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An Interview with Vyvyan Evans, author of The Babel Apocalypse
Vyvyan Evans is an expert on language and digital communication. He holds a PhD in linguistics from Georgetown University, and has taught linguistics in Asia, Europe, and North America. His popular science essays and articles have been featured in The … Continue reading
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What I’m reading: Frederick J. Newmeyer’s American Linguistics in Transition
One of the benefits of retirement–a permanent sabbatical–is more time to more time to read, and I’m hoping to post more reaction to what I’m reading here. Today, a snowy end to February, is American Linguistics in Transition. When I … Continue reading
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What’s your word of the year?
What words epitomized 2022? Earlier this month, the attendees at the American Dialect Society selected –ussy as the Word of the Year for 2022. It’s a word part, a suffix, that according to linguist Ben Zimmer, who emcees the Word … Continue reading
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The Disappearing Act-cent, a guest post by Weather Lenczewski
Weather Lenczewski is a junior in the Honors College at SOU. She is a Sociology and Anthropology major with a History minor. She hails from Woodstock, Illinois, but currently resides in the Rogue Valley. The Disappearing Act-cent … Continue reading
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