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 ...

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 ...

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.

According to noted linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky, many linguists claim that language does not exist. On Friday, Chomsky, a Penn alumnus, delivered a lecture titled “Should we study ...

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With a spoken version of his recently published text, “Persistence of Vision: Reading the Language of Cinema,” Martin Scorsese delivered the Kennedy Center’s annual Jefferson Lecture this past April, ...

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 ...

As we eagerly await The Wolf of Wall Street coming later this year, cinephiles can get their film on the genius of Martin Scorsese by way of an hour-long lecture from just a few months ago. The ...

For members of the Vicenza military community looking to sharpen their Italian language skills, the SETAF-AF Language Lab ...