Jost Gippert: Our Featured Linguist!

"Buenos dias", "buenas noches" -- this was the first words in a foreign language I heard in my life, as a three-year old boy growing up in developing post-war Western Germany, where the first gastarbeiters had arrived from Spain. Fascinated by the strange sounds, I tried to get to know some more languages, the only opportunity being TV courses of English and French -- there was no foreign language education for pre-teen school children in Germany yet in those days. Read more

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Name:	Chiyo  Nishida
Institution:	University of Texas at Austin
Selected Publications:
Announced on LINGUIST :	New Perspectives on Romance Linguistics  Building a bridge between linguistic communities of the Old and the New World
Dissertation Director * of:	Motivation and Extended Interaction in the Study-Abroad Context: Factors in the development of Spanish language accuracy and communication skills (Christina Isabelli-García, Author)
Dissertation Director * of:	Pragmatics in Persuasive Discourse of Spanish Television Advertising (Karol Hardin, Author)
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