4.0912 Metaphor: At ACH/ALLC 91; On Humanist (3/55)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Sun, 20 Jan 91 17:12:09 EST
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 0912. Sunday, 20 Jan 1991.
(1) Date: 18 Jan 91 11:16:00 EST (17 lines)
From: "Mary Dee Harris" <mdharris@guvax.georgetown.edu>
Subject: ACH/ALLC Session on Metaphor
(2) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 91 15:53 EST (24 lines)
From: <JFCOVALE@SUNRISE>
Subject: RESPONSES TO LAKOFF
(3) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 91 09:33 EDT (14 lines)
From: "Ed Harris, Academic Affairs, So Ct State U"
Subject: War and metaphor
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Date: 18 Jan 91 11:16:00 EST
From: "Mary Dee Harris" <mdharris@guvax.georgetown.edu>
Subject: ACH/ALLC Session on Metaphor
In light of the discussion of Lakoff's article on Metaphor and War, I
wanted to let the readers of Humanist to know that, in my capacity as ACH
Liaison to ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics), I have
organized a session at ACH/ALLC '91 called, "Artificial Intelligence
Approaches to the Study of Metaphor," with papers by three of the people
doing recent research on the topic. I don't yet know that day and time,
but I believe it will be an interesting session.
Mary Dee Harris
mdharris@guvax.bitnet
mdharris@guvax.georgetown.edu
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Date: Thu, 17 Jan 91 15:53 EST
From: <JFCOVALE@SUNRISE>
Subject: RESPONSES TO LAKOFF
As one who entered academia rather recently and late in life (not quite
at the second mode of the e mail user distribution), I am bemused by
what seems to me a rather odd feature of the debate around his article.
If I understand it correctly, the intent of the article -- quite apart
from its quality -- was to serve as a catalyst for discussion about the
way our metaphors serve to construct our (visions of [?]) reality -- in
this case how our metaphors serve to move us toward war. What has
struck me about the ensuing conversation is that, instead of being a
converstion about how these metaphors -- and language in general -- may
be doing this to us, and what we might learn by a considersation of this
question in this forum, it has been a conversation about whether it
would be appropriate to have a conversation about such a sensitive topic.
As one new to academic discourse, I feel compelled to ask: Do scholars
ALWAYS attempt to consider the world at one remove from reality?
John F. Covaleskie
Cultural Foundations of Education and Curriculum
Syracuse University
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Date: Fri, 18 Jan 91 09:33 EDT
From: "Ed Harris, Academic Affairs, So Ct State U"
Subject: War and metaphor
For those who found Lakoff's article illuminating, as I did, and who are
interested in a similar analysis of Vietnam, I suggest F.M. Kail, _What
Washington Said_ (Harper, 1973). Each of these helped me find ways to
make sense of arguments as instrumental, without needing to recur to ad
hominem explanations, and to express ideas that were hovering in my
subconscious, unspoken because unnamed.
Ed <HARRIS@CTSTATEU.BITNET>
Southern Connecticut State U, New Haven, CT 06515 USA
Tel: 1 (203) 397-4322 / Fax: 1 (203) 397-4207