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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...
...offering by language guru and Lecturer on Linguistics Bert R. Vaux, Linguistics 80 is a survey of varieties of ancient and modern English--from Australian to "Valley Girl," Creole to Yiddish English...
...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...
...would say that our department is a special case," Vaux says. "In the success-driven world of Harvard undergraduates, only a very special class of people will go into linguistics, where you're unlikely to get a job. So we get high-caliber students, so that might have something to do with the excessively high number of summas we give...