i am still enthusiastic
Of course I am, it's been only 2 days :) I was at TP today since early morning, with a very heavy backpack carrying my laptop and papers and books and everything, planning on a long productive day when I discovered that I forgot the stupid adaptor. Of course I didn't think of it as my fault and kept thinking why can't this country use the normal 2-pin plugs like the rest of the world? :) Anyway, I worked on my laptop till the battery died and then went on to read a few things under my spooky tree.
To spare you the philosophical mumbo jumbo about reference and language, let me just tell you that the main example in one of the articles I was reading today, was about someone called Ahern, an insane historian who believes he is Charles de Gaulle and then says in a class: "I marched triumphantly into Paris" so the question is should we analyse the pronoun "I" here as referring to the deranged Mr. Ahern or to refer to de Gaulle. "What kind of an example is this?", you're saying? My thoughts exactly. Well.. I guess the answer is, no one said doing a PhD in linguistics is going to be easy.
Oh, and I am still enthusiastic :)
Mai
To spare you the philosophical mumbo jumbo about reference and language, let me just tell you that the main example in one of the articles I was reading today, was about someone called Ahern, an insane historian who believes he is Charles de Gaulle and then says in a class: "I marched triumphantly into Paris" so the question is should we analyse the pronoun "I" here as referring to the deranged Mr. Ahern or to refer to de Gaulle. "What kind of an example is this?", you're saying? My thoughts exactly. Well.. I guess the answer is, no one said doing a PhD in linguistics is going to be easy.
Oh, and I am still enthusiastic :)
Mai
posted by Mai at 11:32 PM
2 Comments:
During my university studies, I used to hate linguistics, specially the "history of language" sessions. Anyway, it is your fault, who told you to do a PHD in linguistics?:)))))
However, it is good for you to be still enthusiastic :))
I'm still enthusiastic too ;-)
Do you know the Napoleon example. It's a mini-narrative where the way of referring to Napoleon keeps changing. Tried to find it via google but failed so far.
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