Once we glimpse these processes (through the work of citizen sociolinguists) we might not know more about language as an object, but we do have more awareness of how language builds meaning for everybody using it. Have you come into contact with any strong opinions about language? What can...
In fact, they say their only goal is to “upgrade the COB network to a carrier class network” for their own use. Meaning we’ll be paying for the upgrade, and it will have lots of excess capacity, but they haven’t decided if they’re even going to give us access to it after th...
Individuals from the European Union, members of the European Economic Act (meaning those from Norway, Island, and Liechtenstein) and Swiss nationalsdon’t need a residence permit or visa in order to live and work in Spain. Thismakes it really easy for you to move to Spainand start your new...
This one's all about the dairy industry in Wisconsin and the Midwest, and how dependent it is on immigrant labor. Conniff not only interviews farmers and workers in this country; she also traveled with some farmers as they traveled to the places their workers came from to learn more about ...
The Xi’an diplomatic core adheres to a strict one-for-one negotiation policy, meaning that if they bring ten individuals to the bargaining table then that’s our limit. As much as we wanted to fill the room with experts to help craft this policy, it just wasn’t an option. F...
For these union leaders, being inarticulate has become Joe Biden’s biggest vulnerability. If Biden couldn’t get the Democratic nomination, some of them were considering voting for Trump and, as union leaders, advising their union members to do the same. ...
Jess, a Year 8 student, always respected her classmates,the lack of respect she usually received in return.Kids constantly laughed at her behind her back.As a teacher, your instinct(本能) is tostudents like Jess, but you soon realize that there's only so much you can actually do. ...
That was, until the Little People of America and their friends in the Florida Legislature intercepted the toss.Little LobbyistsNot everyone was amused by this zany brand of miniature fun. Among the concerned populace was a public interest organization known as Little People of America, Inc. The...
injecting toxins into living organisms, adult, juvenile, infant or fetus, is quite literally insane. It is that simple. Although not defined as such, the reality is that doing so is child abuse. And adult abuse. And elder abuse (and, for those who are thinking about their pets, animal ...
the same way ever again, when you read how unbelievably hard it is to extract petroleum from the earth, and how many people break their bodies and their mental states and their families (since a lot of them move away from families to go where the oil work is) to produce it for you....