VOLTAIRE defined Etymology as a science where vowels signify nothing and consonants very little. This is so far true that even the wisest books on Language affect one, after all, like a series of ...

AN American scholar of wide range, at the same time thorough and unpretentious, is a rarity; a philologist who is neither perversely wrongheaded nor the victim of a preconceived theory is a still ...

Starting from the French experience, speaker Prof. Claire Extramiana will talk about the importance of language as a tool for communication in the case of foreigners or immigrants in a new country.

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On October 3, Columbia University’s John H. McWhorter delivered the latest edition of AEI’s American Dream Lecture Series: “Language and the Left: Can Words Create Justice?” Dr. McWhorter began his ...

The Van Riper Lectures began in 1981, honoring Dr. Charles Van Riper, a pioneer in the field of speech-language pathology and audiology and founder of the Speech Pathology and Audiology program at ...

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute will present Language, a Remarkable Human Tool lectures at the Susi Q Senior Center, 380 Third St. The lectures are from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Monday and May 17. Sue ...

Allen Tate, noted American poet and critic, will give a free public lecture tomorrow afternoon (Thurs.) on "Tension in Poetic Imagery," in Sever Hall, 4:30 o'clock. The lecture is under the auspices ...

History of Economic Ideas, Vol. 18, No. 1 (2010), pp. 11-32 (22 pages) Among the abundant literature devoted to Adam Smith's complete works, there has been a relative lack of interest in the Lectures ...

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