Desi wordsmiths.
Careers in Indian languages are as popular and profitable as those in a foreign tongue. So, if you have the ability to pick up languages, use your talent to talk your way into a great profession, encourages Panna Saroopa. Language is the vehicle that permeates every aspect...

Editorial.
In his inaugural editorial in Africa in 1928, Sir Frederick Lugard observed that the new institution that was responsible for publishing the journal, the International Institute of African Languages and Cultures (it did not become the International African Institute until 1946) was entering a field already crowded with organizations...

At a glance.
Leader: President Islam Karimov. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Economy: GNI per capita: $610 (Kazakhstan $3,790, Russia $5,780). Monetary unit: Sum. Main exports: Cotton, gold, natural gas and oil. Business is driven by politics and strict border trade laws stunt non-resource industry growth. The Government has...

The noun phrase structure in Nigerian English.
ABSTRACT Scholars have described Nigerian English in different ways. While some see it as a language that is evolving from a bilingual/multilingual background with influences from multiple languages, some see it as a deviation from the norm (and therefore a body of institutionalised errors): the former, from...

Desi pros take over expats in the BPO market.
Byline: Meenakshi Verma NEW DELHI: Indians are increasingly invading the foreign language job market in BPOs, replacing expats. And to get into foreign language BPOs, they're mastering foreign languages. Today, outlanders constitute only about 10-15% of the workforce, almost half of the earlier figure, says...

Lesser-known languages of South Asia; status and policies, case studies and applications of information technology.
9783110189766 Lesser-known languages of South Asia; status and policies, case studies and applications of information technology. Ed. by Anju Saxena and Lars Borin. Mouton de Gruyter 2006 386 pages $132.30 Hardcover Trends in...

Chicano Poetics: Heterotexts and Hybridities.
Chicano Poetics: Heterotexts and Hybridities. By ALFRED ARTEAGA. (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1997. ix + 185 pp. 11.95 [pounds sterling]; $16.95. This is an important contribution to the rapidly growing body of work in chicano and hybridity studies. Its horizon is a...

LETTERS IN THE EDITOR'S MAILBAG.
Byline: The Register-Guard Criticism of Palin hypocritical Unbelievable. For all of my life, all I have ever heard from (mostly, but not only) Democrats is the whine, "Why don't politicians' sons and daughters serve in the military?" So, Gov. Sarah Palin's...

OPEN-ENDED: THE CAPTIVE'S TALES OF DON QUIJOTE.
1. An Easy Dichotomy: The Internal and External Crises, Optimistically In keeping with Mikhail Bakhtin's discussion of the novel, Don Quijote successfully undermines most of the fundamental criteria which give the traditional, fixed epic narrative its canonical status. Within Don Quijote, we see the decadence of the...

Lost in translation: fewer than 50,000 American students study Chinese, compared to 200 million Chinese students studying English, but the gap is beginning to narrow.
IN 2002, THE CHINESE AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL School, a private preK-8 school in San Francisco, cosponsored a one-day workshop for Chinese language teachers from the Bay Area. Most of the 40 teachers who attended came from heritage schools, which are weekend schools for students of Chinese ancestry who want to...