{"id":14806,"date":"2022-06-21T06:03:13","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T10:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=14806"},"modified":"2022-06-19T22:20:42","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T02:20:42","slug":"media-iana-ferguson-on-linguistics-and-economics-in-the-caribbean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2022\/06\/21\/media-iana-ferguson-on-linguistics-and-economics-in-the-caribbean\/","title":{"rendered":"Media: Ian\u00e1 Ferguson on &#8220;Linguistics and economics in the Caribbean&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past Friday (June 17, 2022) Ian\u00e1 Ferguson, one of Prof. Michel DeGraff&#8217;s undergraduate students in his Spring 2022 course &#8220;Creole Languages and Caribbean Identities&#8221; had one of her essays for the class published in a newspaper in her home country Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in the Caribbean. This piece is an extremely important analysis on &#8220;Linguistics and economics in the Caribbean&#8221;\u0097with lessons for the struggle against linguistic (neo-)colonialism worldwide, especially in former European colonies. It has been an honor for Michel DeGraff to have had Ian\u00e1 Ferguson as one among so many inspiring students in his courses.  <\/p>\n<p>The article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.searchlight.vc\/our-readers-opinions\/2022\/06\/17\/linguistics-and-economics-in-the-caribbean\/\">is available online here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past Friday (June 17, 2022) Ian\u00e1 Ferguson, one of Prof. Michel DeGraff&#8217;s undergraduate students in his Spring 2022 course &#8220;Creole Languages and Caribbean Identities&#8221; had one of her essays for the class published in a newspaper in her home country Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in the Caribbean. This piece is an extremely important [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14807,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14806\/revisions\/14807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}