This can be a really broad question I apologize but what evidence would have to come out to get you abandon a UG framework for a more cognitive linguistics, Usage based style grammar?
Been trying to dig deeper into the generative vs cognitive approaches and I was wondering what research, personal experience, or whatever made you come down on one side or another?
Also, another weird request but wondering if we could avoid debate. Kinda want to see what people have to say without them having to have to worry about getting into a nitty gritty back and forth.
EDIT: In case anyone finds this because they have the same question as me, I've found something quite helpful:
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-91277-6_4
Also this lecture was quite a nice introduction of the big idea.
I'm trying to get some background about how the cognitive linguistics approach to metaphor, so specifically Lakoff's 1992 "The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor" and related work, interacts with and bears on more "philosophical" approaches like Black, Davidson (whose view I am sympathetic to), Searle and so on. I'm solid on the latter but find any attempt to understand the former and specifically put the two into dialogue very difficult.
This difficulty is illustrated by the SEP article on metaphor, which you could lift out the "cognitive linguistics" section, make it its own article, and never suspect that it was ever part of a bigger article or that the metaphor article once contained such a section. This seems like an approach taken by a lot of texts*, bracketing either the coglang for the phil of language or vice versa. At most they will refer to Lakoff & Johnson 1980 as showing that metaphorical or figurative meaning is "more widespread" than we might otherwise assume, and leave it at that. *I should clarify I mean "a lot of texts" on my reading list.
Meanwhile, Lakoff himself portrays the upshot of his account as showing that basically all the philosophy of language approaches lie on false assumptions, to the point that one wonders why one was assigned to read them in the first place (my specific difficulty here is probably that it's framed as "science" so I don't see how to argue against it). So I was wondering if anyone had reading recommendations that came at metaphor from the philosophy of language side but explicitly discusses the significance of cognitive linguistic work like Lakoff's for this account, and whether the views that Lakoff criticizes are just doomed or not.
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I’m considering a linguistics major in college (as most schools do not have cognitive science). Is this a realistic major to pursue cognitive science or HCI in grad school (Masters/PhD)?
Also...how much mathematics should one take in undergrad for grad school? One semester of Calc? Stats?
Thanks.
I'm a CS major and considering adding the Symbolic, Cognitive and Linguistic Systems, Certificate mostly because it just sounds interesting and also because I might want to go into Natural Language Processing in the future.
I found the certificate page online, but I was wondering what some students' experiences were. Why did you add the certificate? How much extra work is it? Do you think the extra work is worth it? Are there certain electives you would recommend over others? I have all of the CS-related requirements covered already.
I'm probably either doing that certificate or minoring in Stats since statistical modelling is something else I'm interested in. Just looking for any insight.
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This is just for fun, not related to anything I’m working on, but I’d love recommendations for stuff to read in pragmatics, cognitive linguistics, and/or linguistics and literature. As it’s just for fun I don’t really have any more specific wishes. I find qualitative research more interesting, but feel free to recommend quantitative stuff as well. I basically just wanna read stuff that makes me go “oh yeah, this is why I love linguistics!”
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When a person has been familiar with something, they have possessed some [tacit knowledge][1] about it. By definition, such knowledge is extremely hard to even aware of it, let alone verbalize it in a succinct manner. By definition, you will never be able to explain it fully. I think Laozi had this idea when he wrote “the Dao that can be explained is not the Dao”. People who don’t try hard to explain themselves also have this intuition too.
[Metaphor][2] can help express tacit knowledge. By mapping from one domain to another, the knowledge is transformed and transcended, bringing us from one perspective to another. In the new perspective, you will know where to explain next, and thus don’t feel that your understanding is inexpressible anymore. Gradually, your explanation will be organized in a perfect combination of words, so that people having no former background can see the order from the chaos as you see it. This is also the device that Zhuangzi uses to illustrate the transformation of it.
However, it is possible that the listeners have tacit knowledge also. Just a little different subtlety in both sides and they will talk at cross purposes without realizing it. In that case, we return to the case of the blind men and the elephant. The only way to solve this is that one of them verbalize their subtleties, which is almost impossible since they are too focused at correcting the understanding of the other. In other words, their [naïve realism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Na%C3%AFve_realism_(psychology)), egocentrism and priming effect making them accidentally create distinctions. Again, this is also why Daoists reject using language.
Another factor is your short-term memory. If your premise is "yes, there is such a thing that can be explained", then when you attempt to do that, 99% you will fail. Since to explain is to use complex sentences with various vocabulary. I myself cannot explain what I just write here if somebody asks me out of the blue. If I'm asked out of the blue, the tip of the tongue phenomenon will kick in, making you feel that you can only know it but can't explain it. But your brain fails to execute that premise spontaneously does not mean that premise is actually wrong.
All of these things have been existing since human was born, not just Laozi's time. So I suppose the idea of Daoism was
... keep reading on reddit ➡As the covid19 pandemic evolves, I can't help but notice some rampant metaphorical conceptualizations emerging. I wonder if we can start a thread here to identify some of these and perhaps come up some that are more accurate and less dangerous.
This post highlights the A PANDEMIC IS AN EARTHQUAKE mapping, which I find to be quite dangerous. In fact, I think the widespread use of this 'earthquake' metaphor could be why so many nations and individuals failed to adequately prepare for this crisis during the Wuhan or larger Chinese phase.
Others I've noticed include A PANDEMIC IS A WAR and A VIRUS IS AN INVADER. On an even more general level, in reference to quarantine and shelter-in-place policies I've identified the INACTION IS ACTION mapping.
I would love to discuss these and others you may have noticed below!
Pretty much the title lol. I'm looking for good ideas in anything related to cogsci, psychology, or linguistics. It's hard to find anything for high schoolers except a research internship, which I already have. Please lmk if you have suggestions, thanks!
Hello everyone. I have just finished an article about my observations on the similarities between cognitive linguistics, cognitive psychology, Buddhism and Daoism, and would like to have your feedback.
Summary:
- Communication cannot go anywhere because the partakers aren’t aware that they are talking at a polysemy
- Tacit knowledge makes an obvious thing ineffable. Metaphors can help express it
- Wuwei as a single term requires a single framework to explain it
- There are lots of negations in Daodejing and Middle Way
- Yinyang is best understood with double negation
Hope you find it interesting. Thank you for your reading :D
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I want to collect as many as papers as I can that will fall into this category. The main problem is that the "tagging" is not consistent for linguistic papers. Hence I'm looking for an exhausitve list of tags which are directly related to this field, in order to make better queries and find more relevant data.
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