[Air-l] levels of jargon

[Caroline Haythornthwaite]

What *are* data?

More than just words, we also have our grammatical conventions -- this 
particular one (whether the word 'data' is treated as grammatically plural or 
singular) tends to divide academia from common usage.

/C

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>Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 11:03:59 -0500
>From: Radhika Gajjala <radhika at cyberdiva.org>  
>Subject: Re: [Air-l] levels of jargon  
>To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
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>>  The
>>definition/translation work that (ideally) should happen here needs
>>to work both ways -- not just one.
>
>
>exactly!
>
>what for instance is "data"
>
>let's start with explaining.
>
>r
>
>
>>cheers
>>gil
>>
>>
>>PS:  It's a different level of assumption to quibble with, but ...
>>given that my partner also teaches in the humanities, does critical
>>theory, and has a degree in performance studies, I feel pretty
>>certain that I could suggest that we "perform gender" tonight -- and
>>that the results would be neither confusing nor disturbing.  :)
>>
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Caroline Haythornthwaite
Associate Professor
Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
501 East Daniel St., Champaign IL 61820