Its annual Schools Language Awards – the overall winner of which was announced during the language festival – recognise innovative teaching and celebrate schools that pioneer language education.
A Times reporter noted, incidentally, that in Bowron's remarks, "the mayor carefully steered clear" of trying to say Los Angeles, "referring to it as 'our city.' " The jury, composed of pioneers, language professors, radio announcers and, for some reason, newspapermen, voted for Loss AN-ju-less.
This is, of course, a scandalous commentary on the disparity between state and private education, but University College London, having bravely pioneered a language requirement, had to drop it – or be penalised for missing its social equity target.
Of greater scientific importance was pioneering work on language and cognitive development by two young psychologists, Alexander Luria and Lev Vygotsky.
Naharin, artistic director of dance company Batsheva, is famous for pioneering his own language of movement called Gaga, which predates the international pop phenomenon of the same name.
Most striking of all, Koretsky was pioneering the visual languages of Benetton and MTV at a time when the iconography of interracial togetherness was still only a vague rumor on Madison Avenue.
Trump's attack on political correctness — which is a term that, for him, applies as much to the GOP's coded language as to the inclusive language pioneered by the left — has profound consequences for politics that go beyond rhetoric, threatening to have an impact on policies such as immigration to the detriment of "dreamers" and race relations as a whole.
FAST Thinking, a 12-hour boundary-breaking program, demonstrated the outcome of pioneering research on music, language, vision and neuroscience.
He also pioneered tactics and language later adopted by the Black Lives Matter movement.
In the 1964 anthology, Grapefruit, Yoko Ono published her "instructions" from the 1950s, which were considered pioneering in the development of language-based conceptual art.
Four years later, when Maurice Samuel published his pioneering English-language anthology The World of Sholom Aleichem, the Yiddish writer was the signifier of an absence.
