Linguistics Blog Posts

by Michael Rosen   I should have guessed that if Michael Gove was going to reply to one of my Guardian Letters from a Curious Parent, he wouldn’t engage with what I actually wrote. Expert though he is in linguistics, he seems to find it...

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Hey, everyone! 你好吗？Salut, ca va? I’d go on, but I am lazy. Wait, why am I writing in a big empty white text box again? Oh, right! I have an idea for 2013! Yeah, I haven’t been around that long on here, but it is never too late to...

by Trine Nickelsen, Apollon Magazine   “Have you considered how easy it is for us Norwegians to learn English?” asks Jan Terje Faarlund, professor of linguistics at the University of Oslo. “Obviously there are many English wor...

I’ve got the whole world in my hands. Do you have the whole world in your hands? There is a lot of pressure for that global responsibility. Can you handle it all? Is the world really that small, or do we have really small hands? Please excuse...

ஒரு காலேஜ்ல பசங்க, பொண்ணுங்க ஹாஸ்டலுக்குள்ள போறாங் கன்னு நிறைய கம்ப்ளைன்ட். அதுக்கு ஸ்ட்ரி க...

தமிழில் தட்டச்சு செய்வது எப்படி? தமிழில் யூனிகோடு முறையில் தட்டச்சு செய்வது எப்படி? தமிழ் யூ...

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தமிழில் தட்டச்சு செய்வது எப்படி? தமிழில் யூனிகோடு முறையில் தட்டச்சு செய்வது எப்படி? தமிழ் யூ...

ஒரு காலேஜ்ல பசங்க, பொண்ணுங்க ஹாஸ்டலுக்குள்ள போறாங் கன்னு நிறைய கம்ப்ளைன்ட். அதுக்கு ஸ்ட்ரி க...

After issuing Lingua Didaktika a journal on Language, Literature, and Language Teaching, English Department of FBS Universitas Negeri Padang publishes Journal of English Language Teaching and English Language and Literature. These two journals aim at...

Faculty of Languages and Arts of State University of Padang (FBS UNP) will conduct an International Seminar. This seminar is planed on 20-21 October 2012. There will be 4keynote speakers from various countries. Prof. Brenton Doecke (Deakin University...

We owe it to our readers  to use clear and simple writing. There are way too many blogs to read, and the faster our readers get our message, the better!  Let’s not make them sift through several layers of words to understand what we are sayin...

Remember the movie AI which came out years ago? It was hardly a blockbuster, but the overall theme was creative and innovative. This movie reminded me of the A.L.I.C.E. Artificial Linguistic Foundation website. I stumbled upon A.L.I.C.E. a...

When writing the first draft, give your subconscious free rein. When editing, be conscious of EVERYTHING. When you reread your novel/poem/short story, read every sentence with this question in mind: “Why is this sentence in my story(or poem)?” An...

The grammar-translation method takes a lot of flack.  More than it deserves, I think.  There, I said it.  Leave it up to Ken Seeroi to be the one to defend something he doesn’t even like, but hey, somebody’s gotta stand up for the little guy.

When it comes to teaching languages, the grammar-translation method has become the child nobody loves or wants to acknowledge.  But is it really hell on toast?  No, it ain’t .  There, I said it.  Leave it to Seeroi to be the one to defend s...

The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) funded Two PhD Students for the “Semantic search in E-discovery”-project at University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Study Subject(s): Plant... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my we...

Postdoctoral Position in Fornaldarsaga Studies at Department of Scandinavian Research, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 2012 Study Subject(s): Fornaldarsaga Studies Course... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my webs...

Humboldt University Berlin: Berlin School of Mind and Brain International Doctoral Programme In collaboration with: In Berlin: Humboldt-Universität, Charité, Freie Universität, Technische Universität, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscien...