The Luv Doc: Trophy Wives

Am I wrong to assume?

"...Let’s tick a few other things off the list..."

Jan. 31, 2014 Column by The Luv Doc

The LuvDoc's Celebrity Corner

An interview with Rachel McGruder, Asst. Events Manager

"...fashion breakdown but rather, what was your degree? Rachel: Linguistics with a Psychology minor .. but I was very..."

Aug. 10, 2012 Chronolog Post by The Luv Doc

The Book of Khalid

Maps to the Middle East: 'The Book of Khalid'

"...the soul. Despite some occasional Yoda-esque syntax, his flowery linguistics strike an amusing balance between piety and irreverence. Rihani's..."

June 15, 2012 Books Feature by Jessi Cape

Radio Snack

Food on the airwaves in Austin

"...Having studied anthropology, art, and linguistics, Camp's professional background has been in graphic design and..."

July 15, 2011 Food Feature by MM Pack

UT Baseball Begins 2011 Campaign

Jungmann opens season with two complete-game shutouts

"...Having bitterly disappointed fans of both sports and linguistics, the Longhorns didn’t “hang ten” on Hawaii in Sunday’s..."

March 1, 2011 Sports Post by Russ Espinoza

Sons of Austin

Murph and Ben Willcott develop a new paradigm for the next generation of a beloved family business

"...40, and their uncle Murph, 48. Children of a linguistics professor, the Willcott brothers grew up around their mom's..."

Feb. 5, 2010 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

The Long and Short of Roy Blount Jr.

Author and radio personality Roy Blount Jr. makes the rounds in Austin

"...If you happened to pick up Roy Blount Jr.'s linguistics book, Alphabet Juice, you've surely recognized, as our reviewer..."

May 27, 2009 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century American Politics With an 18th-Century Brain

George Lakoff writes on a culture war in which "the main battlefield is the brain"

"...not know our own brains," writes cognitive scientist and linguistics professor George Lakoff in his latest book, The Political..."

July 18, 2008 Books Review by Sofia Resnick

Living Maya

Austin becomes a hotbed of past and future Maya knowledge

"...(ethnobotany, food anthropology), Fred Valdez (archaeology), and Nora England (linguistics). "That's our strength, combining epigraphy, art history, and archaeology,"..."

May 2, 2008 News Feature by Rob D'Amico

Night Train to Lisbon

This unlikely, labyrinthine but ultimately intriguing tale by Swiss writer Pascal Mercier is already a bestseller in Europe

"...a journey of unspecified discovery? For the staid, middle-aged linguistics instructor Raimund Gregorius, it's a chance meeting with an..."

Feb. 29, 2008 Books Review by Jay Trachtenberg

Hunger Strike Ovah!

Uri ends hunger strike.

"...in the final stages of completing my dissertation in linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, and I cannot afford..."

Jan. 22, 2008 Qmmunity Post by Andy Campbell

The Dead End at Olive and Juniper

ARA and the city leave would-be homeowners out in the cold

"...three or four years off from her Ph.D. in linguistics," Ligarde said. "It seemed like we had rented forever,..."

Sept. 7, 2007 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Ted's Ghost

The death of Ted Westhusing leaves a widening circle of sorrow

"...The focus is on getting 20-25 students through historical linguistics and then assorted classical Greek literary genres. But Ted's..."

April 27, 2007 News Feature by Tom Palaima

The Music Is Pretty Much Incessant

P. Kellach Waddle, the River City's 'educated hillbilly,' composes himself a life

"...and performance (with minors in opera history and cognitive linguistics), after a myriad of professional orchestral gigs, after performances..."

April 20, 2007 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Council Candidate Carousel

(in ballot order)

"...(pursuing six additional undergraduate degrees, ranging from government to linguistics), Touvell calls himself a "classical liberal" (or "reformed libertarian")..."

March 31, 2006 News Feature

Beastie Boys

SXSW showcase reviews

"...like a dose of Red Bull wrapped in a linguistics course. Who else could make a crowd in Austin,..."

March 17, 2006 Music Review by Marc Savlov

Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana

Armchair travelers have rarely had it so good as they do with Texas native Griest's memoir, which reads like one part informative history lesson on the People's Revolutionary struggle and one part Hope 'n' Crosby road movie.

"...only dream of: She lit out for the Moscow Linguistics Institute in 1996, the first leg of a journey..."

March 26, 2004 Books Review by Marc Savlov

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...the Presbyterian Theological Seminary; Steve Wechsler, UT professor of linguistics; and UT grad students and activists Virginia Raymond and..."

March 26, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...is cool. But as far as anything other than linguistics, he's an idiot. Unless you think a world-view that..."

June 27, 2003 Column

Call and Answer

It's been a hard spring of politics in Texas; now it's time to relax with a book.

"...Tanya Reinhart is a journalist and a professor of linguistics at Tel Aviv University; Mourid Barghouti is a poet..."

June 6, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...doctorates in political science or diplomacy? No, he's a linguistics expert, which is the study of language -- words,..."

Oct. 25, 2002 Column

Chomsky on Power and Hope

"...LBJ Auditorium Sunday to hear writer, activist, and MIT linguistics professor Noam Chomsky deliver an address on the subject,..."

Oct. 25, 2002 News Feature by Michael King

"It's Extremely Easy to Frighten People"

Insightful foreign policy critic Noam Chomsky explains the upcoming war, previewing his Austin appearances.

"...Noam Chomsky, distinguished professor of linguistics at M.I.T. and author of many books on international..."

Oct. 18, 2002 News Feature by Michael King

Naked City

Happenings

"...After a 20-year absence from Austin, MIT linguistics professor and noted U.S. foreign policy critic Noam Chomsky..."

Aug. 16, 2002 News Feature

Book Reviews

"...the intimate relationship between art and science, politics, philosophy, linguistics, "the system," war, and sexuality. In addition, he seems..."

Aug. 9, 2002 Books Feature by Dominic Luxford

Contributors

Descriptions of the contributors to The Austin Chronicle 20th anniversary issue

"...editor Kim Mellen left her promising graduate-school career in linguistics in 1998 to pursue her true passion: listings. She..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

University of Texas at El Paso

"...writing in English. Because the Department of Language and Linguistics, which includes Spanish, is located on the opposite side..."

April 21, 2000 Books Feature by Jessica Berthold

Day Trips

The Lindheimer Home in New Braunfels stands as a monument to the "Father of Texas Botany."

"...He was a well respected professor of literature and linguistics until he began advocating the reformation of the national..."

March 3, 2000 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

The Brain Behind Cyc

Doug Lenat discusses artificial intelligence and its increasing presence in the next century.

"...philosophers," each of them experts in some academic field (linguistics, economics, philosophy, etc.), who perform the often tedious task..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Screens Feature by Sidney Moody

Postmarks

First, the good news ...

"...Linguistics 101..."

Nov. 5, 1999 Column

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