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Native Tongue: Speaking With a Caribbean Accent

Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 04.06.2013 | Media
Read More: Accent, Caribbean Accent, Caribbean Culture, Jamaica, Jamaican Accent, Linguist, Socio Linguist, Super Bowl, Trinidad, Trinidad Accent, Volkswagen, West Indian, West Indian Accent, Media, Marketing, Advertising, Media News
Arlene M. Roberts

As a Caribbean islander transplanted in New York, I am often perplexed by the response even the slightest lilt can elicit, from curiosity to downright imitation. But is imitation always the highest form of flattery? The recent Super Bowl ad by Volkswagen seems to have reignited the discussion.

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English As She Is Spoke

American Anthropological Association | Posted 09.22.2012 | Home
Read More: Prescriptivism, Anthropology, Human Language, Linguist, Language, Tower of Babel, Bad Grammar, English Language, Home News
American Anthropological Association

Social and cultural equality is out of our reach not because we are unable or unwilling to acknowledge and accept difference, but because we haven't yet been successful at eliminating difference.

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Native Americans Fight To Prevent Languages' 'Extinction'

Posted 02.18.2012 | Science
Read More: Language Extinction, Linguistics, Native American Languages, Language, Video, Linguist, Native American, Extinction, Science News

By: Clara Moskowitz, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 02/17/2012 06:56 PM EST on LiveScience VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Many of the wor...

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Exclusive Interview With Geoffrey Nunberg, On The Years Of Talking Dangerously

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
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Chris Weigant

Epithets like "socialist" and "fascist" enable people on the right to bond with each other and -- though they may not acknowledge it -- to alienate everybody else.

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Why the Right's Messaging is Working

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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Logan Nakyanzi Pollard

Why is the young brilliant upstart Obama only ahead by single digits. At least part of the reason is this: John McCain knows how to control his message.

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Do Americans Think - Or Just Act?

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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Logan Nakyanzi Pollard

What I'm really saying is Americans are unconscious. You can see it in the verbs. This isn't a value judgment, I am just intrigued by what gets in and...

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