● Just last week, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg warned (in response to protests over a Brooklyn College forum critical of Israel) that people who wanted government to police academic speech should go to school in North Korea.
They expected some kind of 'Love Actually'* moment, a Hollywood ending, at the general assembly and instead we got rather an academic speech from someone who is an academic.
Welcoming the pope at the mosque on Saturday, Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad bin Talal of Jordan, a cousin and the principal religious adviser of King Abdullah II, thanked Benedict for having expressed "regret" over the remarks and for clarifying that they had been a citation in an academic speech.
Results show that the way in which quantifiable data are handled in academic speech and writing is very different: numbers are less frequent in the talks, much less complex, and more often accompanied by approximators; quantification by determiners is preferred to lexical quantification.
Watchdog groups monitoring academic speech have become more pernicious in the last two decades.
Given that trigger warnings are themselves and example of academic speech, this looks like nothing less than an attempt to chill the speech of instructors.
Consequently, these decrees drove the Burschenschaften underground, restricted the publication of nationalist materials, expanded censorship of the press and private correspondence, and limited academic speech by prohibiting university professors from encouraging nationalist discussion.
Most in the audience likely expected an academic speech, heavy on technical descriptions of the organizations and programs on both sides of the U.S. Mexico border that will participate in the CaliBaja Center's collaboration, but what they heard came not from a script, but from her heart.
"Children swallow just like adults", remarked an academic speech pathologist when commenting on dysphagia and cough.
The former press secretary, who knew both Balls and Miliband for many years before they became frontline party figures, claims: "It's hard to listen to any of Ed Miliband's occasionally tortured, over-academic speeches without hearing his father's voice, especially when he talks about recasting the capitalist model and re-shaping society through the empowerment of ordinary people.
I think a lot of people write about art in a specific way – particularly curators; they use quasi-academic speech in order to explain something which is actually simple, or is so difficult it defies being described so don't bother.
