By Tom Stafford – 26 October 2016 Repetition makes a fact seem more true, regardless of whether it is or not. Understanding this effect can help you avoid falling for propaganda, says psychologist Tom Stafford. “Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth”, is a law of propaganda often attributed to the Nazi Joseph
Oxford Dictionaries has said it will review the example sentences it uses for the adjective “rabid” after being accused of sexism over its current example: “a rabid feminist”. The dictionary publisher, part of Oxford University Press, was taken to task by the Canadian anthropologist Michael Oman-Reagan, after he noticed that the word “rabid”, defined by
By Rowan Hooper Science fiction thrillers usually send in gun-toting heroes like Will Smith or Tom Cruise to kick invading alien butt. Arrival is completely, wonderfully different: it sends in a linguist, played by Amy Adams. “Language,” one character says, “is the first weapon drawn in a conflict.” The big question to ask the aliens:
Research Associate – Semantic Interpretation of Personal Health messages (Fixed Term) Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, the University of Cambridge Full details: http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/11935/ Applications are invited for a post-doctoral Research Associate position in the University of Cambridge, working with Dr Nigel Collier on the Semantic Interpretation of Personal Health messages (SIPHS) project. The project
W3 Chair in “Digital Phonetics” University of Stuttgart Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Information Technology Institute for Natural Language Processing AT THE EARLIEST OPPORTUNITY The chair’s research and teaching is supposed to focus on the development of theoretically founded methods for Speech Processing/Spoken Language Processing pertinent for the digitization of language processes and