Discourse, Society, Language, New Media, and I
Here’s a word cloud of the 2009 State of the Nation Address. Common prepositions and function words were omitted in creating this cloud.
To be fair, the president used “inclusive” pronouns such as “we,” “our” and “atin” quite a lot. [...]
Tomorrow, Gloria Arroyo will once again deliver her State of the Nation Address. What’s in store for her audience remains to be heard but as always, we can always expect it to be one heck of a day.
Classes have been suspended at all levels but only a few students will be listening with a critical [...]
In: Internet and Web
20 Jul 2009My first attempt at “pro” blogging (as in trying to make money with blogging) isn’t with this website or with Bloggy Network. It’s with this blog – Sugoi Stuff. It was December of 2006 when I proposed the idea to a couple of friends of mine from back in college. Being the anime heads that [...]
In: News
19 Jul 2009When did they begin considering classified ads as breaking news? So this is of national importance?
Quick! A finance management position needs to be filled! The nation’s economy will collapse if this doesn’t get filled!
It would’ve been a lot more interesting if its an ad for an honest politician.
Had quite an interesting discussion regarding Gricean pragmatics this morning and had me thinking about . It’s funny how all of these theories and books can be filtered down and summarized to just a few of their core sections. With H.P. Grice, many linguistics majors just remember him with his Co-operative Principle.
In a nutshell, the [...]
Hi! I'm Alex, a 20-something blogger writing about the discourses of social media. Once in a while I still let slip posts about the mundane, the asinine, and the trivial. Feel free to contact me.