L³ Society’s October 2008 Newletter
The second edition of the L³ Society’s October 2008 Newletter, entitled The L³anguage Connection is hot off the presses! This newsletter, created by and for students is focused on the study of language, literature, and linguistics. The L³ Society’s editors in chief are Adriana I. Caraballo and Angel Matos Caro.
The link to the newsletter may be found below.
Once again, congratulations to our students for their success with the monthly newsletter!
The L³anguage Connection, October 2008, Volume 1.2
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Join us on October 22
engl 6006 guest speaker series
22 October 2008
Understanding Bullying
Within Puerto Rican
Cultural and School Contexts
Dr. Bernadette Delgado
Department of Social Sciences
UPR-Mayagüez
CHARDÓN 318 @ 6:30 p.m.
ABSTRACT:
This presentation will discuss a research project that examines the phenomenon of bullying within the Puerto Rican socio-cultural and school context, based on ethnographic interviews conducted with intermediate school students, parents and teachers. Results of this study support the difficulty of finding a term in Spanish that conveys bullying as described in the American and European literature. Attendees will learn how the phenomenon of bullying is conceptualized within the Puerto Rican cultural,social and school contexts. Furthermore, they will understand the relationship between culture and bullying behaviors in order to design interventions that are culturally sensitive.
INFORMATION:
Contact Jocelyn A. Géliga Vargas (787-832-4040 ext. 3096/3064; jgeliga at uprm.edu)
Attendees will receive one-credit hour of professional development, certified by CEP.
Hollywood Representations of Femininity (INGL 3300)
L³ Workshop on Tuesday September 30, 2008
UPR Graduate School Visit on Tues. September 30, 2008
Join us on October 8, 2008
engl 6006 guest speaker series
8 October 2008
Research in Action
Democratizing Knowledge at UPRM
Dr. Rima Brusi
Department of Social Sciences
Center for Applied Social Research
UPR-Mayagüez
CHARDÓN 318 @ 6:30 p.m.
ABSTRACT:
Our work is framed by an action research tradition, and uses qualitative and quantitative data. We seek to better understand the connection between low socio-economic status (SES) and access to higher education, specifically at UPRM, in order to generate multiple research and action-oriented projects.
This presentation provides an overview of our research and outreach activities, explores the combined use of qualitative and quantitative data from various disciplines, presents some results of our work in progress, and discusses some of the methodological implications of our model.
INFORMATION: Contact Jocelyn A. Géliga Vargas (787-832-4040 ext. 3096/3064; jgeliga at uprm.edu)
L³ Society September Newsletter
The first edition of the L³ Society’s September 2008 Newletter is hot off the presses!
This newsletter, created by and for students is focused on the study of language, literature, and linguistics.
The L³ Society’s editors in chief are Adriana I. Caraballo and Angel Matos Caro.
In this edition, the writers for the Lx newsletter include Kimberly Santiago Vega and Wilmary Rivera Flores. The writers for the Literature newsletter are Marshley Márquez, Alexandra Morales, Larrisa I. Ramos, and Odette M. Ortiz.
Links to the newsletters may be found below.
Congratulations to our students for their innovative intellectual endeavors!
Lit Newsletter Sept 08
Lx and Language Newsletter Sept 08
Join us on 9/17/08
engl 6006 guest speaker series
17 September 2008
“Flexible Like Water”:
The Bruce Lee School of Linguistic Inquiry
Dr. Shannon T. Bischoff
Department of English
UPR-Mayagüez
CHARDÓN 318 @ 6:30 p.m.
ABSTRACT: In the summers of 1927 through 1929 Gladys Reichard, at the request of Franz Boas, recorded some forty narratives of Tom Miyal and Dorothy Nicodemus, the last speakers of the Coeur d’Alene language, and edited the materials with several Coeur d’Alene community members. Unfortunately, the narratives were never fully analyzed, published, or made accessible at the time. This talk discusses recent efforts to make these materials available to the Coeur d’Alene community for revitalization purposes and to the linguistic community for research purposes. The presentation focuses on the link between revitalization efforts (a largely applied linguistic, socio-linguistic, and language policy task) and research strategies employed primarily within the following three sub-fields of linguistics: anthropological, theoretical, and computational. It also discusses a number of unexpected challenges which, in the words of Bruce Lee, require one to be “flexible like water.”
INFORMATION: Contact Jocelyn A. Géliga Vargas (787-832-4040 ext. 3096/3064; jgeliga at uprm.edu)
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