Submitted by cevmartinez on Jan 25, 2010, 02:56 AM

 

The following is from the DML Competition submitted by myself and my colleagues.  This is an expansion of a project I have been working on for the last two years.  We are very much interested in your critical and constructive commentary.

 

 

Submitted by travis on Oct 14, 2008, 11:05 AM

Yesterday's New York Times profile of the work of James Pennebaker is just the latest evidence of a revival of interest in computational stylistics, and I'd be curious to hear other HASTAC Scholars' thoughts on the topic.

I'd be the first to admit that I have something of a counting fetish, and I'd love to see this kind of thing done well, but I can't help thinking that arguments like the following have a touch of the phrenological about them:

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Jul 24, 2008, 07:48 AM
Is it possible that a poor understanding of how metaphor works is messing up our scientific view of evolution? Could it really be so much about language? The English teacher sighs.

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Apr 09, 2008, 10:12 AM
A recent study of dyslexia, and how it affects different parts of the brains of children reading in English or Chinese, is gaining a lot of attention and being posed as another example of the "neurbiological clues" of dyslexia. But studies of differential dyslexic rates and definitions have gone on for decades. The issue isn't just neurobiological but the intertwined relationship of neurobiology, culture, history, and linguistics. Once again, brain-determinism shortchanges the complexity of the research findings.