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 ...

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.

The Van Riper Lectures began in 1981, honoring Dr. Charles Van Riper, a pioneer in the field of speech-language pathology and audiology and founder of the Speech Pathology and Audiology program at ...

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, ...

The Department of Maltese within the Faculty of Arts at the University of Malta is hosting a public lecture on language and metalanguage at the Valletta Campus in St Paul Street, Valletta, on January ...

Dubai: The first five nightly lectures on Islam in Arabic have concluded in Dubai’s Ramadan Forum, paving the way for the first-ever Bengali language lecture on Tuesday night. The forum is an annual ...

Understanding lectures can be a challenge for foreign students, since they may not be fluent in the language used in the classroom. But Alex Waibel, a computer-science professor at Karlsruhe Institute ...

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 ...