Archive for Tyler McPeek
Linguistics and Literature: Symmetry or Fiction?
by Tyler McPeek, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Nagoya University of Commerce and Business *Note: this paper is part of the FLA Proceedings and has been accepted in revised and expanded form for inclusion in the 2017 FLA Journal of Language. Paper was presented: March 13, 2016. Gainesville, Florida, USA I’ve been…
The Future of the English Language as a Global Lingua Franca
–Article by Tyler McPeek In some of my classes, students tell me that their professors in non-linguistics classes often wax-philosophical about the inevitability of Chinese as the next global lingua franca. Sometimes they even present it as an imminent development that has already started to take a foothold, due to…
The Mainstreaming of the Linguistic Sciences
–Article by Tyler McPeek For awhile now, I’ve been working on a site that deals with issues related to Japan, Japanology, and the Japanese language. What originally started as a kind of “Japan Fan” site, assisting and entertaining people who study Japanese, enjoy “things Japanese,” have lived in Japan, or…
Surviving Linguistics: A Guide for Graduate Students
by Monica Macaulay –Review by Tyler McPeek The very existence of this book can be both a convenient text selection for grad research class professors in linguistics departments and an encouragement and a comfort for anyone working in the field. It is the only book of its kind and therefore…
Linguistics Grad Students Should Take a Class in the Brain Lab
A day in the McKnight Brain Institute at University of Florida. –Article by Tyler McPeek Last year I had a chance to visit the McKnight Brain Institute Lab at UF. I was at a formal dinner event and made the acquaintance of a Japanese brain surgeon who was studying for…