He really knows how to captivate the audience, an excellent speaker. A comprehensive and absorbing lecture on Discourse and Knowledge with excellent examples.
I agree with the comments that his writings are different from his lectures. His books use a quite sophisticated language structure whilst his speechs are so straightforward. He's an amazing scholar.
I can hear this lecture / this class time and again. What a wonderful and clear explanation of ideas on discourse, context and knowledge. Thank you so much!
Epistemic community (kinda like collective imaginarium) --> they have criteria of knowledge, (epistemic criteria) --> and a common ground (things that everyone in here already know) knowledge comes usually in language use, but language also affects knowledge (ie topic (what is known) + focus (new info)) -languages can mark *how one knows the focus* (i've seen that... they told me...), can be explicit or implicit -they also can mark how sure one is common ground (through general knowledge, context, memory, people, aaa there are 5 main ones tho) 51:50 metaphors shape mental models. they have to do woth body experiences (esp. when creating fear) 1:31:36 contribution here (and the previous one) is mid. like. being mindful of how you use language is not the be-all-end-all of activism idk. taking notes
Indeed ,the language used is held either way so separate or perceivers there are who perceive separately without relating language to the social topic and its depth...This happened to me in a court case in Pakistan ,when I told the judge about that situation that here at this point what is being uttered wont match with the future experience of this reality.Judge said as if holding me moron and herself smart enough ..What has this got to do with psychology?....Mathematical logic of language when used cognitively is great..
the young blond woman didnt sound australian to me.....she sounded british. im always curious about accents (and dialects), specifically how and why they formed historically and socio-culturally....what were the pressures and influences that went into creating a northern white english australlian accent as opposed to an accent from the western part or southeastern part of australia. of course there are elements of power implicated in the existence of various english accents (upper classes speaking differently from lower working classes; basil bernstein did a study on this) but i think the creation of dialects is less a function of social differentiation of power dynamics and more a function of geography. is it possible that regionally localized accents are a metaphorical manifestation of epistemic communities? and are what we call "accents" always really dialects?
funny how the audience did not actually know that Boston was a washing machine (19 min) cause this brand it is not popular in Russia, and it's also an example of pressuposision of mutual context)
although interesting, I disagree that cognitive perception is in itself independent. Cognitive perception of any subject is largely attributed to a person's social environment.
i am at 15`min of the video and wondering here... so it means that there would be no one single analysis of a discourse as an analysst's own context and cognitive stucture will have an effect on the way a piece of discourse , as communicative event, will be interpreted? between the corpora and the "objective' method of doing discourse analysis there is an interface of the cognitive make up of the analyst him or herself?
Barbara Bomfim have a look at van Dijk's sociocognigive approach to Critical Discourse Analysis. He discusses all grammatical, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic, as well as cognitive aspects of texts.
I think it's more of a comment on working with students who are also researching within your field, which undergraduates sometimes are, but graduate students with an advisor always are. I'm sure that he would quite enjoy working with intrepid undergrads who are conducting research as well!!
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