The linguistic problems of foreign teaching assistants do not come as a surprise to undergraduates, who have long since learned to regard those fluent in English as a bonus, not the rule.
William Brownfield, the assistant secretary of state for drugs, has performed linguistic acrobatics in an attempt to reconcile America's legalisation of cannabis with its obligation to uphold the UN conventions that ban it.
Elinor Amit is an Assistant Professor (Research) in the department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences at Brown University, and a lecturer at the Harvard Medical School.
However, some portions of the Hindi transcripts were translated separately, by two project assistants, and some were back translated to check linguistic reliability and correctness in translation.
A first translation of van Deursen et al. (2012) was discussed by two research assistants and the principal investigator, looking for correct and contextually adapted linguistic expressions for the behaviors described by the items (International Test Commission, 2005).
Jennifer Bloomquist, an assistant professor in the Department of Africana Studies at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania, studies the connection between linguistic variation and culture.
He has also recruited Daowd I. Salih, 45, a refugee from Darfur who lives in New Jersey and is a personal care assistant at a home for the elderly, to teach Massalit, a tribal language, to a linguistic class at New York University.
Hunter personally conducted the survey of Bengal, and the anthropological, linguistic and sociological accomplishments of Risley were recognised in February 1875 when he was appointed as one of five Assistant Directors of Statistics for Hunter's Survey.
Linguistic ties matter too.
PITY the linguistic purists.
