Archive for July, 2008
The Death of Ferdinand Saussure
Procurando sobre Ferdinand Saussure encontrei essa música: The Death of Ferdinand Saussure. Vejam o clipe:
The Death of Ferdinand Saussure – Artist(Band):The Magnetic Fields
I met Ferdinand de Saussure
On a night like this
On love he said
“I’m not so sure
I even know what it is
No understanding
No closure
It is a nemesis
You can’t use a bulldozer
To [...]
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folks
the name of the blog was selected because without it, nothing can be…
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Sapir Whorf Hypothesis
“The principle of linguistic relativity aka “Sapir–Whorf hypothesis“. The idea that Language shapes thought and action. Eskimos have more words for snow than people in the tropics (but the idea that Eskimos have hundreds of words for snow is a myth).”
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Tags: language
Principles:
1. Media (meaning ways of communicating) mediates all human relationships
2. All media are biased, like the Mayan speech is biased toward their culture.
3. A change in media can have profound effects on society. We can shift our ways of thinking.
“Seeing like a state”
The first Australian census taking find that language makes things difficult. Nalumin and [...]
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The Word “Communication” Defined
“Communication,” which is etymologically related to both “communion” and “community,” comes from the Latin communicare, which means “to make common” (Weekley, 1967, p. 338) or “to share.” DeVito (1986) expanded on this, writing that communication is “[t]he process or act of transmitting a message from a sender to a receiver, through a channel and with [...]
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Tags: Communication
Make Academics more Productive
Pesquisando sobre uma maneira de me tornar academica, phD sem precisar ficar horas passando o cerébro no moedor de carne, usei a palavra “Cyber Academic” e encontrei o Martini Method.
Cheers!
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Tags: academics, martini method, prodctivity
Random Thougths
because died scares … it is so normal .Who knows? walking in both sides and signs for the language
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