Comments on: Deep Roots for a Big Linguistics

By: Ingrid Piller

Ingrid Piller — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 23:32:19 +0000

In reply to Khan. Thanks, Khan! We are working on both options :-)

By: Khan

Khan — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 19:42:28 +0000

Thanks for sharing the abstract. Very exciting and true picture of the field. Wondering if the talk by Professor Bob Hodge will be broadcasted live?

If the live broadcast is difficult, may I request to make it available in some form after the event.

Khan

By: Donna Butorac

Donna Butorac — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 03:11:30 +0000

Thank you for this wonderful posting. I have enjoyed reading both accounts of the discussion you had with Ingrid and am very supportive of the call for a spirit of better inclusiveness among linguists. As you suggest, there is so much to be gained. Reading your text also makes me realise the sense of nervous inferiority that I hold when thinking about how my work on language learning and identity might be viewed by a theoretical linguist. How silly, really.

By: Rosemary Kuwahata

Rosemary Kuwahata — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 09:40:21 +0000

The myth of the blind sages who tried to describe an elephant from the one part they touched has always intrigued me, not from the disciplinary aspect but from the perspective of people having different perspectives on, or different understandings of the same thing. I like the idea of Big Linguistics in the sense that you have depicted.