...may be true, it seems Cox needs to change the narrative that's come to define his fledgling campaign. As famed cognitive linguist George Lakoff wrote, when people are told, "Don't think of an elephant," they'll likely think of an elephant.

In this article: Mike Cox, Kwame Kilpatrick, Manoogian Mansion, Detroit Free Press, Free Press, George Lakoff, and Detroit

...who are archaeologists and the ones who are looking at cultural phenomena through kinship systems or through artifacts,'' said Deborah Tannen , a Georgetown University linguist and the author of popular books about communication. "They...

In this article: Literature, Linguistics, Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Georgetown University, John J. Gumperz, Noam Chomsky, and Language

The retired University of Virginia professor was 82 and had Alzheimer's disease. Dr. Hymes was a "giant" in both fields, said Deborah Tannen , a professor of linguistics at Georgetown University and a best-selling author. While...

In this article: Linguistics, Anthropology, Dell Hymes, Charlottesville, University of Pennsylvania, Reed College, and Gary Snyder

...service's evolution from a venue for self expression into a forum for conversation, according to Welsh linguist David Crystal. Crystal seemed an ideal expert to consult on Twitter 's new phrasing: he has written or contributed to more...

In this article: Twitter, David Crystal, and Linguistics

It is freighted, in other words, with meaning and memory. Is this invariably true? In a recent essay in the journal World Affairs , John McWhorter , a linguist at Columbia University , expresses his sadness at the disappearance of so many...

In this article: University of Toronto, John McWhorter, Italy, Toronto, Bread, Climate change, Global warming, and World War II

...the policies of Bush 's second term, and that is pretty much what happened, apart from a different rhetorical style," Chomsky said. Chomsky said the U.S. operates under the " Mafia principle," explaining "the Godfather does not tolerate...

In this article: Noam Chomsky, Barack Obama, U.S., Middle East, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Mafia, and School of Oriental and African Studies

..."There's a fork in Ma's leg" may help the learner remember that the Hebrew word for fork is mazleg, and so forth. The notable linguist Michel Thomas taught students to remember that estar is a Spanish verb for to be by using the phrase...

In this article: Ghil'ad Zuckermann, Raccoon, God, Linguist, Michel Thomas, Great Britain, UK, and Rwanda

The Michel Thomas Method is an original method developed by Michel Thomas for teaching languages . Thomas stated that his students would be conversationally proficient after a few days' study. Thomas was hired by Raquel Welch , Barbra...

In this article: Michel Thomas, Woody Allen, Emma Thompson, Anxiety, Prince Rainier of Monaco, Hodder and Stoughton, BBC Television, McGraw-Hill, and Britain

...fell to the Nazis, he escaped to Nice, which was nominally neutral under the Vichy government, changing his name to Michel Thomas so he could operate in the French Resistance movement more easily. He was arrested several times, and sent...

In this article: Michel Thomas, World War II, Klaus Barbie, U.S. Army, Lyon, and University of Bordeaux

...study of almost all our recorded vocabulary. We see words not in isolation, but through their relationships. To quote the linguist David Crystal : "The OED gave us individual trees, but never a sight of the whole forest or helpful pathways...

In this article: Oxford English Dictionary, University of Glasgow, David Crystal, John Murray, Berlin International Film Festival, and Rebecca

...at the end of her rope, was "the pain in the ass." My mother had succeeded in setting up a sisterly dynamic that would have made Deborah Tannen's eyes grow large. The Georgetown University linguistics professor who has written so many...

In this article: Deborah Tannen, Linguistics, and Georgetown University

.... A pupil of Paul-Edouard Passy , professor of phonetics at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes at the Sorbonne ( University of Paris ), Daniel Jones is considered by many to be the greatest phonetician of the early 20th century. In 1900,...

In this article: Daniel Jones, London, Henry Sweet, Paul Passy, Alexander Melville Bell, and Cambridge

April 2009, Paperback, 304 pages, $26.95 Linguist David Crystal's Autobiography and Ode to the Study of Language Once on the fast track in academia, author and linguist David Crystal stepped down from the ivory tower years ago. Now, in...

In this article: David Crystal, Linguistics, and Absenteeism

...for their schools, their sermons and their songs. He died in Christiania on September 23, 1896, and was buried with public honours. Ivar Aasen -tunet, an institution devoted to the Nynorsk language, opened in June 2000. Their web page includes...

In this article: Ivar Aasen, Norway, Storting, and Oslo

...never appears in the book. So are the critics unfair on Brown? They're certainly harsh. Edinburgh professor of linguistics Geoffrey Pullum says " Brown 's writing is not just bad; it is staggeringly, clumsily, thoughtlessly, almost...

In this article: Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol, The Da Vinci Code, The Da Vinci Code, Bezu Fache, Angels and Demons, Geoffrey Pullum, and Stewart Lee

...authors of recent times (81 million copies for "Da Vinci"), but almost everyone agrees that, literarily, he stinks. The linguist Geoffrey Pullum once described his writing as "not just bad; it is staggeringly, clumsily, thoughtlessly,...

In this article: Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol, Robert Langdon, Washington, Robin Griffith-Jones, Harry Potter, The Da Vinci Code, Rosicrucians, and Christianity

...institut, Historishe sektsye, 1947. Mekhires-Yosef: ... aroysgenumen fun seyfer "Tam ve-yashar" un fun andere sforim ..., 1923. For Max Weinreich on his seventieth birthday; studies in Jewish languages, literature, and society, 1964.

In this article: Uriel Weinreich, Max Weinreich, Vilnius, Yale University Press, New York City, Kuldiga, Cancer, and University of Pittsburgh Press

...( BDC ), and were instrumental in the Allied Denazification of Germany , and in the Nuremberg War Crimes trials . Role of CIC Agent Michel Thomas In 2000, "Test of Courage" a biography of former CIC Agent Michel Thomas gave an account of his...

In this article: Michel Thomas, William D. Browne, Robert Wolfe, U.S., Nazi Party, and United States Attorney