List, To my knowledge, no one has contributed as much to the introduction and development of Peircean ideas into linguistics than has Michael Shapiro. I was reminded of this when Torklld Thellefsen recently posted a link to the home page of Michael's Facebook blog to his own blog.
In Shapiro's blog, which I follow rather closely, Michael discusses most 'all things linguistic' and, so, not only Peircean and semiotic topics. Yet it is always interesting and informative to read his comments, and I not infrequently find myself responding to them, or asking a question of him. See: Language Lore: About Language Lore <http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Flanguagelore.net%2Fabout-language-lore-2%2F&h=ZAQHcpJlV&s=1> This blog aims at the explanation of social variation in language, otherwise the meaning and motivation of language change in its social aspect. It is directly concerned with the rational explication of linguistic variety as evidenced by spontaneous innovations in present-day American English. For t… LANGUAGELORE.NET As many of you know, the co-manager of this list and Arisbe, and webmaster *par excellence *of Arisbe, Ben Udell, also maintains a blog. Since, as co-managers, Ben and I stay in rather close contact, not having heard from him for a week or so I recently asked him what he'd been up to and he answered that he'd been working hard on updating his most recent post to his blog, *The Tetrast*. Perhaps as much as Peirce himself was, Ben is adverse to self-promotion, but as I think this most recent blog entry might be of interest to several forum members, here's a link to Ben's blog, at the top of which is a very interesting discussion of deductive vs. ampliative inference, frequently and even recently discussed here. Of course, since Ben is a tetrast he also discusses what he terms repletive vs. attenuative inference. http://tetrast.blogspot.com/ Best, Gary [image: Gary Richmond] *Gary Richmond* *Philosophy and Critical Thinking* *Communication Studies* *LaGuardia College of the City University of New York* *C 745* *718 482-5690*
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