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LAWRENCE – A University of Kansas student took home the top prize at the 2021 Yale Hindi Debate competition on April 9. Sydney Pritchard, a sophomore in linguistics from Lawrence, earned the win in the “Non-native, Non-heritage category” at the event, which draws students from colleges including Yale, Notre Dame, Harvard, UCLA and other top universities.
The second-year Hindi student was coached and guided by Patrica Sabarwal, a lecturer in Hindi in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, and Angela Anthony, Fulbright Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA). Pritchard is the first Jayhawk to finish at the top since Srishti Sharma placed first in the “Heritage” category in 2018.
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EUGENE, Ore. April 29, 2021 An analysis of Twitter activity between March 1 and Aug. 1, 2020, found strong support by U.S. users for wearing face coverings and that a media focus on anti-mask opinions fueled the rhetoric of those opposed, report University of Oregon researchers.
The study, published April 28 in the journal
PLOS ONE, initially focused on linguistics, zeroing in on the language associated with hashtags during the study period, which began a month before the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended mask-wearing to protect against COVID-19 infection.
However, to better understand that semantics, which were found to be polarized, angry and emotionally loaded, the research team had to take an interdisciplinary journey into politics and media, said Zhuo Jing-Schmidt, a professor and linguist in the UO s Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures.
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