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Welcome to Brigham Young University's Linguistics Society (Lingsoc).  We will be continually updating and improving this web site. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions that you would like to see happen here, please let us know by contacting the webmaster. 
 
 



 


Recent(ish) Presentations & Events

  • LACUS

    • (July 28 - August 1, 1998)

     In July & August of this year some of our Linguistics Professors and many of our fellow students attended/presented at  LACUS.

    The Deseret Language and Linguistic Society Symposium (DLLS - March 30-April 3, 1998), sponsored by the College of Humanities at Brigham Young University, was a great success. 
     
  • On Thursday, March 12th the Linguistics Society was very pleased to have Dr. Cynthia Hallen as a guest speaker. Her topic was "Figures of Speech in Shakespeare, Emily Dickenson, and the Scriptures". 

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  • On Thursday, January 29th the Linguistics Circle, mostly composed of the department faculty, met to discuss superlative semantics, an area of semantics that has not been given much attention. Please take a moment to read about the discussion presented by Deryle Lonsdale. Thanks to all those who attended!
  • On Thursday, February 5th the Linguistics Society hosted a presentation by Deryle Lonsdale, the new Linguistics Professor coming to us straight from Carnagie Melon University. Thanks to all those who attended!

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  • On Friday, October 17th1997, the Linguistics Society hosted the presentation "Career Preparation" by Christopher DeSantis of the Church Translation Department. Thanks to all those who attended!


Our Mission

To facilitate: 
1stness: Food & Fun = promoting high-quality, good feelings and unity among linguistics students.
2ndness: Career Commiseration = providing pointers on how to survive as a linguist in  the actual world.
3rdness: Intellectual Interests =  presenting interesting theoretical concepts that professors don't necessarily have time to pursue at length in the classroom.


 



Contact Information

We would enjoy hearing from you.  Please look at our current membership.  If you have any questions or comments for our members, please email them directly via the email address provided. 
Telephone 
801-378-2937
FAX 
801-378-8295 
Postal address 
Brigham Young University, Department of Linguistics, 2129 JKHB, Provo, UT 84602
Electronic mail 
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