LINGUIST List 12.2426

Mon Oct 1 2001

Media: German Magazine, Lehrer's NewsHour, Star Trek

Editor for this issue: Karen Milligan <karenlinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Christopher Schmidt, German Science Magazine
2. Mai Kuha, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
3. Bob Yates, Linguististics in other media

Dear Sir or Madam,

I would like to take this opportunity to inform you of the fact that
the "Dossier 01/2000" of "Spektrum der Wissenschaft" which is the
German-language edition of "Scientific American" had the topic "Die
Evolution der Sprache" (The evolution of language) and had a series of
articles by Bernard Victori, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Colin Renfrew,
Vera E. Binder, Thomas W. Gamkrelidse, Joseph Greenberg, Merritt
Ruhlen, Peter Bellwood, William Wang, Derek Bickerton et.al. on this
topic (all had appeared in earlier regular editions of "Spektrum der
Wissenschaft" and were translated into German). I don't know whether
"Scientific American" had such an edition on evolution of language as
well.

Best wishes

Christopher Schmidt

Dear Colleagues,

Here are two items from The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer: 
(These shows aired already, but transcripts and audio files are
available online.)

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The Vanishing Verb -- August 24, 2001
Interviews with television correspondents highlight structures emerging in
TV news discourse.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/media/july-dec01/verb_8-24.html


Internet Dictionary - September 6, 2001
"Terence Smith interviews Anne Soukhanov, editor of the Microsoft Encarta
College Dictionary"
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/cyberspace/july-dec01/dictionary_9-06.html

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Mai Kuha		mkuhabsuvc.bsu.edu
Department of English	(765) 285-8410
Ball State University

Dear editors,

A character in the new Star Trek series called Enterprise (it is set 100 years
before Star Trek the first series) has a major character who is a linguist. In
the first episode, the captain convinces her to join his crew by playing a
language that has never been studied before: Klingon.

Bob Yates, Central Missouri State University