Archive for February, 2007
07-02-22
Tags:Linguistics The Wikipedia entry of Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis has the following lead: Bhartrihari may be considered one of the most original philosophers […]
The position that language anchors thought (thinking is shabdanA or ‘languaging’) was argued cogently by Bhartrihari (6th c. AD) and was the subject of centuries of debate in the Indian linguistic tradition.
Bhartrihari [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
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07-02-19
Tags:Linguistics OddsnEnds While we are on BBC: BBC NEWS | Africa | New language for divided Cameroon New language for divided Cameroon […]
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07-02-19
Tags:OddsnEnds Psy97 Teaching For Teaching: At birth, Amillia was only as long as a pen Doctors held out little hope of her survival
BBC NEWS | Americas | Miami baby sets premature record
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07-02-18
Tags:Education Linguistics psychology Research William Gray (1956) concluded that:
“These studies demonstrate that the general nature of the reading act is essentially the same among all mature readers. … The mature reader, as he seeks the meaning of the passage, follows the lines in an alternation of short eye movements and pauses. At […]
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07-02-15
Tags:Linguistics OddsnEnds Language Log: French report: It’s lucky Copernicus had grammar quoted Chirs Waigl:
I used to teach English at French lower secondary state schools for two years, so I know that scene a little bit, and the lingo the curriculum and its authors employ…. As for explicit grammar teaching in French schools, the one things […]
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07-02-12
Tags:Linguistics OddsnEnds Research This is a chronical of 30 minutes of my life.
I didn’t know Jean Piaget wrote extensively on sociology and hisotry of science.
Given his explicitly neo-Kantian assumptions[citation needed] and his focus on topics such as logical and mathematical reasoning, moral judgment, contradiction, language, justification and so on, it is surprising […]
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07-02-07
Tags:Linguistics OddsnEnds Teaching This is a cold, cold meme, but it came up again during my reading development seminar. Matt Davis at MRC Cambridge maintains an (old) page on scambled words. Thought it might be a useful link for later.
The page includes a collection of scambled texts in different languages. According to the author […]
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07-02-06
Tags:Education Linguistics punctuation English Language History, with excursus on Technology >Your example of English and Caxton print shop goes a long way to convince >me that technology was a factor, but not that it was the MAIN factor. >Can you elaborate?
What else could it be but technology? Writing is […]
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07-02-05
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Who Can Name the Bigger Number? is a little dated compared to this, but I like this paragraph towards the end:
Indeed, one could define science as reason’s attempt to compensate for our inability to perceive big numbers. If we could run at 280,000,000 meters per second, there’d be no need for a special […]
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