Sunday, 4 Nov
Romero Guillém, María Dolores. “Graeco-Latin vocabulary in ESP texts and its pedagogical implications.” In Inchaurralde, Carlos (Ed.) Perspectives on Semantics and Specialised Languages. Universidad de Zaragoza, Departamento de Filología Inglesa y Alemana, 1994: 285-293.
Green Rebecca. “Conceptual Universals in Knowledge Organization and Representation.” [Keynote Address] In López-Huertas, María J. Challenges in Knowledge Representation and Organization for the 21st Century. Integration of Knowledge across Boundaries. Proceedings of the Seventh International ISKO Conference, 10-13 July 2002, Granada, Spain. Advances in Knowledge Organization, 8 (2002): 15-27.
Harris, Roy. The Language-makers. London: Duckworth, 1980. [Re-reading]
- Ch. 6.
- Ch. 7
Harel, David. Computers Ltd.: What They Really Can’t Do. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. [for LIS452]
- Ch. 4: Sometimes we just don’t know
Monday, 5 Nov
Solnit, Rebecca. “Finding time: the fast, the bad, the ugly, the alternatives.” Orion Magazine September/October 2007.
Found via Library Juice. Thanks, Rory!
For variety’s sake I’ll use a different paragraph to give the gist of the article:
The conundrum is that the language to describe the ineffable splendors and possibilities of our lives takes time to master, takes a certain unhurried engagement with the tasks of description, assessment, critique, and conversation; that to speak this slow language you must slow down, and to slow down you must have some inkling of what you will gain by doing so. It’s not an elite language; nomadic and remote tribal peoples are now quite good at picking and choosing from development’s cascade of new toys, and so are some of the cash-poor, culture-rich people in places like Louisiana. Poetry is good training in speaking it, and skepticism is helpful in rejecting the four horsemen of this apocalypse, but they both require a mind that likes to roam around and the time in which to do it.
Monday - Wednesday, 5 - 7 Nov
Harris, Roy. Introduction to Integrational Linguistics. 1st ed, Kidlington, Oxford, UK: Pergamon, 1998. [Re-reading]
- Ch. 1: Language and Communication [Mon-Tue]
- Ch. 2: Language and the Language Myth [Tue-Wed]
Wednesday, 7 Nov
Renear, Allen H. and David Dubin. “Three of the Four FRBR Group 1 Entity Types are Roles, not Types.” In Grove, Andrew and Abebe Rorissa, Eds. Proceedings of the 70th ASIS&T Annual Meeting Volume 44 2007: Joining Research and Practice: Social Computing and Information Science, October 19-24, Milwaukee, WI.
There are things I want to say about this but will refrain for now. At the moment, I only want to ask, “Why?”
Thursday - Friday, 8 - 9 Nov
Harris, Roy. Introduction to Integrational Linguistics. 1st ed, Kidlington, Oxford, UK: Pergamon, 1998. [Re-reading]
- Ch. 3: Language and Meaning
- Ch 4: Language and Discourse
Thursday, Saturday, 8, 10 Nov
Richter, Melvin. “Begriffsgeschichte and the History of Ideas.” Journal of the History of Ideas 48(2), Apr.-Jun., 1987:247-263. [via JSTOR]
Was cited by one of the chapters I was reading in the book on Begriffsgeschichte last week. This does a somewhat better job of saying what Begriffsgeschichte is, at least if one is looking for a single article/chapter length look.
Saturday, 10 Nov
Harris, Roy. The Language-makers. London: Duckworth, 1980. [Re-reading]
- Ch. 8.
Mertz, David. Text Processing in Python. Boston: Addison-Wesley, 2003.
- Appendix A: Selective and Impressionistic Short Review of Python