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What to Do When Your Patient Doesn’t Speak English via @ASHAWeb
What to Do When Your Patient Doesn’t Speak English via @ASHAWeb the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Patients are entitled to quality ...

David Sedaris on living in Paris and learning French, in this
David Sedaris on living in Paris and learning French, in this weeks episode of this American life David Sedaris takes Ira on a tour of his favorite s...

new book on Lingua Franca contexts: The Acquisition of
new book on Lingua Franca contexts: The Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Competence in a Lingua Franca Context, by Mercedes Durham: In a world where an...

Staging language: An introduction to the sociolinguistics of
Staging language: An introduction to the sociolinguistics of performance: Staged performance involves the overt, scheduled identification and elevati...

Why is academic writing so academic? from the New
Why is academic writing so academic? from the New Yorker Professors didn’t sit down and decide to make academic writing this way, any more than jou...

The thing was that Earth was the only place in the whole known
The thing was that Earth was the only place in the whole known Universe where language was used. It was a unique Earthling invention. Everybody else ...

Walt Whitman on language: “Language, be it remember’d, is not
Walt Whitman on language: “Language, be it remember’d, is not an abstract construction of the learn’d, or of dictionary-makers, but is something...

14 Words for Horse: The Linguistics of Game of Thrones “The
14 Words for Horse: The Linguistics of Game of Thrones “The days of aliens spouting gibberish with no grammatical structure are over,” University...