October+8th

Word is loaded w/ other words

Pittsburg

Text about Pittsburg. Words like Steel city. But Kangaroo fungus. More examples of NY or San Fran in this texts. Why? More likely NY. Why Proximity!!

Words (geo words ) come loaded w/ geogrphical referents – minds spacial representations. Location words come loaded w/ geo representations – don’t just say it. It gives us a map. Map – spacial dimension

Max loses the plot here!

Co-occrring words –Lets build up a real map! He says.

Chair and a table –can spacially represent a room – more related

Frequencies (multi-dimentional supercalifragelistic blah, blah..)

Miles, kilometers (just a different scale) He’s dressing it up in (multidimentional scaling -longitudinal horsehockey blah blah)

This brings us to…

Correlations R=.5 Proof=.5 Means HALF for the rest of us but t Max it means (a quarter .25) Why R? Why not R2 R=Correlation value Weight of people correlated to exercise. I want to know what kind of agreement there is btwn the 2 Ex. Weight loss Exercise 1 2 1 2 1 1

2 golden rules of discourse analysis What isn’t there that could have been, and why not and what is there that didn’t have to be and why?

“Dear Sir/Madam?” What’s going on with this salutation? Why are these words there?

Who wrote it? What kind of a person would write this?

High R=.5 .45 Low 5=.16 .2

Rounded What does similar mean? LOWER

As a Cognitive Linguist I want to know “How the mind works”

Phil disagrees with his methods Awful applications of brilliant methods Like the whole decimal places issue

Title, name, journal - Appeals to authority – Don’t take my word for it! The highest journal in the land says so.

Phil goes to his city excel display

Did he lie?

Pres Obama response to “you lie” > “It’s not true.” Words have many attributes.

What conveys meaning > cultural differences>

Why did he have 50 cities (as opposed to300 or 150, etc.) Pulled out the ones that would help his number.

We encode local info diff than the way we retrieve distance information.

Why did he use this method – It supported his numbers.

John Fulghum

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