Οι χαμένες γλώσσες, Τα Νέα 7/11/2009

Language, News

Toυ ΓΙΩΡΓΟΥ ΑΓΓΕΛΟΠΟΥΛΟΥ

Κάθε φορά που μια γλώσσα περιπίπτει σε αχρηστία, πεθαίνουν παραδόσεις, γνώσεις, έργα τέχνης. Τα τελευταία χρόνια η προσοχή των γλωσσολόγων έχει στραφεί στη διάσωση γλωσσικών ιδιωμάτων που κινδυνεύουν και η κοινή γνώμη έμαθε ιστορίες ανθρώπων που δεν έχουν πια συνομιλητές, που έχουν απομείνει οι μοναδικοί γνώστες γλωσσών οι οποίες θα πεθάνουν μαζί τους. Πέρα όμως από την καταγγελία των κινδύνων μιας γλωσσικής παγκοσμιοποίησης, οι γλωσσολόγοι προσπαθούν τώρα να δράσουν πρακτικά, για να διαφυλάξουν το λεξιλόγιο και τη μορφολογία των ιδιωμάτων που τείνουν να εξαφανιστούν. Ο Άντονι Άρισταρ είναι ένας από τους γλωσσολόγους αυτούς.

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Corpus of Historical American English

Corpora, Monolingual

I am publishing here Mark Davies’ announcement of COHA:

We are pleased to announce the release of the 400 million word Corpus of Historical American English (1810-2009). The corpus has been funded by a generous grant from the US National Endowment for the Humanities, and it is freely available at http://corpus.byu.edu/coha/. COHA is the largest structured corpus of historical English, and it contains more than 100,000 texts from fiction, popular magazines, newspapers, and non-fiction books, with the same genre balance decade by decade from the 1810s-2000s.

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Chillax, Erin McKean, The Boston Globe

English Language, Language

Chillax If it works like a word, just use it. By Erin McKean  |  August 3, 2008 Funner. Impactful. Blowiest. Territorialism. Multifunctionality. Dialoguey. Dancey. Thrifting. Chillaxing. Anonymized. Interestinger. Wackaloon. Updatelette. Noirish. Huger. Domainless. Delegator. Photocentric. Relationshippy. Bestest. Zoomable. What do all these words have in common? Someone, somewhere, is using them with a disclaimer like

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Noam Chomsky, BBC HardTalk 18/11/2009

English Language, Language, News

 

 

Noam Chomsky is one of the world’s most prominent and controversial public intellectuals. He is an internationally renowned professor of linguistics, but he is also a longstanding critic of US foreign policy and the influence of big business over the American government.

Noam Chomsky told HARDtalk the war in Afghanistan is “immoral”

He spoke to Stephen Sackur in a HARDtalk interview recorded on 3rd November 2009.

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Teen Texting: Do You Know What The Codes Mean? Chicago Tribune 20/7/2009

Language, News, Research

By Mandy Murphey

KPC stands for keeping parents clueless. Apparently most parents are clueless when it comes to understanding their teenagers text messages. It is a sign of the times. Teens use slang and acronyms to keep parents in the dark. A recent study in USA Today found the messages that are being sent and received are risque and often an avenue for trouble. The national Center for Missing and Exploited Children conducted the study and found that one in five teens has sexted.

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