Geoffrey Nunberg
Geoffrey Nunberg
Geoffrey Nunbergis an American linguist, researcher and an adjunct professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information. Nunberg has taught at Stanford University and served as a principal scientist at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center from the mid-1980s to 2000...
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Cell phone makes those boundaries between public and private very porous. In the past, if you're having a spat with a significant other in a public place, one of you will argue and say, 'Not here' because it's intrusive. But now, with cell phones, there's no 'Not here' anymore.
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The choice of words is important when things like this happen,
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When it comes to being slaves to fashion, American managers make adolescent girls look like rugged individualists.
writing italian culture
The Italian historian Armando Petrucci has done more than anyone else to revive interest in public writing. His groundbreaking Public Lettering: Script, Power, and Culture surveys the forms and uses of epigraphic writing from classical antiquity to the twentieth century.