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...good 93.8 percent of the time we don’t talk pop—but looking at why we do when we do and how it affects communication is my focus.” A third objection—that people have always depended on pop language??gets an entire chapter...
...Romance languages and literature concentrator in Leverett House. She spent the spring in Chile where she learned just how complicated communication can be. Back in Cambridge, she plans to explore popular phraseology on campus and the possible meanings behind it in her column “On Our Language?? on alternate Mondays...
...tempting to turn down come senior spring.What else? Social Analysis 66, “Race, Ethnicity, and Politics in the United States” has decently interesting subject matter, but the syllabus gets bogged down in numbers-based poli-sci essays. Social Analysis 34, “Knowledge of Language?? seems like a cool introduction to linguistics, which is a really underrated field; theories of language can teach you a lot about life. Social Analysis 43, “Psychological Trauma” is another “cool subject, boring reading” combination. And there?...
...second requirement you’ll face is a year of a foreign language??unless you can provide proof of significant previous experience. But this is one requirement that is worth your while. Odds are that you have taken some bit of language in high school, so you’ll be placed into the Ca/Cb level classes, or their equivalent...
...Spanish by reviewing the nuances of idiomatic expressions and practicing my accent, hoping for a shot at being mistaken for a local, or at least, a Spanish speaker. My preparation however, fell far short of my goal. To fool the locals here would require learning an entirely different language??Catalán.At first there was no problem: The hospital staff with whom I worked always spoke Castellan—Iberian Spanish—and the patients would in turn respond in Castellan. Everyone accommodated and willingly put aside their Catalán when I was within earshot. While...