外 not

My wife was watching a show where flight attendants were talking about their experiences doing job interviews. When they did the English job...

The complete title is Empires of the Mind: I. A. Richards and Basic English in China, 1929-1979 by Rodney Koeneke. I just got it today. It ...

Tom Stafford at the University of Sheffield has been conducting an exchange with the people of Reed Elsevier about the academic publisher...

We're experimenting with keeping the air con off these days. We've got the windows open and some fans on, and there's sometimes ...

Earth Wide Moth on " New London Group, 'A Pedagogy of Multiliteracies' " (wonders, among other things, about "the ...

Now who's gonna preside over Bush's impeachment ? [Impeach Bush] [Katrina] [New Orleans] [presidential photo op]

We just got our power back after a morning without electricity. It's still raining prety hard outside and the wind is blowing the rain i...

Typhoon Talim is starting to affect us right now, as you can see from the images below from the Central Weather Bureau : Update, 11:23 p.m. ...

Rhetoric doesn't actually get a mention, but the Taiwan News has an article about a discussion group on deliberative democracy that wa...

台籍菁英的搖籃：台中一中 (The Cradle of the Taiwan Elite: Taichung First Secondary School), by 朱珮琪 (Zhu Peiqi). This book is an extensively revised ve...

OK, why didn't anyone tell me that Tesco in Taichung has Dr. Pepper for a mere NT$25 per can? (That's about 77.383 cents US, btw.) D...

Academic Coach has set up a way to help an ABD blogger named "Badger" deal with the medical costs for her terminally ill husband....

I've posted a few article summaries on my "disserblog", Kun zhi ji (困知記) that pertain to intercultural rhetoric. So far the s...

This evening I finished reading 走出白色恐怖 ( Farewell to the White Terror ) by 孫康宜 (Sun Kang-i). As I mentioned earlier , her father was arreste...

My wife just took the Book Quiz... It's quite accurate, except for the part about "Celeste"... You're Babar the King ! by ...

I'm writing interview questions (actually a list of questions to send to a potential interviewee). Lately, my questions have been along ...

You're The Sound and the Fury ! by William Faulkner Strong-willed but deeply confused, you are trying to come to grips with a major cris...

After a day of working on my dissertation, reading and writing (mostly reading) and struggling in spots with where I want it to go and how I...

Went to 7-Eleven this evening and picked up 3 books I had ordered from 博客來網路書店 (which translates "Berkeley Internet Bookstore", a...

" Locally-Scaled Rhetorics " ("What changes when we rename/reframe what formerly went by the name 'public rhetoric...