Linguistics

...use more than advertising can do. People want to see and feel a product that represents their community and settings," said Hezron Mogambi, a linguistics lecturer at the University of Nairobi. Content creation is also likely to rise online...

In this article: Microsoft, Windows 7, Africa, Google Translate, and University of Nairobi

...looming hideousness. Among the latest twigs on the bonfire: This piece describing how director James Cameron employed a USC linguistics professor "to create an entire functioning language for the tribe of 10-foot-tall blue aliens who...

In this article: Avatar, James Cameron, Hollywood, Twitter, Flickr, Sigourney Weaver, Sam Worthington, and Titanic

...what was going on," he said. "I was outraged by what I saw." Ananya Roy, professor of city and regional planning, said she and linguistics professor George Lakoff attended a campus press conference held in Sproul Hall and later joined...

In this article: Misdemeanor and E mail

...that a single name for his field is hard to come by: he has been described variously as a sociolinguist, an anthropological linguist and a linguistic anthropologist. He himself came to call his vast, ecumenical discipline "the ethnography...

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

...light projection, in 2010. For more information, call (501) 843-7469 or visit silverscreen cabot.com. Getting the word out: The Linguists, a 65-minute documentary about two professors who travel the world to document languages, will be shown...

In this article: Michael Oher, All rights reserved, The Blind Side, 2009 NFL Draft, University of Central Arkansas, and Baltimore Ravens

...would allow a simple majority of California's legislature to decide about the state budget and revenue. Lakoff, a cognitive sciences and linguistics professor, said the passage of the California Democracy Act would amend the state...

In this article: Tax, Revenue, California, Democracy, Respondent, and Office of the Attorney General

Dell Hymes, an influential scholar of linguistics and anthropology who helped pioneer the study of how people use language in their everyday lives, died of kidney failure Nov. 13 at a nursing home in Charlottesville. The retired University...

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

...expert to consult on Twitter's new phrasing: he has written or contributed to more than 100 books on language, including on internet linguistics, and examined the text-messaging culture from which Twitter was born in his most recent work,...

In this article: Twitter and David Crystal

...and grew up in Wasilla, but doggone it, why did she talk like someone from the movie "Fargo"? Three University of Wisconsin-Madison linguists tackled the conundrum in a research article to be published in the Journal of English...

In this article: Sarah Palin, Alaska, Wisconsin, 2008 Vice Presidential Debate, Political science, University of Alaska Anchorage, and University of Wisconsin-Madison

...the end-product of a comprehensive catalog and online searchable database. "It's our responsibility as linguists to do what we can," Campbell said. "Linguistics is a study of human cognition, what makes the mind tick, click and work. If...

In this article: Lyle Campbell, Anthony Aristar, E mail, Eastern Michigan University, University of Utah, University of Michigan, National Science Foundation, and Salt Lake City