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UrduPoint News
April 12, 2018
One day seminar on English Linguistics and Literature would be held tomorrow at the Islamia University of Bahawalpur under the auspices of Department of English. Dean Faculty of Arts and Chairperson Department of English Prof Dr Mamuna Ghani while talking to APP told that topic of the seminar isÃâà...
Thehour.com
April 11, 2018
Senior Jessica Nino said she was surprised by what she discovered at the college's second annual Linguistics Festival. She learned the difference between Hindi and Urdu, and tried Haitian salad and other cultural foods. Most of all, she enjoyed seeing the student body and faculty coming together toÃâà...
MercatorNet (blog)
April 11, 2018
It's difficult to understand what people mean when they say that a language is “old”. A person is old who was born a long time ago, but a language is recreated by its speakers every generation – so every generation, it changes. It's easier, though, to assign an age to a language family. By definition, a groupÃâà...
Falmouth Packet
April 9, 2018
Showing that a language learnt is a door opened, Gold, silver and bronze awards were won by the Truro and Penwith College students in the national Linguistics Olympiad; a competition with such a high level of difficulty that only a small number of schools and colleges enter. The challenge itself consistedÃâà...
MIT News
April 3, 2018
Institute Professor Emeritus Morris Halle, one of the most accomplished and influential scholars in the field of linguistics, died of natural causes on Monday at age 94. Halle was an expert in phonology, the structure of sounds in language. His wide-ranging work helped establish his own field as an importantÃâà...
The Conversation UK
March 29, 2018
Linguistics tells us about the transmission of cultural traditions, but not who the people transmitting these cultures were. Genetics lets us track people through biological descent, but not whether these people belonged to what we might consider the same group over time. Archaeology describes snapshots ofÃâà...
Raw Story
March 24, 2018
Columbia linguistics professor John McWhorter used the decades-old animated show “The Simpsons” to illustrate President Donald Trump's mentality as being a two or three-year-old. “For Trump, it's about his ego,” McWhorter began. “It's not about what actually happened, it's about the way he would like itÃâà...
Kashmir Life
March 23, 2018
A two-day seminar on 'Applied Linguistics in 21st Century: Issues and Perspectives' started at the University of Kashmir on Thursday, said a varsity spokesman. The spokesman said that Dean Academic Affairs Prof Musadiq Amin Sahaf presided over the national-level seminar, organised by the departmentÃâà...
Greater Kashmir
March 23, 2018
Prof Vaishna Narang, from the School of Languages, Literature and Cultural Studies, Jawahar Lal Nehru University delivered the keynote address wherein she traced the birth of linguistics as a discipline in the early 20th century and the paradigm shift it has undergone over the last 60 to 70 years.
Associations Now
March 23, 2018
The American Association for Applied Linguistics' 2018 Conference begins this weekend in Chicago. Around 1,500 are expected to attend. Applied linguistics scholars from around the world are headed to Chicago in the coming days to gather ideas from colleagues and get the latest word on linguisticsÃâà...
Econsultancy (blog)
March 22, 2018
While much is logical, many elements are harder to explain, untethered as they are to any fixed set of rules. For instance, when is a thought expressed with an indicative vs a subjunctive mood? When to use polite vs casual phrasing in languages such as Korean or Japanese? How to articulate anÃâà...
Econsultancy (blog)
March 21, 2018
While much is logical, many elements are harder to explain, untethered as they are to any fixed set of rules. For instance, when is a thought expressed with an indicative vs a subjunctive mood? When to use polite vs casual phrasing in languages such as Korean or Japanese? How to articulate anÃâà...
The Conversation AU
March 20, 2018
Located in the Faculty of Arts, the School of Languages and Linguistics was formed in 1993 and hosts the following teaching and research programs: French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish and European Studies, as well as Linguistics, Applied Linguistics and English as a Second Language.
Slator
March 13, 2018
BTI Studios has appointed veteran 20th Century Fox executive John Koscheka as its new Executive Vice President of OTT Operations. The company said in a statement that his role will be a wide-ranging one. He will oversee and lead OTT operational staff across BTI Studios, optimize global OTTÃâà...
The 405
March 7, 2018
These 'Pillow Shots' are often misconstrued as "random" or "out of place", they are usually simple shots of mountains or railroads, or even of clothes hanging on a line (Good Morning, 1959), and are only random because we do not live by Japanese linguistics and the beauty of "Boketto". Ozu is visuallyÃâà...
JSTOR Daily
March 7, 2018
“Yes, no, maybe. I don't know. Can you repeat the question?”—They Might Be Giants. You'd be forgiven for being confused right now about how we're supposed to navigate the language of consent. First there was the New Yorker's viral short story “Cat Person,” a fictional depiction of an awkward date andÃâà...
The Guardian
February 28, 2018
... … we have a small favour to ask. More people are reading the Guardian than ever but advertising revenues across the media are falling fast. And unlike many news organisations, we haven't put up a paywall – we want to keep our journalism as open as we can. So you can see why we need to ask forÃâà...
UMass News and Media Relations
February 28, 2018
AMHERST, Mass. – The linguistics department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst ranks second worldwide in the 2018 QS World University Rankings by Subject, which were released Feb 28. The department rose from No. 3 last year, surpassing Harvard University for the second spot behind MIT.
Harvard Political Review
February 24, 2018
This question, of who exactly 'counts' as a Nazi, may seem narrow and unimportant, overly concerned with linguistics when attention should be focused on policy and protest, but it has crucial ramifications. Mention of the word “Nazi” conjures up clear images of hateful ideologies and horrific practices—withÃâà...
Harvard Gazette
February 21, 2018
That girl plays soccer”— while pointing for emphasis. The filming was part of a research experiment comparing speech gestures in English and Korean, among half a dozen studies in Kathryn Davidson's young Meaning and Modality Linguistics lab — which, as one of the few such facilities in the humanitiesÃâà...
The Ithacan
February 14, 2018
Q&A: Associate professor researches technology and linguistics. Q&A: Associate professor researches technology and linguistics. File Photo. James Pfrehm, associate professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, wrote a book on language and technology. By Meaghan McElroyÃâà...
Boise Weekly
February 14, 2018
Harrison's visit is the result of a collaboration between two colleges and a host of staff and student groups, including the College of Western Idaho Anthropology Department, the Boise State Anthropology Club, the Boise State Archaeological Student Association, the Boise State Linguistics Club and theÃâà...
Yale Daily News (blog)
February 8, 2018
Yale researchers convened earlier this year at the annual Linguistics Society of America convention in Salt Lake City, Utah, to present research on topics spanning the entire field of linguistics. Current and former Yale students and faculty presented 16 talks and posters at the four-day conference.
Sci-News.com
February 7, 2018
A team of linguists from Lund University in Sweden announced this week they have identified an endangered minority language known as Jedek that is spoken by about 280 hunter-gatherers in the resettlement area of Sungai Rual, near Jeli in Kelantan state, Peninsular Malaysia. Jedek is spoken by aboutÃâà...
The Boston Globe
December 31, 1999
To generations of linguistics students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Morris Halle would say: “Argue with me” — usually an exclamation, rather than a soft request. No mere challenge to intellectual debate, his oft-repeated refrain was an invitation to become part of the discipline's history.
CU Columbia Spectator
December 31, 1999
It is not an uncommon belief in the linguistic community that up to 90% of the world's languages are expected to become extinct in the next century. Yet, Columbia doesn't even offer linguistics as a full major that, if pursued, has the potential to make this situation less dire by exposing more people to newÃâà...
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