Re: [wg-c] A brief note on linguists...

["Mark C. Langston" <skritch@home.com>]

Linguistics, in pure form, does not speak to memorability, says little
about its relationship to categorization, and says nothing about
contextual dependency at the level we're discussing.

Sorry, but I'm pulling rank here.  The field of linquistics and the
field of cognitive science intersect to a small degree here, but
linguistic inquiry is not the proper avenue from which to approach
this.

You may have studied it in college; I hold several degrees and have
published numerous papers in the relevant field.  The only reason I'm
doing contract work instead of working towards tenure at an Ivy is
because the money's better.  






On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 03:21:36PM -0500, Rod Dixon, J.D., LL.M. wrote:
> 
> Sorry, Mark, but I cannot let your statement go uncorrected. I am not a
> linguist, but I majored in the subject in college.
> 
> It most certainly is not a misconception that Linguistics is an
> inappropriate field to rely upon to address the theoretical issues some are
> raising here. Indeed, I can think of no other field that has a greater body
> of scholarship on the multiple levels of meaning in language. (It may be,
> however, that most of us do not have the requisite level of expertise to
> access that material, which may not be a bad thing since our task is much
> more limited than the broad generalizations  presented by this discussion.)

> 
> > Subject: [wg-c] A brief note on linguists...
> >
> >
> > I just realized a misconception is bubbling under the surface here...
> > linguists are, to a great extent, focused on intra-word effects, and
> > low-level language phenomena, and many work in the abstract,
> > concentrating on languages as systems.
> >
> > The phenomena we're discussing here are squarely in the realm of, and
> > speak to the core of, experimental cognitive psychology.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Mark C. Langston
> > mark@bitshift.org
> > Systems & Network Admin
> > San Jose, CA
> >

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