The Language and the Law: Trademark Dilution Online

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David Stankiewicz and Dr. William Eggington, Linguistics One of the most important areas of legal dispute today is internet trademark law. This has become an increasingly greater concern as more and more web pages grab for consumer attention. Many legal questions remain unanswered, and perhaps the most important of these is “Do we apply the […]

Cross-Cultural Communication in the Medical Setting

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David M Smith and Dr. Bill Eggington, Linguistics Communication between patients and physicians is perhaps the single most important issue in providing quality health care to a community. When segments of this community come from different cultural backgrounds and speak different languages, effective communication becomes more difficult. Over the last several years, Utah Valley has […]

Mariia: The Chronicle of a Life

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Spencer Scoville and Professor Walter Whipple, Germanic and Slavic Languages Last year, I proposed to complete a translation of Ukrainian author Ulas Samchuk’s novella Mariia. The process of translating and researching has been both more challenging and more rewarding than I anticipated. I completed the translation of the first section of Mariia, along with a […]

On-line Language Learning

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Peter Rich and Dr. Devon Asay, Humanities, Classics and Comparative Literature As technology improves and its popularity increase, more and more people are turning to electronic methods of education. CALL, computer assisted language learning, is one particular field that has tried to jump on the bandwagon. However, recreating real environments and random interaction poses a […]

The Gender Roles of Rural Mexican Women

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Caroline Victoria Raynor and Dr. Doug Weatherford, Spanish and Portuguese The gender roles of Mexican women seem rather obvious to most people. You envision submissive women, cooking, cleaning and raising children. While this is in most part true, life is changing in the rural villages near Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico. As I began this research, I […]

Continued Neglect: Albuquerque Women’s Literacy, 1848-1870

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Lori Rasmussen and Dr. Mary Stovall Richards, History The rhetoric of the Mexican-American War, and indeed, the entire expansionist era, claimed that the United States had a God-given responsibility to spread their white, Protestant, capitalistic, and democratic civilization to the heathen of the world. Though sometimes implied, and sometimes explicit, the notion included the idea […]

Royal Correspondence in the Lancut Archive

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Thomas M Pearson and Dr. Douglas Tobler, History In 1980, BYU’s acquisition librarian purchased a large collection (96 boxes) of historical documents, which originated from the Lancut castle in southeastern Poland. The archive is a wonderful social, economic, and cultural record of the noble families that lived at the castle. The materials cover a wide […]