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The Language Guy
Commentary on how language is used and abused in advertising, politics, the law, and other areas of public life. You can think of it as a linguistic self defense course in which you and I prepare ourselves to do battle with the forces of linguistic evil.
Mike Geis
Location: Columbus, Ohio, United States
After receiving a B. A. in Philosophy from Rice University, I moved on to M.I.T., where I got my Ph. D. in Theoretical Linguistics. I worked at the University of Illinois for five years and then left to teach and do research at The Ohio State University until I retired in 1995. Perhaps because of my early interest in philosophy, I switched my focus from theoretical linguistics to more humanistic pursuits in the last half of my career, applying what I had learned as a theortical linguist to such areas as advertising, politics, journalism, the law, and conversation. I wrote "The Language of Television Advertising," "The Language of Politics," and "Speech Acts and Conversational Interaction." I also wrote and consulted on linguistic issues arising in such legal domains as trademark law, deceptive advertising, and jury instructions in death penalty cases.
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A lot of interesting links which lead to
Abecedaria
A blog about keyboarding in diverse scripts, literacy and digital literacy, and random quotes selected from the history of writing system theory.
Omniglot
A guide to written language
From here, a bunch of language course sites, many of them substantially free.
Tried (learning from scratch with book and CDs but wanting a change)
BBC Spanish
is very well done with sound, though is just designed to give a few situations: not got 'buying a ticket' and 'the cash machines' so studiously copied them down knowing they would be used.
Spanish Online
Mostly a taster for the course but this was not in my own book :
Exploring "To Be" Verbs in Spanish: Ser and Estar
posted by Adfero Affero @ 12:14 PM
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