I doubt it's because he gives a damn or even knows about what I wrote yesterday, but today Ron Silliman continued his linguistics disquisition by citing several of the people I mentioned as missing — in particular, he uses (without attribution) a conceptual blend diagram of the kind used by, for instance, Turner and Fauconnier in The Way We Think and approvingly mentions Lakoff and Johnson's Philosophy in the Flesh. He even manages to imply that Lakoff is in some meaningful way a student of Jakobson.
But it ain't so. Not only do Saussure's and Jakobson's names fail to appear either in the indices or in the references of those two books, Lakoff and Johnson spend all of three pages in dismissing post-structuralist linguistics, starting with a section titled "The Nonarbitrariness of the Sign." Chomsky, a much tougher (and more important) nut to crack, is given more than forty pages of close attention in addition to numerous references throughout the text.
So one bite of crow, but a good beer to wash it down.
5:31:06 PM 
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