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Back in 1997, I wrote about the first Chinese New Year that I spent with my then-future in-laws, but the only version left of that story is ...

In response to this :* 'Are you guilty?' said Winston. 'Of course I'm guilty!' cried Parsons with a servile glance at th...

At the top of my list of articles to read: Lillis, Theresa, and Mary Jane Curry. "Professional Academic Writing by Multilingual Scholar...

A few items: The writing workshop with Charles Bazerman on Dec. 3 went really well. There were over 100 people attending. Dr. Bazerman...

In this episode of the continuing story of the slow demise of the former native speaker's kitchen, we see the former native Chinese spea...

ESWN has helpfully translated an article from MediaChina.net on the prevalence of plagiarism in news organizations in China.

(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...