Word: linguistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...insistence on the noted French film scholar, linguist and angler Jean-Claude Robespierre that the tribe is "a collective manifestation of the Weltan-Schauung of the post-modern condition of the explosion of semiotic coherence' seems to be not so much an insightful, engaged comment as the deluded, syphilitic ravings of a irreparably damaged mind...
...caught, you can always claim you were doing an homage. Director Roland Emmerich's chief honorees are the Indiana Jones and Star Wars sagas. In a prologue set in 1928, archaeologists in Egypt uncover a large metallic ring. Fifty years later, Daniel Jackson (James Spader), a nerdy but stalwart linguist, deciphers the ring's hieroglyphics. They suggest it was left behind centuries ago by supersmart aliens (oh, hi there, 2001). By twiddling a few dials, scientists set the ring humming, and Jackson and a quarrelsome combat team led by Colonel Jack O'Neil (a glum Kurt Russell) are transported...
...salacious misconduct. Heightened attention to the issue of sexual transgression, however, seems to have eclipsed discussion of the more profoundly common ways men and women communicate -- or fail to communicate -- with one another in offices, schools and factories every day. Talking from 9 to 5, the latest book by linguist and gender-war pundit Deborah Tannen (William Morrow; $23; due Oct. 19), has set out to correct that...
...Oralism was only sporadically successful, and schools that subscribed to it or to related techniques found that students still learned ASL on the sly. "Try as they might, they were unable to stamp out sign language," says Northeastern University linguist Harlan Lane, author of The Mask of Benevolence: Disabling the Deaf Community. Yet "signing" would wait another century for its renaissance: in the 1960s, when linguists certified it as just as autonomous, flexible and rich as English, it became the core of an identity movement that still flourishes today. More than half a million ASL speakers -- a group sometimes plagued...
...concentrators are in much better spirits and very excited about a chair who is actually a linguist," said Joel L. Derfner '95, a linguistics concentrator...