Presented By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)
How can We Determine what English Usage is and Isn’t Acceptable?
Anne Curzan, Professor of English, U of M
Is it acceptable to use “impact” as a verb? To allow “anxious to be synonymous with “eager”? To employ “they” as a singular generic pronoun? Curzan has been a member of the American Heritage Dictionary Usage panel since 2005. She’ll offer a lively history of dictionaries and how usage panels came to be. How do they help decide what is acceptable English language?
Anne Curzan is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of English at the University of Michigan. She received her PhD from the University of Michigan. Her research interests
include the history of English, language and gender, corpus linguistics, historical
linguistics and pedagogy and lexicography.
This is the seventh in the series of nine Distinguished Lectures. The next lecture in the series will be April 12, 2016. The title is “Expanding Concepts of Health and Wellness: Making Meaningful Changes.”
Anne Curzan is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of English at the University of Michigan. She received her PhD from the University of Michigan. Her research interests
include the history of English, language and gender, corpus linguistics, historical
linguistics and pedagogy and lexicography.
This is the seventh in the series of nine Distinguished Lectures. The next lecture in the series will be April 12, 2016. The title is “Expanding Concepts of Health and Wellness: Making Meaningful Changes.”
Cost
- $45 for the nine lecture series. $10 for an individual lecture. $20 OLLI membership required.
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