I Never Metaphor I Didn't Like: How Cognitive Linguistics Can Help You Be A (More) Bad-ass Developer
By Chris Prather (perigrin) from Dahut.pm, Orlando.pm
Date: Wednesday, 25 June 2014 13:30
Duration: 50 minutes
Target audience: Beginner
Language: English
Tags: architecture cognitive design linguistics productivity science system
How we think about a problem determines how we think about that problem's possible solutions. If we get the problem analysis right, the work that follows seems to flow along a natural course. Why is that? Where does that sense of a "natural course" or an "obvious solution" come from? Can we do it on purpose?
The field of cognitive linguistics-- which combines aspects of neurobiology, linguistics, and epistemology-- offers clues about how we think, and how we can think more productively about the problems we are tasked to solve as developers.
If you think metaphors are just for poetry and terrible puns are just for the break room, stop by this talk and learn how the mental mechanics behind those things can help you become a better problem-solver and a (more) bad-ass developer.
Topics Include:
* A short introduction to the core concepts of cognitive linguistics.
* How metaphor, metonymy, frames, and conceptual blending directly influence our day-to-day work as developers.
* Real-world examples of associative analysis in application and systems design/development.
* Tips and exercises for improving associative reasoning and applying it to your work.
* Pie.
- Faelin Landy (wolf)
- Gene Boggs (ology/nlogn)
- John Danek (jdanek)
- Dmitri Tikhonov (dmitri)
- Jared Miller
- James Carman (Jeremy)
- Andrew Grangaard (spazm)
- Yanick Champoux (Yanick)
- Thomas Glase
- Dan Muey
- Anne Sipes
- Russel Fisher (Fish)
- sungo
- James Morgan
- Dave Rolsky (autarch)
- Leon Timmermans (leont)
- Daina Pettit
- Sarah Kiniry
- Laurence Simon (Laurence)
- ali roozitalab
- Rich Harkins
- vroom
- Heath Bair (Candybar)
- Sean Riley
- Irina Todeva
- John Anderson (genehack)
- Maximilian Witte
- Cliff Warren
- Douglas Early (Doug)
- Jeff Boes (Murwiz)
- Brian Brandes
- Lonny Jepson
- jerry gay (particle)
- Aran Deltac (bluefeet)
- benny Vasquez
- NdFeB
- Daniel Fackrell
- Nicholas Jackson
- David H. Adler (dha)
- Marco Ferrufino
- Scott O'Neil
- ribasushi +1
- Charles McGarvey (CCM)
- David Hand (Ptolemarch)
- Jack Stitta
- (Samuel) Kurt Newman
