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Puzzles In The Looking-Glass, Whitney Hart

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A collection of word puzzles based on Through the Looking Glass, And What Alice Found There

Instructions To Authors, Editor Word Ways

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Instructions to Authors

Raymond Smullyan, Puzzle-Creating Logician, Dies At 97, Editor Word Ways

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An obituary and tribute to Raymond Smullyan.

Anagram Quiz 21, . Anil

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A quiz.

Transuranic Elementary Equations, Darryl Francis

Word Ways

In a continuation of Susan Thorpe's Elementary Equations article from the November 2015 Word Ways, mathematical equations based on scientific element names are created so that the solution is equal to the atomic number of the element.

The Sky's The Litmus!, Don Hauptman

Word Ways

A collection of linguistic oddities.

“A Show About Language”: A Linguistic Investigation Of The Creation Of Humor In Seinfeld, Lindsey N. King

Undergraduate Honors Theses

This study investigates the creation of humor in the dialog of the television sit-com Seinfeld to gain a deeper understanding of humor techniques in a long format. By analyzing six episodes of the series, it is seen that the Incongruity Theory of Humor, violations of Grice’s maxims of the Cooperative Principle, and perspective clashes (such as miscommunications) are essential to the humor throughout each episode.

Writing & Linguistics News, Georgia Southern University

Writing & Linguistics News (2012-2022)

• Fledge first-year writing awards ceremony

In Elip Hybrid Class Graduate Students Work On Their Own Projects On Their Own Time, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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New Online Teaching English As A Foreign Language Certificate Introduced, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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The Suzuki Method: Influences Of Shinichi Suzuki On Japanese Music Education, Moriah L. Richards

Senior Honors Theses

This thesis will study the history of Japanese music education philosophies and pedagogy techniques. Specific focus has been given to the music education methods and philosophies of renowned Japanese music educator, Shinichi Suzuki. Suzuki’s views on the learning processes of children have greatly impacted the field of music education. Suzuki held the belief that the language acquisition process and the learning processes of children were intricately connected. He spent years applying his research to the field of music education. His resulting pedagogy techniques are now known as the Suzuki Method. The Suzuki Method, which has been adapted in various ways …

Opie Events An Evening To Share With World Travelers And People From Other Lands, April 5, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Language And Academic Performance: Intensive Research And Field Inquiry To Study The Relationships Between Language, Communication, And Education, David Prescott

Honors Program Contracts

This independent research endeavor is focused on gathering information of, and further analyzing, content covered in the course “Language Acquisition and Literacy Development” (EDU 4500) available at Merrimack College. This specialized course from the education program focuses on studying theory and practice of Linguistics, its history, its development in children, and the ramifications of integrating it, as well as its deviations, into Education. This paper is intended to define certain material from the course as well as further analyze them and their roles in the field of Education. The introduction will consist of a basic summation of the content to …

Anything But Race: Content Analysis Of Racial Discourse, Christopher Smith

Masters Theses

This research adds to previous scholarship on colorblind racism which investigates the ways in which students at Western Michigan University use new language compared to the Jim Crow past to defend or challenge the modern racial order in the United States. Using data collected from 15 voluntary participants I conducted a content analysis of participant’s responses to questions regarding race and racism with the purpose of demonstrating the use of colorblind racism or the challenge to the dominant racial order.

Aspect Extraction From Product Reviews Using Category Hierarchy Information, Yifeng Yang, Chen Cen, Minghui Qiu, Forrest Sheng Bao

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Aspect extraction is a task to abstract the common properties of objects from corpora discussing them, such as reviews of products. Recent work on aspect extraction is leveraging the hierarchical relationship between products and their categories. However, such effort focuses on the aspects of child categories but ignores those from parent categories. Hence, we propose an LDA-based generative topic model inducing the two-layer categorical information (CAT-LDA), to balance the aspects of both a parent category and its child categories. Our hypothesis is that child categories inherit aspects from parent categories, controlled by the hierarchy between them. Experimental results on 5 …

Ohio Linguistics M.A. Students Present At Georgetown, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Course Helps Graduate Students Write Up Their Research, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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New Middle East And North Africa Studies Certificate Announced, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Gwu Alumna Serves As Sign Language Interpreter While Researching Bilingual Education, Office Of University Communications

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

Jessica Carter ’13 had a comfortable corporate job for six years that she left to fulfill a dream to be a first generation college graduate and study American Sign Language. She was content in her job until she met a group of deaf people and remembered the joy she had as a child learning sign language to communicate with deaf children in her school. As she spent more time with them, she realized she needed to follow her dreams.

Linguistics Alum Remembering Darrell Verlin Brown 78m, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Proposals Sought For Educational Technology Conference Deadline Extended, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Dispatch Ratebeer Names Jackie O'S Ohio's Top Brewery, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Food On Film Tampopo, Feb 28, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Word Ways To Go Entirely Online In 2018, Editor Word Ways

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Future volumes of Word Ways will continue in an online only format.

Alphametics, Steven Kahan

Word Ways

A mathematical game.

A Cantata Of Errata, Don Hauptman

Word Ways

A review of the book The African Svelte.

Adding Digits, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

After assigning letters their alphabetic values, the author looks at words that produce one of three patterns when the value of their individual digits are added together.

It's All Low-Hanging Fruit On Steroids: Many More Mixed And Mashed Metaphors, Don Hauptman

Word Ways

A Mixed metaphor is a phrase in which two or more figures of speech are contradictory, ludicrous, or impossible when visualized as if they were literal. In some cases, the tropes don't meet this definition but still clash awkwardly or create a string of eye-rolling clichés. I've dubbed this latter phenomenon a mashed metaphor.

Extending The Number Names - Naturally, Robert Superty

Word Ways

An essay on the naming of very large numbers and the various systems for doing so.

Spices Of Life, Steve Kahan

Word Ways

A quiz in which letters are subtracted from one set of words and added to another, allowing the letters of both sets to be re-arranged into the names of spices.