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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.
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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.