Grammar-nazi: verbal agression and naive lexicography

A Grammar for Language and Co-verbal Gesture

Meaning in everyday communication is conveyed by various signals including spoken utterances and spontaneous hand gestures. The literature has attested that gestures function in synchrony with speech to deliver an integrated message, or a “single thought” [5], [1], exhibit language-specific properties [2] and are subject to formal semantic modeling [3]. One of the challenges in modeling synchro...

The Nazi Cosmetic: Nazi Aesthetics in Action and the Practice of Medicine in Nazi Germany

This paper examines the conflation of vital and aesthetic norms in the practice of Nazi medicine, and eugenic practices. It argues that biological holism, though it served as the vehicle of Nazi ideology historically, did so contingently. The anti-totalitarian thinking of biological holist Kurt Goldstein speaks against the irrevocable use of biological holism to promote Nazi ideologies.

Lexicography and Corpus Linguistics

Lexicography versus

Lexicography and terminography are specialised professions concerned with the compilation and editing of dictionaries. The lexicographer documents the words in the vocabulary of the general language whereas the terminographer documents the terminology of specific subject fields and domains. The terminographer works with a more restricted register than the general lexicographer, but from a holis...

Terminology, Phraseology, and Lexicography

This paper explores two aspects of word use and word meaning in terms of Sinclair's (1991, 1998) distinction between the open-choice principle (or terminological tendency) and the idiom principle (or phraseological tendency). Technical terms such as strobilation are rare, highly domain-specific, and of little phraseological interest, although the texts in which such word occur do tend to contai...