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A Lecture by Dr. Claire Penn

The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Aphasia as a Linguistic & Cultural Phenomenon

Tuesday, April 9th at 5:00 PM

305 Languages Building

The Pragmatics of Online Media: Live Sportscasting on the Internet

Jan Chovanec – Assistant Professor English and American Studies – Masaryk University – Brno, Czech Republic

Jan Chovanec specializes in media discourse analysis, legal English and sociolinguistics. He teaches courses in modern media discourse, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, language and law and forensic linguistics.

Tuesday, April 2nd – 5:00 PM

305 Languages

Duke University Linguistics Program

Linguistics

The Linguistics Program at Duke is a unique inter-disciplinary program offering undergraduate classes, majors and minors, and honors thesis supervision. We look at the use and structure of language in many contexts, and from many different perspectives.