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Share Romanization of character language systems, such as Chinese, can pose cultural and linguistic challenges for communicators. Photo credit: Our Signature by 2493™ on Flickr Have you noticed in the coverage about the protests in Libya that the name of the country’s leader is spelled differently depending on the news organization? I’ve seen his name reported as Muammar el-Qaddafi, [...] March 1st, 2011 | Tags: audience outreach, audience research, communication, cultural competency, el-Qaddafi, Gaddafi, Gadhafi, language, Latin, Libya, linguistic competency, multicultural communication, Multicultural Outreach, Qaddafi, Romanization, Slate, transliteration | Categories: Design & Editorial, Multicultural Outreach, Policy Communications, Social Issues, Social Marketing
One comment | Share: Share Photo Credit: MCS@flickr How many times have those of us with children been asked, “Tell me the story about the day I was born” (or if they were adopted, “Tell me the story about the day you brought me home.”)? Children never get tired of hearing stories about themselves, because those stories help them [...] January 26th, 2011 | Tags: advocacy, audience outreach, boehner, Branding, communications, Congress, Critique, giffords, language, Obama, Policy Communications, speeches, spokesperson, State of the Union, strategy, Washington DC | Categories: Policy Communications, Social Issues, Strategic Planning, Training & TA, Uncategorized
4 comments | Share: Share In this day of texting and emoticons, we communicators often mourn the demise of our beloved language. How can the beauty and importance of tiny little parts of speech like prepositions survive in a world too busy to bother with whole sentences? Stop by madame.furie, on Flickr Well, the importance of a preposition just got [...] December 9th, 2010 | Tags: emoticons, language, preposition, school bus, texting, Virginia | Categories: Design & Editorial
2 comments | Share: Share Earlier this year, Maria Enie discussed the impact of texting on the English language in this blog post. While I understand that texting and micro-blogging is part of an evolution of the English language, I am concerned that the informal texting language is becoming the English language for Millennials. This Ragan.com article discusses the [...] September 13th, 2010 | Tags: communication, language, microblogging, Millennials, Pew Research Center, public relations, texting, tweeting, Twitter, writing | Categories: Design & Editorial, Integrated Media Services
4 comments | Share: Share From coverage of Cornell University’s response to six students’ deaths by suicide to reports of entertainer Marie Osmond’s teenage son’s death by suicide, recently reporters are writing and talking a lot about suicide. While it’s great that news coverage is driving public dialogue about this often taboo topic, the news coverage does not utilize linguistically [...] April 5th, 2010 | Tags: AIDS, American Association of Suicidology, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, Annenberg Public Policy Center, audience outreach, cancer, Celebrity Psychings, Cornell University, cultural competency, culture, health communications, HIV, language, linguistic competency, Marie Osmond, media, media outreach, news coverage, phrases, public relations, suicide, words | Categories: Integrated Media Services, Media Relations, Multicultural Outreach, Strategic Planning, Training & TA
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