Language usage, as I am using the term (others will have different ways of using it), is concerned with how we use language for specified purposes. My study of language usage includes an interest in how power at times distorts language, because it has the power to do so. Language usage also concerns itself with the distinction between rhetoric and reality. As well, the category is concerned with the formal, systematic study of rhetoric, and with humanity’s attempts to define reality.
Gentrification along the Lachine Canal is leaving the area’s original working-class residents dispossessed and forgotten – March 26, 2019 Montreal Gazette article (Steven High)
/0 Comments/in Commentary, Language usage, Newsletter/by Jaan Pill“Modern movement” in architecture gave rise to “an intellectual time bomb with a very long fuse,” says planner Ken Greenberg
/1 Comment/in Commentary, Jane's Walk, Language usage, Newsletter/by Jaan PillModernism, postmodernism, and postmodernity are ways of shaping historical time into epochs
/0 Comments/in Language usage, Newsletter/by Jaan PillEvidence can (alas) be used as Iago uses it in Othello
/0 Comments/in Language usage, Newsletter, Stratford/by Jaan PillTo install a handrail, first locate the wall-studs; a YouTube video will show you how
/0 Comments/in Language usage, Newsletter, Stratford/by Jaan PillI’ve been following a May 2, 2019 Twitter discussion featuring Jennifer Pagliaro, @jpags, City Hall reporter at the Toronto Star
/0 Comments/in Language usage, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillEmbodied Mind, Meaning, and Reason (2017) addresses how the body shapes the mind
/0 Comments/in Commentary, Language usage, Newsletter/by Jaan PillLong Branch residents say similar lot-splitting proposals have led to vastly different decisions, by Toronto Local Appeal Body
/0 Comments/in Commentary, Committee of Adjustment, Toronto Local Appeal Body, Local Planning Appeals Tribunal, Language usage, Long Branch, Long Branch Character Guidelines, Long Branch Neighbourhood Association, Mississauga, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillDuring the 21 years that I have lived in Long Branch with my family, I have learned many things. During our years in Long Branch, I have learned, for example, that the culture of decision making is decidedly more coherent and robust in Mississauga than it is in Toronto. That is evident, as I’ve noted […]
Demographics and interests can perhaps explain a fair amount, as Weeden and Kurzban (2014) argue
/0 Comments/in Commentary, Language usage, Newsletter/by Jaan PillIn a previous post, I refer to a study entitled: The Hidden Agenda of the Political Mind: How Self-Interest Shapes Our Opinions and Why We Don’t Admit It (2014). The book features a couple of paragraphs (p. 207) that I am pleased to share with you: The causality is even harder to sort through when it […]