Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 17, No. 276.
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[1] From: Alexandre Enkerli <aenkerli@indiana.edu> (18)
Subject: Active Vocabulary
[2] From: ahg@servidor.unam.mx (19)
Subject: Hypothesis: shift in fundamental assumptions of
cataloguing practice
[3] From: "C. Perry Willett" <pwillett@indiana.edu> (13)
Subject: J.M. Coetzee: Nobel laureate, computing humanist?
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Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 06:01:02 +0100
From: Alexandre Enkerli <aenkerli@indiana.edu>
Subject: Active Vocabulary
This is something I keep coming across, especially on the Web. A specific
word used by one person starts to appear everywhere. The kind of word you
know but never use, you start using in conversation after reading or
hearing it. A fascinating phenomenon from many different points of view:
literary, cognitive, sociolinguistic, commercial...
Of course, I might notice it more because of the context but there's
something to be said about words suddenly gaining frequency. And this is
not just for catch-phrases and buzzwords. Even fairly neutral words may
look like they tie two articles or two conversations. And they can only
imply these two occurrences or spring into a meme-like epidemic propagation.
Anyone working on anything like this? There's bound to be a body of
literature on such subjects but what would be a quick summary of such
literature?
Thank you for your help.
Alexandre Enkerli
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology
Indiana University
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Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 06:01:31 +0100
From: ahg@servidor.unam.mx
Subject: Hypothesis: shift in fundamental assumptions of
cataloguing practice
Dear Colleagues,
Recently I wrote a short article on possible changes in the basic
assumptions at
work in cataloguing practice. The hypothesis I present results, in some sense,
from a reflection on the application of the "clean separation of presentation
and content" notion to cataloguing and metadata processing. (I believe the
argument I develop may also have some interesting implications for
computing and
humanitites/social science research in general.)
The text is available (in Spanish only) from <http://www.nongnu.org/durito/>
under a Creative Commons license.
Any comments on the text would be most welcome. I'm also looking for paper or
electronic publishers of this text (or an English version thereof) who don't
mind me continuing to distribute it via the Web.
Thanks,
Andrew Green
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Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 06:02:15 +0100
From: "C. Perry Willett" <pwillett@indiana.edu>
Subject: J.M. Coetzee: Nobel laureate, computing humanist?
Congratulations to J.M. Coetzee for receiving the Nobel
prize in literature. There's a story on CNN today
<http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/10/02/nobel.literature.ap/index.html>
that claims Coetzee "holds a Ph.D in computer-generated
language." This had me racing for biographical sources,
but it doesn't seem to be true--his dissertation was on
stylistics in the works of Samuel Beckett. According to
a few biographical dictionaries, he did work for a year
or two as a programmer at IBM in London in the early 1960s.
Perry Willett
Main Library
Indiana University
pwillett@indiana.edu
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