#OTD 120 years ago, Yukie Chiri (1903-1922) was born 🥳 She collected, studied, and translated the yukar, oral epic stories of the Ainu people in Hokkaido. She used a romanisation system, rōmaji, to transcribe the yukar in Ainu.
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Bühler in America
From Sprachtheorie to semantics and cybernetics: Karl Bühler’s “Pocketbook on practical semantics”
in Semiotica
by James McElvenny and Clemens Knobloch
degruyter.com/document/doi/1…
#openaccess #oa (through some backroom deal btw uni and DeGruyter) Hiphilangsci (@[email protected])
#OTD 116 years ago, Frieda Goldman-Eisler (1907-1982) was born 🎉 A pioneering researcher in psycholinguistics, focusing in particular on the study of pauses. In 1970, she became the first professor in psycholinguistics in the UK.
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Happy birthday, dear Karl! 🥳
To celebrate, we recommend (re-)listening to episode 21 of our podcast focusing on Karl Bühler’s Organon model of communication and its influence on the Prague Circle.
🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2022/01/01/pod…
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Happy birthday, dear Rudolf 🥳
Elatically karulise your pirots to celebrate!
Check out this post by Martin Konvička (Martin Konvička) to learn more about pirots, colorless green ideas or vertebral silence:
hiphilangsci.net/2022/03/21/col…
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#OTD 1821: #JensAndreasFriis , one of the founding fathers of #Saami linguistics, lecturer and later professor at Kristiania (Oslo) was born. He established an influential orthography of North Saami which was used in the first complete Bible translation. #LinguisticBirthdays