Off the Mark

I went to Falls Church, Virginia to visit family and friends 20 - 29 December. I got home yesterday evening. Drove to Bloomington (1 hour) and flew through Detroit to Dulles and back again.
Going out of Bloomington vs. Champaign is about $150 cheaper round trip and parking is free, which is a substantial savings. BMI [...]

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Late last year I decided to participate in a reading challenge (2007 TBR) that I found at Joy Weese Moll’s blog, Wanderings of an online librarian. I generally don’t do these sorts of things but when I had looked back over 2006 at the hundreds of article I had read I found that I had [...]

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This has been a very light week due to my visiting relatives and friends in the Washington, DC area.
Toolan, Michael J. 1996. Total Speech: An Integrational Linguistic Approach to Language. Durham, N.C: Duke University Press.

Finish Ch. 1: On Inscribed or Literal Meaning (21-25 Dec)
Ch. 2: Metaphor (26 - 29 Dec)
Ch. 3: Intentionality and Coming into [...]

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Unlike last year, I am not going to split this apart into any categories and am only listing them chronologically. I am also only listing them by months instead of by explicit date. Those seen in the theater are so noted, as are a few other details of little relevance to anyone else.
Last year’s [...]

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As I wend my way through ever more readings on integrational linguistics I become even more enamored of this view of language. Vastly more important than the valid reasons for liking it that arise from the excellent philosophical, sociological and historical critiques of Western views of language, and of academic linguistics, in particular, that Roy [...]

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Friday - Wednesday, 14 - 19 Dec 2007
Harris, Roy, and George Wolf, eds. Integrational Linguistics: A First Reader. 1st ed, Kidlington, Oxford, UK: Pergamon, 1998.

Ch. 16: Hutton, Christopher. “Analysis and Notation: The Case for a Non-Realist Linguistics.”
Ch. 17: Harris, Roy. “How Does Writing Restructure Thought?”
Ch. 18: Harris, Roy. “Writing and Proto-Writing: From Sign to Metasign.” [...]

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I will be in Falls Church, VA for a portion of the holidays this year. If anyone is in the area and would like to meet up for dinner, or drinks, or coffee or some such please contact me via my contact form (or any other way you are aware of).
I realize that being more [...]

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Last Thursday, 6 December, as I was heading out of town for my aunt’s funeral in St. Louis, I stopped at the student health clinic to pick up my allergy meds.
As I was standing in line at the pharmacy, a young man who was obviously suffering from a sever cold or flu and who looked [...]

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Sunday, 9 Dec 2007 and Tuesday, 11 Dec 2007 +
Harris, Roy. 1990. The Foundations of Linguistic Theory: Selected Writings of Roy Harris. Ed. Nigel Love. London: Routledge.

Editor’s Introduction.
Ch. 2: Words and Word Criteria in French.
Ch. 3: Semantics and Translation.
Ch. 4: Performative Paradigms.
Ch. 5: Semantics, Performatives and Truth.
Ch. 6: Truth-Conditional Semantics and Natural Languages.
Ch. 7: Making [...]

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I read it. I made plenty of notes. I fully intended to write up my comments and submit them and to also post them here. I began writing them up.
I stopped.
And that is where I’m staying. Stopped.
It truly isn’t that I don’t care. I do. All the way down to the marrow care.
There is [...]

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