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(Well, actually I grew up in Baltimore County. But it was close to the city! Anyway...) This article in the New York Times caught my attent...

Earlier I mentioned that my department is hosting a workshop on writing instruction on December 3. I'm on a panel about text-type in t...

The former native speaker just found out that his brother, a.k.a. " the former blogger " (heh... he's gonna kill me for that) ...

Friday was the former native Chinese speaker's birthday (she heard that Michael Turton's wife was born on Nov. 11 and just wanted t...

The Tunghai FLLD will be hosting a workshop entitled "Situating Writing Instruction in an EFL Context: A Conversation with Charles Baze...

Kerim over at Savage Minds bemoans the lack of linguistic anthropologists among the interviewees written up in a Forbes special issue on c...

Bourdieu_boy has a smart analysis of Zhang Yimou's Hero that I've been meaning to link to. One quote in particular, that compares ...

Found this at the Indiana Center for Intercultural Communication website. The ICIC's Third Annual Conference on Intercultural Rhetoric ...

Came across this cfp for the 2nd Conference of the International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies. The deadline is Nov...

BBC News has an article titled " Taiwan to ignore flu drug patent " on its website. I wrote this commment to BBC: I don't thin...

Updated! Figure out what went wrong after I upgraded the ZoneAlarm firewall on our desktop computer. Now we can't access the Interne...

Recently I've been coming across some English compositions that have me completely dumbfounded. They contain sentences the likes of whic...

Link here . The author, Suzanne McCarthy, cites C K Leong, a professor who has worked on this topic for quite a number of years. Very intere...

Crooked Timber has a post about an article in the latest Chronicle of Higher Ed regarding uses and abuses of the concept of the "imp...

If this keeps up, I'm going to rename this blog "Red Eyes and Runny Nose"... (*sniff*)

(via Clancy at CultureCat) For this, you go to Google and type "[your first name] needs"... I got the following: Jonathan needs t...

From today's Liberty Times (自由電子報) comes the story of PHILIP (his name is in all caps throughout the article), a British businessman wh...

Al Gore spoke on Oct. 5 about the "grave danger" that public discourse in the U.S. is in. The transcript is available here . [Upda...

The Blogora, a rhetoric blog that doesn't often seem to contain posts about rhetoric (at least as far as I can tell), has an interesting...

What Rank said . Except as a rhetorician, I'd like to see some words like " bdelygmia ", " insinuatio ", or " v...