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Articles with keyword "Linguistics"

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Do-It-Yourself Language

Esperanto, Klingon, "Oirish," and others.

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From the Horse's Mouth

Pinpointing a home of the first Indo-European speakers is a charged task that David Anthony takes seriously.

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Apocalypse Not

In few fields is the gap separating educated opinion from specialist opinion so wide as in linguistics.

Edwin L. Battistella

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Impertinent Questions with Edwin L. Battistella

On the self-help career of grammarian Sherwin Cody.

Parents picket the schools in Kanawha County, 1974.

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A Battle over Books

West Virginians battled over their school books in 1974.

La Virgen de Guadalupe

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The United States of Mestizo

A term of conquest and miscegenation now describes a cosmopolitan identity and worldview.

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Sprechen Sie Texan?

It would be hard to imagine anyone more learned about the German spoken today in central Texas than Hans Boas.