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Would Gavagai by another name...: reflections on interdisciplinary untranslatability
Semester II 2004
(Education 108, 6 September 2004, 12 noon)
Abstract
Language research frequently crosses disciplinary
boundaries. Linguistics, philosophy, psychology,
anthropology, psycholinguistics, sociology and various
branches of the information sciences all research in and
make contributions to our understanding of language
and how it works. With all of these disciplines converging
on a single topic, it is probably forgivable that there is a
plethora of disciplinary ontologies, terminologies and
paradigms reflected in the research. This seminar briefly
and superficially explores a small puddle of this sea of
convergence as it impacts on research into the semantics
of 'play' and 'game' as representative abstract expressions.
