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 ...

New chair Oliver Simons outlines his plans and discusses why the study of languages and literature is key today.

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.

Jennifer Manoukian, a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Irvine, said Armenians still long to preserve their language because they share the belief that if they lose their language, they lose ...

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 ...

On Wednesday, November 30 at 4pm, University of Arizona Professor Megan Figueroa gave the LingCircle capstone lecture, "I Tried to Study Language Development and All I Got Was Linguistic ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The University Insider is The Daily’s first faculty and staff-oriented newsletter. This weekly ...

BEFORE 1927 there was no systematic account in the English language of the extensive investigations into cerebral function by Prof. Pavlov and his school, commenced in St. Petersburg a quarter of a ...

A BEARDED SWEDE in a three-piece suit stands at a lectern. Spotlit, Erik Bünger tells his listeners about an exchange between Ludwig Wittgenstein and Bertrand Russell in 1911. According to ...

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 ...