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About Richard McDorman

Posted by admin on January 4, 2011 6:41 pm / 0 Comments

I was born and raised in West Virginia. I went to college in Virginia, and later to graduate school in Chicago and Miami, where I settled down in the late 1990s. I also studied law for two years at Florida State University and translation at New York University. I am a linguist and essayist. I...

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Richard McDorman interviewed by The Miami Herald

Posted by admin on December 9, 2010 6:17 pm / 0 Comments

With the emergence of Latin American industries, many South Florida executives are finding it necessary to learn Spanish and Portuguese to better interact with their South American counterparts.

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Richard McDorman Essay Series Hailed by the Media

Posted by admin on December 8, 2010 6:00 pm / 0 Comments

MIAMI, June 4 /PRNewswire/ -- West Virginia native and long-time Miami resident Richard E. McDorman has published a four-part essay series through Amazon Digital Services.

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Richard McDorman on the use of African American English (AAE) in the public schools

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Richard McDorman’s position on the use of African American English (AAE) in the public schools

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Language and Linguistics Lecture Series at inlingua Language Centers in Florida

Posted by admin on December 5, 2010 1:52 pm / 2 Comments

I will continue my series of lectures and seminars on topics related to language, linguistics (applied and theoretical) and language pedagogy at inlingua Language Centers in Florida. These workshops are part of inlingua Florida's Professional Development Program, which provides inlingua Florida's 300+ language instructors with unique opportunities to improve their teaching skills, receive certification to teach advanced course types, broaden their understanding of language and linguistics, and learn new teaching strategies and techniques.

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Language and the Ancient Greeks and On the Decipherment of Linear B

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This historical essay reviews the development of the art and science of grammar and philosophical views toward language among the Ancient Greeks. Although the early Greek writers, including Homer and Hesiod, commented on language (for example, in the Iliad Homer referred to the Miletians and other Ionians as "barbarophonoi," literally, “foreign speaking”), it was not until the fifth century B.C. that the explicit study of language emerged in Ancient Greece when rhetoric arose as a profession.

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Liberty and Scientific Evidence in the Courtroom

Posted by admin on December 2, 2010 10:46 pm / 0 Comments

This critical essay examines the effects of the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 509 U.S. 579 (1993), and its progeny on the criminal justice system at both the federal and state levels. While Daubert addressed the admissibility of scientific evidence in a civil action, the role of scientific evidence is most crucial in the criminal courts, where the testimony of an ‘expert’ in some or another scientific field frequently is the difference between conviction and acquittal.

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Development of Government and Religion in the State of Israel

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The Development of Government and Religion in the State of Israel (Kindle Edition) Few western nations have religion so tied into their national psyche as the State of Israel. Surrounded on all sides by Arab Muslim theocratic monarchies, in the cases of Jordan and Saudi Arabia, or quasi-totalitarian states, in the cases of Egypt, Lebanon,...

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Universal Iconography in Writing Systems

Posted by admin on December 1, 2010 10:37 pm / 0 Comments

Iconography has played a central role in the development of writing systems. That all independently derived ancient scripts began as arrangements of pictograms before evolving into their elaborated forms evinces the fundamental importance of iconography in the evolution of writing.

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"Labial Instability in Sound Change argues for a particular school of sound change (John Ohala's phonetic theory) while clarifying the complex relationships among speech perception, acoustic and articulatory phonetics, language typology, and sound change."
Richard McDorman, Labial Instability in Sound Change

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Richard E. McDorman is certified by the American Translators Association (ATA) for translation from Spanish to English. Mr. McDorman currently resides in Miami, Florida.

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  • Richard McDorman’s Term as CEA Commissioner and 2019 Chair to end on December 31, 2019

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  • Article published in The Journal of Specialised Translation

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