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Sample Sentences Using Spradley’s Nine Semantic Relations from The...
I love James Spradley’s work on ethnographic interviews, componential analysis, taxonomic analysis, and participant observation, but Spradley’s work on semantic analysis has been the most...
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Baby Behaviors Around 9-12 Months Enable “Conversation”
Infants move from a strictly dyadic sort of attentional phenomena to a triadic behavioral attention at around 9-12 months of age. This opens the world for infants to allow them to consider other...
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Foundational Cognitive Skills that Babies Need in Language Development
As mentioned (yesterday’s post) three skills emerge from this acceptance of the triadic perspective: 1) Joint Attention Frame; 2)Intention Reading; and 3) Cultural Learning (Pattern Finding). Joint...
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Intention Directing, Self-Reporting, and the Transitive Constructions in...
Since constructions are learned through usage, constructions are accumulated as individual entities that begin to form collections and these collections of constructions begin to exhibit type...
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On Failure & Resilience in Optimization of Human Systems, Ecological Systems,...
I was recently watching Eleanor Saitta’s talk called “Your Infrastructure Will Kill You“. Part of her talk outlined how optimization equals fragility (more or less). That to the degree that something...
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On walking and mediated embodied experience in ethnographic map making
Recently I’ve been thinking about my spatial experience of my contextual environment and about what I have learned over the years in consciously encountering space as a user of space, a creator of...
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Making eye contact as one form of coordination between store clerks and shoppers
Yesterday (a busy Saturday at 4pm) I went to a clothing store with my wife. While I was shopping I was almost run into by 4 employees who I felt were not looking where they were going. Two other...
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Earth, Wind, Fire, Water…Fire wins for attention.
Last weekend when I was camping with some friends I was noticing how the layout of the campsite directed people’s attention. It seemed as if no one paid attention to the surrounding scenery (the...
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