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I Know How You’re Feeling, I Read Chekhov
By PAM BELLUCK Casey Kelbaugh for The New York TimesEmanuele Castano and David Comer Kidd worked on a study that found that reading literary fiction leads to better performance on tests of social perception.
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Lady Thatcher and Tony Blair used ‘hubristic language’, research finds
A new study has found that British Prime Ministers Tony Blair and the late Lady Thatcher used hubristic language during their respective periods in office.
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Words We Love Too Much
A careful reader pointed out an increasingly common device: modifiers coined by tacking “centric” on to just about every noun in sight. After Deadline http://afterdeadline.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/01/words-we-love-too-much-11
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New issue of the Linguistics and Education Bulletin
New issue of the Linguistics and Education Bulletin via Tumblr http://jesusromerotrillo.tumblr.com/post/62420940886
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Learning to speak proper (The Economist)
Spread the word Mandarins push Mandarin Sep 21st 2013 | XIBIAN, FUJIAN PROVINCE |From the print edition AS MORE people around the world start to study Mandarin, China’s education ministry has revealed that much work still needs to be done teaching the language at home.
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Get a life! Working hours (The Economist)
Sep 24th 2013, 12:19 by C.W. and A.J.K.D. | LONDON BERTRAND RUSSELL, the English philosopher, was not a fan of work.