon and observe the Pirahã for themselves. The first person to take him up…

February 21 2010, 4:00pm | Comments
Ask Metafilter De-constructing 'code' (picking apart its assumptions) De-constructing 'code': I am looking for philosophical (from W. Benjamin through to post-structuralism and beyond) examinations of 'code'. That both includes the assumptions contained in the word 'code' and any actual objects or subjects that code is connected to - including, but not…

February 2 2010, 6:35am | Comments
Bookmark A Common Nomenclature for Lego Families
Every family, it seems, has its own set of words for describing particular Lego pieces. No one uses the official names. “Dad, please could you pass me that Brick 2x2?” No.…

November 8 2009, 3:01am | Comments
Bookmark The Cosmopolitan Tongue: The Universality of English
In depicting the emergence of the world’s languages as a curse of gibberish, the biblical tale of the Tower of Babel makes us moderns smile. Yet, considering the headache that 6,000…

November 1 2009, 3:32am | Comments
Bookmark Thinking literally
Drawing on philosophy and linguistics, cognitive scientists have begun to see the basic metaphors that we use all the time not just as turns of phrase, but as keys to the…

September 28 2009, 8:59am | Comments
Bookmark Adorno on Mimesis in Aesthetic Theory
Art is imitation only to the extent to which it is objective expression, far removed from psychology. There may have been a time long ago when this expressive quality of the…

July 13 2009, 7:19am | Comments
Bookmark Greek To Me: Mapping Mutual Incomprehension « Strange Maps
“When an English speaker doesn’t understand a word of what someone says, he or she states that it’s ‘Greek to me’. When a Hebrew speaker encounters this difficulty, it ’sounds like…

June 7 2009, 3:42am | Comments
Writing for 3quarksdaily In Another city another me is writing
Take this article, for example. It is an unwinding spring of phonic sounds, encoded into a series of arbitrary symbols, stretching from left to right within an imaginary frame projected onto the surface of your computer screen. Here lies the perfect example of an…

December 29 2008, 10:52am | Comments
Wikipedia Collocation - Wikipedia Within the area of corpus linguistics, collocation is defined as a sequence of words or terms which co-occur more often than would be expected by chance. Collocation refers to the restrictions on how words can be used together, for example which prepos

March 25 2008, 4:08pm | Comments

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