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Missing the Jokes?
David Bellos, Director of the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication at Princeton University, suggests that the celebrated English comic tradition might simply be a result of translation.
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Making Sense of ISIS
Historian Nile Green (UCLA) describes how adopting the model of religious economy allows us to make better sense of the difference between all manner of violent and non-violent religious sects.
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Losing The Sharp Edges
Sign language linguist Carol Padden describes how smaller languages are often much more impenetrable to outsiders than larger languages, due to a combination of grammatical structure and common sense of reference.
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SALES: Introduction to Project
Join Mark as he warmly welcomes you to the adventure of building a High-Converting Sales Page. Get a clear roadmap of the exciting journey you're about to embark on and a sneak peek at the vital skills you're set to acquire.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Marcel Danesi - Teachers Make a Difference - Professor Gianrenzo Clivio
Marcel Danesi, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, was born in Lucca, Italy. He was professor of semiotics and anthropology at Victoria College, University of Toronto, he directs the semiotics and communication theory programs. Danesi also holds...
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Marcel Danesi - Politics, Lies and Conspiracy Theories
Marcel Danesi, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, was born in Lucca, Italy. He was professor of semiotics and anthropology at Victoria College, University of Toronto, he directs the semiotics and communication theory programs. Danesi also holds...
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Drifting Towards Metaphysics
Philosopher Brian Epstein (Tufts University) describes the tensions between the field of philosophy of language and metaphysics.
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Cracking Monoalphabetic Ciphers
Quantum physicist Artur Ekert (Oxford and NUS) describes how so-called "monoalphabetic ciphers" can be cracked using statistical analysis.
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YouTube ASL
Linguist Carol Padden (UC San Diego), reflects on how technology might affect the future use of sign languages.
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Translational Advice
Chinese scholar and literary translator Michael Berry (UCLA) gives some key pointers to young translators.
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Translating Humor
David Bellos, Director of the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication at Princeton University, describes false stereotypes, and challenges, associated with translating humor.
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Thinking With Your Liver
Linguist Carol Padden (UC San Diego), describes how different cultural reference points sometimes make it particularly difficult for us to learn foreign languages.
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Lyric Poetry
This video explores the components of a lyric poem and explains how to compose a lyric poem.
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Etymology
“Etymology” describes the way to research and determine the origins of words.
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Chomsky From a Non-Chomskyan
David Bellos, Director of the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication at Princeton University, a "non-Chomskyan", pays allegiance to Noam Chomsky’s profound contributions to linguistics.
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Against Smoothness
Intellectual historian Stefan Collini, University of Cambridge, describes how, to a certain extent, one can say that the famous literary critic F.R. Leavis wrote in a deliberately difficult way, in an effort to make his readers think and...
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A Matter of Character
Chinese scholar and literary translator Michael Berry (UCLA) describes differences between simplified and traditional Chinese characters and the politics associated with both.
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Bill Stokoe's Legacy
Linguist Carol Padden (UC San Diego), describes her early experience with transformative sign language linguist Bill Stokoe.
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Adopting an Anti-Rhetoric
Historian Nile Green (UCLA) describes how using a sometimes provocative new language to describe what we think we already know forces us to broaden our understanding.
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In the Shadow of The West
Award-winning author Pankaj Mishra describes his personal experiences of growing up in Asia while being disproportionately affected by Western cultural, philosophical and economic considerations.
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In Search of Religious Principles
Historian and social anthropologist Nile Green, UCLA, describes why he uses the model of “religious economy” as an “anti-rhetoric” to deliberately get people to think about religion and core religious principles in a new and different way.
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Humour in Sign Languages
Linguist Carol Padden (UC San Diego), describes unique aspects of humor that American Sign Language enables.
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Frozen Languages
Linguist Carol Padden (UC San Diego) explains how sign languages evolve just like any other language.
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Found In Translation
UCLA Chinese cultural studies expert Michael Berry describes how he launched himself on the path to becoming a Chinese translator by spontaneously contacting Yu Hua to translate his renowned book To Live, and relates the joys and...