Word: vaux
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Their ranks include linguist Bert R. Vaux, who sometimes illustrates his lectures with examples culled from the previous night's sitcoms, John R. Stilgoe, Orchard professor of the history of landscape development, who gives an entire lecture on Coca-Cola advertisements, and History and Literature instructor Stuart M. Semmel, whose class includes British pop music from the decades after World...
...Vaux, who is writing a book tentatively titled X-Speak: The Language of Young America, gets much of his material on what he calls the "MTV dialect" from television, radio and his students...
...Vaux's lecture class, Linguistics 80: "Dialectsof English," introduces students to some of thedifferent ways the English language is used today...
...Vaux says he believes teachers have to balancestudent demand with the importance of learning theclassics...
...Vaux will also show films of various dialects and even bring in native speakers. And there are no papers and no exams--just a midterm project on your own dialect and a final project on your own dialect and a final project on a native Bostonian's speaking style...