Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2001: Linguistics, Language, and the Real World 
Subtitle: Discourse and Beyond (Georgetown University ... on Languages and Linguistics (Proceedings))
Contributors: Deborah Tannen (Editor); James E. Alatis (Editor)
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Published: March 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780878409044
Subjects: Language & Linguistics; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language; Linguistics
First sentence: In 1919-just after World War I-the brilliant Jesuit internationalist Rev. Edmund A. Walsh, S.J., went to Europe and became convinced of the need for a school to train students for America's foreign service, hoping that if people could sit around a table and resolve their differences diplomatically, wars could be avoided.