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From NBC News, a report on the spread of the word "like," including an interview with Carmen Fought, a linguistics professor at Pitzer College in California
March 9, 2005 - Interview with an English Learner in Iran
March 2, 2005 - Linguistic Profiling
June 22, 2005 - Emotion in Words
May 8, 2003 - 'The Language Police,' Part 2
May 1, 2003 - 'The Language Police,' Part 1
November 6, 2003 - American National Corpus
February 12, 2004 - Helen Fisher: 'Why We Love'
November 1, 1998 - Political Language
March 27, 2003 - Rhetoric of War
February 5, 2004 - Political Rhetoric in America, Part 2
January 29, 2004 - Political Rhetoric in America, Part 1
October 14, 2001 - Language of Terror, Part 2
October 7, 2001 - Language of Terror, Part 1
January 13, 2002 - Words of 2001
June 1, 2005 - U.S. Academic Writing Style, Part 2
May 25, 2005 - U.S. Academic Writing Style, Part 1
April 13, 2005 - Meet Two Young English Teachers
June 17, 2004 - Americanrhetoric.com
December 11, 2003 - RepeatAfterUs.com
April 6, 2005 - Conversational Styles and Sports
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