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What does Soulwax’s website, DJing, & Construction Grammar have in common?
Soulwax’s website extends an invitation for viewers to participate in DJing as they explore the website. From my first exposure this has been an amazing experience. The intuitive guided navigation...
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Sample Sentences Using Spradley’s Nine Semantic Relations from The...
I love James Spradley’s work on ethnographic interviews, componential analysis, taxonomic analysis, and participant observation, but Spradley’s work on semantic analysis has been the most...
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Semiotics, Satellite Imagery, and Compound Stacks of Signs
I think that semiotics is a useful tool in understanding Geographic Information Systems (GIS); in particular, I think that Per Aage Brandt’s cognitive semiotic “table of signs” provides an interesting...
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How Novel Constructions Emerge Over Time
Reading Michael Israel’s The Way Constructions Grow taught me some things about how novel constructions actually emerge in a language. I encourage you to check out this classic article. The -Way...
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Intention Directing, Self-Reporting, and the Transitive Constructions in...
Since constructions are learned through usage, constructions are accumulated as individual entities that begin to form collections and these collections of constructions begin to exhibit type...
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An Emergentist vs. Universalist view of Language and Cognition
I wanted to present a list that outlines some of the main differences in thought about language between Emergentist and Universalist perspectives. This is important I think because it shows how only...
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On Failure & Resilience in Optimization of Human Systems, Ecological Systems,...
I was recently watching Eleanor Saitta’s talk called “Your Infrastructure Will Kill You“. Part of her talk outlined how optimization equals fragility (more or less). That to the degree that something...
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On walking and mediated embodied experience in ethnographic map making
Recently I’ve been thinking about my spatial experience of my contextual environment and about what I have learned over the years in consciously encountering space as a user of space, a creator of...
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Making eye contact as one form of coordination between store clerks and shoppers
Yesterday (a busy Saturday at 4pm) I went to a clothing store with my wife. While I was shopping I was almost run into by 4 employees who I felt were not looking where they were going. Two other...
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Real Life Applications of Cognitive Linguistics
I have said it before and I will say it again: ANYTHING that requires thought benefits from a cognitive linguistic perspective. We use language to help in making sense of the world, this goes for broad...
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