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Signs and De-signs: A Multilingual Congress ... on the train

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Tuesday, September 23, 2008. A Multilingual Congress . on the train. Thinking about my recent trip to Essen, Germany to participate in an applied linguistics conference, I realize that one of my most lasting memories is also one of the most mundane. That’s not to say that I’ll soon forget gazing into the sunset in the reflecting pool by the Zollverein coal mine. Or having late night discussions in the open creative spaces of Essen’s Unperfekthaus. Both of us, of course, had learned another language as we...

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Signs and De-signs: 11/01/2008 - 12/01/2008

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Sunday, November 09, 2008. From last week's election campaign.why does it seem so long ago already? I wrote this for the blog Found in Translation. And my class in Education 140 at UC Berkeley, where we talk about Vygotsky and others. 8221; The room is filled with the voices of men, women, older and younger, sitting around the table with their cell phones in one hand and a pen in the other. “My name’s so-and-so calling from Barack Obama’s Campaign for Change and I’m calling to...I dislike getting phone c...

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Signs and De-signs: Speak English or be suspended?

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Friday, September 05, 2008. Speak English or be suspended? Several golf and sporting-news sources have reported over the last few weeks on what is being called a first-of-its-kind language policy for professional athletes in the U.S.: “ Speak English or be suspended. To its so-called “effective communication policy”, stating, “there are other ways to achieve our shared objective of supporting and enhancing the business opportunities for every tour player.”. The imperative to inject broadcast sports with ...

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Signs and De-signs: 07/01/2008 - 08/01/2008

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Tuesday, July 22, 2008. Wellperhaps 20 would have been a better goal than 100? Now back in Berkeley for several days, I can feel the visceral sense of difference, the energy of being a displaced body. Why is it that even in Berkeley "diversity" seems to be more of a salad dressing than a salad bowl? Langue - Parole - Langage. Reminds us in his Language and Communicative Practices. At a particular instant in time; " parole. Is the realization of langue. Of what a word is? And why stop there? That would se...

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Signs and De-signs: Cutting along the bias

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Saturday, July 18, 2009. Cutting along the bias. It’s funny how translation can bring to light meanings in familiar words that you never knew were there. The last few days, I’ve been working on a document in Japanese—or, I guess “document” might be too formal a term. It’s an advertisement for a thermal blanket with different layers that are supposed to retain the heat, while being light and compact. But what was the term in the middle? But no. A quick search in the dictionary revealed the word &#8220...

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Study: Rich more likely to take candy from babies | Textual Trajectories

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Study: Rich more likely to take candy from babies. February 27, 2012 at 5:15 pm ( Research. Interesting new study from Berkeley:. Http:/ www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/study-rich-more-likely-to-take-candy-from-babies/2011/08/25/gIQAXE0beR blog.html. Lotta potential holes in the studies:. I think it depends on how you frame. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your Go...

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FIT 101 – George Lakoff on framing, metaphors, and political language | Textual Trajectories

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FIT 101 – George Lakoff on framing, metaphors, and political language. March 31, 2009 at 4:25 am ( Language and politics. Let’s take a common term used in politics: “tax relief.” When George W. Bush took office, George Lakoff noticed that press releases started to use the term “tax relief.” He realized that the word. Hearing it over and over will produce synaptic connections in your brain, eventually becoming. Framing happens throughout all of language in politics:. Consider how conservative media. Or is...

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Signs and De-signs: 06/01/2008 - 07/01/2008

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Monday, June 30, 2008. Studying French* on the TGV. The Train à Grande Vitesse. Speeds through the countryside: fields of green and brown, hills rising in the distance, rows of grapes, houses and farms dotting the spaces in between. Chapter 7, page 183. “Ou etes-vous allé(e)? 8221; (Where did you go? So, a few pages later, on p. 190, we find the vocabulary list with many verbs of motion, including:. Aller - to go. Venir - to come. Monter - to go up; to get into. Sortir - to go out of. Icons of language l...

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Signs and De-signs: 11/01/2007 - 12/01/2007

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Thursday, November 15, 2007. Dawn and Mike's Dongari Wedding Anthem. Here's a song that I made for my friends Dawn and Mike, who just got married a few months ago and are now living in Hawaii. Cheers! Click here for song. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). On Dad's retirement day. Wish that were my car! Found in Translation: BLC blog. La bulle de plume. Shower in the Dark. Singapore Life by Rie. Stuff white people like. The Social Life of Sarah. Allô Lyon" wikispaces page. UCB New Media working group.

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50 banned words on New York tests, polling, and cultural bias | Textual Trajectories

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50 banned words on New York tests, polling, and cultural bias. March 29, 2012 at 6:53 am ( Language and politics. Http:/ www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2012/03/29/piers-morgan-only-in-america-banned-words.cnn. Piers Morgan examines 50 words that are banned on New York school tests. Here’s the full list:. Abuse (physical, sexual, emotional, or psychological). Alcohol (beer and liquor), tobacco, or drugs. Birthday celebrations (and birthdays). Cancer (and other diseases). Homes with swimming pools.