March 2007


“Ali: What is the vibe with drugs in Ireland? It might be stereotyping or whatever man
but I is heard that the Irish is always up for the crack.
Sue: No, no. Crack in Ireland means having a good time .
Ali: A’ight, for real but crack is a bad drug there is a high but also a low.”

(you can check out the video by clicking here)

 

When I decided to use an Ali G quote as an epigraph to my ‘Introduction to sociolinguistics’ (this article is a contribution to a new ENS-based website called ‘La clé des langues‘ (‘The gate to languages’), which aims at providing high school teachers with new and innovative material – ), I didn’t quite know what I was getting myself into. (more…)

On the 13th March at 13h30, at the ENS-LSH in Lyon, Parvis René Descartes (Métro Debourg), Alexis Michaud will be talking about tonal languages for the second Conf’Expresso*(Expresso Talk) of the semester . He will provide us with basic notions of tonal typology and then move on to a case study – namely an analysis of Naxi language – (a Burmese-Tibetan language spoken in China). (more…)