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• Population Bombs, Or The Rhetoric of the Eschaton

  

  Rogue academic Nick Land has written a fascinating essay about the Death of Doomsday, i.e., the End of the End. In the past, he explains, Western society... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2013 LANGUAGES, SCIENCE

• The Language/genes Metaphor (part 4)

  

  Part IV: The basic building blocks of linguistic replication? As I mentioned in the last post, I’m convinced that a language/phenotype analogy is more... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2013 LANGUAGES, SCIENCE

• The Language/genes Metaphor (part 3)

  

  Part III: Do linguistic structures replicate? On the Phylogenetic Networks blog, David Morrison has posted an excellent essay regarding the (as he sees it) fals... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2013 LANGUAGES, SCIENCE

• The Language/genes Metaphor (part 2)

  

  Part II: Metaphors, and why this one is interesting In the last post, I used an example from Jeanne Fahnestock’s Rhetorical Figures in Science to show what... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2012 LANGUAGES, SCIENCE

• The Language/genes Metaphor (part 1)

  

  Part I: Rhetorical figures in science I recently suggested that a parallel can be drawn between genetic evolution and the evolution of linguistic structures.... Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2012 LANGUAGES, SCIENCE

• Acquisition of English Expletives is Probably Late by Default

  

  This semester, I had to run a modest experiment for my seminar in second language acquisition, an experiment somehow grounded in previous work I’d done in... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2012 LANGUAGES, SCIENCE