If former President Barack Obama can invent the Austrian language, then Sen. Cory Booker can invent the Swiss one. Mr. Booker’s awkward exchange on the campaign trail with a radio reporter in Cedar ...
Ask him how it all began, and he remembers the ice. It was a bitter morning in January, 1982, when Bernard Cathomas, aged thirty-six, carefully picked his way up a slippery, sloping Zurich street. His ...
Language is something people use on a day to day basis, and it is incorporated in many different modalities, including but not limited to: oral, signed, written, imagery, and other representations.
EUROPE Is the home of the idea that people who see themselves as a nation should have a country. And very often those countries have seen themselves linguistically: France is the home of those who ...
Vol. 17, No. 4, Language Dissertation No. 34: Swiss German Dialect and Romance Patois (Oct. - Dec., 1941), pp. 3+8-75 (69 pages) Language, a journal of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), has ...
Undeterred by the pandemic, the wheels of Switzerland’s film production machine kept on spinning in 2021, churning out the meticulously made multicultural co-productions the country is known for that ...