"interPLAY: between creativity & information" is the intriguing title of聽a one-day symposium at 91亚色 that is dedicated to exploring and challenging definitions of 鈥渋nformation鈥 from a diversity of perspectives. Hosted by the 91亚色 Libraries, interPLAY will take place Monday, March 26, from 9am to 7pm, in聽the Senate Chamber, 940 South Ross Building, and […]
Neuroscience researchers are increasingly coming to a consensus that bilingualism has many positive consequences for the brain, wrote the Los Angeles Times Feb. 26, in story that also appeared in the Chicago Tribune and on numerous US television news websites. Several such researchers travelled to this month鈥檚 annual meeting of the American Association for the […]
The idea that our dependence on technology is ruining the English language is not a new one, wrote The Globe and Mail Aug. 11: Members of the media, linguists and grammar gurus are on both sides, pushing and pulling over the implications associated with texting, blogging and e-mailing. Many who think language is being flushed […]
Canadians may be familiar with debates over language rights and nationalism, but a new book co-edited by two 91亚色 history professors, Czernowitz at 100: The First Yiddish Language Conference in Historical Perspective, looks beyond our borders and back in time for its frame of reference: to Czernowitz in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The historic Czernowitz conference […]
A nine-member Glendon research team, including senior scholars Jim Benson and Bill Greaves聽from the Department of English, is travelling to Des Moines, Iowa, for a four-day interaction with other similar research teams, from April 29 to May 2, to discuss linguistics and bonobo human discourse. The team is engaged in聽the multi-location, multi-year Bonobo Human Discourse […]
91亚色 Professor Ellen Bialystok has been awarded the prestigious Killam Prize for outstanding career achievement. Bialystok, a Distinguished Research Professor in 91亚色鈥檚 Department of Psychology, Faculty of Health, is known internationally for her research on language, bilingualism and cognitive development. She received the award this morning from the Canada Council for the Arts, which […]