informatics

[Herb Stahlke]

And there are academic programs called medical informatics and library
informatics.


On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> > Sorry, what's notable about this?
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> Notable to me and conceivably to some others of equally limited vocabulary.
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> Does that answer your question?
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> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu
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> > On Apr 15, 2014, at 10:50 AM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
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> > > On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Major in them at Adelphi:
> > >>
> > >>
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> > >> It used to be that such gimmicky new words were restricted to greedy,
> > >> cynical advertisers. Now institutions of higher learning are inventing
> > them.
> > >>
> > >> Oh. Right. Silly me.
> > >
> > > Sorry, what's notable about this? OED says "informatics" has been
> > > around since 1967 (and "bioinformatics" since 1976). Formed from
> > > Russian "informatika," with parallels in German and French. It might
> > > be a bit more popular in the UK -- in the States you'd more often see
> > > "information science."
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> > It's also sometimes used for what linguists more usually call
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> > structure".  I used it in a seminar on that topic (dealing with old and
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> > information, topic and comment, focus, etc., as explored in work since
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> > Prague School on "functional sentence perspective" in the 1920s) but
> > switched to "information structure" because of the possible confusion
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> > the uses Ben mentions above, and I think it's no longer used in that way.
> >  See e.g.
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> > Vallduv=C3=AD, Enric (2003). A theory of informatics. In J.
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> > ed., _Semantics: Critical concepts in linguistics_, vol. 1, 359-384.
> > London: Routledge.
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> > But then E.V. is a native speaker of Catalan.
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> > LH
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