Re: Linguistics journals

[And Rosta <a.rosta@UCLAN.AC.UK>]

gEOff:
> Belknap:
> > >By the way, has lojban central managed to get any reviews by the mainstream
> > >press, linguistics journals, or logic journals?
>
> Lojbab:
> > No we have not
>
> Why not? Isn't anyone interested in the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis?

yES, though not in the mainsteam, but i DON'T think Lojban would
present a sufficiently focused basis for experiment.

I myself can think of hardly any ways in which Lojban might
legitimately be discussed in lx journals. Good psycholinguistic
data on processing of things with and without terminators (i.e.
natlangy and nonnatlangy structures) might be interesting.

If someone came to me wanting to do a dissertation on Lojban,
and didn't mind being taken for a loony or not increasing their
emplyability, then I'd encourage them to do one, but only if
it was essentially a work falling within the domain of Cultural
Studies: that is, Lojban as a creation, rather than as a language.
Same goes for all other invented lgs.

--And.