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15 May 12 - Society Language And Linguistics News

VIEW: Saving our indigenous languages — Asher John
The question that could be asked is how our languages can be given their proper place in our society and how they can be used to control illiteracy and many other social problems our society is facing. Modern linguistics looks at languages as capital ...

Express yourself: The Kumzari language needs to be preserved
AN agency report recently reported that home to 4000 people, Kumzar village in Oman has a thousand year-old language of its own that no one else on earth understands.

Nadine Chahine Named to Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People in Business 2012
"My focus has always been on the complex and evolving societies of the Arab world. There's a lack of high-quality Arabic typefaces, so the challenge is to create beautiful Arabic type that's culturally relevant and invites people to want to read, ...

Award-Winning Author to Speak on “Oceanic Art”
Her lecture will explore the history and its importance of “Oceanic Art” in society and throughout history. Refreshments will be served at 6:00 PM; the lecture will begin promptly at 6:30 PM.

Leading light of university engagement outlines vision
Gill, a professor in the school of language studies and linguistics at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), started out some 30 years ago as a basic language instructor, and reflected modestly on her impressive career progression: “If I can do this, ...

Nadine Chahine Named to Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People in Business 2012
“My focus has always been on the complex and evolving societies of the Arab world. There's a lack of high-quality Arabic typefaces, so the challenge is to create beautiful Arabic type that's culturally relevant and invites people to want to read, ...

'Unique' EU research project to help detect social problems
"Researchers will be able to access all those different archives from behind a single computer," says Steven Krauwer, linguistics researcher at Utrecht University in the Netherlands and coordinator of the Common Language Resources and Technology ...

Enticing expats to learn Arabic is key to charter's success
Emiratis and linguists say the Arabic Language Charter launched last week will succeed only if Emiratis encourage expatriates to learn the language. The charter, launched by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, Vice President of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, ...

Author Shares Criticism on African Society and US Immigrants Life Realities
The new French language fiction by Abou-Bakar Mamah, “Une Douloureuse Espérance” (published by iUniverse) highlights the case of those who have been marginalized, victims of nepotism, because they either don't have or don't know anyone to help them ...

Report card - May 13, 2012
After college, she would like to obtain a doctorate in linguistics or anthropology to become a language researcher or ethnographer.

Meet Sarah Babinski, Scranton Preparatory School
"I love each language's unique syntactical structure, the thought process behind idiomatic phrases and the insight into the minds of others I can find in studying a foreign language." But linguistics are more than a fleeting interest for Sarah.

Linguists grapple with lack of formal major, a blessing and a curse
Columbia does not offer a linguistics major, putting students through more bureaucratic work but bringing them closer with fellow linguists and professors. By Elizabeth Sun Some Columbia linguists may know that the Macedonian language lacks an ...

Eighteen honored with Chancellor's Awards for Excellence
He is an ambassador for the College of Business, Economic Student Association member and officer and active member of Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church.

Culture, Not Biology, Shapes Language
As is true with any human society, Pirahã communities are socially complex. Everett first showed up among the Pirahãs as a missionary associated with the Summer Institute for Linguistics (SIL), with the goal of converting the natives to Christianity by ...

Talking With Your Fingers
At this point, two forms of language coexist in societies: choppy speech and crafted prose. No ancient Roman spoke the way Virgil and Cicero wrote.

Institute dedicated to Arabic's glory
By Iman Sherif, Staff Reporter Abu Dhabi A new specialised institute focusing on Arabic has been established at Zayed University to reinforce the language across the region and the world, it was announced Wednesday. "The Institute for the Arabic ...

KNC-NA 24th Annual Confernce
Kirmanj Gundi “The Rise and Decline of Civil Society in Kurdistan of Iran” by Mr. Arash Saleh “The Role of Education in Kurdish National Reconciliation" by Dr.

Chinese language education taking off in Turkey's universities
Besides language study, courses such as history of Chinese culture, Chinese philosophy, and Chinese society are also offered.

The World-Herald's 2012 All State Academic Team
And in many cases, their interests cross what have been seen as traditional lines between disciplines, combining math, science and language arts. There's no such thing as a divide between the right brain and the left brain on this team.

The Janus Face of Metaphor.
WHEN THOMAS SPRAT, in his History of the Royal Society, said he wished to rid all scientific writing of 'this vicious abundance of phrase' - meaning all figurative language, but metaphor primarily - he was misunderstanding the nature of language.