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The Economist (29-6-2013) German business and English: No Denglisch
Willkommen to linguistic purity Jun 29th 2013 |From the print edition TRAVELLERS on Deutsche Bahn, Germany’s state-owned railway, are used to being addressed in a peculiar language peppered with ponderous English words and phrases, such as Neue Snackbox für Kids.
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The Economist (29-6-2013): Teaching and technology: E-ducation
A long-overdue technological revolution is at last under way Jun 29th 2013 |From the print edition “IT IS possible to teach every branch of human knowledge with the motion picture,” observed Thomas Edison in 1913, predicting that books would soon be obsolete in the classroom. In fact the motion picture has had little effect on education.
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‘Research Trends in Intercultural Pragmatics’
The volume edited by Kecskes and Romero-Trillo, ‘Research Trends in Intercultural Pragmatics’, will be published by Mouton de Gruyter in October 2013.