Indeed it has. I’ve been (and still am) busy studying, working and doing stuff, like social interaction with other members of the species homo sapiens – and studying for assignments. In the beginning of January I’ll have to hand in 3 assignments, Language and Culture (actually just anthropological linguistics), Methods of Linguistic Description and Theory of Science.
- Language and Culture
- I’ll try to reject the strongest version of Whorf‘s theory of linguistic determinism based on studies of color terms in various languages – studies done by e.g. Berlin, Kay, Heider and of course Whorf himself. Going to be pretty interesting – and it’s always fun to criticise Whorf.
- Methods of Linguistic Description
- Not entirely sure what I’ll be doing here, but probably something computer-related. We’re allowed to do some sort of alternative project, so of course I’ll try to find something that involves some programming, as that is what I’m hoping to combine my linguistics with at some point.
- Theory of Science
- Based on Morton Winston’s Did a (Kuhnian) Scientific Revolution Occur to Linguistics? and Kuhn‘s own works, I’m gonna write a discussion of the first-mentioned paper and my own view on the subject. Also something I’m actually looking forward to, as I really like Kuhn and (a lot of) his ideas.
- Cowboy Bebop
- DJ Format (especially the 3 Feet Deep video)
- Last Life in the Universe
So as you can understand, I’m busy, but in the good way – the really enjoyable way, actually. My blogging/coding/internet stand-still will probably last a while yet, but who cares, it’s not like anyone actually reads this crap anyway. :-p
Oh, I nearly forgot – a top [something]!
Top 3: Great Stuff
I read you crap, gezzer.
Good luck with the work. Make sure to email me a pdf of the papers, id really like to read them. – It sounds very interesting.
hey. Ville også lige sige at jeg læser hvad du skriver :) Og prøver på at sidde længe nok foran pc’en til at få hentet noget af den musik du prøvede at promovere til fredagsbaren for snart en evighed siden.
Sender et mindre resume af mine observationer, når jeg er kommet igennem lidt mere. Håber vi ses til en fredagsbar i fremtiden (var det ikke noget med juleklip?)
God fornøjelse med projekterne.
Julie