Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 13, No. 487.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 08:15:10 +0000
From: Einat Amitay <einat@ics.mq.edu.au>
Subject: conventions - the list....
Hi all,
So --- this is my list... It has many directions and I guess some of you
would only relate to some of the texts and the people. I've tried to
include as many online references as possible - so you could look things
up yourselves.
Thanks to all the people who mailed me with suggestions:
Willard McCarty
Gisela Redeker
Guillermo Soto V.
Jon Awbrey
Penny Lee
Eve V. Clark
Eva Schultze-Berndt
Craig Hamilton
Tahir Wood
Tony Meadow
Graeme Hirst
Jozsef Toth
Patrick John Coppock
Yvan Beaulieu
And for my thoughts about convention: .. it is not surprising that the
the word convention means both agreement and assembly at the same
time...
Have fun reading this scattered list and any comments / corrections /
additions are welcome!
+:o)
einat
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Harry Collins
Collins H.M. Changing Order: Replication and Induction in Scientific
Practice (Chicago, 1992).
Collins H.M. (1995).humans, machines, and the structure of knowledge.
Stanford Humanities Review, 4:2. Online:
http://www.stanford.edu/group/SHR/4-2/text/collins.html
"... normal action is usually 'rule following' and sometimes 'rule
establishing'. ... We know that normal action is rule-following because
we nearly always know when we have broken the rules."
Marshall MacLuhan
Marshall McLuhan: Is It Natural That One Medium Should Appropriate and
Exploit Another?
[Essay from McLuhan: Hot and Cool, ed. George Stearn (1967)]
http://www.ifi.uio.no/~gisle/lore/um/exploit.html
"All media testing has been done within the parameters of older media --
especially of speech and print."
Kurt Lewin - beyond language proper to social behavior
http://www.utexas.edu/coc/journalism/SOURCE/j363/lewin.html
Roger Fidler's "Mediamorphosis" (Pine Forge, 1997)
Herbert H. Clark
Clark, H.H. (1996). Using language. Cambridge University Press.
Clark, H.H. (1997?). [ something like: Commonalities, communities, and
conventions ] In: Gumperz & Levinson (eds) Rethinking relativity.
Cambridge University Press.
http://matia.stanford.edu/~herb/
http://www.massey.ac.nz/~ALock/virtual/clarke.htm
rhetorical tradition:
Quintilian and Demetrio;
the ars dictaminis in the Middle Ages, etc.
http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/gallery/rhetoric/figures/quintilian.html
http://www.msu.edu/user/lewisbr4/980/hypertext.html
http://www.msu.edu/user/lewisbr4/980/institutes.html
http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/idxref/8/0,5716,318383,00.html
Appendix Probi? It's a beautiful normative book that shows you the "bad"
latin people were using instead of the cultivated high one, when the
work was written.
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kurisuto/appendix_probi.html
Patrick John Coppock - TextNorm>CoDiVE
(http://www.hf.ntnu.no/anv/WWWpages/Project/web/Report_ToC.html)
Benjamin Lee Whorf
http://cis.csuohio.edu/~somos/whorf.html
Penny Lee. The Whorf Theory Complex; A critical reconstruction
Clark, E. V. 1993. The lexicon in acquisition. Cambridge: Cambridge
University press.
Lewis, D. K. 1969. Convention: a philosophical study.
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~worc0337/authors/lewis-biblio.html
Eva Schultze-Berndt -- (Structuralist grammarians and cognitive
linguists have sometimes talked about grammar in terms of patterns and
habits. )
Eva Schultze-Berndt, Sprachwissenschaftliches Institut,
Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum
Langacker, Ronald W., 1990. Concept, Image, and Symbol. The cognitive
basis of grammar. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
..... I conceive the grammar of a language as merely providing the speaker
with an inventory of symbolic resources, among them schematic templates
representing established patterns in the assembly of complex symbolic
structures. Speakers employ these symbolic units as standards of
comparison in assessing the conventionality of novel expressions and
usages, whether of their own creation or supplied by other speakers.
(Langacker (1990: 16)
Hockett, Charles F., 1958. A course in Modern Linguistics. New York: The
MacMillan Company.
A language is a complex system of habits (p. 137)
An act of speech, or utterance, is not a habit, but a historical event,
though it partly conforms to, reflects, and is controlled by the habits.
Acts of speech, like other historical events, are directly observable.
Habits are not directly observable; they must be inferred from observed
events... (p. 141)
Bloomfield, Leonard, 1970 [1933]. Language. London: George Allen & Unwin
...
Fillmore, Charles J., 1988. "The mechanisms of 'Construction
Grammar'."Berkeley Linguistic Society 14: 35-55.
Fillmore, Charles J., Paul Kay & Mary C. O'Connor, 1988. "Regularity and
idiomaticity in grammatical constructions: The case of Let Alone."
Language 64: 501-538.
Frei, Henri, 1962. "L'unit linguistique complexe." Lingua 11:128-140.
Goldberg, Adele, 1995. Constructions. A Construction Grammar Approach to
Argument Structure. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Langacker, Ronald W., 1987. Foundations of Cognitive Grammar. Vol. I.
Theoretical Prerequisites. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Functionalists and Structuralists
http://www.heartfield.demon.co.uk/structure.htm
Michael Halliday
(compared with Saussure's view) http://www.allgaeu.org/fak/halliday.htm
MM Bakhtin
http://www.heartfield.demon.co.uk/bakhtin.htm
VN Voloshinov
http://www.heartfield.demon.co.uk/volosinov.htm
Teun A. van Dijk
http://www.hum.uva.nl/teun/
http://lisa.tolk.su.se/lic/LIC990329p5.htm
Walter Kintsch
http://psych.colorado.edu/~wkintsch/
http://lisa.tolk.su.se/lic/LIC990329p5.htm
Barnes, B. (1981). On the conventional character of knowledge and
cognition. Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 11, 303-333.
Gazdar, G. (1977). Conversational analysis and convention:
Sociolinguistics. Analytic Sociology, 1(1), D8-F9. [ 1]
Schwartz, H. (1989). The life history of a social norm. In D.T. Helm,
W.T. Anderson, A.J. Meehan, and A.W. Rawls (Eds.) The interactional
order: New directions in the study of social order (pp. 162-185). New
York, NY: Irvington Publishers.
Wieder, D.L., and Wright, C. (1982). Norms, conformity and deviance. In
Rosenberg, Stebbins, and Turoweta (Eds.) The sociology of deviance (pp.
258-287). New York, NY: St. Martins Press.
Wootton, A.J. (1986). Rules in action: Orderly features of actions that
formulate rules. In J. Cook-Gumperz, W. Corsaro, and J. Streeck (Eds.)
Children's worlds in children's language (pp. 147-168). Berlin, BRD:
Mouton de Gruyter.
Harold Garfinkel -- Ethnomethodology
http://www.bekkoame.or.jp/~mizukawa/EM/EMindex.html
Garfinkel, H. (???). A manual for the study of naturally organized
ordinary activities. 3 vols. London, UK: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
Philip E. Agre
http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/
http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/accountable.html
Judith Martin -- "Miss Manners"
http://www.businessweek.com/1997/07/b351438.htm
Virginia Shea -- "Netiquette"
http://www.albion.com/netiquette/corerules.html
Ludwig Wittgenstein
http://www.ags.uci.edu/~bcarver/ludwig.html
Wittgenstein L. (1987). Philosophical Investigations. G. E. Anscombe &
R. Rhees (Editors), Prentice Hall. (par. 227):
"Would it make sense to say 'If he did something DIFFERENT every day we
should not say he was obeying a rule'? That makes NO sense." (the
capitals are terms W. put in italics + between par 190 and 242-3, you'll
find a discussion of W. on 'following a rule').
"Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip where the two play "Calvin ball", a game
where you make the rules as you go along...
http://www.calvinandhobbes.com/html/meet.html
http://members.aol.com/alienroz/calvin_and.html
Gideon Toury
http://spinoza.tau.ac.il/~toury/works/
Toury G. (1995). The Nature and Role of Norms in Translation. In
"Descriptive Translation Studies and Beyond". Amsterdam-Philadelphia:
John Benjamins, 1995, 53-69.
http://spinoza.tau.ac.il/~toury/works/gt-norms.htm
Toury G. (1998). A Handful of Paragraphs on 'Translation' and 'Norms'.
In: Christina Schffner, ed. Translation and Norms. Clevedon etc.:
Multilingual Matters, 1998. 10-32. [also available as Vol 5, Nos 1&2 of
Current Issues in Language & Society]
http://spinoza.tau.ac.il/~toury/works/gt-tr&no.htm
Lawrence Lessig
The Law of the Horse: What Cyberlaw Might Teach
http://stlr.stanford.edu/STLR/Working_Papers/97_Lessig_1/index.htm
Graham Greenleaf
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/unswlj/thematic/1998/vol21no2/greenleaf.html
Itamar Even-Zohar
Polysystem Theory -- A revised version of "Polysystem Theory," in
Polysystem Studies [= Poetics Today, 11:1] 1990, pp. 9-26. First version
was published in Poetics Today 1979 I, 1-2:287-310.
http://www.tau.ac.il:81/~itamarez/papers/ps-th-r.htm
Peter Suber -- The Reflexivity of Change: The Case of Language Norms
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/freiburg.htm
Kimberly Fisher
Fisher, K. (1997). Locating Frames in the Discursive Universe.
Sociological Research Online, 2:3
http://www.socresonline.org.uk/socresonline/2/3/4.html
Erving Goffman
http://stanley.feldberg.brandeis.edu/~teuber/goffmanbio.html
Sentence conventions -
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/lunsford/weblinks/sentenceconventions.htm
Mark Bernstein - Patterns of Hypertext
http://www.eastgate.com/patterns/Print.html
Lewis Carroll
Fit the Second - The Bellman's Speech
"What's the good of Mercator's North Poles and Equators,
Tropics, Zones, and Meridian Lines?"
So the Bellman would cry: and the crew would reply
"They are merely conventional signs!
http://www.literature.org/authors/carroll-lewis/the-hunting-of-the-snark/cha
pter-02.html
Fidler R.F. (1997). Mediamorphosis: Understanding New Media. Pine Forge
Press, Thousand Oaks, CA.
http://www.mediainfo.com/ephome/news/newshtm/stop/st121196.htm
"The wealth of communication technologies we now take for granted would
not have been possible if the birth of each new medium had resulted in
the simultaneous death of an older medium."
Sapir, E. (1929): 'The Status of Linguistics as a Science'. In E. Sapir
(1958): Culture, Language and Personality (ed. D. G. Mandelbaum).
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press
"We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because
the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of
interpretation. (Sapir 1958 [1929], p. 69)"
Lev Vygotsky
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/mathed/vygotsky.html
http://www.massey.ac.nz/~ALock/virtual/trishvyg.htm
http://www.gwu.edu/~tip/vygotsky.html
http://www.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/soc_cult.html#vygotsky
John B. Van Huyck et al.
"Convention generalizes precedent to situations where one lacks shared
experience, but knows that everyone involved is a member of the same
community. An observable regularity in the behavior of members of a
community in a recurrent situation is a convention if it is customary,
expected, and mutually consistent..."
http://econlab10.tamu.edu/JVH_gtee/C2.HTM
http://econlab10.tamu.edu/JVH_gtee/cc2.htm
related:
http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~aeg/cija/cija.html
Other Links:
http://www.ditext.com/chrucky/chru-5.html
http://g.oswego.edu/dl/pd-FAQ/pd-FAQ.html
http://www.learner.org/teacherslab/math/patterns/word.html
http://www.percep.demon.co.uk/atitle.htm
http://automatix.inesc.pt/rct/show.php3?id=103
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~mphil/davidson.htm
http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~aeg/cija/cija.html
http://www.agm.net/holly/holly_dissert.html
-- Einat Amitay einat@ics.mq.edu.au http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~einat
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