| 单词 | linguistic |
| 例句 | The new linguistic skills that modern Sapiens acquired about seventy millennia ago enabled them to gossip for hours on end. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z At the University of Washington and later at Seattle University, he immersed himself in anthropology, history, philosophy, and linguistics, accumulating hundreds of credit hours without collecting a degree. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, it’s only a legend; the recursive title was dreamed up by the linguist Robin Lakoff for a satire of a linguistics journal. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Our linguistic ancestors parlayed that incomprehension into euphemisms like passed on in which death consists of a journey to a remote location. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z For the most part, archaeologists had lacked the expertise to address the anti-Clovis evidence from genetics and linguistics. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z A central concern of the history of ideas, of which the history of science forms part, has to be linguistic change. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Even after two millennia, the contempt implicit in these linguistic refusals is palpable. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z In the absence of written records, the evidence of those prehistoric replacements must be sought in the archaeological record or inferred from linguistic evidence. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Occasionally, focussing on a linguistic alteration can mislead us into thinking that something important has happened when it hasn’t, or that something happened at a particular moment when it actually happened earlier. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Usually, linguistic change is a crucial marker of a modification in the way in which people think—it both facilitates that change and makes it easier for us to recognize it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Before we turn to the evidence from archaeology, let us consider the evidence of Japanese origins from biology, linguistics, early portraits, and recorded history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z According to the linguistic school currently on top, human beings are all born with a genetic endowment for recognizing and formulating language. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Nelson spent part of an afternoon demonstrating to me that fine linguistic difference while we scraped chicken manure from the nest boxes. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z How could those Austronesian-speaking farmers from South China via Taiwan replace the original hunter-gatherer population of the Philippines and western Indonesia so completely that little genetic and no linguistic evidence of that original population survived? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The effect of an age-appropriate music curriculum on motor and linguistic and nonlinguistic skills of children three to five years of age. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z In fact, much of that process of linguistic fragmentation occurred within the past 2,500 years and is well documented historically. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z When the Shoshone finally obtained guns—they traded with their linguistic cousins, the Nermernuh, who took the weapons as booty from defeated Spaniards—open warfare broke out. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It was only with aspirin and something Fay concocted for me that I was able to finish my linguistic analysis of Urdu verb forms and send the paper to the International Linguistics Bulletin. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z When we are studying ideas, linguistic change is the key to finding out what people understood that their predecessors did not. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The great change in my life was not linguistic but social. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Although lexicographers have neither the desire nor the power to prevent linguistic conventions from changing, this does not mean, as purists fear, that they cannot state the conventions in force at a given time. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “I'm good with codes and stuff. And I'm good at, like, linguistic tricks like anagramming. That's my favorite thing, really. I can anagram anything.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Along with the North African origins of Semites and the origins of Madagascar’s Asians, that’s another conclusion that we couldn’t have reached without linguistic evidence. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Park was a dignified man in his midforties, but the linguistic fussiness annoyed and embarrassed Shin. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z While teachers of preschool children may have a sense of the linguistic milestones for children, they are less aware of the musical milestones. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Facts are a linguistic device which ensures that experience always trumps authority and reason. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z They begin by listening and repeating, mastering the linguistic process step-by-step. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z “The three linguistic stocks,” Greenberg said, “represent separate migrations.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Across the Americas, Indians spoke some 1,200 separate languages that have been classified into as many as 180 linguistic families. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z By linguistic and cultural standards, there were then 12,000 Foré, speaking two mutually intelligible dialects and living in 65 villages of several hundred people each. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The powerlessness of dictionaries to enforce the prescriptivists’ dream of preventing linguistic change does not mean that the dictionaries are doomed to preside over a race to the bottom. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Addresses multiple intelligences—Musical, logical/mathematical, linguistic, etc. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Thus, the linguistic evidence suggests that many tropical crops were added to the Austronesian repertoire after the emigration from Taiwan. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Movement and rhymes build cognitive abilities in terms of sequencing physical and linguistic activity, imitation, and internalization. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Another case of men devoting their lives to studying more and more about less and less—filling volumes and libraries with the subde linguistic analysis of the grunt. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z The origins of their language are among the most disputed questions of linguistics: for not a single other one of the world’s major languages are the affinities to other languages still in doubt. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Those details of linguistic relationships agree perfectly with the archaeological evidence that the colonization of the Malay Peninsula was recent, and followed rather than preceded the colonization of Taiwan, the Philippines, and Indonesia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Only on the remote Andaman Islands do languages unrelated to the South Chinese language families persist—the last linguistic survivors of what must have been hundreds of now extinct aboriginal Southeast Asian languages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z That’s a unique contribution of the linguistic evidence, something we could hardly have guessed just from physical studies of living people. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z This peculiar blend is what Barthes was referring to when he described facts as linguistic yet claiming to be copies of the real. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I can’t help but admire the structural linguists who have carved out for themselves a linguistic discipline based on the deterioration of written communication. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z But Diderot’s peculiar chapter also serves as a warning: with its dream framing, its monsters and its allegories, its linguistic slipperiness, it conveys a sense of difficulty. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z There are some features of linguistic change that are worth bearing in mind as we go on. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Perhaps as a result, the most persuasive scientific critiques on Clovis initially came from fields that overlapped archaeology, but were mainly outside of it: linguistics, molecular biology, and geology. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z An even more drastic linguistic upheaval must have swept over tropical Southeast Asia to the south of China—in Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Peninsular Malaysia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The physical and linguistic evidence considered so far has let us infer these prehistoric engulfings, but it still hasn’t solved their mysteries for us. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The word “topic” in linguistics actually has two meanings.5 In this chapter we have been looking at the topic of a discourse or text, namely the subject matter of a series of connected sentences. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The key linguistic couplers are connective words like because, so, and but. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z But he is well aware that describing clouds is at the limit of his linguistic capacities. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Furthermore, bands and tribes always, and chiefdoms usually, consist of a single ethnic and linguistic group. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Brilliant and abrasive, Jenkin had diverse interests in linguistics, electronics, mechanics, arithmetic, physics, chemistry, and economics. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Sasha was the brilliant one, the one who blazed through calculus, linguistics, physics, and computer programming with a kind of effortlessness. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Readers accustomed to thinking of linguistics as dull and technical may be surprised to learn what fascinating contributions Figure 19.2 makes to our understanding of African history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Shakespeare told us precious little of the man whom he entombed in his linguistic sarcophagus. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z First, we can reverse the historically known linguistic expansions of recent millennia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We can use several types of reasoning to try to reconstruct the linguistic map of East Asia as of several thousand years ago. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z By a method termed glotto-chronology, based on calculations of how rapidly words tend to change over historical time, comparative linguistics can even yield estimated dates for domestications or crop arrivals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I have saved the most remarkable contribution of linguistics for last. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The other coincidence between archaeological and linguistic evidence concerns the cultural baggage that ancient Austronesians used. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z To make this type of linguistic reasoning clear, let me give you a familiar example: the geographic origins of the English language. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In the 1960s an opposing school emerged, inspired by academic linguistics and theories of progressive education. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It is remarkable that, so long after the ‘linguistic turn’, the basic history of some key words/concepts which make the scientific enterprise possible remains to be written. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Did a linguistic or cultural factor account for the otherwise puzzling failure of complex Andean civilizations to develop writing? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Thus, in the case of the word ‘experiment’, linguistic change lags behind both theory and practice. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z According to linguistic legend, it drew a dismissive review entitled “Leave Leave Your Language Alone Alone.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Adding movement helps reinforce the linguistic content of the rhyme or song. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z While I am fascinated by the linguistic exuberance of the vox populi, I’d be the first to argue that having prescriptive rules is desirable, indeed indispensable, in many arenas of writing. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Henry, too, was said to be wealthy; what’s more, he was a linguistic genius. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z For example, in a linguistic question and answer, you might ask: “Where are you going?” Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z He’s my literature and linguistics teacher, and he’s currently trying to teach me how to conjugate basic Kushoto verbs. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z That genetic and linguistic uniformity of Indonesia and the Philippines is initially as surprising as is the predominant linguistic uniformity of China. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Whether there is some transmission of knowledge through the ether, or whether physiognomy and expression have some linguistic virtue so subtle that we do not remark its operation, the eyes may indeed speak. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z That way, she felt, she could acquire the linguistic skills that would allow her to sing convincingly in languages other than English. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z “Language scholars are paying attention to the innovative linguistic force of hashtags.” Dialect Society Names Its Word of the Year: #blacklivesmatter 2015-01-10T05:00:00Z On Bush: "In his gift for surreal improvisation he resembles an unintentional Paul Merton, a linguistic dada-ist, armed with nuclear weapons and a worrying sense that God is on his side." The Wit and Wisdom of Boris Johnson, introduced and edited by Harry Mount – review 2013-05-22T13:00:01Z “It literally created a new linguistic landscape for poetry.” Bridging the differences between people 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z This past fall, headlines around the world trumpeted the Marlowe-Shakespeare connection, and spotlighted the editors’ methodology: computer-aided analysis of linguistic patterns across databases of early modern plays. The Radical Argument of the New Oxford Shakespeare 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z And that is what every forensic discipline, including linguistics, needs: “basic foundational science that proves it’s valid,” Harris says. Forensic linguistics: Do your e-mails, texts and tweets reveal clues to your identity? 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z The snake’s temptation becomes queer in this context, and Anyanwu has linguistic fun with her Eve’s awakening, which comes in a verbal cascade. ‘Seven Deadly Sins’ Review: Pride and Pole Dancing Behind Glass 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z But when someone says they’re not sure how to engage with music like this, I suggest listening to it simply as a feeling, not as a bunch of strategies or linguistic parts. For Jazz Musicians in 2021, Two Was the Magic Number 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z Goldsmith is gentler: “Chuckie inhabits a different linguistic and conceptual universe than I.” ‘In Hoffa’s Shadow’ Details How a Famous Disappearance Hit Close to Home 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z A maestro of linguistic control of international caliber, to be sure, on a par with his fellows in the pantheons of modernism and absurdism, Ireland’s Samuel Beckett and Britain’s Harold Pinter. Edward Albee, the last of the giants 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z She goes on to specify that there's no historical evidence, no linguistic evidence and no archaeological evidence. Hey, Irish Americans: Your "Celtic" tattoo isn't Celtic — because that whole idea was made up 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z Even so, linguistic stumbles and slips were a distraction. Review: Salut Salon Mixes Whimsy and Virtuosity 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z Shying away from linguistic appraisal, the teacher's analysis rarely rises above the level of enthusiastic interjection. Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature by Jorge Luis Borges – review 2013-05-30T11:00:01Z It's entertaining stuff – knowing, but never too knowing – and Rennison's love of Victorian slang reflects a broader linguistic flair. Thrillers roundup – reviews 2013-07-04T09:00:00Z Their accents have typically included working-class, vernacular linguistic traits from London or southern England more broadly. Posh Spice sounds posher, but changing a working-class accent isn’t a ticket out of discrimination 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z The linguistic antics that have long dazzled Whitehead’s readers have been set aside here for a style that feels restrained and transparent. Review | In Colson Whitehead’s ‘The Nickel Boys,’ an idealistic black teen learns a harsh reality 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Roney made nearly 20 albums as a bandleader, including three for Warner Bros. at the peak of the Young Lions era, all grounded in his unshakable linguistic command and his appetite for harmonic adventure. Wallace Roney, Jazz Trumpet Virtuoso, Is Dead at 59 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z "A pure jewel" the Francophone Le Soir had on its front page, showing that the ever-bickering linguistic groups in this culturally divided nation had found a rare issue on which they could agree. Spielberg's Tintin gets seal of approval 2011-10-13T15:12:53Z "The whole idea of linguistics played a major role in his work." NY exhibit focuses on early career of Keith Haring 2012-03-25T00:46:05Z The harsh reality of linguistic profiling has even spurred educators to bring code-switching into the classroom. Sorry to Bother You shows why black Americans code-switch to survive 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z Her essential core, an equal measure of resilience and vulnerability, is in "Still Alice's" linguistics professor. Oscars 2015: Julianne Moore and the art of effortlessness 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z With over a thousand vastly different cultural and linguistic backgrounds, it is important not to overgeneralise for the indigenous peoples of North America. The 'two-spirit' people of indigenous North Americans 2010-10-11T11:28:00Z When it comes to putting words on a page, Johanna has a gift for language — but those linguistic chops don’t extend to face-to-face social interactions, at least at first. What’s on TV Wednesday: Ben Platt Live and ‘At Home With Amy Sedaris’ 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z Of course, the barrier isn’t always a linguistic one. Frugal Traveler: In Europe, a Few Coins for a Wealth of Culture 2013-06-21T18:25:25Z A separate report commissioned by Hollande found in August that countries with linguistic connections do 65 percent more business with each other than those that do not. Rise in French speakers since 2010 a boost for France: report 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z When Billy brings home a girlfriend whose parents are deaf, and who is teaching him sign language, his father challenges her, suggesting that sign language creates a cultural and linguistic ghetto. Russell Harvard Finds Life Parallels ?Tribes? Role 2012-04-10T22:13:20Z In a similar spirit, following on the Bee controversy, a few famous women are defending the term’s honor, seeking to neutralize it as a linguistic third rail. Ivanka Trump, Samantha Bee, and the Strange Path of an Ancient Epithet 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z From the dazzling linguistic feats of the translators to the convincing and handsome staging and gripping, Broadway-caliber performances, everything about “Hamilton” in Hamburg feels revolutionary. The Best (and Worst) Theater in Europe in 2022 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z It's one of those linguistic developments that was both born and flourished on TikTok, where data shows that the majority of consumers and creators are young women. Britney, Pamela and pumpkin spice: What the PSL hatred was always really about 2023-08-28T04:00:00Z Blake, he says, is a combination of him and his fiancee, Georgetown associate linguistics professor Natalie Schilling. Forensic linguistics: Do your e-mails, texts and tweets reveal clues to your identity? 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z He doesn’t yet have the gift for defining a person with a posture, a gesture or a linguistic tic, and his accents tend to travel. Review: In ‘Draw the Circle,’ a Girl Becomes a Man 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z The Indian industry is split along regional and linguistic lines. Brit launches career in Bollywood 2012-09-26T09:58:12Z “There’s no poetic strategy he hasn’t deployed. At heart, his is a poetics of play — multilingual and linguistic shenanigans — but invested with deep empathy for the people and subjects who populate his poems.” Juan Felipe Herrera becomes first Mexican American U.S. poet laureate 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z Planning on citing Harbach’s linguistic gifts or the complex relationship between his characters, I read the novel carefully; then I re-read it; and I still don’t know how to answer James’ question. English teacher: I was wrong about “Hunger Games” 2012-07-19T18:30:00Z Her linguistic abilities — she speaks English, Russian, French and several other languages — often allow her to talk with, or sometimes eavesdrop on, ordinary people. Review | ‘The Border’ asks: What is life like when you live next door to a bully nation? 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z Other than contemplation of minor linguistic shifts, what else? Bored with 2012 retrospectives? Here's a look back at the year still to come 2012-12-30T00:06:06Z Rusty Barrett, a professor of linguistics at the University of Kentucky who has researched language in gay subcultures, sees a link between the images disseminated by YassifyBot and the culture of drag. What Does It Mean to ‘Yassify’ Anything? 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z An especially appealing aspect is the book's examination of the lost linguistic and cultural diversity that, until very recently, made France much more of a patchwork than a monolith. World literature tour: France 2011-03-28T11:30:33Z “Sweetbitter” is a book that isn’t afraid of metaphor, or of a certain linguistic opulence: there are a number of lyric passages scattered throughout its pages. What it feels like to be a bestseller: Stephanie Danler and 'Sweetbitter' 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z “The Banks of the Vistula” concerns an overeager freshman at a Minnesota college who plagiarizes her first paper for a linguistics class. Books of The Times: ‘Bobcat and Other Stories’ by Rebecca Lee 2013-06-26T21:01:10Z Most agreed it was a linguistic distinction, and a Twitstorm not worth the pixels it flickered so quickly through. Motherlode Blog: Motherlode Book Club: Elisabeth Badinter's The Conflict. Has Motherhood Replaced Sexism in Oppressing Women? 2012-04-13T20:14:05Z Flynn says that over the past half-century a linguistic gap has opened between American parents and their children. Are We Getting Smarter? by James R Flynn – review 2012-09-28T09:02:01Z I was also chair of a linguistics organisation for African universities, and I'd returned from a conference in Zimbabwe the week before. Free at last... and they all owe?their lives to Amnesty 2011-04-02T23:11:34Z “It’s reflective of the size of the dog, relative to the people. I mean, even big dogs are smaller than people,” says Deborah Tannen, a linguistics professor at Georgetown University. The voices we make when we pretend our dogs can talk The tense verbal comedy of Mattie's early negotiation with a Fort Smith merchant should win you over to this movie's high linguistic wit. True Grit Review: Trading the Dude for the Duke
2010-12-22T19:25:00Z The play ends with the professor savagely beating his student; as the linguistics professor Deborah Tannen wrote in The New York Times, “The evening I saw the play, the audience cheered and urged him on.” Why Plays About Sexual Assault Are Too Murky for Our Own Good 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z I didn’t question its sanity when they said that an outbreak of “linguistic shoplifting” making Britishisms happening. Stop trying to make monocles happen! 2014-03-06T16:32:00Z Team captain Richard Gilbert, a linguistics student, said the success was down to "the perfect broad range of knowledge across the team". University Challenge title retained 2013-04-30T05:33:11Z These spheres contain a multitude of smaller circles in a spectrum of vivid colors, each representing a linguistic community and engraved with the name of that language in its own script. Ready When You Are, Terminal C Is Now an Art Destination 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z Now my novels are translated into other languages, they go out into the wider linguistic universe, but I’m back in Plato’s Cave for good now, watching shadows on the wall. Shakespeare in Klingon: Literature in the Original and My Total Failure to Read It That Way 2012-11-28T16:30:53Z But Etchells’s assault on linguistic decorum has a liberating rather than destructive effect. Review | In ‘Endland,’ Tim Etchells finds squalid humor in post-Brexit Britain 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z Uju Anya, an associate professor of applied linguistics at Carnegie Mellon University, has seen the same Black hair challenges play out since the 1990s, she said. Black women are worried another hair-care brand could abandon them 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z “Requiem for the American Dream” is a timely 75-minute teach-in by Noam Chomsky, the M.I.T. linguistics professor who has been a leading leftist political analyst, critic and writer for six decades. Review: Noam Chomsky Focuses on Financial Inequality in ‘Requiem for the American Dream’ 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z But after grunt-work days in a factory office and taxing nights in the familial scrum, she did not, as far as I remember, then reach for the linguistic puzzles of her countryman James Joyce. Honoring James Joyce’s ‘Dubliners,’ Published 100 Years Ago 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z One writer, Imani Gandy, suggested that many of the unwanted tweets she received came from one user with multiple accounts, whose linguistic arsenal included racial slurs. Censoring Twitter 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z "It came to Britain around the 6th or 7th century when the Romans standardised Old English," says David Crystal, honorary professor of linguistics at the University of Wales. The story of O in design 2010-03-16T22:00:00Z For many communities who speak their tongue within a dominant culture, linguistic education is thus tied up with political resistance. Hawaiian, Gaelic, Yiddish: so you want to learn an endangered language on Duolingo? 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Whether or not one person interrupted another depends on whom you ask, according to new research from Stanford’s Katherine Hilton, a doctoral candidate in linguistics. Why do people interrupt? It depends on whom you're talking to 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z To whom and for what is this painstaking and antiquated piece of work useful, especially in the era of Google word clouds and computational linguistic analyses? A Poet of Found Language Who Finds Her Language in Archives 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z Moments of startling linguistic play disrupt Jackson’s elegant, semiformal style. In Protest or Celebration, Four Poets Evoke a Sense of Endings 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z He talks to a linguistics professor, a film historian, and a Hollywood voice coach who trains actors to sound straighter. Is There a “Gay Voice”? 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Human Sounds, Painful or Haunting Within the contemporary-music scene of New York, the vocal ensemble Ekmeles inhabits its own neighborhood on the border between music and linguistics. Music Review: The Ensemble Ekmeles at Roulette in Brooklyn 2013-01-25T22:12:21Z I love his linguistic mystery, “Double Negative,” but the sequel, “The Full Catastrophe,” is even funnier. Alison Bechdel: By the Book 2012-07-26T14:36:01Z And his supposed linguistic skills look like a dangerous, sentimental, anthropomorphic illusion. Project Nim ? review 2011-08-11T21:09:00Z To this day, linguistic education is seen as a vital part of a broader cultural revitalization. Hawaiian, Gaelic, Yiddish: so you want to learn an endangered language on Duolingo? 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z He comes with his own linguistic flourishes: “maje” means “major”, his castmates are “booby” and “boobers” and most inanimate objects, places and even sometimes beards are referred to as “she” and “her”. Yass queens! Queer Eye’s Fab Five on how they are changing men – one makeover at a time 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z This enduringly inspired British theater company places classic works in severe, simple settings, the better to focus on linguistic glitter and emotional incandescence. The Week Ahead: April 3 ? 9 2011-04-02T03:12:49Z Its title is also a reference to the idea that linguistic codes are adopted and discarded, depending on the social context of communication. Museums Are Still Open in New York. Here’s What’s on View (for Now). 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z In providing the reader a foundation in rudimentary linguistics and its history, Shariatmadari is perhaps prompting — even inducting — us into thinking through such issues ourselves. ‘Don’t Believe a Word,’ a Look at Language and Power (and Why Dolphins Have Accents) 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z As one of the reviewers who admired the collection, I liked its combination of linguistic nuance and emotional intensity. Poem of the week: A Mind of Winter by Martha Kapos 2010-09-20T09:21:00Z Such linguistic precision has become one of her hallmarks. Edith Pearlman’s New Book Is ‘Honeydew’ 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z Soon, popular television programs in both linguistic jurisdictions were filming “Day in the Life” segments of our work, starting with our language lessons. The ambassador’s tale: Lessons I learned about success and scandal 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z It is a work that connected one era with the next and continues to display the essence of linguistic complexity and beauty. World literature tour: France 2011-03-28T11:30:33Z It is a linguistic trick to perpetuate the potent fictions we tell ourselves about ourselves, as individuals and as a nation. Heeding the lessons of James Joyce's "Ulysses," a century later 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z "Fans of Submarine will not be disappointed," agreed the Evening Standard's Marina Benjamin, struck by the author's "linguistic agility" and "talent for getting inside the heads of children". Critical eye: book reviews roundup 2011-08-05T21:55:07Z Even the launch of Ms. magazine a decade later did little to move the linguistic needle into wide usage. Sheila Michaels, champion of “Ms.,” changed the world with “two consonants and a period” 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z Using a complicated linguistic formula, the duo created a movement lexicon with almost limitless possibilities, which their dancers consult and respond to for each performance. Dance Listings for Feb. 12-18 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z Today's songs, according to the researchers' linguistic analysis, are more likely be about one very special person: the singer. A generation's vanity, heard through lyrics 2011-04-26T05:37:04Z Gender linguistics dictate that women downplay certainty, apologise more and value building rapport with colleagues over establishing their place in a hierarchy, among other traits that are ultimately unhelpful for getting your point across. How to get heard in meetings: deep breaths, superhero poses and owning ‘bossy’ 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z Apparently the easy access and lack of linguistic barriers make Canada a choice location to step out on a spouse. What makes a city sexy? Here’s why these 10 cities made the list 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z His linguistic gifts, and eye for detail, often combine in memorable images, such as that tearful slide down the door of the fridge that teenagers do when their first relationship ends. Russell Kane – review 2012-10-29T17:26:22Z Before Mr. Yarshater embarked on the encyclopedia, he traveled throughout Iran, studying obscure dialects, and wrote a groundbreaking work in linguistics. A Lifetime Quest to Finish a Monumental Encyclopedia of Iran 2011-08-12T22:29:57Z In other words, Globish was not just a lingua franca, it was a linguistic third force, and it was just coming into its own at the start of the third millennium. Globish: the worldwide dialect of the third millennium | Robert McCrum 2010-03-29T12:51:00Z “In making his sensational claim,” Mr. Davis writes, “Thor Heyerdahl ignored the overwhelming body of linguistic, ethnographic and ethnobotanical evidence, augmented today by genetic and archaeological data, indicating that he was patently wrong.” Movie Review: ‘Kon-Tiki,’ Directed by Joachim Roenning and Espen Sandberg 2013-04-25T23:28:56Z Social media has created an entirely new linguistic ecosystem, with new words, phrases and features for expressing ourselves cropping up all the time. 3 internet language trends from 2019, explained 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z As with most couples, Mr. Berk’s faux in-laws raise additional linguistic concerns. Unmarried Spouses Have a Way With Words 2013-01-04T21:50:17Z Their workplaces, particularly if at cultural institutions, have become professional minefields: In these fraught times, linguistic slips involving any kind of race or sex or “otherness” can trigger a layoff. A Liberal Uneasy in the World of #MeToo Feminism 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z “Nothing like the linguistic tour de force, ‘A Clockwork Orange,’ ” she sneered in the New York Times. ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ has been feared, banned and loved. Now it’s scaring the bejeezus out of us again. 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z We heard that community colleges, where much language teaching takes place, offer more than linguistic coaching. Radio review: Mind Your Language 2010-09-07T06:59:00Z He believes he is the first person to have written an entire academic book chapter on the word from a linguistic perspective. The hygge conspiracy | Charlotte Higgins 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Despite their diverse religious and linguistic affiliations, these laborers coexisted peacefully. 'Mumbai Fables': Gyan Prakash's fact-packed, rewarding history of the city 2010-12-22T22:06:04Z Well into the era of “so,” another linguistic trend was receiving much more attention: vocal fry. The Rise and Fall of ‘ZuckTalk’ 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z There are baskets and there are deplorable people, but pairing the two is the oddest of linguistic odd couples. Hillary Clinton’s ‘deplorables’ speech shocked voters five years ago — but some feel it was prescient 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z If China adopted it wholesale, the linguistic divisions in China would be far more apparent. One country, two systems 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Mr. Heim earned a master’s degree in Slavic linguistics from Harvard, followed by a Ph.D. in Slavic languages there. Michael Henry Heim, Literary Translator, Dies at 69 2012-10-05T14:27:19Z This training, when led by a qualified speech therapist, addresses enunciation, usage, inflection and other cultural quirks — not to bleach away all trace of accent or heritage, but to minimize linguistic barriers and cultural misunderstandings. Work advice: Want a side of vocal fry with your order? 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z But according to linguistic experts, the Peppa Pig effect, first reported by the parenting website Romper, is less a soft-power victory for anglophilia than a normal toddler tendency to mimic new words. Telling porkies: no, Peppa Pig is not giving American kids British accents 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z As a tune that won't leave your head, "It just solidified itself in the national linguistic consciousness in America," she said. F-bomb makes it into mainstream dictionary 2012-08-13T21:03:11Z The linguistic gumbo of “Ulysses,” a thick mulligan stew containing everything in the kitchen, makes other writing seem like tasteless clear broth. Review | Modern life, as seen by a writer without a smartphone 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z His linguistic skills allowed him to identify some of the best items in the collection, which he took away for just £90. The Secret Art of the Silk Road 2013-10-23T09:17:27Z During a recent episode of “Salon Talks,” Tashiro revealed the linguistic roots of the concept of awkwardness: an old Norse word for “facing a different direction.” WATCH: Here’s why it’s cool to be awkward 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z It’s the linguistic equivalent of taking off your uncomfortable work shoes and pulling on your favorite sneakers. I Can’t Remember Anyone’s Name. Maybe That’s Not a Problem? 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Marsh’s film is a fascinating trove of psychological and linguistic theory, and also grist for passionate arguments about animal rights and human responsibilities. Captivating Films, Complicated Truths 2011-07-23T00:03:17Z He wrote about a trend in poetry criticism, the overuse of the word “image,” arguing that it reduced poems to pictures, shortchanging their linguistic complexities. P. N. Furbank, Biographer of E. M. Forster, Dies at 94 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z The book follows linguistic pioneers who helped modernize the Chinese script and language, including a Chinese Muslim poet, a computer engineer and an exiled political reformer. Pulitzer Prizes 2023: A Guide to the Winning Books and Finalists 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z But unlike “Breaking Bad,” which won broad acclaim but faced criticism over the unconvincing ways some Latino characters were depicted, “The Devil Takes You Home” revels in the American West’s ethnic and linguistic diversity. Gabino Iglesias, a Writer of Noir, Explores the Texas Underworld 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z Among the most memorable of his seven “Twilight Zone” episodes was “To Serve Man,” about a linguistic misunderstanding between aliens and humanity, widely regarded as one of the show’s best. Richard L. Bare, Director of ‘Green Acres,’ Dies at 101 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z Pinker’s knowledge of cognitive psychology and linguistics allows him to give well-argued reasons for following or flouting particular rules of usage. Can something be totally unique? Steven Pinker’s new book says yes. His cartoons combined an ear for linguistic nuance with a caustic pen and brush. Ronald Searle, British Cartoonist, Dies at 91 2012-01-04T03:05:54Z “In English, I don’t have the same linguistic repertory. I have no choice but to wear blinders and go straight.” Rosario Ferré, Writer Who Examined Puerto Rican Identity, Dies at 77 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z We are musing about the surprising linguistic affinities between Treknobabble and Shakespearean iambic pentameter – both of which Stewart is fluent in, having spent sizeable chunks of his five decades in acting immersed in them. Patrick Stewart: 'I can store emotions. No experience is ever wasted' 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z A reader who loved Moore's linguistic inventiveness – "all your puns and similes and allusions" – seized on this example and said: "I wondered whether anyone has ever compared you to Gertrude Stein." Guardian book club: The Collected Stories by Lorrie Moore 2010-04-23T23:07:00Z Attali’s report cited research that found countries with linguistic connections do 65 percent more business with each other than those that do not. Decline of French language could cost half a million jobs : report 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z Whether or not Lahiri chooses to write her future books in Italian, what matters is not linguistic provenance but the quality of the prose. ‘In Other Words’ review: Jhumpa Lahiri’s love letter to Italian 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Mr. Bruster was less persuaded by the linguistic parallels, which he calls merely “suggestive.” Further Proof of Shakespeare’s Hand in ‘The Spanish Tragedy’ 2013-08-13T02:49:45Z Fortunately, new coinages and cultural changes refresh the linguistic and conceptual gene pool. Tim Vine: Master of the mini-joke 2011-01-17T21:44:02Z However credible one finds the linguistic lab-leak theory, “right” and its many variants achieved wide community spread. The Rise and Fall of ‘ZuckTalk’ 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z He had to work linguistic miracles because he had only about 7,000 pieces of metal type in Chinese, while most metropolitan Chinese papers used more than 30,000. ‘Mott Street’ Chronicles 4 Generations of Chinese American Life 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z “The Handmaid’s Tale” didn’t need linguistic cartwheels to transport its readers to an unfathomable new world. ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ has been feared, banned and loved. Now it’s scaring the bejeezus out of us again. 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z But we can do that without erasing our linguistic differences. Don't tell me my accent doesn't exist 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z In addition to being ruled by truthfulness the Hosts display two other linguistic oddities: They utter complementary phrases at the same time with their two mouths, and they hear intentions instead of sounds. China Mi?ville's 'Embassytown': a galaxy where words, worlds and fates collide 2011-05-26T20:17:32Z There is the power of linguistic innovation, which is often met by the powers of stigma and contempt, of racism and class prejudice. ‘Don’t Believe a Word,’ a Look at Language and Power (and Why Dolphins Have Accents) 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z Irony is to the English what self-reliance is to Americans, or what linguistic cultivation is to the French: a core value often elevated to the status of myth. The English Fetishization of Irony 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z The real linguistic divide is with Polish: western Ukraine was for many decades under Polish rule. Keeping hope alive 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z This allows for a dazzling level of linguistic invention.” ArtsBeat: Reviewer Spotlight: Emma Donoghue 2011-02-04T16:42:55Z Instead it hints at the amalgam of logic, philosophy, linguistics, research, appraisal and anecdotal wisdom that will follow. Books of The Times: Drumbeat to E-Mail: The Medium and the Message 2011-03-06T22:55:16Z Blake, who is also a professor of linguistics at Georgetown University, notices that Sue uses an unusual turn of phrase during an interview and in a written statement: “I put the light bug on.” Forensic linguistics: Do your e-mails, texts and tweets reveal clues to your identity? 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Among Dothraki, Na’vi and Klingon speakers, a divide has grown between fans who master the language as a linguistic challenge, and those who pick up a few phrases because they love the mythology. In ?Game of Thrones,? a Language to Make the World Feel Real 2011-12-11T22:17:16Z Original pronunciation retains those traces of linguistic branching that would become American and Australian forms of English. Shakespeare the Way It Was Meant to Be Spoken 2013-09-20T14:29:04Z In the British military, by contrast, the lack of this shared linguistic medium reflects the basic class division of the army, between officers and men, toffs and proles. The human heart of the matter 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z In the twentieth century, New Critics enshrined Shakespeare’s plays as complex poetic art, unified through patterns of metaphor, irony, and paradox, and generations of students were compelled to write exegeses of his linguistic richness. Why We (Mostly) Stopped Messing With Shakespeare’s Language 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z This was, of course, the linguistic habit of the culture associated with custom cars and hot rods at that time. George Barris, designer of Batmobile and other custom cars, dies at 89 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z Our “insatiable appetite for linguistic debate,” Shariatmadari writes, is born out of confusion. ‘Don’t Believe a Word,’ a Look at Language and Power (and Why Dolphins Have Accents) 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z In order to talk about female drag queens, though, there is a linguistic minefield to navigate. Workin’ it! How female drag queens are causing a scene 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z Such reasonableness — combined with a firm grasp of linguistic history, makes “The Sense of Style” a particularly useful guide. Can something be totally unique? Steven Pinker’s new book says yes. Professor Greenberg wrote 10 books and more than 200 articles that often combined his analysis of Hebrew with his expertise in Assyriology, the linguistic, archaeological and historical study of ancient Mesopotamia. Moshe Greenberg, Jewish Biblical Scholar, Dies at 81 2010-05-20T04:04:00Z But now hybrids often bear a linguistic taint, neither fish nor fowl—almost as bad as a genetically modified organism, which, of course, all commercial species now are to one extent or another. “De-extinction” could spawn birth of hybrid species 2013-03-28T15:52:00Z Fata Morgana is a linguistic tour de force set in the aftermath of 9/11 and is both celebrated and controversial. What they're reading in Germany 2011-03-18T12:29:32Z Mr. Diouf’s organization has evolved since 1970 from a postcolonial conglomerate of mostly African states preserving the linguistic vestiges of French imperialism into a global entity whose shibboleth is cultural diversity. Abroad: In Age of Globalism, Pardon My French 2010-04-21T22:03:00Z For the most part, ethnographers and linguists are helpless in the face of the gradual erasure of collective memory that goes along with this loss of linguistic diversity. Vanishing Languages, Reincarnated as Music 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z “Emoji are becoming an increasingly rich form of communication, one that transcends linguistic borders,” he said in a statement. Oxford's 2015 Word of the Year Is This Emoji 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z Outsiders to academic linguistics are often shocked that there is debate on basic facts like what the subjunctive is. Would that it were so simple 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Their mutual friends joined their names with an ampersand — “a sure linguistic sign that you are publicly tied to another person.” Keep Your Friends Close, and Keep Holding Them Closer 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z Sleep, death and desire turn up over and over across these pages, but dark as they are, Knott’s poems evince joyful wordplay and linguistic virtuosity. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z To connect the day’s latest outrage to a classic novel suggested that we’d seen Trump’s behavior before, that literature had anticipated his linguistic abuses, that his appeal could be understood. Perspective | Turns out the Trump era isn’t ‘1984.’ It’s ‘King Lear.’ 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z The songs on which they collaborated closely produced linguistic patterns strikingly different from those of either songwriter individually. ArtsBeat Blog: I Me Mine: The Beatles and Their Pronouns 2011-08-29T14:30:32Z The linguistic ambiguity of Canon Law, along with the fact that very few Catholics bother to read it, means that belonging to the church is ill defined. Why millennials are abandoning the Catholic Church 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z “I really don’t know that much about her,” said a third-year linguistics graduate student in the audience at Georgetown. ‘The kids, they love Madeleine Albright’: How a veteran diplomat got turned into a millennial icon 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Whereas some artists in the show disassemble language into its physical forms or turn it into sculptures drained of immediate linguistic meanings, Elliman conjures words from ordinary objects. Rising design star: Naz Sahin 2012-05-17T21:42:00Z She cites the controversy over Cheshire's linguistic analysis as an example of the limits of scholarly publishing. The strange quest to crack the Voynich code 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z In so doing, such books call the reader’s attention to both the problems and the pleasures of history’s linguistic remains. How Archival Fiction Upends Our View of History 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z That linguistic switch proved sufficient for participants in the study to treat them as fully human, and fully deserving of compassion. Do bigots just lack imagination? | Oliver Burkeman 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z Lawrence Durrell praised the linguistics department in Edinburgh University for creating "a computer that can already write sonnets and will be writing novels by Christmas". How the Edinburgh writers' conference changed the world of literature 2012-08-11T15:58:34Z The moral to that story may be that you should never engage in a war of words with Ms. Silverman without being prepared to unholster a few linguistic constructions not found in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations. Books of The Times: In ?The Bedwetter,? How Sarah Silverman Found Her Vulgar Voice 2010-05-03T20:45:00Z Starr’s latest EP, "Rewind Forward," finds the famed musician in fine linguistic form yet again. Peace, love and Ringo Starr: There's joy and wisdom in his new EP "Rewind Forward" 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z Which isn’t to say that Mr. Harrington, who spoke Welsh as a child but let his fluency lapse, wasn’t challenged by the linguistic demands of the role. The Dark ‘Hinterland’ Doubles as a Travelogue 2014-08-09T04:00:00Z My own Essex accent is often brought up when sharing my expertise in linguistics. Posh Spice sounds posher, but changing a working-class accent isn’t a ticket out of discrimination 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z He graduated from Princeton and received a doctoral degree in linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania. Leah Schloss, Joshua Tauberer 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z Sometimes the word is employed here with vicious intent, though more often with a casualness that by today’s linguistic standards is jarring also — in ways that invite discussion, rather than condemnation. Book-It’s engaging Huck and Jim navigate the n-word | Theater review 2013-04-23T01:30:59Z So does something called the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, a linguistic theory positing that the language we use influences the way we see the world. It’s all in the wording: ‘Arrival’ raises profile of linguists, making them almost cool. 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z "The main story of growth in the internet," he suggests, "is of linguistic diversity, not concentration." Google Translate and the battle for accurate translations by computer 2010-12-19T00:05:52Z Covering considerable ground in 50 minutes, Harrower moves deftly from linguistic games to social commentary, and a touching study of two characters learning to free themselves from their past. Good with People 2010-10-01T21:15:00Z It’s the linguistic equivalent of wearing beer goggles. Books of The Times: ?Bringing Up B?b?,? a French-Influenced Guide by Pamela Druckerman 2012-02-07T22:55:40Z It will be obvious from these examples that Globish is as much a cultural as a linguistic phenomenon, though clearly the linguistic dimension is the dominant one. Everyone's talking Globish | Robert McCrum 2010-04-06T10:21:00Z Oxford University Press lexicographer Susie Dent said the word was chosen for its popularity as well as its "linguistic productivity." Oxford chooses 'omnishambles' as word of the year 2012-11-13T00:08:07Z But on a recent evening, Dan Jurafsky, a linguistics professor at Stanford, was puzzling over the redundancy of “local upstate New York grits.” Decoding a Menu at Root & Bone 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z Where does this sense of linguistic correctness come from? Emojis Are Language Too: A Linguist Says Internet-Speak Isn’t Such a Bad Thing 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z In an age whose surplus — linguistic, economic — often seems to bespeak an underlying emptiness, is it possible for “a profound experience of art” still to mean something? Ben Lerner’s ‘The Topeka School’ Revisits the Debates of the ’90s 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z That is awesome, because that is a linguistic and historical tie back to Old English, the dyslexic-looking Germanic language that started this whole shebang almost 1,500 years ago. A plea for syntactical sanity on US National Grammar Day 2013-03-04T20:32:24Z One cybersecurity firm using linguistic analysis of the hackers' messages even suggested that the attackers were Russian rather than Korean. Sony insider -- not North Korea -- likely involved in hack, experts say 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z But Walsh typically uses those linguistic maneuvers to add more shades to his text; rarely is he interested in a singular theme or mode of storytelling. ‘The Same’ Review: Do You See What I See? 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z There is linguistic and other evidence that the Sioux are their descendants. Searching for Our Urban Future in the Ruins of the Past 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z The reaction highlighted the sensitivity of linguistic issues in Afghanistan, a country with a mix of over 35 languages spoken by ethnic groups including Pashtuns, Tajiks and Hazaras as well as Uzbeks and Turkmen. BBC name change stirs language row in Afghanistan 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z As far as I'm concerned, calling a word slang is the linguistic equivalent of using a racial slur. Why we need to invent new words 2013-03-11T08:29:01Z But, more significant, “your voice is up at this level, but your knowledge of music, your ability to read it, your linguistic abilities, they are at garbage.” The accidental opera star: 'A lot of the purists, they don’t believe my story' 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z It may seem weird, even infantilizing, for so many women to refer to themselves as such, but this linguistic trend isn't a step back for feminism — it's a reclamation of girlhood. From "Barbie Girl" to Girl Dinner and beyond: What's behind our obsession with the girl-ish label 2023-08-21T04:00:00Z This restlessness takes shape in his novels as a kind of linguistic anxiety or nervous search for accuracy. Why Brazil’s Greatest Writer Stopped Writing 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z Lewis’ linguistic erasure of personal trauma mirrors the public erasure enacted in the titles and descriptions of works of art, hidden in plain sight. The challenge and joy of poetry by Robin Coste Lewis and Adrian Matejka 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z The editors of the Chicago Manual of Style resist the changing winds of linguistic fashion. 5 earth-shattering changes in the new edition of ‘The Chicago Manual of Style’ 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z A scholar who has more or less defined contemporary linguistic analysis, he nonetheless engaged with the world, always on the side of the oppressed. My hero: Noam Chomsky by Charles Glass 2013-03-15T16:00:01Z Vaguely interested characters launch repeated interrogations to trap Lucy in his lies, and every time I laughed at their Dead-Parrot-sketch-like linguistic thoroughness. A dark fable of love, adventure and redemption 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z "Still Alice," anchored by Julianne Moore's remarkable disappearing act as a linguistics professor suffering from the early onset of dementia, is moving into more theaters as its star's performance continues to pile up accolades. 'Still Alice' achingly shows mental resilience and decline 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z An expert in computer linguistics, the professor developed software to analyse and compare texts. How Rowling was unmasked 2013-07-15T13:08:22Z Andrea Martínez Celis, a lecturer at Madrid’s King Juan Carlos University and a Phd researcher in English linguistics, agreed that the pressure on highly trained but poorly paid translators was immense. 'Sicansíos!’: Geordie accent stumps Spanish Game of Thrones voice actors 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z She was the only one who’d ever talked to me with the linguistic fluency and emotional frankness that made her seem more like a friend than an employee. Women’s Work 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z Deborah Tannen watched the scandal unfold from two perspectives: as a professor of linguistics at Georgetown University and as a resident of the nation’s capital. The Clinton-Lewinsky scandal was embarrassing to talk about — but changed how we discuss sex 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z Cultural connection or disconnect: Neither a cultural connection nor disconnect, but more an interesting linguistic phenomenon. Making new friends up north in the Canadian Maritimes 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Clayton's musicianship was nigh-on faultless, his linguistic command impressive; but at times he misjudged the level of tone needed in the hall's intimate acoustic. Allan Clayton/Malcolm Martineau – review 2013-04-17T16:36:41Z Are we living through a golden age of linguistic inventiveness? From woke to gammon: buzzwords by the people who coined them 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z The truth: His linguistic shortcomings are more than made up for by his musical strengths. New band of the day: Petite Noir (No 1,297) 2012-06-28T13:34:01Z "Maps" is a seeming world away from the Alzheimer’s-afflicted linguistics professor that earned Moore the golden statuette a week ago. 'Maps to the Stars': Julianne Moore's (other) bravura performance 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z Unable to express his emotions in Spanish, he uses his linguistic ineptitude to his advantage when he dates a Spanish woman named Isabel. Baudelaire makes a comeback 2013-02-04T19:15:00Z He refused to choose between the two great factions of early modernism — one conceptual and linguistic and descended from Duchamp; the other, painterly and formal, from Picasso and Matisse. Francis Picabia, the Playboy Prankster of Moderism 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z But if the translations gain in linguistic authenticity, they lose more in the irony of making the Puerto Rican characters less intelligible to much of the audience. Revamped 'West Side Story' still powerful 2012-01-12T03:01:05Z Etchells’s depravity may smell like Johnny Rotten but his linguistic flair comes from Joyce and Burgess. Review | In ‘Endland,’ Tim Etchells finds squalid humor in post-Brexit Britain 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z During the World Wars, sauerkraut was renamed “liberty cabbage” and hamburgers were dubbed “liberty steaks,” as a protest against their German geographic and linguistic origins. The Sriracha Argument for Immigration 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z If language is a kind of performance, can musicians renegotiate the expectations placed upon them as performers by upsetting their own musical linguistics? 15 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Looking to set linguistic ground rules for interacting with the band's devoted, mostly Latino fan base, he asked, "Do I speak inglés or español?" Supersonico Festival more like a dress rehearsal than a premiere 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z I tried to connect the search for identity of young citizens with non-European roots and Conscience's cultural and linguistic struggle. Rachida Lamrabet: 'Literature helps when you are trying to form an identity' 2013-03-22T17:57:44Z No one doubts his linguistic gifts, but they have often led up him up blind alleys: the heavily brilliant narrating voice can stifle everything else in the novels. Lionel Asbo by Martin Amis – review 2012-06-08T21:55:05Z My own, rash prediction is that it is likely to be the linguistic phenomenon of the 21st century. Globish: the worldwide dialect of the third millennium | Robert McCrum 2010-03-29T12:51:00Z After school she went to study in Jerusalem, a university course that combined French linguistics and literature. Esther Perel: 'Fix the sex and your relationship will transform' 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z Just like reading a very well translated literary text, I was able to decipher her codes with my own cultural and linguistic codes. Literature does not stop at national borders 2013-02-27T13:59:46Z My prediction is that the 21st-century expression of British and American English – the world's English – is about to make its own declaration of independence from the linguistic past, in both syntax and vocabulary. A global tongue 2010-05-08T23:05:00Z But Hawley earns Big Brother’s special smile for invoking Orwell’s name at the very moment he’s committing the slick linguistic abuses that Orwell so memorably demonstrated in “1984.” Perspective | Conservatives crying ‘Orwell’ are downright Orwellian 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z Four immigrants who've lived here for over a year but can't speak English are sent to stay in British households for a week of total linguistic immersion. TV highlights 23/07/2013 2013-07-23T06:00:19Z The 1950s and ’60s were peak years for “the linguistic turn,” a philosophical movement that looked to the analysis of language for solutions to traditional puzzles about consciousness and reality. Joseph Kosuth Show at Sean Kelly Gallery 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z This straight talk is often represented as the counterbalance to the linguistic bloat of political correctness. “American Sniper’s” twisted empathy: Chris Kyle, our police forces, and the kill ratio America gets wrong 2015-02-21T05:00:00Z Her grand theme is linguistic inventiveness in the expanded field of digital communication. Emojis Are Language Too: A Linguist Says Internet-Speak Isn’t Such a Bad Thing 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z Their 39-year-old daughter, Ruth, who studied forensic linguistics and will move to Fort Collins, Colo., later this year, has come by for the occasion. Jack Reacher Is Still Restless. But His Creator Has Settled Down. 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z For one, it means that people perceive accents as coherent collections of different linguistic features. What makes us subconsciously mimic the accents of others in conversation 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z “We’re manipulating the structure of the word,” said Adrienne R. Washington, a professor of sociocultural linguistics at Norfolk State University in Virginia. How Nicknames for the Pandemic Became a Popular Online Trend 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z Robert D. Hoberman, the chairman of the linguistics department at Stony Book, is overseeing the academic side of the project. Indian Tribes Go in Search of Their Lost Languages 2010-04-05T22:06:00Z There’s The Psychology of the Simpsons, The Simpsons and Philosophy, and The Gospel According to the Simpsons, which detects insights from “literature, composition, linguistics, cultural studies, gender studies, and media appreciation.” Book Review: Homer Economicus: The Simpsons and Economics by Joshua Hall 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z But 10 years later, linguistic innovations and word games had become much more accepted, even in Italy. Edoardo Sanguineti obituary 2010-05-26T17:23:00Z Ms. Graham refers to bits of trees on the lawn as “blithe footnotes,” reminding you that her poems are inquiries into linguistics as well as into nature. Review: In Jorie’s Graham’s ‘From the New World,’ Flux Is a Whirling Constant 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z It feels like a linguistic labour of love. Hunderby: why this Julia Davis comedy is worth watching 2013-01-14T10:00:00Z Check out the full interview with Yoo, in which he discusses his career trajectory, the physical and linguistic preparations for "Past Lives" and how he believes inyeon has influenced his roles. "Connected through inyeon": Teo Yoo reflects on the fate that guided his career and to "Past Lives" 2023-07-02T04:00:00Z Furthermore, the inconsistent linguistic choices — the Russian and German characters mostly stick to English, but the Poles sometimes speak Polish — only add to the muddle. ‘Burial’ Review: Corpse Ride 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z In linguistics terms, it’s a sign whose signifier is malleable — the image’s meaning, thus, is created by those who share it. The rise and fall of Ken Bone: This is what happens when real humans become Internet memes 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z The differences between states’ laws go beyond the linguistic. When the law won’t call it rape 2013-01-26T17:00:00Z After all, when JP spoke last week of having "heavy nuts for this chick", he was displaying the sort of linguistic sensitivity for which the show is justly renowned. Rewind TV: Last Tango in Halifax; Homeland; The Aristocrats: Blenheim Palace; Gadget Man; Supersized Earth – review 2012-11-25T00:05:39Z The find failed to make Voynich rich, but the manuscript has continued to make headlines for over a hundred years, challenging researchers in many fields, including linguistics, botany, and machine learning. The strange quest to crack the Voynich code 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z There are those that believe, as a result, that far from liberating us from our linguistic barriers, the translation tools will in fact serve to reinforce them. Google Translate and the battle for accurate translations by computer 2010-12-19T00:05:52Z Now, with a doctorate in African languages and literature, she lives in Ventura and brings a dynamic set of cultural and linguistic influences to her fiction. Sofia Samatar on the many influences on her fantasy novel, 'The Winged Histories' 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z But it could be “tricky to represent something in the abstract,” said Vyvyan Evans, a British linguistics professor and author of “The Emoji Code.” How the sexy peach emoji joined the resistance 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z There exists an intense sense of linguistic immersion that I’ve not found in much other literature. Review | J.R.R. Tolkien’s latest posthumous book may actually be the last 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z But Sorry to Bother You, a fantastical dystopian satire, paints a darker picture of this natural linguistic technique. Sorry to Bother You shows why black Americans code-switch to survive 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z Made in editions of 12, the geometric drawings depicted on the throws recall regional fables, like “Le tigre fumant la pipe,” which is a linguistic transmutation of the Korean saying for “Once upon a time.” A Fashion Guide to Miami Art Week 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Both Aunt Hager and Sister Johnson tend to pronounce the word “idea” as “idee,” a subtle nod to what the historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. calls “the linguistic legacy of slavery.” How Langston Hughes Brought His Radical Vision to the Novel 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z They had a pervasive influence on American cultural trends in areas ranging from egalitarianism and women’s rights to philosophy, religion, literature, linguistics, and science. The battle for medicine’s soul: A century of alternative remedies 2014-01-19T19:00:00Z He also earned a Ph.D in philosophy from Columbia University, writing his dissertation on finger-pointing as an example of a linguistic phenomenon called lexicality. The Carpetbagger: Yuval Adler on ‘Bethlehem’ and Heidegger 2013-12-11T16:35:29Z Here there is greater emphasis on the social complexities of wartime Lvov, which are represented above all by the linguistic polyphony of the dialogue. | 'In Darkness': ?In Darkness? From Agnieszka Holland - Review 2011-12-09T01:31:14Z Does all this "Power to the V" and chatting about pubic tattoos on late-night talk shows represent emancipation, linguistic or otherwise? Television's season of the vagina 2011-09-26T14:27:00Z They remake it as they learn it, inducing in older people a powerful sense of “linguistic disorientation.” ‘Don’t Believe a Word,’ a Look at Language and Power (and Why Dolphins Have Accents) 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z The first extract was the opening of Amis's as yet unpublished Money, bursting on the reader with a linguistic verve and lexical daring that seemed almost un-English. Twelve of the best new novelists 2011-02-25T13:05:56Z Here’s how we worked then and have worked since: Larissa, with a native experience of Russian literature and an extraordinary linguistic gift, does the first draft. They Know Russian. I Know Plays. Would That Translate? 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z It isn't, and the linguistic transition can impede identification of and appropriate responses to gifted kids. Making Language Immersion Fun for the Kids 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z I once interviewed applicants for a bilingual position, and the wide diversity of backgrounds, looks, countries of origin and linguistic abilities astonished me. A Latina Disney Movie Princess? The Wait Isn’t Over 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z Indeed," Mitchell laughs, "but there is much humour in cultural and linguistic misinterpretation. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell 2010-05-10T23:05:00Z Doors were slowly opening to women even at the flagship seminary in Louisville, and scholarship in fields like archeology, linguistics and the natural sciences was penetrating and changing theology discussions. Baptists bank on fire and brimstone 2012-07-11T13:55:00Z If writers must return history to human scale, the last decade of American life has proved just how necessary their linguistic re-engineering will be, even within our borders. Solmaz Sharif and the poetics of a new American generation 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z On the linguistic level, a modern phrase sometimes breaks the narrative spell, as when Douglas says, “I believe that ship has sailed,” while nobody has ever referred to Dante’s “Divine Comedy” as “Dante Alighieri’s Trilogy.” Review | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar returns to his other passion: Sherlock Holmes 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z Is it linguistic blackface, with all that implies, or a 12-year-old’s guileless attempt to cobble together a voice of his own from what’s nearest at hand? Bridging the Racial Divide in a Middle School Friendship 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z These writings are not collected in any organized journal, but they are identifiable by Mr. Rollins’s formal and declarative linguistic style. Inside Sonny Rollins’s Jazz Archive, Headed Home to Harlem 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z Situated between Germany, France and Italy, Switzerland is itself a country that knows the problems of linguistic confusion – a theme that may make sense in Edinburgh, too, according to Valentine. My fair fräulein: an Eliza Doolittle for the 21st century 2012-08-14T19:00:04Z Jay-Z, the reformed gangster turned music-industry mogul, has long been a model of ruthless efficiency at turning his linguistic genius into dollars. Jay-Z and Kanye West ? review 2012-05-20T16:24:58Z But considering that Petri has neither Lemper's Germanic upbringing nor linguistic facility in this repertory, she acquitted herself quite capably in song. Suzanne Petri conjures Marlene Dietrich at Millennium Park 2010-12-21T15:48:00Z Parks employs a low-key, if propulsive style, making such linguistic detonations all the more striking. Italian Ways by Tim Parks – review 2013-06-22T13:00:02Z At the book’s hingepoint, the delivery boy, mustering his painstakingly accumulated linguistic, social and financial capital, speaks his heart to N., with catastrophic results. Numbers, Speed, Mystery: The World of the Delivery Worker 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z Flexing her linguistic expertise, hooks delivers an at once typical and unique perspective on the acclaimed work. bell hooks vs. Beyoncé: What this feminist scholarly critique gets wrong about “Lemonade” and liberation 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z The reasons are rooted not just in geopolitics and the lifting of Soviet-era travel restrictions, but in linguistics as well. Olympics Spotlight for Russia’s Musical Profile 2014-02-05T22:54:52Z Unlike Shakespeare, they were not great linguistic innovators. The King James Bible's language lessons 2011-02-18T12:59:49Z Clearly, then, the discipline of linguistics needs a marketing overhaul, because this is exactly what linguistics consists of: describing the rules, many of them hidden and not obvious, of the human language ability. Hidden in plain sight 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z This book, by a writer and editor at The Guardian, is a brisk and friendly introduction to linguistics, and a synthesis of the field’s recent discoveries. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z Archaeological and linguistic evidence had already shown that Polynesians can be traced back to the island of Taiwan. A Brand-New Version of Our Origin Story 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z His playing was articulate if not directly linguistic; he gave his notes respect and distinction, but not necessarily a neatly-bounded place in the measure like a classic bebopper would have. Jazz Giants Dave Burrell and Archie Shepp Retrace Their Five-Decade History 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z But the laughter provides cover for the deeper idea that their struggle is not just linguistic. Review: Learning ‘English,’ When Your Accent Is a ‘War Crime’ 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z “There are disputes about the acceptability” of linguistic evidence in court, says Lawrence Solan, a professor of law at Brooklyn Law School who served as president of the 175-member International Association of Forensic Linguists. Forensic linguistics: Do your e-mails, texts and tweets reveal clues to your identity? 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Similar close attention to linguistic detail shows in Lindsay’s naming of people and places: Maskull, for instance, can be parsed as “my skull,” “masculine,” “mask all” and “mass kill.” Review | ‘A Voyage to Arcturus’ may have sold 596 copies in its first printing, but it deserves a wider audience 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z Ethnic, religious, and linguistic tensions never fully disappeared. When Yugoslavia’s Bright Future Was Fashioned in Concrete 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Robert Heinlein was a master of the strategy of dropping in little linguistic cues. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7, Episode 6: Hey Look, Another New Group! 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z When, in a thick Scottish accent, he delivers an obscenity-filled comic monologue about the tendency to mistake lack of linguistic fluency for stupidity, his meaning couldn’t be clearer. Theater Review: ‘A Respectable Widow,’ About an Unusual Friendship 2014-04-13T21:06:55Z There are 16 indigenous tribes which explains Oaxaca’s rich, cultural, artistic and linguistic tapestry. Francine Prose’s Oaxaca: An Immersion Course in Mexico’s Delights 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z A large part of this meme’s success is owed to Black Twitter, which Dr. Washington described as “a virtual community” but also a linguistic one, marked, in part, by “collaborative journalism.” How Nicknames for the Pandemic Became a Popular Online Trend 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z “Those erroneous linguistic portrayals ended up codifying stereotypes,” said Cynthia Santos DeCure, a dialect coach, bilingual actress and professor of acting at Yale Drama School. How Should Black People Sound? 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z “It used to be nerdy to discuss parts of speech outside of grammar class,” Baron, a professor emeritus of English and linguistics at the University of Illinois, writes. English’s Pronoun Problem Is Centuries Old 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z These don’t represent perfect linguistic samples by any means, Wolfram says. Is there a D.C. dialect? It’s a topic locals are pretty ‘cised’ to discuss Male communications are about status, and female communications are about connection, says Deborah Tannen, a linguistics professor at Georgetown and a best-selling author who specializes in communication rituals. ‘LOVE the eyebrows!’ Just a little verbal grooming among women. 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z The linguistic framing of a menu description has been shown to change what people report having tasted. Let's start the foodie backlash 2012-09-28T21:45:06Z Yet the most significant separation between an American audience and the work’s meanings was most likely not linguistic. Dance Review: Focus Cia de Dança Performs at the Joyce Theater 2014-03-11T21:02:30Z The common linguistic root of Alium and Allele – the other – was not lost on us either. Symphony of life: making music out of the human genome 2010-06-24T21:29:00Z He has a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley. Books of The Times: Wooing With Words in the Age of the Incredible Shrinking Message 2011-07-26T21:30:40Z Sorkinese remains a powerful linguistic style, and watching the “Newsroom” actors bat around the dialogue like so many fresh tennis balls is the show’s main appeal. “Newsroom”: Aaron Sorkin does “The Daily Show” 2012-06-20T00:00:00Z Eliot’s fondness for doggerel and light verse, in particular, was intertwined with a racist notion of blackness as a gateway to cultural disruption and linguistic play. The Improbable Insanity of “Cats” 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z “There are still these really outdated linguistic and cultural divides in the travel industry.” Island-Hopping in the Caribbean With Carrie Gibson 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z The linguistic "detritus" of a consumer age is not worth bothering about, let alone delighting in. Guardian book club: Love Poems by Carol Ann Duffy 2013-01-18T20:00:00Z It is common to bat away linguistic novelty – "It won't catch on". Author, author: Henry Hitchings on neologisms 2011-02-05T00:05:32Z Far from being a betrayal of Q's founding principles, such instances of linguistic bad faith are entirely in keeping with them. Inky Fingers: Maggoty Lamb asks if NME can save us from Q 2010-04-21T14:19:00Z Moore plays Alice Howland, a composed and successful Columbia linguistics professor who begins to forget things right around her 50th birthday. “Still Alice”: Julianne Moore’s pulpy, Oscar-worthy Alzheimer’s role 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z Call it a coping mechanism, but the 30-year-old could not help but assess the linguistic flair of his fellow South Africans. Nakhane: 'For as long as I need to, I'm going to talk about being a gay artist' 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z The eight-chapter result was something like the stereotypical young-artist recital — which places a premium on stylistic and linguistic versatility — on steroids: Ms. Graham performed 29 songs in eight languages by 17 composers. Review: From a Veteran Singer to a Newcomer, a Note of Welcome 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z "Versed" is "striking for its wit and linguistic inventiveness" and the poems were "often little thought-bombs detonating in the mind long after the first reading," the Pulitzer board said. The 2010 Pulitzer Prize winners 2010-04-12T22:55:00Z Apart from the mafia, another major Sicilian influence on the books is linguistic. Andrea Camilleri: a life in writing 2012-07-06T21:55:16Z It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths. Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing by Melissa Mohr – review 2013-05-23T06:30:19Z For all its linguistic invention, there’s nothing formally unconventional about “American Buffalo”; in fact, it’s almost classical. Five Broadway Revivals Give a Tour of Our Theatrical Past 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z Compliments between women, she explains, are also “a convenient linguistic tool” that women use as a “gateway to connection.” The Hidden Benefits of Not Taking a Compliment 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z As more of our communication is written, the linguistic fingerprints we leave provide enticing clues for investigators, contributing to the small but influential field of forensic linguistics and its controversial subspecialty, author identification. Forensic linguistics: Do your e-mails, texts and tweets reveal clues to your identity? 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Her linguistic blunders immortalized the character’s name and still get the biggest laughs in Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s “The Rivals.” Theater Review: Lovebirds, Twits and Blowhards in ‘The Rivals’ 2014-05-08T21:43:20Z Such linguistic confusion plagues the frantic souls portrayed in this production, which is directed at the pace of a speeding cannon ball by Lileana Blain-Cruz. Review: ‘Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.’ Captures the Fury of Modern Womanhood 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z “As the kids discovered these commonalities, I began to feel as though I were watching something like the living embodiment of a linguistic tree,” Thorpe writes. At a Public School in Denver, Refugee Children Find Hope and Frustration 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z Linguists call this phenomenon "linguistic convergence," and it's something you've likely done at some point, even if the shifts were so subtle you didn't notice. What makes us subconsciously mimic the accents of others in conversation 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z Musicians can easily understand cadence and harmony — even the decision to use a certain instrument — as forms of linguistic choice. 15 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Enemy Number One: The pedant or self-styled grammar snob, who has been with us for at least 400 years judging by the examples presented here, wringing his hands and lamenting the decline in linguistic standards. ‘Don’t Believe a Word,’ a Look at Language and Power (and Why Dolphins Have Accents) 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z He celebrated the world’s diversity of languages and ideas and inquired into everything from Greek tragedy to the linguistics of sex. Eminent man of letters George Steiner dead at age 90 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z It is true that some of Duffy's poems contemplate the reduction of language to abbreviated elements, experiencing feelings that are the more powerful for the inadequate linguistic means available. Guardian book club: Love Poems by Carol Ann Duffy 2013-01-18T20:00:00Z Coetzee, a Nobel Prize winner from South Africa, studied mathematics and linguistics and was a computer programmer before he became a writer. J.M. Coetzee’s Jesus Sees the World as Don Quixote Does 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z After that, we would buy each other books on linguistics. William Leith: Ten seconds before my father's death 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z A little recent digging points to another of the endless north/south linguistic schisms; it's the same stuff. | Presto Chango, Limoncello! 2012-10-08T21:29:51Z Organizers also presented seven awards to musicians performing in Taiwan's aboriginal, Min and Hakka dialects, in a nod to the linguistic diversity of the country's music industry. Chou, veteran Lee split top Golden Melody Awards 2011-06-18T19:46:04Z Simp has linguistic qualities shared by a lot of timeless slang. A Short History of ‘Simp’ 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z “It is a linguistic thing but it is really a philosophy.” A Polish Collector’s Passion for Art and Dance 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z There is much about his linguistic prowess and his genuine love of the classics. The Wit and Wisdom of Boris Johnson, introduced and edited by Harry Mount – review 2013-05-22T13:00:01Z His lack of imagination and conscience is registered in a tiny linguistic detail: that kind of "bomb", a shaming failure, is very different from those that pummelled London and flattened German cities. Hitler and the Nazi Cult of Celebrity by Michael Munn ? review 2012-05-17T12:35:57Z Salvo's linguistic abilities lead him into a vipers' nest of business men, civil servants and mercenaries apparently intent on freeing his home province of Kivu. Michael Stanley's top 10 African crime novels 2010-06-30T14:27:00Z There’s a kind of cranky iconoclasm in the essay, with its scorn for those McCarthy calls “influential persons,” the unnamed experts in psychology and linguistics that dominate the discussion of these topics. Cormac McCarthy Explains the Unconscious 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z To translate her into English is to excavate linguistic strata: Panska reads like a Japonic parody of Nordic syntax translated into a West Germanic language. When Nations Disappear, What Happens to Nationalities? 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z This mutability – labyrinthine enough for comparisons with Borges – is enhanced by different linguistic styles: here precise, there dreamy, always slightly recondite. Debut fiction roundup – reviews 2012-07-27T21:55:04Z They explain that “learning a second language involves the acquisition not only of linguistic forms but also ways of thinking and behaving.” Newspeak for the rest of us: Learning a new language can give new insight, improve tolerance 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z When Mr. Grass received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999, the Swedish Academy credited the book with having granted German literature “a new beginning after decades of linguistic and moral destruction.” Günter Grass, German author and Nobel laureate, dies at 87 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z What happens, to borrow from Gordon’s linguistic playbook, is that a good story gets hopelessly drowned. ‘There Your Heart Lies,’ by Mary Gordon, plunges into the Spanish Civil War 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z But for all his humor and linguistic jazz, Mr. Young doesn’t shun the big questions. Books Of the Times: Five Poets Seasoned by Life 2011-05-29T22:06:07Z Chaski, who taught linguistics at North Carolina State University in the early ’90s, organized a symposium at the Linguistic Society of America’s January meeting to help linguists learn how to serve the legal community. Forensic linguistics: Do your e-mails, texts and tweets reveal clues to your identity? 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Rather, “poetry happens when we are shaken out of our psychic, linguistic, phenomenological, and indeed even physiological compliance with the spectacle and its myriad illusory modes of reification.” Make kids memorize poetry 2012-06-13T02:00:00Z These ethnic and linguistic differences and a feeling among Malays of cultural domination by the Thais are the kindling of the insurgency. A Poet's Return Home to Thailand's Violent South 2010-10-20T16:28:00Z Made on the occasion of President Trump’s inauguration, the piece demonstrates the unsettling effect of a well-aimed linguistic charge. New York Art Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z These linguistic reconfigurations are indicative of Puett's mental fluidity: traditionally accepted meanings are explored anew through the kaleidoscopic lens of her mind. | Hive Minded 2012-10-01T19:45:31Z Kate Jackson lives in Vienna, Austria, where she works in the German linguistics department at the University of Vienna. His Family Had Money. Mine Didn’t. 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z Sorry to Bother You then uses Cassius’s surreal code-switching to illustrate the tragedy of assimilation, but the reality of the linguistic act is far more complex. Sorry to Bother You shows why black Americans code-switch to survive 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z The genuineness or otherwise of the original impulse can be judged only by criteria belonging to the poet's own language – the rhythmic energy, the linguistic inventiveness. Poem of the week: An Arab Love-Song by Francis Thompson 2012-12-17T10:52:15Z Fewer still leave as big a mark on linguistic lives as Zhou Youguang, who died on January 14th. One country, two systems 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z And some of Yejin Choi’s work involves using computational linguistics to help detect everything from fake consumer reviews to fake news. MacArthur Foundation Announces 25 New ‘Genius’ Grant Winners 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z He pays particular attention to the linguistic complexities. Keeping hope alive 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z This is an intentionally broad definition meant to encompass all sorts of adjustments, whether intentional or inadvertent, prominent or subtle, or toward entire dialects or particular linguistic features. What makes us subconsciously mimic the accents of others in conversation 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Wolfe seems especially incensed that as a scholar, Mr. Chomsky privileged mental work over fieldwork, making linguistics an indoor rather than an outdoor pursuit. Tom Wolfe’s ‘The Kingdom of Speech’ Takes Aim at Darwin and Chomsky 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z One lingering linguistic marker caused me the most panic when I slipped. Talking right: I lost my Appalachian accent to fit in. Now I want it back 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z There, he met a young Frenchwoman who was studying linguistics and was fascinated by Oceanic languages. A New Museum Director’s First Challenge: Which Exhibits to Give Back 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z When a linguistics professor learns there may be a problem with her pregnancy, her research and romance become complicated in this play by Madeleine George. A&E highlights: Craft beer, Steely Dan, Railroad Days 2013-08-07T22:51:24Z The role of Sheng in Kenyan society is controversial, with some academics, government officials and older people vilifying the linguistic code. Kenya's youth encouraged to aspire by DJ B and the Shujaaz.fm comic book 2013-01-03T13:21:05Z “The appeal fell into a linguistic chasm between social classes,” Murray told an interviewer, in 2005. The Homegrown Language of Les Murray 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z Radical healing may require somatic modalities that involve a less linguistic, more undivided experience of emotion in the body, which language as a highly cerebral process can actively prevent. How Patriarchy Imprinted Itself on the Family Who Created Jell-O 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z All I have left are shattered bits and fragments of the languages I tried to learn — my brain is like an archeological site, full of relics from earlier linguistic civilizations. Shakespeare in Klingon: Literature in the Original and My Total Failure to Read It That Way 2012-11-28T16:30:53Z The challenge the writer sets herself is primarily a linguistic one, and she accomplishes it with no sacrifice of specific detail or personal voice. Poem of the week: Autobiography Without Pronouns by Tiffany Atkinson 2013-04-08T10:09:25Z Mundolingua is a Paris museum that focuses on linguistics, while the American Writers Museum in Chicago celebrates books and reading by examining the influence of writers on American culture. The latest word on Planet Word: Downtown D.C.’s language museum is set to open in May 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Hughes, equally well known in Britain for her popular historical documentaries, gives us an even heftier opus written with a classicist’s linguistic precision. A City Where East Meets West and the Past Is Always Present 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z It’s almost like social justice achieved through linguistic change. “The Slants” Suit: Asian-American Band Goes to Court Over Name 2013-10-23T16:54:59Z The rage, temper and insult of the dialogue between Medea and her husband Jason, here conducted on their mobile phones, reveal a direct linguistic link from ancient Greece to contemporary soap opera. A new take on Greek tragedy 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Hilton was curious about how conversations work well before she started studying linguistics. Why do people interrupt? It depends on whom you're talking to 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm collected folk tales from German villages, their interest mainly academic and linguistic. Tangled: ironically ever after 2011-01-14T15:00:18Z Generations of young people were denied access to their cultural heritage, until a community-led renaissance in the 1970s, which focused on linguistic immersion and education to re-engage with what was lost. Hawaiian, Gaelic, Yiddish: so you want to learn an endangered language on Duolingo? 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z U’s hero, he tells us, is Claude Lévi-Strauss, the French anthropologist who developed a link between linguistics and ethnography. ‘Satin Island,’ by Tom McCarthy 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z Jessie Sams, an associate linguistics professor at Stephen F. Austin State University and a conlanger, started lobbying to teach a course in the subject in 2011 — just as “Game of Thrones” began. How a community of obscure language inventors made it big with ‘Game of Thrones’ 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z What buoys it up is Odets's linguistic gift: Rocket to the Moon is fuelled by well-turned lines. Cause C?l?bre; Rocket to the Moon ? review 2011-04-02T23:09:47Z If there are traces of defiance — or defensiveness — in Rosalía’s delivery, it is because she has not always been praised for helping herself to an all-purpose sonic and linguistic tool kit. Rosalía Reserves the Right to Transform 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z The winner, in a linguistic landslide: spaghettification—which does not sound good. What 'Interstellar' Got Right and Wrong About Science 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z But he also appeals to a globalized audience—one that traverses geographical, linguistic, and cultural boundaries. Stromae in New York 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z Tracking the linguistic evolution of modern "father," we find it as far back as written English goes – with references to "feadur" or "fadur" or "fædor" in Old English texts from the seventh to 11th centuries. From "dada" to Darth Vader – why the way we name fathers reminds us we spring from the same well 2022-06-18T04:00:00Z Just how much science is what bedevils not only linguistic analysis but also other forensic work. Forensic linguistics: Do your e-mails, texts and tweets reveal clues to your identity? 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Occoquan, Va., is nestled along the tree-lined Occoquan River, from which it draws a name that means “at the end of the water” or, as more recent linguistic studies suggest, “a grove of trees.” In Occoquan, Va., there’s plenty to do — and there’s chocolate 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z There's going to be a lot of insistence on the linguistic and declamatory aspects of this music. Glyndebourne 2013: Hippolyte et Aricie - Baroque à la française 2013-07-23T14:35:12Z The intense pressure on networks to find new hits should not be underestimated either, said Timothy Jay, a professor of psychology at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts who specializes in the linguistics of cursing. This Year?s Hot TV Trend Is a Word 2011-09-21T20:30:20Z But as a doctoral student in linguistics, I wanted to know more about how readily this behavior occurs: Would people converge based on evidence as flimsy as their own expectations of how someone might sound? What makes us subconsciously mimic the accents of others in conversation 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z For five years, when he wasn’t working as a technical writer in the software industry, Chiang read books about linguistics. Ted Chiang’s Soulful Science Fiction 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z Differences in language evolve from separation, said Sonja Lanehart, a professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona and a member of the dictionary advisory board. Hip, Woke, Cool: It’s All Fodder For the Oxford Dictionary of African American English 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z Kushner’s careful attention to historical, linguistic, and personal detail paints a story of universal importance, one realized through the sum of countless small, significant parts. What can we learn from translations of the Bible? 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z If we are born with innate structures of linguistic and by extension moral thought, isn't this a kind of determinism that denies political agency? Noam Chomsky: 'No individual changes anything alone' 2013-03-22T19:08:27Z Reading them is like walking through a hotel room with an ultraviolet light: you start to see linguistic corruption and defilement everywhere. Grab Life By The Sugar Frosted Nutsack 2012-04-11T16:53:05Z We’re often told that music is a universal language, crossing cultural, ethnic and linguistic boundaries. Music is a universal language. It doesn’t sound the way you might think. 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z Lost at times in the linguistic shuffle is the wistful ache underpinning a comedy that, as is the Shakespearean norm, unveils grievous emotions on the way to its knockabout finish. A Mexican-Style ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z But what he would not explore is the way the word seemed to bring him a linguistic thrill. Bill Maher’s Weird, Effortful Apology for Saying the N-Word 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z This may be risky, but Mr Seibert’s writing is so engaging, transporting the reader back in time, that the linguistic tricks seem justified. It’s got that swing 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z This is a gentle introduction to various facets of language study: from language acquisition in babies, to historical spelling change and linguistic evolution, sign language, slang, place-names, new electronic-writing traditions, advertising rhetoric, and so forth. Et cetera: Steven Poole's non-fiction choice | Book reviews 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z Elin Jones, a professor of linguistic diversity at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, said by phone that regional languages that were protected by national governments and taught in schools like Welsh were thriving. Catalan Pop? Corsican Rock? It’s Europe’s Other Song Contest. 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z My response to linguistic insecurity is to repeat myself — and talk extra loudly. Europe Issue: High-End Dining in Italy 2011-09-30T19:04:19Z This linguistic hiccup was particularly rancid to my ears. Gene Weingarten: The shtruggle is real 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z Here's a "life hack" for all you "wordies" out there: If you want to stay abreast of linguistic trends, take a look at the 850 new words Merriam-Webster has added to its dictionary. In this dumpster-fire of a year, Merriam-Webster has embiggened its dictionary 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z “I thought he was so smart and I was interested in everything he talked about,” said Ms. Umont, who graduated from Reed College and received a master’s degree in linguistics from McGill University. She Had a ‘Million’ Questions. He Had One for Her. 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z This global lexicon, written with a light touch, is a scholarly treatise on toasts in scores of languages and takes a deep dive into linguistics, history and traditions. Master the Art of the Toast 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z The linguistic split in Cameroon has sparked years of political turmoil, calls for secession and violence. Imbolo Mbue Has Been Working Toward This Moment 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z As an unwitting participant in the America’s Craziest Governor contest of 2009, Mark Sanford of South Carolina bestowed many gifts upon the American people, some of them linguistic. Review: In ‘The Speechwriter,’ Barton Swaim Shares Tales of Working for Mark Sanford 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z For all the fires she lit on Tuesday in a tightly controlled performance, the linguistic barrier remained largely impenetrable, even when she sang in English. Ute Lemper Brings Neruda’s Poems to 54 Below 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z The backdrop to all relationships in 81 Austerities, including linguistic, is social networking. 81 Austerities by Sam Riviere – review 2012-08-03T21:55:07Z Studied: "I took darkroom courses, but studied linguistics at university." Photographer Rena Effendi's best shot 2010-07-28T21:29:00Z Calvin Trillin travels to Ecuador and discovers a link between culinary and linguistic journeys, and Judith Thurman considers the mysteries of hyperpolyglots, people with the ability to speak dozens of languages. Sunday Reading: In Another Tongue 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z But as the play continues, you feel Butley’s increasing inability to separate himself out from his own linguistic surety. Theater: Onstage, British Bile and Russian Satire 2011-06-14T11:30:06Z Many of the works here include direct homages to other artists: Collages include the text “for Marcel” or “for: Mar Cell” — a bout of wordplay that mimics Duchamp’s linguistic gymnastics. Review: ‘Robert Seydel: The Eye in Matter’ Looks at an Artist’s Traces 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Everyone knows that the latter is awkward or even unacceptable, but very few people outside the world of linguistics know why. Hidden in plain sight 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z But the word “text” is misleading: most of the time it felt as if Ms. Keusch were trapped in a linguistic purgatory, where the consonants had staged a coup against vowels and taken the reins. Critic’s Notebook: George Benjamin’s ‘Written on Skin’ Caps Tanglewood Festival 2013-08-13T21:39:43Z Local references based on French/Flemish linguistic and cultural barriers in Belgium may baffle audiences elsewhere. Oscars 2012: Foreign film nominees 2012-02-22T08:32:55Z The reaction highlighted the sensitivity of linguistic issues in Afghanistan, a country with a mix of over 35 languages spoken by ethnic groups including Pashtuns, Tajiks and Hazaras as well as Uzbeks and Turkmen. BBC name change stirs language row in Afghanistan 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z A piece about how to organize a life and maybe a country, too, it poses young Robert’s dawning awareness of linguistic and social frictions against the larger picture of a Francophone separatist movement. Review: Robert Lepage Goes Home Again in ‘887’ 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z As our reviewer, Josh Lambert, put it: “What seems like a book about language taboos turns out to be a cognitive scientist’s sneaky — charming, consistently engrossing — introduction to linguistics.” Paperback Row 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z Christopher Johnson’s lively first book, “Microstyle: The Art of Writing Little,” is a work of pop linguistics that doesn’t have much that’s blindingly new to say. Books of The Times: Wooing With Words in the Age of the Incredible Shrinking Message 2011-07-26T21:30:40Z Cornwallis seems to be winking at us there, letting us know that he knows that the whole problem of the word is a linguistic ouroboros. The Ill-Defined Plot 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z How did you manage to persuade a Hollywood studio that a film about alien linguistics was a good investment? How Elvish, comics and rowdy astrophysicists helped Eric Heisserer write 'Arrival's' Oscar-nominated script 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z Mr de Villepin’s words combined “seductive masculinity and rhetorical verve” in the best tradition of French public oratory and linguistic elegance. They think, therefore they are 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z But he cast the fear aside: in his introduction to “Graveyard Clay” he disclaims the “sense of linguistic piety or cultural decorum” that for so long kept potential translators away. The Irish Novel That’s So Good People Were Scared to Translate It 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z Their linguistic quirks, which registered most often in titles, were awakened by the free-form poetry of the Beats. Roy De Forest’s Greatness Shines Even in a Virtual Display 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z "Donar" — one of the many linguistic derivations of Thor's name — first popped up in print around the 1st century A.D., courtesy of the Romans. Comics: Thank God it's "Thorsday" 2011-05-04T17:48:04Z It’s a linguistic hooded sweatshirt in a metaphorical boardroom. The Rise and Fall of ‘ZuckTalk’ 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z Bergman’s name alone is a linguistic shortcut of sorts. Ingmar Bergman, novelist 2013-02-17T19:00:00Z Meanwhile “Room,” written in the first-person present, is also brimming with dazzling linguistic innovation. ArtsBeat: Reviewer Spotlight: Emma Donoghue 2011-02-04T16:42:55Z But no one could accuse the film-makers of trying to emulate Beckett's linguistic or philosophical depth. Sundance film festival 2013: Prince Avalanche – first look review 2013-01-24T16:55:49Z DNA is a code, a language with only four letters – A, T, C, G, for the bases Adenine, Thymine, Cytosine and Guanine – and he cleverly exploits this with telling linguistic analogies. Creation: The Origin of Life/The Future of Life by Adam Rutherford – review 2013-03-27T08:25:00Z In “Nine Nasty Words,” McWhorter describes the evolution of some of the most notorious profanities in English, applying the tools of linguistics to find “structure in what seems like chaos, mess or the trivial.” John McWhorter Takes a Serious Look at Profanity 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z For me, it's not just linguistic, and it all began in 2005. Globish: the worldwide dialect of the third millennium | Robert McCrum 2010-03-29T12:51:00Z For linguistic effervescence, in the early days, he looked to WS Graham and Dylan Thomas; for the licence to write about "very ordinary things in Glasgow", he followed the example of William Carlos Williams. Edwin Morgan obituary 2010-08-19T17:23:00Z But students of linguistic history might be interested in the use of the word "gay" in the book. The Servant: a 60s masterwork that hides its homosexuality in the shadows 2013-03-27T16:21:00Z And though at first "d" and "p" and "b" might not seem to be all that similar sounding, they are all part of a class of what are called "stop consonants" in linguistics. From "dada" to Darth Vader – why the way we name fathers reminds us we spring from the same well 2022-06-18T04:00:00Z "Technically it's a linguistic name of the second-largest language family in the world," said Roy Hamilton, senior curator of Asian and Pacific collections. See art by Austronesians, and find out who they were 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z “This is not mangling anything; this is taking ordinary linguistic uses and changing them,” Lakoff told The Washington Post. Analysis | ‘The buck stops with everybody’: How Trump twists cliches to do his bidding 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Didsbury is a writer whose historical imagination and linguistic awareness illuminate a poetry of unusual reach and resonance. Poem of the week: A Fire Shared by Peter Didsbury 2010-06-28T11:43:00Z But historically, code-switching has served as a defense against linguistic discrimination: a form of bias that is partially implicit. Sorry to Bother You shows why black Americans code-switch to survive 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z Over the next four minutes, Lamar delivered his verses with linguistic clarity, minus the oft-impenetrable insider metaphors or wasteful cusses that typify lazier lyricists. Kendrick Lamar is an essential voice for Los Angeles and beyond 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z Minor characters in one story or novel might appear later as larger figures, their stories elaborated in greater detail — and, in his later fiction, in language that recalled the linguistic experimentation of Joyce’s “Finnegans Wake.” William Melvin Kelley, Who Explored Race in Experimental Novels, Is Dead at 79 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z This was the height of my linguistic achievement that summer. Shakespeare in Klingon: Literature in the Original and My Total Failure to Read It That Way 2012-11-28T16:30:53Z Still, setting aside the stilted advice and many linguistic clichés that reveal Hancock as a more gifted composer and improviser than a writer, there are rewards in the marrow of "Possibilities." Herbie Hancock's memoir recalls a creative life and all that jazz The play toggles smoothly between centuries as the Janes’ shared subject emerges, and Brunstetter establishes distinct linguistic patterns yet lets her imagination run free as 1990s pop hits somehow get sung in the 19th century. The game of life, learned on ‘The Oregon Trail’ 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z Pasolini's most zealous attacks were targeted at TV, which, he believed, had replaced Italy's dialects with a consumer Esperanto of garbled Americanisms and other linguistic imports. Pier Paolo Pasolini: No saint 2013-02-22T11:01:01Z In addition to being a marvel of linguistic dexterity, the book is a supreme feat of scholarship. Whatever Happened to Isabel Archer? ‘Mrs. Osmond’ Picks Up Where Henry James Left Off 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z It also laid the groundwork for centuries of linguistic engagement with Rotwelsch by people intent on eradicating it. The Secret Code That Threatened Nazi Fantasies of Racial Purity 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z The book also serves as a searing dismissal of academia, and of the linguistics professor Noam Chomsky. Paperback Row 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z Mills' novel is gentler, but some of its targets, linguistic and otherwise, are remarkably similar. Magnus Mills' 'Maintenance of Headway' a satire of bureaucracy 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z She abandoned her studies of applied linguistics and was just months away from finishing a fine arts degree at the University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. Women of Saudi Arabia Emerge on the Bosporus 2010-11-24T18:30:00Z To them it paled before Jean-Paul Sartre’s “The Family Idiot,” a lengthy study that combined psychoanalysis, social psychology, linguistics, anthropology and other disciplines to theorize on Flaubert’s motivations. Herbert Lottman, Biographer of French Figures, Dies at 87 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z The defendants' plea to hold a fresh psychological and linguistic evaluation of their protest song was also rejected. Pussy Riot: One defendant freed 2012-10-10T19:24:13Z The wane of linguistic diversity is the cultural equivalent of the loss of ecological diversity and, as such, a natural source of inspiration. Vanishing Languages, Reincarnated as Music 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z Apart from the linguistic differences, these two churches a world apart were strikingly similar: down-to-earth, ambling, devoid of theatrics. Lost in Jerusalem 2012-01-13T15:42:55Z It would be a big mistake to approach our relationship to Pride as a matter of mere political correctness, something that can be rectified with the tools of linguistic switcheroo. How LGBTQ love saves Christianity: A priest explains 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z Although pupils were making impressive use of a number of linguistic features, clearly this was not a language laden in the textual subtleties you associate with William Shakespeare. Teaching Shakespearean insults helps my students decode the Bard's language 2013-04-24T14:52:17Z Others have decided that personal identity is the product of wishful thinking or a mere linguistic convention. Total Recall fuels delusion about who we are 2012-08-28T09:39:32Z By turns excruciating, moving and hilarious, Clybourne Park is an exercise in linguistic exhilaration. Clybourne Park ? review 2011-02-13T00:06:01Z Our girls would often look pained at my stumbling linguistic efforts and simply speak for me. Even the boys wore woolly tights 2012-11-17T00:05:17Z “It” seemed like a linguistic game, using ambiguous pronouns and referring to a life-changing event without providing a clear point of reference. Cass McCombs: Imagine Beckett as a Cranky Singer-Songwriter 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z The notebooks provide more evidence of Haring’s interest in linguistics and semiotics. Art Review: ?Keith Haring: 1978-1982? at Brooklyn Museum 2012-03-22T20:22:59Z Nor, according to Orwell's linguistic xenophobia, is there any excuse for forming new words from Latin or Greek, such as, er, xenophobia. My problem with George Orwell 2013-01-17T15:49:30Z The linguistic process that is detailed foreshadows the eventual loss of a language. Poem of the week: A Fire Shared by Peter Didsbury 2010-06-28T11:43:00Z What I didn’t know at the time was how linguistic register helps a novelist flesh out character and lends authenticity to dialogue or narrated thought. David Mitchell: By the Book 2012-10-20T09:00:06Z The sculpture lends historical accuracy to Mr. Ruscha’s light, linguistic touch. Art Review: Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes at the Frick Collection 2014-01-30T22:57:06Z Norbert Wiener, a budding philosopher and mathematician, was 14, and William Sidis, a star in linguistics and mathematics, was only 11. Gifted and Talented and Complicated 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z An American rental sister would be likelier to call herself an outreach counselor, the linguistic equivalent of stomping in muddy hiking boots through a Japanese teahouse. Books of The Times: ‘Hikikomori and the Rental Sister,’ by Jeff Backhaus 2013-01-29T22:33:33Z When the protagonist, Darling, moves to Detroit — or as her friends call it, “Destroyedmichygen” — readers encounter, he said, the economic, cultural and linguistic challenges that many immigrants face in America. NoViolet Bulawayo Believes Freedom Begins With Imagination 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z Preservation required statecraft based on common interests, not those of ethnic groups whose own linguistic and cultural aspirations were crystallising into the desire to run their own affairs. Blindly over the brink 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z A book about voice and speech must inevitably pay a visit to the academic citadel of linguistics. Get to Know Your Larynx. Then Make Some Noise. 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z It is Florio's linguistic inventiveness – as well as his links to Jaggard and Blount – that would seem to single him out as the most likely contender. Who edited Shakespeare? 2013-07-12T13:00:01Z Here, as in “Ave Maria,” religious taboos and linguistic barriers complicate the procedure. Oscar-Nominated Shorts, Mirroring a World of Pain and Fortitude 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Under this new linguistic trajectory, a girl isn't just a child, she's a young adult somewhere along her journey of self-discovery. From "Barbie Girl" to Girl Dinner and beyond: What's behind our obsession with the girl-ish label 2023-08-21T04:00:00Z Among the many memorable scenes — which include moments of high farce, agonized confrontation and linguistic sleuthing — the one I found most remarkable is a tense conclave around a table in a departmental office. Movie Review: ?Footnote,? a Satire and Family Drama by Joseph Cedar 2012-03-08T17:16:01Z In the late 1950s, primates became the focus of studies on the linguistic abilities of nonhuman animals, particularly chimpanzees. The ‘Talking’ Dog of TikTok 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z “It’s a sensual experience rather than a linguistic experience.” John Banville on the Utter Mystery of Writing 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z Furthermore, most mockery of Southern accents underestimates the linguistic diversity of the South and creates the false perception that Southern accents are all the same. TikTok, #BamaRush and the irresistible allure of mocking Southern accents 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z “Mrs. Dumpty,” a sequence of 44 lyrics published in 1998, charted the decline of her marriage to Ariel Bloch, a scholar of Semitic linguistics, after he sank into a crippling depression. Chana Bloch, Poet and Hebrew Translator, Is Dead at 77 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z Facebook Twitter Pinterest When the songs do need a little linguistic embellishment, like the hilariously explicit version of I’m a Good Person, Bloom simply posts the dirty version on her YouTube channel. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: 'The songs are the heart of the show' 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z After a research fellowship at the Department of Justice, she founded the first nonprofit devoted to research in forensic linguistics in 1998. Forensic linguistics: Do your e-mails, texts and tweets reveal clues to your identity? 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z “One of the biggest exports of American culture,” said Renée Blake, a linguistics professor at New York University, “is African American language.” The strange journey of ‘cancel,’ from a Black-culture punchline to a White-grievance watchword 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z She exhumes two fictional outtakes from discarded novels, including one about a linguistics scholar that she wrote more than 20 years ago. Amy Tan, the Reluctant Memoirist 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z Present tense and personal, it rivals in visual and linguistic beauty any new art I’ve seen in some time. Sky Hopinka: Songs of the Earth and the Road 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z His theory speculates that 3,000 years ago, men and women were capable of a great many things, but they lacked the linguistic tools for self-awareness and introspection. ‘Westworld’ Season 1 Finale: Wake From Your Sleep 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z There is a touch of the erotic throughout his exegesis, but there is also a feeling of linguistic and cultural diligence, of the author’s effort to learn this new place. Coming of Age as Performance Art: An Outsider in 1970s Japan 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z In the first stanza, the mountains of line one are elevated in the next by "mounts of snow", a linguistic effect and a snapshot revealing the snow itself as mountainous. Poem of the week: Horace: The Odes, Book One, IX, translated by John Dryden 2012-07-30T11:26:17Z "There is a long history of linguistic institutions such as the Spanish Royal Academy trying to 'police' their languages' vocabularies or grammatical norms," he stated via email. The future of the Spanish language is looking a lot more like English 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z That hopeless hope — one of many of Mr. Eno’s deft little linguistic homages to Beckett that pepper the monologue — strikes the keynote of “Title and Deed.” Theater Review: ?Title and Deed,? by Will Eno, With Conor Lovett 2012-05-21T02:00:00Z It was also a kind of Who’s Who of the linguistic elite. At the Super Bowl of Linguistics, May the Best Word Win 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z The law is meant to ensure "the protection and development of linguistic culture," according to a statement on the Kremlin's website. Russia launches swearing ban; books, films, plays risk fines 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z But much as I relished the linguistic vigour and pugnacious wit of Caroline Bird's new version, described as "after Euripides", I wished it had gone even further. The Trojan Women – review 2012-11-13T18:00:02Z “When she gets to that part, that rawness is real,” said Julie Hochgesang, a childhood friend who teaches linguistics at Gallaudet University. Lauren Ridloff’s Quiet Power: ‘My Life Has Changed in Every Way’ 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z But for all the linguistic gymnastics, the film is hamstrung by its directors’ lack of visual imagination. Review: Lena Olin Is Fierce as a Suicidal Poet in ‘Maya Dardel’ 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z After doing an MPhil in linguistics at Oxford, Callimachi flirted with the idea of staying on for a PhD in Sanskrit, “which I was terrible at, by the way; really, really bad at.” Rukmini Callimachi: the podcasting terror expert getting into the minds of Isis 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z Other linguistic innovations in this production were less convincing, though, sitting uneasily in an otherwise impressive and faithful adaptation. Radio review: Wuthering Heights 2011-03-27T20:30:01Z This is a book about the imagination’s small reclamations of linguistic property seized by colonial power. The Best Books of Poetry from 2016 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z “The Sellout,” Paul Beatty’s sweeping satire, slices through the story of race in America with linguistic bravado that is both barbed and jocular, overflowing with wordplay and long strings of cultural associations. Dear Match Book: I’m Seeking Satirical, Semifantastical and Stand-Out Literary Fiction 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z The study, conducted by the school’s Signal Analysis and Interpretation Lab, used artificial intelligence and machine learning to do a linguistic analysis of nearly 1,000 popular film scripts, mostly from the last several decades. Look Who’s Still Talking the Most in Movies: White Men 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z There's a strain of mathematical nerdiness to all one-liner specialists, of course; the remorseless wordplay, the dismantling of linguistic certainties brick by brick, suggests an obsessive personality. Milton Jones – review 2013-02-10T16:55:06Z But what most annoys about the scheme is that it completely misses the point of linguistic pedantry. David Mitchell 2010-06-12T23:05:00Z Together, they mounted the first production of "Translations," a drama about linguistic disconnects between English-speaking and Irish characters. Brian Friel dies at 86; 'Irish Chekhov' won Tony for 'Dancing at Lughnasa' 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z Local pleasures make palatable DeLillo’s deep and disquieting engagement with the world on many levels: social, political, philosophical, linguistic, interpersonal. Joshua Ferris Reviews Don DeLillo’s ‘Zero K’ 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z She married Mr. Bloch, a professor of Near Eastern studies and Semitic linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, while there pursuing a doctorate in English, which was granted in 1975. Chana Bloch, Poet and Hebrew Translator, Is Dead at 77 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z As this essay demonstrates, Sebald is incapable of hiving off the literary and linguistic from the political, or the literary-critical off from the sociological and ethnographic. A Place in the Country by WG Sebald – review 2013-06-21T15:00:02Z For some, I imagine, this would be a disconcerting, frustrating experience, but I quickly got used to this linguistic interzone. Lost in China 2010-12-24T19:55:00Z He is told that too much nervous patter from a magician is just “linguistic lint”; he is also advised to find a mentor. Books of The Times: ‘Fooling Houdini’ by Alex Stone 2012-06-20T20:11:57Z So there’s actually a whole field about this, and it’s actually called linguistics, and it’s a really good tool for understanding the world around us. The Rise and Fall of ‘ZuckTalk’ 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z Which is not to say fingerprinting — or linguistics — doesn’t produce valuable evidence. Forensic linguistics: Do your e-mails, texts and tweets reveal clues to your identity? 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z The linguistic dexterity of “Carnelian” is a hallmark of Brown’s work. Apocalypse Anxiety, the Musical 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z “Metaphors as linguistic expressions are possible precisely because there are metaphors in a person’s conceptual system,” the authors wrote. Analysis | ‘The buck stops with everybody’: How Trump twists cliches to do his bidding 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Even so, she argues, the area in which women are most at a disadvantage is linguistics. How to get heard in meetings: deep breaths, superhero poses and owning ‘bossy’ 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z I prefer linguistic nationality as a point of departure for dialogue, an effort to cross over the limit, to look beyond the border – beyond all borders, especially those of gender. Elena Ferrante: ‘Yes, I’m Italian – but I’m not loud, I don’t gesticulate and I’m not good with pizza’ 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z As Gustavo retraces the past and interrogates Daniel’s friends and confidants — decoding linguistic, numerical and even architectural patterns — the city’s labyrinthine streets and dim alleys mimic the disorienting twists and turns of the story. ‘The Antiquarian,’ a Macabre Novel About a Search for Truth 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z The music and the person are not that deep as this reviewer tries mightily to make them out to be; using all sorts of linguistic twists and turns. Taylor Swift Is a 2017 Pop Machine on ‘Reputation,’ but at What Cost? 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z This linguistic trend isn't a step back for feminism — it's a reclamation of girlhood. From "Barbie Girl" to Girl Dinner and beyond: What's behind our obsession with the girl-ish label 2023-08-21T04:00:00Z Rich, gay, habitually solitary, Roussel developed a literary mode in poetry, fiction and drama based on linguistic ingenuity and the use of super-realism to lift off into fantasy. Review: The Writer Raymond Roussel and His Legacy, at Galerie Buchholz 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z As Dat makes a linguistic and social connection with the monster known as Julie, his surroundings and his new friend slowly change from grayscale to color, cartoon character to kid. Lost, and Found, in Translation: 3 Picture Books About Language Turn Anglocentric Tropes on Their Head 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z I’m pretty bad at pitching to producers: I was like, “This is a nonfranchise sci-fi film with a female lead about linguistic relativity.” How Elvish, comics and rowdy astrophysicists helped Eric Heisserer write 'Arrival's' Oscar-nominated script 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z According to Worthen, the phrase is “linguistic hedging” that evades the civilized conflict on which democracy is premised. Talking while female: an expert guide to the things you definitely should not say 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z There’s no denying that every page of “The Dog” is a little masterpiece of comedy, erudition and linguistic acrobatics. In Joseph O’Neill’s ‘The Dog,’ a depressed lawyer in Dubai won’t stop talking In fact, White's cultural insight and linguistic pedagogy are her greatest gifts to the reader. | Books for the Coffee Lover 2012-12-14T16:59:58Z They count every lie and linguistic mistake In the tweets of Donald Trump. Style Invitational Week 1291: Film flam — movie anagrams 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z The 2013 Brazilian physics paper used the Voynich manuscript to illustrate how statistical physics methods can be adapted to find hidden linguistic patterns and concluded that the text didn't seem randomly generated. The strange quest to crack the Voynich code 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z That plot is more or less the same as in George Roy Hill’s film, itself loosely based on David Maurer’s “The Big Con,” probably the greatest page turner the field of linguistics has ever produced. Review: Con Men in Tap Shoes Lay Down ‘The Sting’ 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z “He had incredible linguistic flexibility and made his translations shine.” John Woods, Masterly Translator of Thomas Mann, Dies at 80 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z Like Jefferson, Bolivar was a wonderful writer, a man whose prodigious linguistic gifts helped to change the Spanish language itself. Three books on the revolutions that America's uprising helped spawn 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z He said to choose a familiar subject, such as breaking news about the coronavirus, and then graduate to the opinion pages, which contain more challenging linguistic features and cultural viewpoints. During self-quarantine, learn a foreign language without leaving the house 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z Fragments are not far off from images themselves, said David Crystal, an honorary professor of linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor, and a pioneer in the field of Internet linguistics. Future Tense: On Internet Slang, IMHO 2014-03-28T19:52:44Z But the work also possesses a linguistic richness of which we are sadly starved in modern British drama. Remember Arden 2012-11-26T16:22:18Z But even if there is adequate linguistic skill, communication issues are more than just the rendering of one language into another. Communication in America: How undocumented immigrants negotiate a place for themselves 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z Indeed, Min’s hemorrhage-induced slippages are eerily physical echoes of linguistic theories that uncouple words from their conventional meanings, opening them up to radical new interpretations. In L.A. galleries now: A celebration of black women, a cheeky take on living with disability 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Yes, there's an awful lot more recitative, or conversational style in French Baroque opera, a lot more reliance on music that is strongly linguistic. Glyndebourne 2013: Hippolyte et Aricie - Baroque à la française 2013-07-23T14:35:12Z This is not an easy watch – it's cerebral, dourly Germanic, and downright slippery, as if you've been thrown into a linguistic plunge pool. Kaspar - review 2011-01-21T18:12:19Z The writing dazzles with transcendent metaphors, complex connections and linguistic flourishes. Review | The best poetry collections to read this month 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z A modern-day equivalent would be using a picture of an eye to represent “I” — a linguistic concept called the rebus principle. How the sexy peach emoji joined the resistance 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z "My Arm" strongly suggests Smith, a longtime presence in Seattle's fringe theater, is slavishly, satirically attuned to linguistic and syntactic variety, as well as the rivers of drama or comedy raging through inexpert communication. Review: In On the Boards solo show, Charles Smith explores levels of misunderstanding 2011-03-27T20:17:05Z Along the way, one notes a pattern: families severed, willingly or not; and various forms of disenfranchisement, be they racial, social, or linguistic. Sharing Joy and Sacrifice from the Barber Shop Chair 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z Many consider it a valuable basic source for all things linguistic. New entries added to Dictionary.com: 'dox,' 'gender-fluid,' 'lifehack' 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z The Kennedy Center’s annual festivals celebrating the art of a particular region or linguistic group tend to balance on the knife-edge between curating unusual and exciting work and a kind of well-meaning cultural tourism. Around the (Spanish and Portuguese) world in 80 minutes 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z It’s a brisk and friendly introduction to linguistics, and a synthesis of the field’s recent discoveries. ‘Don’t Believe a Word,’ a Look at Language and Power (and Why Dolphins Have Accents) 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z As a former linguistics major, I’m very amenable to the idea that people who study language are more open-minded, but could you go into detail of what you mean by that? “Game of Thrones” wouldn’t be the same without him: Meet the man who made the Dothraki speak 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z Something similar happened that evening, a hallucinatory melting of linguistic barriers. How Abbas Kiarostami Had Me Thinking in Persian 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z He’s also working on an animated film about Noam Chomsky, based on interviews he conducted with Mr. Chomsky about linguistics and philosophy; he’s financing it himself. ArtsBeat: Michel Gondry, Reluctant Cannes Judge 2011-05-20T15:33:03Z Yet here two allegedly proficient practitioners, both operating within the same language, are making different choices at every single linguistic crossroads. Walking the tightrope between translation and interpretation 2010-06-18T11:14:00Z Raphael's linguistic skills were superb, and he regarded such linguistic facility as an absolute essential – without it, one could not understand the nuances, the alliterations and the associations of medieval poetry or prose. Raphael Loewe obituary 2011-08-04T18:00:49Z Where the series distinguishes itself, however, is in its succinct linguistic exploration of the words. Why Nic Cage was the perfect f**king host for a show about cursing etymology 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z The Oxford English Dictionary, the toughest of linguistic bouncers, just announced the latest words that editors have let into da club. New Dictionary Additions: 7 Useful Words You Probably Don't Know 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z Her linguistic fireworks remain fast and furious, yet her voice is so distinctive, so rhetorically hyperactive, that her letter-writers can sound rather similar. Burley Cross Postbox Theft by Nicola Barker 2010-05-14T23:27:00Z Under Knud Adams’s direction, the cast draws the audience into its word games, linguistic stumbles and individual struggles to learn and assimilate, whether for work or family or dreams of a life in America. 10 Stages and Screens Where I Saw Connection 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z If such linguistic contemplation — with an international flavor — floats your boat, then the production at the Next Theatre, directed in disciplined and clear fashion by Kimberly Senior, is your kind of heady play. 'Madagascar': Puzzling through a young man's disappearance 2011-01-26T23:20:38Z An earnest belief that a better world will only be reached after several thousand hours of angry dissent over absolutely every linguistic transgression ever made? Django Unchained, Djack Whitehall and Djames Delingpole 2013-01-13T20:00:00Z While we laugh at their linguistic blunders, the empathy they inspire is only abstract. Theater Review: ?Chinglish,? by David Henry Hwang, at Longacre Theater ? Review 2011-10-28T02:00:00Z Mrs. Gordon objected on linguistic grounds: She knew only a single dirty word. Bernice Gordon, Who Toyed With Words, Dies at 101 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z In that show, Angelou played the Queen, an imperious figure with lines of such linguistic lusciousness that you want to bite into them, no matter how rotten they are in the center. Talking Back to Maya Angelou 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z What do such disparate fields as linguistics, archaeology, religion, anthropology, classics and English literature have in common? ‘Philology’ by James Turner explains what happened to a discipline that flourished Obviously, this situation flies in the face of all cultural and linguistic standards. “You want me to take f**king out of the Scrabble dictionary?” 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z This linguistic adeptness causes tension for both authors, who resent that their American upbringings confined them to English — what Ng calls the “barbarian’s language” and Wong “the language of the colonizer.” Two Memoirs of Chinese American Hunger, Three Decades Apart 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z It reflects, rather, an ideology propagated by linguistic purists in the region, rooted in many centuries of literary and religious history. Translating 'Frozen' Into Arabic 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z The effect of all this linguistic diaphanousness and metaphysical maelstrom is that individual poems don’t stick in the mind. Best Known as a Holocaust Poet, Nelly Sachs Deserves Another Look 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z It helps to fill in a linguistic gender gap, just like how, in some dialects, “y'all” or “yinz” fill in the lack of a distinct, plural “you.” For linguists, it was the decade of the pronoun 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z McCulloch begins with a taxonomy; different cohorts of users have different linguistic tells. Is the Internet Making Writing Better? 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z The great Rick James created one of the best slow jams ever with a song that didn’t even try to bury the linguistic marriage. This is the laziest rhyme in all of songwriting history — and great artists use it all the time 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z It’s the same kind of nihilistic view that Beckett had, with similar linguistic play, but it’s so much more meaningful because it’s used to reveal how race is its own trap, a purgatory, in America. Welcoming Back Live Theater Doesn’t Mean Agreeing About All of It 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z Bernardine Evaristo, chair of the short story prize, said: "Two Girls in a Boat fulfilled the judges' brief that the winning entry have linguistic flair, originality, depth and daring." Authors win Commonwealth prizes 2012-06-08T14:26:31Z Would Bunny have to fulfill every item on a linguistic checklist, or only a certain number? The ‘Talking’ Dog of TikTok 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z He moved into linguistics to discuss the definition of the word "hallelujah." Comic Eddie Izzard, at Hollywood Bowl, generates hysterics and more 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z Andersen says producing this parody required mastering the “palette of Trumpian linguistic tics” to create a “faithful reproduction at the molecular level.” How does Alec Baldwin’s Trump impression sound on the page? Yuuge! 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z Let's not dwell here on the linguistic horror of that word. The essential must-read guide on how to read all those must-reads 2013-02-01T15:24:43Z Perhaps it's a grumpy vestige of cultural imperialism, though the glory of English is that it is an omnivorous absorber of words from other tongues – the linguistic equivalent of the Borg in Star Trek. Americanisms are often closer to home than we imagine 2013-05-13T09:02:20Z There were serious words like Ebola, as well as “platisher,” a blend of “platform” and “publisher” that Grant Barrett, the host of a linguistic radio show, deemed the “ugliest word of 2014.” At the Super Bowl of Linguistics, May the Best Word Win 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z What you argue for is nothing less than linguistic cryogenics, with our accents being frozen for ever. Is it wrong for a person to change their accent? 2013-04-20T16:59:01Z And, though the beginnings of forensic linguistics may be ancient, Juola says this kind of sleuthing may be on the rise. J.K. Rowling’s Secret: A Forensic Linguist Explains How He Figured It Out 2013-07-15T17:39:37Z Basque separatists have been murdering Spaniards in the name of political, linguistic and cultural independence, just as Franco imprisoned anyone who spoke Basque or Catalan. Abroad: In Age of Globalism, Pardon My French 2010-04-21T22:03:00Z And so we shouldn't worry at all about the linguistic anachronisms in tapestry. tapestry by Philip Terry – review 2013-05-28T10:36:05Z I’m not sure which Parnassian Muse inspires poets to such linguistic heights of gusto and grotesquerie. ‘Howie the Rookie,’ in BAM’s Next Wave Festival 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z In it, they shared their encounters with the realities of linguistic bias. TikTok, #BamaRush and the irresistible allure of mocking Southern accents 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z Comments like these demonstrate a spectacular misunderstanding of basic linguistic principles. Posh Spice sounds posher, but changing a working-class accent isn’t a ticket out of discrimination 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z "That is a linguistic microaggression, and it is a clear example of why understanding language and culture is in fact critically important to DEI work." Don't tell me my accent doesn't exist 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z He's no longer talking about linguistic influence so much as his own heredity. Poem of the week: Words by Edward Thomas 2013-02-25T10:51:18Z Despite the linguistic debate, tweets appear to show that not all see a problem with the spelling of womxn. Twitch retracts ‘womxn’ spelling for Women’s History Month 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z As yet only vaguely aware of her calling to be a writer, she enrolls in a number of classes on linguistics and the philosophy of language. Elif Batuman turns her gifts to fiction in 'The Idiot' 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z This process is apt considering The Waste Land includes allusions to show tunes, operas, folk ballads and ragtime songs among its linguistic flotsam and jetsam. I will show you Arcade Fire in a handful of dust: why pop music loves TS Eliot 2012-05-23T12:11:40Z If Meursault was marooned in a realm of absolute sensual truth Adam says whatever swirls into his head in any given situation, often turning linguistic fallibility into vatic profundity. Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner – review 2012-07-05T10:00:02Z Through all the linguistic interpretations and contemporary examples, McCulloch builds an argument that the internet isn’t just changing the way we use language, it’s changing the way we think about it. Emojis Are Language Too: A Linguist Says Internet-Speak Isn’t Such a Bad Thing 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z The fields of linguistics and psychology are intimately tied to evolution, as is the field of neuroscience. Why creationists can’t be scientists 2014-02-20T20:16:00Z Our bodies are even capable of this linguistic device. Everything you've ever wanted to know about my colonoscopy (but never dared to ask) 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z According to linguistic theory, being addressed directly, while it improves clarity, is often perceived as a “face-threatening act” – something that imposes on the addressee and may feel too much like a barked order. Politeness costs nothing, but it may stop people understanding you 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z But his purposely inflammatory style amounted to more than the occasional linguistic tic. A comedian walks into a “mob”: “Inside Amy Schumer” writer’s rant against antirape culture deserves a backlash 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z Until recently, this mostly quixotic linguistic pursuit, born out of a passion for words and grammatical structures, lived on little-visited Web sites or in college dissertations. In ?Game of Thrones,? a Language to Make the World Feel Real 2011-12-11T22:17:16Z Macdonald was born in Cork in 1820 and raised in the somewhat volatile atmosphere of that Irish city’s intelligentsia, whose heated conversations centered on linguistics, art, politics and Irish customs and folklore. The Artist Who Dared to Paint Ireland’s Great Famine 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z “Without turning linguistic or lyrical cartwheels, Jerkins lucidly articulates social dynamics that have dictated the realities of American black women for centuries, like how white feminism erases black women,” Febos writes in her review. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z It would be fair to say that Roberts writes songs like no one else, in a curious mixture of dialect and linguistic display. Alasdair Roberts: 'I've always been drawn to heavy, big old ballads' 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z But what these students are after isn’t linguistic proficiency, or even a lesson on high fashion, but rather the capacity to pronounce the names of the luxury items that will anchor their sense of self. Lessons of "Generation Wealth": In an age of excess, women lose 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z Her teachers call these “combat linguistics,” but the titular linguist mages — including politicians, cult leaders and gaming executives — have competing ends in mind, and Isobel is instrumental to all of them. A Gamer Learns to Weaponize Sounds in This Genre-Bender 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z But Noam Chomsky is the man who revolutionised linguistics. Noam Chomsky 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z I hope that McWhorter was referring to the popularity of Strunk and White’s “The Elements of Style,” rather than to its linguistic acumen. Can something be totally unique? Steven Pinker’s new book says yes. Our cultures are rooted in different histories and linguistic influences, and it shows in the way we use words, inflect their meanings and express our keenest hopes for the society we'd like to help create. What's the future of the Union? 2011-08-27T23:05:40Z When Anno described his approach to the characters, he spoke with an intensity that crossed linguistic boundaries. ‘Evangelion’ Director Explains How He Finally Found His Ending 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z All that practice also produces new linguistic rules. Emojis Are Language Too: A Linguist Says Internet-Speak Isn’t Such a Bad Thing 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z Such linguistic identity crises are common, Lynne Murphy writes in her delightful new book, “The Prodigal Tongue: The Love-Hate Relationship Between American and British English.” You Say ‘To-may-to,’ I Say ‘To-mah-to’ 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z But attaching pronouns to them isn’t; there’s no objective requirement pronouns and linguistic gender need to exist at all. When Did Chelsea Manning Become Chelsea Manning? 2013-08-28T13:51:42Z A wise and witty novel that follows the diverging lives and linguistic obsessions of identical twin sisters who struggle to figure out who they are on their own and in relationship to each other. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z The discovery of the slab, called the Rosetta Stone after the town in which it was found, reignited the ultimate linguistic challenge: deciphering the symbols of the Pharaohs. The 20-Year Contest to Crack the Code of the Rosetta Stone 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z Partridge begins by offering a discussion of the linguistic phenomenon that is slang. Slang: The universal language 2012-10-15T11:45:00Z But the important issue can’t be hidden in a linguistic controversy. Motherlode Blog: Did Ann Romney 'Work'? 2012-04-12T15:55:27Z These words are like bland curatorial copy stencilled on the walls of a dreary gallery, and they're unworthy of the linguistic powers she shows elsewhere. Strands – A Year of Discoveries on the Beach by Jean Sprackland – review 2012-07-27T21:45:12Z The Times-Picayune has a helpful weekly episode guide, " explained", to help viewers negotiate 's linguistic and cultural maze. Katrina and all that jazz 2010-05-01T23:07:00Z As a result we are apt to look on linguistic changes – including new words – as personal affronts. Author, author: Henry Hitchings on neologisms 2011-02-05T00:05:32Z So I trusted in linguistic common sense, left out the verb, and made it ana libbi bābi "into the gate," pretty much like the English. "Eternals" – Marvel consulted me to help superheroes chit chat in Babylonian 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z “Banter emerges as this relentless gloss of irony over everything,” said Bethan Benwell, senior lecturer in language and linguistics at the University of Stirling and the author of several papers on men’s magazines. The age of banter 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z He received a master’s degree in linguistics from New York University in 1966. David Antin, poet and critic known for his ‘talk poems,’ dies at 84 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z It is this idea of linguistic and cultural sharing that forms a utopian political dimension for the poem. Poem of the week: A Fire Shared by Peter Didsbury 2010-06-28T11:43:00Z In Chile, she confronts Robert’s new physical and linguistic deficits. Review | ‘Lean Fall Stand’ opens with a literal cliffhanger you won’t soon forget 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z Instead, she studied linguistics, and used her language skills to help disabled children before turning to business writing, including a stint drafting direct-mail marketing materials. Amy Tan: Still ‘Joy Lucky’ after all these years 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z “A lot of people are attracted to linguistics by words,” he said. Decoding a Menu at Root & Bone 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z How does one deal with linguistic bias on top of an already difficult juggling act? ‘What’s up with that white voice?’: The tricky art of linguistic code-switching 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z For all its linguistic and conceptual sophistication, narratively, it's a slender romance that ought to be read swiftly. The Professor of Poetry by Grace McCleen – review 2013-07-28T07:30:00Z The life of the mind, and the sympathetic practices, the imaginative practices, and the literary and linguistic textual practices that reading evokes. Junot Diaz on reading, writing, and America's amnesia about race 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z The magazine, whose name alludes to the pain remedy Tylenol, promises to apply the sweet balm of reason and linguistic clarity to relieve such alarming symptoms as galloping absurdity, inflationary fever and intellectual congestion. Alexander Melamid Begins Artenol, an Art Magazine 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z She quite often does this, casts her listener as a sort of linguistic handmaiden. Thandie Newton: ‘I wake up angry – there’s a lot to be angry about’ 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z He wanted to use very basic, unglamorous visual and linguistic tools to clear a zone for thinking, without interference from the market or pressure to be predictable. Art Review: In the Beginning Was the Word 2011-02-16T13:00:07Z Do the scaffolding of plot and invention, the linguistic embroidery, deny the actual victims their more authentic voices? The story of twins who endured Josef Mengele, the Nazi ‘Angel of Death’ 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z Matthew Perry, the actor who died on Saturday at 54, had a distinctive linguistic style that he lobbed deep into the national consciousness. Could Matthew Perry’s Chandler-Speak Be Any More Memorable? 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z In 1940, David W. Maurer, a professor of linguistics, published a sociological study of the confidence artist’s culture called “The Big Con.” ‘Outlander’ Season 2, Episode 6: Promises 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z What do you pick up in his general linguistic approach? Donald Trump’s dangerously effective style: “He’s more human when he talks than just about any other figure we have seen in a long time” 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z “In his writings, Borges often referred to Solar as an inventor of languages and religions” and “evoked Solar’s linguistic creativity,” another wall label notes. ‘Xul Solar and Jorge Luis Borges’ at Americas Society 2013-04-18T21:09:09Z Mr. McCrum refers to some particularly wacky idioms as “the fuzzy end of the linguistic lollipop.” Books of The Times: In ?Globish,? Robert McCrum Traces the Spread of English 2010-05-25T21:08:00Z The style of “The Taste of Sugar” is heavily inflected with Spanish words and phrases, conveying the rich linguistic culture of this place. Review | ‘The Taste of Sugar’ offers a thrilling look at Puerto Rico’s history through the tale of one couple’s struggle to survive 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z The education programme is vital for preserving this rare offshoot of the world linguistic tree. Sing like a canary! The whistling consultant who taught Romanian noir gangsters a tune 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z What if Barthes — an authority on semiology, the study of signs and symbols — had discovered a linguistic secret of immense power, one for which people would kill? Who killed Roland Barthes? Maybe Umberto Eco has a clue. 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z When we empower our cultural selves through speaking our languages, we begin to undo the damage caused by years of cultural and linguistic oppression. Effort to recover Indigenous language also revitalizes culture, history and identity 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z Christians have built on a simple linguistic misunderstanding a toxic "replacement" theology that has spawned ignorance among Christians about their own identity, and shameful cruelty against Jews. New light on Christianity's Jewish roots 2011-04-05T15:06:50Z Coordinates and fixed reference points float free to exhilarating effect in the linguistic adventures of the sat-nav sonnet "Recalculating". Songs and Sonnets by Paul Muldoon – review 2013-01-11T20:00:01Z Beneath it all lies a power struggle, and there are many funny linguistic misunderstandings along the way. Broadway play's echoes of Bo scandal may prevent China staging 2012-05-18T04:28:05Z Alongside the more kinetic and rhythmic innovations introduced by scratch artists like DJ Grand Wizard Theodore, we must also speak of a “Christian turntablism”: slow, profoundly unfunky, obsessed with linguistic “messages.” What exactly lurks within the backward grooves of “Stairway to Heaven?” 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z One of the most famously difficult works of 20th-century prose, the novel is a linguistic mash-up of slang, pun, poetry and nonsense. Joycean Character Comes Alive in ‘riverrun’ 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z We are all guilty of using linguistic shorthand. Perspective | Let’s talk about ‘Project Runway’ stars using ‘old lady’ to describe unflattering clothes 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Mechem’s libretto is bright and witty, especially in the high-flown errors he concocts for Mrs. Malaprop, that marvelous Sheridan character whose name became synonymous with linguistic blunders. Opera Review: Bronx Opera Company’s ‘The Rivals’ at the Lovinger Theater 2014-01-13T19:15:13Z But the Rising Stars tour tests communication in different cultural and linguistic settings. Europe’s ‘Rising Star’ Musicians Give as Much as They Get 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z There are no “illegal immigrants” Topics: , Illegal immigrants, , , , , As one of the world’s largest news outlets, the Associated Press’s linguistic mandates significantly shape the broader vernacular. There are no “illegal immigrants” 2013-04-05T00:00:00Z Working with the literature and linguistics academics Jonathan Hope and Sam Hollands, we've been using computers to search millions of words in texts pre-dating Shakespeare. Five myths about Shakespeare’s contribution to the English language 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z As the U.S. student population continues to rapidly diversify along cultural and linguistic lines, the demographics of the teacher population remain stable at roughly 82 percent white and predominantly female. The sound of inclusion: Why teachers’ words matter 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z American publisher Seven Stories Press describes Djebar's work as "marked by a regal unwillingness to compromise in the face of ethical, linguistic and narrative complexities." Assia Djebar dies in Paris at 78 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z Or could it reflect something more telling, given the current climate of political rhetoric challenging reproductive rights: a linguistic representation of backsliding efforts toward gender equality? ABC hints at B-word in 2 new shows about women 2012-04-11T13:18:11Z But “Welcome to Braggsville” isn’t all linguistic acrobatics at the expense of its characters. The most unsettling, must-read novel this year: ‘Welcome to Braggsville’ 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z About how to advise actors to deal with the Bard’s linguistic currency, iambic pentameter: “I really think Shakespeare’s most important word is at the end of his line,” he said. Perspective | How do you sell Shakespeare in 2020? The Englishman newly heading a storied D.C. theater has a playbook. 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z Other researchers, such as David Sidhu at University College London, have tried to determine the "best first word" from a linguistic perspective. Want to master Wordle? Here’s the best strategy for your first guess 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z From a linguistic point of view, the word should probably be outlawed – perhaps we could ban "webinar" at the same time? – but as a concept it was everywhere in Austin. SXSW 2011: The internet is over 2011-03-15T08:00:03Z The visitors and the villagers fumble through linguistic mix-ups, their tongues similar yet different. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z Accidents of character or circumstance, plus linguistic or cultural misunderstanding, are the motor of events in these pages. Álvaro Enrigue’s ‘Sudden Death’ hits history around like a tennis ball 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z Along with anyone who can’t tolerate profanity, which is basically the play’s linguistic glue, they will have a hard time warming to a playwright who isn’t interested in telling us what’s right. Review: In ‘Between Riverside and Crazy,’ Real Estate Gets Real 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z In a phone interview recently, Mr. Mortensen insisted he wasn’t trying to show off his linguistic chops or his physical prowess. Viggo Mortensen Goes Off the Grid With ‘Captain Fantastic’ 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z The spread of both is, in part, an issue of linguistics. Everyone’s a Curator Now 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Marketing lures consumers – particularly urban, middle-class ones – with games of linguistic pretence. In defence of pretentiousness | Dan Fox 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z Her audacious lyrics, which revel in the linguistic rebellion of Dominican slang and embrace the euphoria of sex, are mostly unprintable. Tokischa, Latin Music’s Newest Rebel, Isn’t Holding Back 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z Couto’s writing, critics said, was the linguistic exoticism of a Portuguese writer with no lived experience of the characters he imagined. How Mia Couto’s Words Help Weave the Story of Mozambique 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z The latter point is key: As with so much discrimination, linguistic bias is often subconscious and intertwined with other kinds of prejudice. The Biases We Hold Against the Way People Speak 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z Dr. Doolots, quite literally a prescriptive grammarian, ministers to his patients’ sundry linguistic ills with bumbling manic energy. Luis Ávalos, Actor on ‘The Electric Company,’ Dies at 67 2014-01-28T04:38:52Z Mr. Scorsese draws some modest, uneasy comedy from the linguistic and cultural differences between the priests and their congregation, as when a grabby, highly agitated woman begs the rather startled Garupe to hear her confession. Review: Questions and Prayers Go Unanswered in Scorsese’s ‘Silence’ 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Through threats, extortion and public shaming, the group attempts to enforce political, ideological and linguistic purity. Review | ‘Homeland’ captures the personal costs of Spain’s violent political conflict 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Espousing the uncompromising individualist’s motto of “Non serviam” — I will not serve — he rejected Ireland, Catholicism, conventional morality and every form of literary and linguistic constraint. Joyce, ‘Ulysses’ and obscenity viewed in page-turner style For the first time, delighted at his own rare linguistic lapse, he bursts into a roar of infectious laughter, betraying a sense of wicked fun. Andris Nelsons 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z As far as I’m concerned, these words simply confirm, on a purely informational, linguistic level, what is apparent every day all around us: that the city is an unending source of wonder. The Art of Summer: Painterly Experiences Where They?re Least Expected 2011-08-24T12:01:01Z Couto’s creativity, playfulness and hybridization of standard Portuguese with elements that marked it as uniquely Mozambican make him “a linguistic innovator,” said David Brookshaw, who has been translating Couto’s work since the 1980s. How Mia Couto’s Words Help Weave the Story of Mozambique 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z She also cares about the linguistic acrobatics used by space scientists when they address things they don’t want to talk about. Books of The Times: In Mary Roach?s ?Packing for Mars,? the Gross Stuff 2010-08-08T22:38:00Z |
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