Later, he became one of the central spirits of the Army Language Program and the language school of Washington's Foreign Service Institute.

It was at the Watkinson library that Whorf became friends with the young boy, John B. Carroll, who later went on to study psychology under B. F. Skinner, and who in 1956 edited and published a selection of Whorf's essays as Language, Thought and Reality.

Jones became the first linguist in the western world to use the term phoneme in its current sense, employing the word in his article The phonetic structure of the Sechuana Language.

The American heiress Alice Vanderbilt Morris ( 1874 – 1950 ) became interested in linguistics and the international auxiliary language movement in the early 1920s, and in 1924, Morris and her husband, Dave Hennen Morris, established the non-profit International Auxiliary Language Association ( IALA ) in New York City.

In the same year, Mozambique became a founding member and the first President of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries ( CPLP ), and maintains close ties with other Lusophone states.

" His name became synonymous with " dictionary ," especially the modern Merriam-Webster dictionary that was first published in 1828 as An American Dictionary of the English Language.

After the war, he became a consultant to the International Auxiliary Language Association, which would present Interlingua in 1951.

After SOAP was first introduced, it became the underlying layer of a more complex set of Web Services, based on Web Services Description Language ( WSDL ) and Universal Description Discovery and Integration ( UDDI ).

The most recent is Speech Synthesis Markup Language ( SSML ), which became a W3C recommendation in 2004.

She then took up employment as a private governess after which she became a school teacher in Edgbaston and Worthing, raising enough money to study Biology, Chemistry, English Language and Literature at St Hugh's College, Oxford.

The submissions for the 75th Academy Awards, for instance, became shrouded in controversy when it was reported that Humbert Balsan, producer of the critically acclaimed Palestinian film Divine Intervention ( 2002 ), tried to submit his picture to the Academy but was told it could not run for the Foreign Language Film Award since the State of Palestine is not recognized by the Academy in its rules.

New Zealand Sign Language became an official language of New Zealand in April 2006.

" The Fox " became an important platform for the American members of Art & Language.

He became a consultant with the International Auxiliary Language Association, which standardized Interlingua and presented it to the public in 1951 ( Esterhill 2000 ).

It was named in May 2006, and after the three-year implementation period provided for by the French Language Services Act, officially became a bilingual service centre in 2009.

Mon Oncle quickly became an international success, and won that year's Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, a Special Prize at Cannes, as well as the New York Film Critics Award.

Zolotow began her career as a stenographer to Nordstrom, became her protege, and went on to write more than 80 books and edit hundreds of others, including Nordstrom's The Secret Language and the works of Paul Fleischman.

After leaving Japan in 1942, Hornby joined the British Council and later became the first editor of the journal English Language Teaching, launched in October 1946.

Iverson developed a mathematical notation that became known as Iverson Notation for manipulating arrays that he taught to his students, and described in his 1962 book A Programming Language.

He later became a Professor of Spanish Language and Literature at the University of Maryland, College Park.

He became famous in 1967, when his first feature film, Closely Watched Trains, won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Kosuth became the American editor of the Art & Language journal in 1969.

The French language became the sole official language of Quebec with the adoption of the Official Language Act in 1974.

Bourassa's use of the notwithstanding clause of the Canadian constitution to set aside the Supreme Court's decision to strike down parts of Quebec's Charter of the French Language ( which toughened the requirements for French predominance on commercial signs ) played into this ; while an entirely constitutional move, it became a flashpoint for many federalist Canadians, particularly in English Canada.

More recently, code generation is increasingly common, using portable intermediate languages ( such as Java bytecode or. NET Common Intermediate Language ) as the target.

Its predecessor was Communication Studies in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature and its establishment of coincides with the development of media increasingly influencing world affairs in a time of fast-growing globalization.

Since The Māori Language Commission began a move in 2001 to " reclaim Matariki, or Aotearoa Pacific New Year, as an important focus for Māori language regeneration " it has increasingly become common practice for various private and public institutions to celebrate Matariki in a range of ways and over the period of a week or month anywhere from early June to late August

Asserting that " Language diversity is essential to the human heritage ," UNESCO's Ad Hoc Expert Group on Endangered Languages offers this definition of an endangered language: "... when its speakers cease to use it, use it in an increasingly reduced number of communicative domains, and cease to pass it on from one generation to the next.

# Language and ideology, in which language increasingly becomes caught up in the production of power relations between social groups, especially when powerful groups institute themselves at least partly in monetary terms.

With notable new majors in Sign Language Interpreting, Environmental Biology, Criminal Justice, Philosophy, and Spanish complementing traditional strengths in Music, Theatre, Religion, Business, and the service professions, Bethel College increasingly reflects a national and international student body.

More recent related controversies regarding animal abilities include the closely linked areas of Theory of mind, Imitation ( e. g. Nehaniv & Dautenhahn, 2002 ), Animal Culture ( e. g. Rendell & Whitehead, 2001 ), and Language Evolution ( e. g. Christiansen & Kirby, 2003 ).

UNESCO defines oral and intangible heritage as “ the totality of tradition-based creations of a cultural community expressed by a group or individuals and recognized as reflecting the expectations of a community in so far as they reflect its cultural and social identity .” Language, literature, music and dance, games and sports, culinary traditions, rituals and mythologies, knowledge and practices concerning the universe, know-how linked to handicrafts, and cultural spaces are among the many forms of intangible heritage.

Anthropologist Joseph Opala did the research that linked Bunce Island to the Gullah people and organized the well-publicized Gullah homecomings portrayed in the documentary films “ Family Across the Sea " ( 1990 ), “ The Language You Cry In " ( 1998 ), and “ Priscilla ’ s Homecoming " ( in production ).

Joseph Greenberg's Language in the Americas ( 1987 ) linked Macro-Ge and Macro-Carib together, but also with Macro-Panoan rather than Tupian.

The local Aboriginal group is the Dundu: ra / Doondora people the inhabitants of the Hervey Bay ( Dundu: ra Bay ) region which stretched from the Mary River to the Burnett River who were part of the Wahr Language Group of the Kabi nation ( Edward Curr 1886 ).

French Sign Language ( langue des signes française or LSF ) is the sign language of the deaf in the nation of France.

In History of the Voice: The Development of Nation Language in Anglophone Caribbean Poetry ( 1984 ), Kamau Brathwaite alludes to the poem as an example of imperial education and hopes those who have had to recite its lines will be able to express themselves in nation language instead of imposed language ( and poetry ).

His name is today connected to the extensive Language Reform of the 19th century, when thousands of words were coined or revived, enabling the Hungarian language to keep up with scientific progress and become an official language of the nation in 1844.

Chinese Language and Culture College is the base of the national Chinese education, and the only place for HSK in Fujian Province instituted by the nation ’ s HSK committee.

Language and culture courses are offered as early as elementary school, while advanced language courses and opportunities to intimately view the culture of the student's host nation are offered throughout high school.

2010 Global Language Monitor ranked the school as No. 3 Online University and No. 140 University overall on the TrendTopper Media Buzz list of the nation ’ s Top 300 Colleges and Universities.

The film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1984 ; it was submitted by the Swiss government, and gave that nation its first Oscar win.

“ Language ” was then ( and still is today ) more connected with “ nation ” than with “ civilization ” ( particularly in France ).

Zhangjiagang is home to several primary and secondary schools, including the Liangfeng Senior Middle School of Jiangsu Province, Zhangjiagang Foreign Language School of Jiangsu Province, one of the most prestigious middle schools of the nation.

* French Sign Language is the sign language of the deaf in the nation of France

Language study in the Middle East and North Africa varies from one country to another, usually depending on the foreign nation that colonized or occupied the country.