LINGUIST List 15.2030

Thu Jul 8 2004

FYI: NPR Radio Program on Languages

Editor for this issue: Anne Clarke <annelinguistlist.org>

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1. Rick Rickerson, NPR Radio Program on Languages

I'm director of of the language division at the College of Charleston
and am just back from LSA Headquarters in Washington. I had a chat
with Maggie Reynolds, who referred me to the LSA website. I'm about to
do an NPR radio program in support of the soon-to-be-proclaimed (by
the US Senate) Year of Languages in the US. There will be 6-minute
segments on language topics of interest to the general public,
starting in January and airing throughout 2005. Since it's part of a
nationwide celebration of language, I'm asking professionals around
the country to suggest topics and, if possible, contribute
scripts. Would any of you be interested in doing so? Or could I ask
you to look over a list of topics and give me the name and e-mail
address of linguists you think might want to do a piece on that
subject? These are questions like: How do babies learn to talk;
Dialect vs. language; What's a Pidgin; What causes foreign accents;
Indian languages of Southeast US; Is ASL a language; the Significance
of Rosetta Stone; How close are Spanish and Portuguese; etc. I would
appreciate your help and suggestions!

Best regards, 

Rick Rickerson 
Charleston, SC