The History of Hip: Thomas Marksbury
The words “hip” and “hipster” carry around a lot of baggage. Often, due to misconceptions, "hipster" is used as an insult meant to suggest some sort of failed or inauthentic attempt at being "hip." But what if that isn’t what “hip” is? What if “hip” isn’t some obsession with the fleeting but a more permanent state?
UK Linguistics Club Event - Tolkien's Imaginary Languages
J.R.R. Tolkien, wildly popular for his authorship of the fantasy trilogy, "The Lord of the Rings", was actually by profession an unprepossessing Medievalist and historical linguist. His extensive knowledge of world languages both ancient and modern lent itself to his creation of the artificial languages that add so much realistic depth to his fictional writing. This presentation describes the languages Tolkien created for his Middle Earth by revealing their connection with the actual spoken languages he studied during his academic career. Explore the ingenious sound symbolism and etymological connotations employed by this master storyteller - and learn a great many things about the real languages of Eurasia along
the way.
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Recovering Written and Unwritten Messages: The Pragmatics of (Im)politeness in Medieval Russian Birchbark Letters
Professor Dan Collins
Ohio State University "Recovering Written and Unwritten Messages: The Pragmatics of (Im)politeness in Medieval Russian Birchbark Letters"
Department of Linguistics and a part of the Russia's Realms Series
Everyday Communication on Birchbark in Medieval Russia
Professor Dan Collins
Ohio State University "Everyday Communication on Birchbark in Medieval Russia"
Department of Linguistics and a part of the Russia's Realms Series
Allan Butterfield Named Prestigious SFRBM Fellow
On November 17, 2012, UK’s Allan Butterfield was announced as the newest Fellow of the Society for Free Radical Biology and Medicine (SFRBM). Butterfield’s election was announced at the 19th Annual Meeting of SFRBM in San Diego.
Politically Comprehensive with Gwendolyn Schaefer
Gwendolyn Schaefer knew she wanted to study abroad in the Middle East, but the Arab Spring presented a potential threat to her personal security. Her first two choices were Egypt and Syria, but both were deep in the throes of political unrest. Eventually, she landed in Amman, Jordan through Education Abroad at UK with AMIDEAST.
The Cambridge Handbook of Morphology: Andrew Hippisley and Gregory Stump
More than thirty of the world's leading morphologists are contributing to a book that will be out in spring of 2014 - and they're working together with the help of an online collaboration tool developed by the Hive. Professors Andrew Hippisley and Greg Stump are currently compiling and editing the upcoming Cambridge Handbook of Morphology.