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SUMMARY:Linguaphile: Book Talk with Julie Sedivy and Gretchen McCulloch
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, November 19\, 2024\, 7:00 pm ET\n\n\n\nJoin author Julie Sedivy\, in conversation with Gretchen McCulloch\, as they discuss her new book\, Linguaphile! This event will be hosted in person at the Atwater Library’s Adair Auditorium. Attendance is free\, but space is limited\, so please RSVP on TicketSource. \n\n\n\nAbout the Book\n\n\n\nA celebration of the beauty and mystery of language and how it shapes our lives\, our loves\, and our world. \n\n\n\nIf there is one feature that defines the human condition\, it is language: written\, spoken\, signed\, understood\, and misunderstood\, in all its infinite glory. In this ingenious\, lyrical exploration\, Julie Sedivy draws on years of experience in the lab and a lifetime of linguistic love to bring the discoveries of linguistics home\, to the place language itself lives: within the yearnings of the human heart and amid the complex social bonds that it makes possible. \n\n\n\nLinguaphile: A Life of Language Love follows the path that language takes through a human life—from an infant’s first attempts at sense-making to the vulnerabilities and losses that accompany aging. As Sedivy shows\, however\, language and life are inextricable\, and here she offers them together: a childish misunderstanding of her mother’s meaning reveals the difficulty of relating to other minds; frustration with “professional” communication styles exposes the labyrinth of standards that define success; the first signs of hearing loss lead to a meditation on society’s discomfort with physical and mental limitations. \n\n\n\nPart memoir\, part scientific exploration\, and part cultural commentary\, this book epitomizes the thrills of a life steeped in the aesthetic delights of language and the joys of its scientific scrutiny. \n\n\n\nAbout the Authors\n\n\n\nJulie Sedivy has taught linguistics and psychology at Brown University and the University of Calgary. She is the author of Memory Speaks: On Losing and Reclaiming Language and Selfand Language in Mind: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics\, as well as the coauthor of Sold on Language: How Advertisers Talk to Youand What This Says About You. She lives in Calgary\, Canada. \n\n\n\nGretchen McCulloch is an internet linguist and author of the New York Times bestselling Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language. She’s been the Resident Linguist at Wired and The Toast and is the co-creator of Lingthusiasm\, a podcast that’s enthusiastic about linguistics. She lives in Montreal\, but also on the internet. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP Now
URL:https://qwf.org/event/linguaphile-book-talk-with-julie-sedivy-and-gretchen-mcculloch/
LOCATION:Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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