Philosophy of language final paper topics

Choose ONE of the following Tasks and ONE of the suggested topics:

Task 1:

Choose a philosopher/linguist from the given list (tomorrow's lecture). Write a short essay on his contribution to the study of language.

Offer a two-page excerpt from his work on language. Translate it into Bulgarian.

Task 2:

Choose a text from the suggested list. Translate it into Bulgarian. (10 pages)

Task 3:

Write a theoretical Essay (4-8 pages) on one of the following topics:

1. The Nature of language.
2. The nature of meaning and the nature of reference.
3. Linguistic phenomena:

3.1 compositionality, opacity,

3.2 tense, plurality, quantifiers,

3.3 logical constants, logical form and linguistic form.

4. Varieties of speech acts.
5. Language and Mind in the Cyberspace.
6. English Philosophy of language.
7. American philosophy and language.
8. Language and politics, language policy.
9. The Language of Science.
10. Philosophy, Language and Translation.

Task 4:

Choose a philosopher/linguist from the given list . Write a short essay on his contribution to the study of language.

Compare the English and the Bulgarian translations of the pages attached. Find out if there are any differences in their understanding.

PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE

Useful links:

—http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0cN_bpLrxk&feature=related

—http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuUAPVFFCRQ&feature=related

—http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpJcn0Otk7I

—http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/frege/

—http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/private-language/

—http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/innateness-language/

—http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/language-thought/

—http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/law-language/

—http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/idiolects/

—http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminism-language/

—http://consc.net/mindpapers/6

—http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/defaults-semantics-pragmatics/

British Cultural Studies

My Pictures

• The City of Oxford   -            
• http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=717708782#!/media/set/?set=a.10150137594883783.331535.717708782&type=1; 

•  http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150138207783783.331845.717708782&type=1

• Oxford University Parks
• http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=717708782#!/media/set/?set=a.10150139187213783.332477.717708782&type=1  
• Cambridge 2007 
•   http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150128256303783.326242.717708782&type=1

INFO

I am beginning a new series designed to serve this semester's courses at the South Western University of Bulgaria.

B.A. LIST:

• PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE
• RHETORICAL ANALYSIS
• PERSUASIVE DISCOURSE
• BRITISH CULTURAL STUDIES
• AMERICAN CULTURAL STUDIES
• ENGLISH & THE INTERNET

M.A. LIST:

• SOCIO-CULTURAL ASPECTS OF TRANSLATION
• INTERCULTURAL CODES IN ScFi
• ETHICS IN CURRENT AMERICAN FICTION

МОЯ Цыганская

Моя Цыганская
by Gery Apostolova on Wednesday, January 5, 2011 at 3:28am


Уморих се да тичам повече.
А може би - вече не искам.
Пада тъжно по много януарският сняг -
а може би времето си е време, не му е до лични.

Няма те днес - но оставил си огън
да напомня, че някъде близо си...
Не умея да стъквам толкова бързо
а може би - не съм се опитвала...

Колко още остава, колко вече е минало
няма кой да ми каже, а може би и не трябва да зная.
От самото начало, все чакаме края -
а може би и не чакаме - търсим друго начало.

Колко много илюзии ражда животът
а може би - той самият такъв е:
не от време и не от частици материя,
а от мисли и приказки изграден е светът ни.

Бързаш все напред някъде, търсиш пътека,
а може би се опитваш да направиш пъртина;
Чакай малко, уморих се да тичам,
а може би - не е нужно да идвам.

Не съм слаба и немощна
мога огън сама да си стъкна
мога също да правя пъртина
може би мога също без тебе
а може би - не това искам.

Знам, че скоро ще свърши и зимата
а може би - не е нужно даже да свършва.
Само слънчев лъч, а може би - сняг и кокичета
и кажи, че искаш да тичаме.

A Canadian River is raining over my garden
Reminding me of gulls and unendless green track
For the racing winds of a flat land –
So vast and so far from me, yet so pleased
To unroll homely fields and
Give off the scent of the same old soil -
That has the energy of the offsprings of Gaya.
Lettuce screensaver replaced by sweeter colorful
August largesse of a favorite garden
Burning under a Southern blue-flamed still familiar skies:
Have you sent back a tiny drop of a tear
Over the mighty wings of the racing winds,
So they speeded back gaining might,
Reaching home far before your day?
Just a hint of a droplet speeding round the earth,
Binding it like a belt of all starry nights of a younger eternity,
And, then finding the special time-fall in the space -
Coming down like a
Roaring riverful of freshness, setting fire and fever to zero,
Breathing hope for a green field scorched by the sun...

Once upon a space
once upon a moment
I met someone
who needed some magic:
I had a tiny piece of marble
taken from the dreamy land
behind the lake, beneath the trees
to the east of the rising sun -
so I wished him: “Go and take it back”.
"And then? - what happens after that? -
he asked me earnestly
thus leaving me completely armless
against the oldest magic of a younger world
of shared dream.

Indifferent sunglasses

this is the story that my friend Daffy told this morning of how she went shopping on her name day and got a pair of very special glasses for highly valuable and indifferent people

(to be continued)

Mutability :: Цветна приказка за приказките и за странностите на света

Mutability :: Цветна приказка за приказките и за странностите на света

Colorful Words

Words are green in the beginning
thin like a haze hovering over
young summer glade;
sunny
dreamy
surreal
promising.