Googling Toubon: Testing the effects of institutional French language purism

This study investigates the impact of French corpus planning efforts in two semantic domains, telecommunication and sport. Lists of Anglicisms and their French counterparts pertaining to these two domains are used in a corpus study using the Google Books corpus. A method to explore this corpus diachronically is proposed, and analyses assessing the odds of encountering the ‘official’ French terms over English loanwords are carried out. Despite a certain success of the French competitors in some specific cases, the overall analyses, modelling the odds ratios using mixed effect models, show no sustainable effect of the efforts to impose French alternatives to English neologisms. The results and possible explanations for the statistical patterns are discussed in the light of previous research on Anglicisms and language planning

All Rise! Standing in Judge Betty Fletcher’s Court

In this essay, based on a talk given at the Washington Law Review’s March 2009 symposium in honor of Senior Ninth Circuit Judge Betty Binns Fletcher and her three decades of service on that court, I selectively survey her opinions on justiciability issues: standing, ripeness, mootness, and political questions. A significant starting point for this survey is Professor Richard Pierce’s 1999 law review article, Is Standing Law or Politics?, arguing that many Supreme Court votes in standing cases generally, and appellate judges’ votes in environmental-standing cases specifically, can be explained better on the basis of politics than by reference to supposedly governing doctrine. Based on the findings reported in Pierce’s article, one might expect to find Ninth Circuit judges splitting along predictable ideological lines. In this brief survey, I find that some Ninth Circuit panels on which Judge Fletcher has sat do split along ideological lines, but that most are unanimous in their justiciability rulings even when the panels are ideologically mixed—and one finds variations, such as splits among judges appointed by Democratic Presidents and generally regarded as “liberal.” Another possible tendency would be for judges to find justiciability when they might be expected to be favorably disposed to the substantive claim on the merits, and to avoid reaching the merits of what might be unappealing claims. Similarly, in some cases on which Judge Fletcher has sat, some judges’ votes could be viewed as fitting such patterns, but counterexamples abound. This essay, which focuses on the work of one judge and does not systematically compare votes of judges from different parts of the political spectrum, cannot claim to disprove the political view; but that view finds little if any support in Judge Fletcher’s cases

Spartan Daily February 17, 2011

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More From the #Jury Box: The Latest on Juries and Social Media

This Article presents the results of a survey of jurors in federal and state court on their use of social media during their jury service. We began surveying federal jurors in 2011 and reported preliminary results in 2012; since then, we have surveyed several hundred more jurors, including state jurors, for a more complete picture of juror attitudes toward social media. Our results support the growing consensus that jury instructions are the most effective tool to mitigate the risk of juror misconduct through social media. We conclude with a set of recommended best practices for using a social-media instruction

More From the #Jury Box: The Latest on Juries and Social Media

This Article presents the results of a survey of jurors in federal and state court on their use of social media during their jury service. We began surveying federal jurors in 2011 and reported preliminary results in 2012; since then, we have surveyed several hundred more jurors, including state jurors, for a more complete picture of juror attitudes toward social media. Our results support the growing consensus that jury instructions are the most effective tool to mitigate the risk of juror misconduct through social media. We conclude with a set of recommended best practices for using a social-media instruction

A Conversation with Your Phone Plus Googling for Answers

How intelligent is your phone? What type of questions can you (and your students) ask and expect to get answered using your smartphone? In this session, you’ll explore over two dozen types of questions you can ask using the iPhone’s Siri (an intelligent assistant that responds to natural language voice commands). The session also covers tips to better Google your way to the answers you need using the most popular search engine on mobile devices and the web

The Cowl - v.81 - n.21 - Mar 30, 2017

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Volume 81, Number 21 - March 30, 2017. 20 pages

Spartan Daily May 3, 2012

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Santa Cruz Remarks

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Investigar a variação linguística em inglês com a Internet e Corpora

Mestrado em Estudos InglesesA preocupação desta dissertação está em acompanhar as variações linguísticas que têm surgido em grande parte através do uso da Internet. Estas também involvem mudanças culturais que são expressas através de novas formas de palavras. Os processos de formação das palavras são estudados para analizar as mudanças apresentadas nos casos prácticos implementados tal como exemplificou Aitchison (1994). Discute-se também a corpora informatizada e o recurso à produção de corpora específicas de modo a analisar a variação linguística. Os resultados da pesquisa levada a cabo têm implicações quer para os professores, quer para os estudantes de linguagem que precisam estar aptos a descobrir o uso do Inglês moderno. Contudo, os resultados vão muito para além disto e mostram as implicações educacionais envolvidas nas variações linguísticas aqui estudadas. ABSTRACT: This dissertation is concerned with tracking language changes which are seen to have come about largely through the use of the internet. They also involve cultural changes which are expressed through new word forms. The processes of word formation are examined in order to analyse the changes presented in the case studies carried out as exemplified by Aitchison (1994). There is also a discussion of computer corpora and recourse to the production of specific corpora in order to examine language change. The results of the research carried out have implications for both teachers and language learners who need to be able to find out about modern English usage. The results go much further than this however and show the wider educational implications involved in the language changes studied here