The department of linguistics separated from the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics (FLL) at the beginning of the Fall 2023 semester, underscoring an important niche of the Georgetown University curriculum.
The...
The newest recipient of the Georgetown University College Academic Council’s Honors Teaching Award, which honors professors for instructional excellence, is professor Marissa Fond, an applied sociolinguist...
Georgetown College and the McDonough School of Business (MSB) launched a new joint Bachelor of Science in International Business, Language and Culture (IBLC).
The joint degree program, which...
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This week on “The Community Corner,” The Hoya had a chance...
When James E. Alatis graduated from the University of West Virginia in 1948, Georgetown was still a year away from establishing its School of Languages and Linguistics. Today, there are 105 students...
Daniel Casasanto, a professor of cognitive psychology at the New School for Social Research, explained differences in the way people express time through hand gestures across cultures Friday.
Casasanto,...
Until a few weeks ago, I had never actually used the phrase “play it by ear,” even though I’ve heard the idiom spoken by other people countless times. So when I finally included the words in conversation...
Every semester, Georgetown language students dish out $70 in lab fees, but many have never seen the inside of the lab room.
In an era of continuously emerging technologies, the language lab could...
