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Teenage hyperpolyglot: Shrug like a Frenchman and frown like a Russian
TIMOTHY DONER looks like an ordinary American teenager. Medium-height and slight, he arrives in a grey T-shirt and jeans. As he is being miked for his interview, our producer asks him a http://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson/2013/07/teenage-hyperpolyglot-0 question to get him talking, so that she can check his voice levels:
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Research trends in Intercultural Pragmatics
The volume edited by I.Kecskes & J. Romero-Trillo, Research Trends in Intercultural Pragmatics, will be published by Mouton de Gruyter in October 2013. The Table of Contents will be available soon.
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Faiths, town halls and language From Babel to Pentecost (the Economist 14/6/2013)
LOCAL authorities in Britain spend a lot of money trying to make themselves understood. The council in Southwark, part of south London, offers translation into 70 languages;
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When Italians Chat, Hands and Fingers Do the Talking (NYT 30-6-2013)
ROME — In the great open-air theater that is Rome, the characters talk with their hands as much as their mouths.