Entries from Michael Erard - Archives tagged with 'Linguists'
Analyzing Eggcorns and Snowclones, & Challenging Strunk & White, New York Times, June 20, 2006
Serious linguistic scholars don't usually write about talking dogs and street signs -- not for publication, anyway. But that is what they do on Language Log, a funny, wide-ranging blog that provides up-to-the-minute linguistic commentary written for a wider...
A Language is Born, New Scientist, October 22, 2005
WHEN Carol Padden first visited Al-Sayyid, a small Bedouin village in the Negev desert in Israel, her expectations were not high. Padden, a linguist at the University of California, San Diego, first went there in 2000 to study a newly...
A Lesson in Linguistics from the Mouths of Babes, New York Times, Oct. 12, 2004
'Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin,'' the three little pigs taunted the big bad wolf. When Anna Van Valin was 4 years old, she pronounced the phrase ''not by the chair of my hinny hin hin'' and...
Metaphor and Myth, Texas Observer, Dec. 21, 2001
Team Sanchez Ponders What It Means To Be Hispanic Given that language and politics are so linked, it’s remarkable that linguists and political professionals rarely mingle. So when George Lakoff, a Berkeley linguist, traveled to Austin for a day-long meeting...
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