'Videos of authors talking at Google on their recent books':
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1092
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fluffyhamster
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It is good to see these people in the flesh, as it were, but isn't it amazing how little information you get in a lecture compared to spending the same time reading something. I always think ESL conferences are overrated, and ranting on a forum much underrated therefore.
I never agree that there is a "liberal bias" in any mainstream media, but by 'eck is there a left-wing bias in academic lectures - the audience (in the states) is always addressed as if it were some kind of democratic convention. So then people, how can we discover through linguistics why the republicans are so wrong yet so successful? And linguists wonder why the generally very conservative "another example of the decay of our language!" media language-maven kind of people studiously ignore them.
I wonder, by the way, if it is very comfortable to discuss anything if we are always deep in the shadow of the language log? Whatever we say, it tends to be said over there somewhere, and said better.
I never agree that there is a "liberal bias" in any mainstream media, but by 'eck is there a left-wing bias in academic lectures - the audience (in the states) is always addressed as if it were some kind of democratic convention. So then people, how can we discover through linguistics why the republicans are so wrong yet so successful? And linguists wonder why the generally very conservative "another example of the decay of our language!" media language-maven kind of people studiously ignore them.
I wonder, by the way, if it is very comfortable to discuss anything if we are always deep in the shadow of the language log? Whatever we say, it tends to be said over there somewhere, and said better.
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fluffyhamster
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Yeah, I've always preferred to read books than attend lectures (and I gave up on conferences ever since JET, and quasi-JALT-style AET by AET sh*te: Topic 1: Discipline. Topic 2: More Discipline. Topic 3: The Most Boring and/or Hackneyed Games EVER! Topic 4: Repairing Windows and Clearing Up Mysterious Jumper Suicides and General Classroom Antipathy). I mean, a good book is like the perfect lecture!
Regarding the actual teaching of English, we aren't really in the shadow of LL, but that often distant massif can still help us get our bearings, sure. I guess one of the most relevant posts from LL that I can recall was related to 'will'/"the future":
http://forums.eslcafe.com/teacher/viewt ... 9780#39780
( http://forums.eslcafe.com/job/viewtopic ... 849#715849 )
Then, there was that whole ETAQ brouhaha:
http://forums.eslcafe.com/teacher/viewtopic.php?t=8970
Regarding the actual teaching of English, we aren't really in the shadow of LL, but that often distant massif can still help us get our bearings, sure. I guess one of the most relevant posts from LL that I can recall was related to 'will'/"the future":
http://forums.eslcafe.com/teacher/viewt ... 9780#39780
( http://forums.eslcafe.com/job/viewtopic ... 849#715849 )
Then, there was that whole ETAQ brouhaha:
http://forums.eslcafe.com/teacher/viewtopic.php?t=8970