Article: Brain in gear, tongue in cheek Lingua Franca, a journal of academia's fads and foibles, may be giving a wider audience ideas

Article: What we lost when Lingua Franca fell. ...
Columbia Journalism Review;  January 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... story pitch to Lingua Franca's young editor, Alexander Star. Two days later ... was a perfect Lingua Franca story: there ... commitment. When Star first asked ... complexity. But Star refused to take ... rewrites -- Lingua Franca was journalistic ...

Article: Lamentations, Poor Lingua Franca, An Orphan of the ...
The New York Observer (New York, NY);  November 12, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... because I was one of Lingua Franca's most extreme ... current editor Alex Star and colleagues ... d left behind. Lingua Franca also had something ... one can find in Lingua Franca." So I guess ... talking to Alex Star, that some smart ...

Article: Lingua Franca, the Magazine of Naked Academia; It's ...
The Washington Post;  May 25, 1993 ;     700+ words ... ... explaining what this new magazine called Lingua Franca was going to be. It would be for academics ... doctoral candidate Margaret Talbot, now Lingua Franca's co-editor, as "a combination ... would ever get off the ground." But Lingua Franca, the Review of Academic Life, is ...

Article: lingua franca
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      520 words ...lingua franca , an auxiliary language, generally ... Swahili language ); Chinook jargon, a lingua franca formerly used in the American Northwest ... Polynesian languages ). The original lingua franca was a tongue actually called Lingua ...

Article: When Intellectuals Had a Real Magazine: Viva Lingua ...
The New York Observer (New York, NY);  April 24, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... you'll probably find Lingua Franca in his or her past ... anything published in Lingua Franca, although the magazine ... then later Alexander Star and Emily Eakin. It ... How best to describe Lingua Franca in the evolution of contemporary ...

Article: English now seems to be the language of international trade. ...
Geographical;  May 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... language that gave its name to the term 'lingua franca'--a language spoken among people ... pidgin trading language. The origin of Lingua Franca, which was based largely on Italian ... According to linguists, the 'Franca' in Lingua Franca comes from an Arabic term for Europeans ...

Article: It's not academic. (Lingua Franca's new design)
Folio: the Magazine for Magazine Management;  April 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ...Lingua Franca is not your typical ivory-tower ... the design of New York City-based Lingua Franca to reflect the wit and dynamism of ... In contrast, the six-year-old Lingua Franca is full of words and cerebral jokes ...