Robin Turner

This page is mainly a jumping off point to other sites I write and/or maintain, plus a few miscellaneous pages that don’t fit anywhere else.

Sensible Marks of Ideas

My main site, containing some of my papers on linguistics and philosophy.

Live Journal

My diary

FAE

Website for Bilkent University’s Faculty Academic English programme, which is where I work.

Courses

ENG 102:  Virtual Worlds

ENG 403:  English and Philosophy for Education Students

Publications

I generally prefer to publish on-line, since it is quicker and makes it more likely that someone will actually read what I've written. However, I have a few dead-tree publications as well.

(1997) “Combining Cognitive and Language Skills:  a critical thinking course for social science students.” In Jerry Spring and Bryan Gilroy (eds.) English Medium Higher Education:  the challenge of content, skills and language. Ankara:  Bilkent University.

(2004) “‘Male Logic’ and ‘Women’s Intuition’.” In Patsy Callaghan and Ann Dobyns (eds.) Meeting Minds:  a brief rhetoric for writers and readers.  New York:  Longman.

(2004) “Guns, Lots of Guns: the role of violence in The Matrix.” Molly: a pop culture zine 1. pp. 20–32.

(2005) “Easing Students into Academia:  popular culture in the CBI curriculum”.  In Challenge in Learning:  helping learners realise their full potential. Ankara: Bilkent University.

(2006) “‘How do you know she’s a woman?’ Features, prototypes and category stress in Turkish kadın and kız.” In June Luchjenbroers (ed.) Cognitive Linguistics:  investigations across languages, fields, and philosophical Boundaries.  Amsterdam:  John Benjamins.

(work in progress) İngilizce Sözlük  [Turkish-English dictionary]  Ankara:  Engin Yayinevi.

Computers

Some scripts, templates and guides I wrote.

Lojban

Lojban is a constructed language based on predicate logic—a kind of Esperanto for geeks.  I am no longer maintaining / developing my Lojban course, as a new version with substantial additions and improvements by Nick Nicholas is available at Nick’s site.  I’ve also written an introductory essay on Lojban  (on my other site).

Odds and Ends

A little fugue I wrote (midi file)

Kant Can Do It

Some silly song lyrics I wrote about Immanuel Kant.  No music, yet.

Pseudo-quotes

Lots of websites have collections of quotations by famous people.  This is a collection of pseudo-quotations:  lines I’ve written which I thought were so pretentious I could only get away with them if they’d been written by somebody else.


Robin Turner,