Linguistics

                   

Primitive People Have Primitive Languages and Other Nonsense

robertlindsay.blogspot.com     4 hrs ago          

When you work in a field, you find that the vast majority of folks outside the field have totally false and yet often culturally popular views about the major questions we deal with in the field. I have a Masters in Linguistics...                    

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Twitter Poll: Do You Work in the Same Field as Your Degree?

consumerismcommentary.com     yesterday          

While I haven’t decided whether I’m making a habit of this, earlier today I asked Twitter users whether their current job is related to the field in which they earned a bachelor’s degree. The unique thing about Twitter is that...                    

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Genes and Languages: Not So Strange Bedfellows?

23andme.com     Aug 19, 2008          

Throughout the history of our species there has been one constant: movement. Since the origin of Homo sapiens nearly 200,000 years ago in East Africa, humans have journeyed around the globe, ultimately inhabiting every...                    

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The Art of Beautiful Arguments

thestranger.com     Aug 19, 2008          

To end a conversation I had yesterday with a close friend in Vancouver BC: In the way consciousness is no longer a matter for philosophy but for neural science, aesthetics (a discipline established by philosophy and continued...                    

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It's Not An Olympic Sport But Team USA Still Brings Home A Linguistics Gold Medal

scientificblogging.com     Aug 18, 2008          

The summer games in Beijing are not the only place where the United States can claim gold medal bragging rights. The sixth International Linguistics Olympiad ended Friday in Slanchev Bryag, Bulgaria, and U.S. high school...                    

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Here Is A Comprehensive Definition Of Linguistics And Its Structure

bharatbhasha.com     Aug 16, 2008   1 related          

was more focused on the historical aspects of language. Nowadays, philology is generally referred to as the study of grammar, literary traditions and history of a certain language. In the field of academics, the accepted...                    

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Meet the Mytbusters: Jamie Hyneman

idolstalker.com     Aug 13, 2008          

Hailing from Indiana farm country, Jamie Hyneman is a multifaceted man: wilderness survival expert, boat captain, diver, linguist, animal wrangler, machinist and cook, to name a few. His career has been equally diverse: Jamie...                    

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i, and You, and We

integral-options.blogspot.com     Aug 13, 2008          

I had a bit of time to kill at the gym today between clients, so I read a recent issue of the New York Times Magazine. One of the articles that caught my attention, being a geek and all, was Caroline Winter's Me, Myself and I,...                    

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George Lakoff and the linguistics wars

mindhacks.com     Aug 12, 2008   2 related          

George Lakoff is famous for being one of the founding fathers of cognitive linguistics, for battling Noam Chomsky, and for arguing that using the right metaphors is the key to winning a political debate. He's profiled in an...                    

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Language differences between men and women

rightreading.com     Aug 11, 2008          

According to the dust jacket of The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine, published by Morgan Road Books in 2006, the book explains why A woman uses about 20,000 words per day while a man uses about 7,000 A woman remembers fights...                    

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