3/24/04 | Special Issue: Evolution of Language | Science Magazine: 303, #5662 (February 27, 2004). |
3/03/04 | Louis Menand | "Cat People: What Dr. Seuss Really Taught Us." The New Yorker. (December 23 & 30, 2003). |
2/04/04 | Jeffrey Elman | "Finding Structure in Time." Cognitive Science 14 (1990): 179-211.
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| Jonathan Culler | "Language, Meaning,and Interpretation." Chapter 4 of Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction
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12/18/03 | Douglas Hofstadter | Chapter 7 ( "The Location of Meaning") from
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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11/20/03 | Douglas Hofstadter | Chapters 11-12 ("Brains and Thoughts" and "Minds and Thoughts") from Godel, Escher, Bach
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10/23/03 | Tor Norretranders | Chapters 5-7 ("The Tree of Talking," "The Bandwidth of Consciousness" and "The Bomb of Psychology") from The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size
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9/18/03 | Ray Jackendoff | Chapter 12: The argument for the construction of experience," Chapter 14: "Language as a window on thought," and Chapter 15: "Social Organization," from Patterns in the Mind: Language and Human Nature
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4/23/03
| Donald Spence
| "The Mythic Properties of Popular Explanations." Believed-in
Imaginings : The Narrative Construction of Reality Ed. Joseph
de Rivera and Theodore R. Sarbin (1998): 217-228.
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| Wolfgang Iser
| "The Reading Process: A Phenomenological Approach." Reader-Response
Criticism: From Formalism to Post-Structuralism. Ed. JaneTompkins
(1980). |
4/02/03
| Jerome Bruner
| Chapter Two: "Folk Psychology as an Instrument of Culture"
Acts of Meaning (1990)
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3/19/03
| Jerome Bruner
| Chapter Three: "Entry Into Meaning"
Acts of Meaning
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3/05/03
| Jerome Bruner
| Chapter One: "The Proper Study of Man"
Acts of Meaning
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1/21/03
| Edward Sapir
| Chapter Twelve, "Symbolism,"
The Psychology of Culture: A Course of Lectures (2002)
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12/09/02
| George Lakoff
| A discussion in the flesh
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12/08/02
| George Lakoff (Professor
of Linguistics, University of California at Berkeley; Institute
of Cognitive Studies).
| "The Brain, The Mind and Language: Why They Matter in Personal
Life, In Politics, and Throughout the Academic World" |
12/02/02
| George Lakoff
| Chapters 6-8. Philosophy in the Flesh
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11/18/02
| George Lakoff
| Chapters 4-5. Philosophy in the Flesh
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11/4/02
| DJ Chalmers, RM French and Douglas R. Hofstader
| "High-level Perception, Representation, and Analogy: A Critique
of Artificial Intelligence Methodology." CRCC Technical Report
49, 1991 Accessible on campus from http://emergent.brynmawr.edu/~dblank/language-papers/
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| Samuel Beckett
| Excerpts # 1, 4, 9, 13, Texts for Nothing (1958) |
10/21/02
| Roman Jacobson
| "Two Aspects of Language and Two Types of Aphasic Disturbances"
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10/7/02
| Samuel Beckett
| Excerpts # 1, 4, 9, 13, Texts for Nothing (1958)
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| Mary Thomas Crane
| "Male Pregnancy and Cognitive Permeability in Measure
for Measure"
Shakespeare's Brain: Reading with Cognitive Theory |
9/23/02
| Derek Bickerton
| "Creole Languages," Scientific American(1983) |
| Mary Thomas Crane
| Shakespeare's Brain: Reading with Cognitive Theory (Introduction) |
9/9/02
| Alex Byrne and David Hilbert
| "Color Realism and Color Science" |
4/29/02
| Peggy Li and Lila Gleitman
| "Turning the Tables: Language and Spatial Reasoning," Cognition
83 (2002): 265-294 |
4/18/02
| Colin Phillips
| "Hierarchical Language Structure in the Brain: Two Challenges" |
4/15/02
| George Lakoff
| Philosophy in the Flesh (Chs 1&3) |
4/1/02
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| The "Play" Theory of Language
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3/18/02
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| "Does a thermostat desire to keep the room a certain temperature?" |
3/4/02
| Steven Pinker
| The Language Instinct (Chs 3-4) |
| Elaine Scarry
| Dreaming By the Book (Chs 4-6) |
2/18/02
| William Labov
| "Learning to read: Linguistic Light and Dark Corners of the
Mind" |
2/4/02
| Steven Pinker
| The Language Instinct (Chs 1-2) |
| Elaine Scarry
| Dreaming By the Book (Chs 1-3) |
11/26/01
| Organizational Meeting |