OK, I'll update. But, I will make you pay. Life has been non-existent, as I am overloaded with grading papers, 240 students x 10 pages each. I am working on three writing projects, have the responsibility to run a theory seminar, and the list goes on. I am currently hopped up on cold medication and caffeine. I caught myself thinking that if I had a little bit of meth, Id jump on it (and I am the furthest thing from a meth user).
Anybody have some good ways to keep focused? Wanna send me some Ritilin?
As if anyone cares, here is an except of a paper I have been writing. This shit is intense:
Some may recognize that we solely think in language, the dialogue in your head being an example; however, I contend that we think with both linguistic and pre-linguistic forms. I consider pre-linguistic thought as similar to the characteristics of pre-reflective and pre-objective thought as discussed by Merleau-Ponty.
My purpose within the next three paragraphs is to illustrate that we think in both linguistic and pre-linguistic modes. My use of pre-linguistic does not refer to pre-linguistic language development in infants. Rather, I am concerned with the pre-linguistic as embodied and non-objectified forms of expression that, in their non-objectified states, lack an attributed meaning by the subject. The pre-objective and pre-linguistic states dwell between perception and voluntary or intended acts of consciousness.
Particular forms of physical and emotional states best illustrate pre-linguistic thought and behavior, as specific states of being, pain for example, shape individual behavior or communication without the intentional recognition or objectification of the interlocutor. This concept rests on the idea that we inhabit the world with intelligent bodies that are always communicating meaning, as language is a bodily act. Within our discussion of pre-linguistic communication, it is appropriate to use the construct of unintentionally expressed body language to illustrate a dimension of the pre-linguistic and describe the subjective communication of meaning about the body.
Through pain, specifically chronic pain, as an example, we can further illustrate this concept. The experience of pain is often difficult to describe or communicate. Because of the complex and oft-indefinable nature of pain, it can be conceptualized as being, fundamentally, pre-linguistic, an unpleasant sensation virtually without additional meaning." Language is required to begin to treat pain linguistically, as we must fall back upon descriptions of the mechanical, chemical, and psychological dimensions of pain.
Anybody have some good ways to keep focused? Wanna send me some Ritilin?
As if anyone cares, here is an except of a paper I have been writing. This shit is intense:
Some may recognize that we solely think in language, the dialogue in your head being an example; however, I contend that we think with both linguistic and pre-linguistic forms. I consider pre-linguistic thought as similar to the characteristics of pre-reflective and pre-objective thought as discussed by Merleau-Ponty.
My purpose within the next three paragraphs is to illustrate that we think in both linguistic and pre-linguistic modes. My use of pre-linguistic does not refer to pre-linguistic language development in infants. Rather, I am concerned with the pre-linguistic as embodied and non-objectified forms of expression that, in their non-objectified states, lack an attributed meaning by the subject. The pre-objective and pre-linguistic states dwell between perception and voluntary or intended acts of consciousness.
Particular forms of physical and emotional states best illustrate pre-linguistic thought and behavior, as specific states of being, pain for example, shape individual behavior or communication without the intentional recognition or objectification of the interlocutor. This concept rests on the idea that we inhabit the world with intelligent bodies that are always communicating meaning, as language is a bodily act. Within our discussion of pre-linguistic communication, it is appropriate to use the construct of unintentionally expressed body language to illustrate a dimension of the pre-linguistic and describe the subjective communication of meaning about the body.
Through pain, specifically chronic pain, as an example, we can further illustrate this concept. The experience of pain is often difficult to describe or communicate. Because of the complex and oft-indefinable nature of pain, it can be conceptualized as being, fundamentally, pre-linguistic, an unpleasant sensation virtually without additional meaning." Language is required to begin to treat pain linguistically, as we must fall back upon descriptions of the mechanical, chemical, and psychological dimensions of pain.
ummm... well i would've went with the ritilin.. so i got nothin. sorry