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INAUGURAL LECTURE for the FORUM at UCLA
for the Study of Print and Electronic Culture
Geoffrey Nunberg will speak on "The Technologies of Reputation."
Thursday June 3, 1999 8 p.m. Royce Hall Room 306
Geoffrey Nunberg is currently employed as a principal scientist at
the
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and also holds the title of
Consulting
Professor of Linguistics at Stanford University. Editor of a
collection of
provocative essays entitled The Future of the Book (University of
California Press, 1996), Professor Nunberg has written and spoken
widely on
the place of the book in the age of electronic reproduction. His
other
works include The Pragmatics of Reference and The Linguistics
of
Punctuation as well as numerous articles and essays including a
contribution to Future Libraries (University of California Press,
1994).
Dr. Nunberg has published on language issues for a number of general
magazines such as the Atlantic and he serves as chair of the usage
panel
of the American Heritage Dictionary. He has taught at UCLA,
Stanford and
the University of Rome and recently returned from a Fulbright in
Italy.
In addition to his scholarly lectures he is well known for his
regular
language feature on the National Public Radio program "Fresh Air."
The lecture is jointly sponsored by the Department of
Information Studies
The Friends of English at UCLA & The Young Research Library
Department of Special Collections
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