Noam Chomsky: “On the Poverty of the Stimulus”
Dr Hans van der Koot (UCL Division of Psychology and Language Sciences) gives a short summary of Professor Noam Chomsky’s recent lecture at UCL. On Monday 10 October, Professor Noam Chomsky (MIT) gave...
View ArticleLive poetry is something else
Written by Stefanie van Gemert, PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at UCL. Over the past few weeks, I got to know someone special. It sparked off as an online encounter – an email trail about...
View ArticleLanguage machines – An Evening with Abdelkader Benali
Written by Stefanie van Gemert, PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at UCL In the life and work of the Dutch writer Abdelkader Benali (1975) themes of travelling, migration and movement are closely...
View ArticleEnglish Grammar Day 2014
In a world where economics and technology dominate, what is the place of grammar in our society? Is it important? The English Grammar Day 2014 (held on July 4) sought to tackle these questions....
View ArticleTranslating the poem: Henri Meschonnic’s poetics of translating
Written by Silvia Kadiu (PhD student, UCL Centre for Multidisciplinary and Intercultural Inquiry) Translating poetry is a notoriously difficult, if not entirely impossible, task. Yet, poems are...
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