/newsroom/taxonomy/term/6851/all en /newsroom/channels/news/arrival-raises-profile-linguists-making-them-almost-cool-264179 <p>“A lot of people don’t know what linguists do, or even that we exist, apart from some idea that we just translate lots of languages.”<strong> Jessica Coon</strong>, associate professor of linguistics who consulted on the film. <br /> Read more: <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/its-all-in-the-wording-arrival-raises-profile-of-linguists-making-them-almost-cool/2016/11/11/9ac60a14-a773-11e6-ba59-a7d93165c6d4_story.html">The Washington Post</a></p> <p> </p> Wed, 16 Nov 2016 17:41:08 +0000 priya.pajel@mail.mcgill.ca 26398 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/mcgill-linguist-helped-upcoming-movie-arrival-263604 <p>The upcoming Denis Villeneuve movie <em>Arrival</em> was filmed in Montreal and when the filmmakers went looking for a linguistics scholar to consult on the screenplay and offer on-set advice, they turned to ����VR��Ƶ. Prof. Jessica Coon supplied feedback on the film’s script, worked with the set crew, and some of her books from her office even wound up in the film. (<a href="http://mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/s/1762/news/interior.aspx?sid=1762&gid=2&pgid=1344&utm_source=1132&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MNEWS">����VR��Ƶ News</a>)</p> Fri, 21 Oct 2016 17:08:47 +0000 priya.pajel@mail.mcgill.ca 26307 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/national-aboriginal-day-2015-june-21-253545 <p> Fri, 12 Jun 2015 18:14:28 +0000 melody.enguix@mcgill.ca 24234 at /newsroom