Long weekend
And what’s the first thing any good semanticist thinks of when she hears the word weekend? Well, hopefully something not all that different from what anyone else with the 5 day-2 day week thinks. Unless there’s blog content to be thought of, and then the idea of Frame Semantics might come to mind. That is, the what a weekend is can only be defined relative to a frame of some periodic interval of work-rest alternations, where the resting portion is significantly shorter than the working period (and you also need some sort of time-as-movement and/or time-as-process metaphor, but putting that aside…). Why bring it up? Well, a new blog, the mind and language has turned up, authored by Amy, who is taking a class of the same name at UC Berkeley this summer. Among the first topics covered in that class is Frame Semantics, and if anyone is in need of a quick-and-dirty intro to the idea, then anyone (to borrow a Mandarin construction) should take a look at Amy’s blog.
And on that note: I’m off! See you on Tuesday!