Volume XXIII, Number 1,
April 2000
Exploring Languages
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Volume XXIII, Number 1, Exploring Languages |
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| Introduction | Staff, Board, and Contributors | The Forum |
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Opening Up the World |
A broad range and variety of languages–more than sixty are taught at Indiana University–can be studied for their intrinsic interest or because they are needed as vehicles for other branches of learning. |
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| Renaissance
Man by Nick Riddle |
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One man’s passionate exploration of Italian culture has helped establish Italian cinema as a field of study in the English-speaking world. |
| A Matter of Negotiation by Nick Riddle |
The field of second-language acquisition at IU is being transformed from an activity based on drills to a more interactive, communicative experience. |
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Book of Changes
byWilliam Orem |
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The preservation of Creole, a nuanced language, is a task
as complex as the many-sided history of Louisiana.
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| The Princess & Picard by William Orem |
Picard—an independent tongue descended side-by-side
with French from Latin—provides an excellent case study in linguistics.
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Multilayered Interpretation:
Music and German Culture
by William Rozycki |
Analysis drawing from the fields of musicology, Jewish studies, anthropology, folklore, art history, and German studies has helped recover a controversial layer of symbolism in WagnerÕs operas. |
| Text, Culture, & Language by William Rozycki |
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One has as many lives as one has languages.
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Rescuing Yiddish for
Future Generations
by Kathleen Mills |
A growing number of young Jews explore their own cultural background through the study of Yiddish. |
| Discovering the Portugese Speaking
World by Nick Riddle |
Many students are taking Portuguese to increase their chances of working in parts of the world that use the seventh most-common language. | 
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| An Uncommon
Chance to Study Less-Common Languages by Judi Hetrick |
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Dozens of the less-common languagesÑincluding Polish, Serbian and Croatian, Dutch, and even MongolianÑare alive and well at Indiana University Bloomington. |
| From Inquiry to Publication: Books by Indiana University Faculty Members | Preview books on painting as a language, Sturge-Weber syndrome, logical positivism, high-yield pharmacology, film noir, cross cultural psychiatry,, globalization and governance, Fernando Pessoa, and more. |
