12.2426, Media: German Magazine, Lehrer's NewsHour, Star Trek

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-12-2426. Mon Oct 1 2001. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 12.2426, Media: German Magazine, Lehrer's NewsHour, Star Trek

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1)
Date:  Tue, 2 Oct 2001 00:13:13 +0200
From:  "Christopher Schmidt" <christopher.schmidt at gmx.net>
Subject:  German Science Magazine

2)
Date:  Mon, 01 Oct 2001 10:19:39 -0500 (EST)
From:  Mai Kuha <mkuha at bsuvc.bsu.edu>
Subject:  The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer

3)
Date:  Mon, 01 Oct 2001 19:00:16 -0500
From:  Bob Yates <kaboyates at sprintmail.com>
Subject:  Linguististics in other media

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Tue, 2 Oct 2001 00:13:13 +0200
From:  "Christopher Schmidt" <christopher.schmidt at gmx.net>
Subject:  German Science Magazine

Dear Sir or Madam,

I would like to take this opportunity to inform you of the fact that
the "Dossier 01/2000" of "Spektrum der Wissenschaft" which is the
German-language edition of "Scientific American" had the topic "Die
Evolution der Sprache" (The evolution of language) and had a series of
articles by Bernard Victori, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Colin Renfrew,
Vera E. Binder, Thomas W. Gamkrelidse, Joseph Greenberg, Merritt
Ruhlen, Peter Bellwood, William Wang, Derek Bickerton et.al. on this
topic (all had appeared in earlier regular editions of "Spektrum der
Wissenschaft" and were translated into German). I don't know whether
"Scientific American" had such an edition on evolution of language as
well.

Best wishes

Christopher Schmidt


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Date:  Mon, 01 Oct 2001 10:19:39 -0500 (EST)
From:  Mai Kuha <mkuha at bsuvc.bsu.edu>
Subject:  The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer

Dear Colleagues,

Here are two items from The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer:
(These shows aired already, but transcripts and audio files are
available online.)

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The Vanishing Verb -- August 24, 2001
Interviews with television correspondents highlight structures emerging in
TV news discourse.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/media/july-dec01/verb_8-24.html


Internet Dictionary - September 6, 2001
"Terence Smith interviews Anne Soukhanov, editor of the Microsoft Encarta
College Dictionary"
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/cyberspace/july-dec01/dictionary_9-06.html

_________________________________

Mai Kuha		mkuha at bsuvc.bsu.edu
Department of English	(765) 285-8410
Ball State University


-------------------------------- Message 3 -------------------------------

Date:  Mon, 01 Oct 2001 19:00:16 -0500
From:  Bob Yates <kaboyates at sprintmail.com>
Subject:  Linguististics in other media

Dear editors,

A character in the new Star Trek series called Enterprise (it is set 100 years
before Star Trek the first series) has a major character who is a linguist.  In
the first episode, the captain convinces her to join his crew by playing a
language that has never been studied before: Klingon.

Bob Yates, Central Missouri State University

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