From robin@bilkent.edu.tr Sun Oct 06 02:54:52 2002 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sun, 06 Oct 2002 02:54:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from manyas.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr ([139.179.30.24]) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 17y87c-0004yy-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 06 Oct 2002 02:54:49 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by manyas.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr (Postfix) with ESMTP id A643412B73 for ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 12:51:03 +0300 (EEST) Received: from bilkent.edu.tr (ppp5.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr [139.179.111.7]) by manyas.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06AD812B3F for ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 12:51:00 +0300 (EEST) Message-ID: <3DA008C1.3080706@bilkent.edu.tr> Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2002 12:56:17 +0300 From: Robin Turner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Why linguists might be interested in Lojban (was: RE: Re: a new kind of fundamentalism References: <200210052319.TAA03790@mail2.reutershealth.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020300 X-archive-position: 1942 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: robin@bilkent.edu.tr Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list John Cowan wrote: > And Rosta scripsit: > > >>2. Naturalist Lojban might in its own right be of some intrinsic >>interest to linguistics, but more as a curiosity than as anything >>that can advance the central research goals of linguistics. >> > > Well, the central research goals of Chomsky-style linguistics, anyway. > Sociolinguists and functional linguists certainly might be interested. > > I imagine cognitive linguists would also find it interesting from the point of metaphor. Lojban combines the explicit metaphor-making of lujvo (which are not metaphorical in the common sense of the word, but are in the cogling sense) with an attempt to suppress unmarked metaphor (which to a mainstream cognitive linguist would be quixotic but interesting). robin.tr -- "We do not imprison ourselves with laws, or impoverish ourselves with money" - Iain Banks Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin