Sunday, 17 Feb 2008
Decker, S. et al. 2000. The Semantic Web: the roles of XML and RDF. Internet Computing, IEEE 4, no. 5:63-73.
For Ontology Development.
Monday - Friday, 18 - 22 Feb 2008
Harris, Roy, and Indian Institute of Advanced Study. 2003. History, Science, and the Limits of Language : an Integrationist Approach. Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study.
- Ch 1 : The Language of History and the Language of Science (Mon)
- Ch 2 : The Origins of Mathematics (Wed)
- Ch 3 : Communication by Numbers (Thu)
- Ch 4 : Language Unlimited? (Thu)
Friday, 22 Feb 2008
Harris, Roy. 1998. Introduction to Integrational Linguistics. 1st ed. Kidlington, Oxford, UK: Pergamon.
Re-reading this for its overview of Integrationism.
- Ch 1 : Language and Communication
Saturday, 23 Feb 2008
Richards, Jennifer. 2008. Rhetoric. London: Routledge.
I cataloged this little book a few weeks ago. It looked interesting enough to possibly provide a decent overview of rhetoric. And it was.
This is not a rhetoric handbook, but more of a history of rhetoric, its ups and downs, and its re-shapings. I found it quite interesting and somewhat useful as far as putting together (for myself) a bigger, coherent picture of Western intellectual thought over the past 2.5 millennia. Also validated much of Harris’ critique of Western education on language—grammar, rhetoric, metaphor, etc.