Fonds comprises records related to Terrence Gordon's biography of Marshall McLuhan published in 1997 and includes correspondence with publishers and reviewers; a curriculum vitae; a manuscript draft; newspaper clippings and copies of reviews; and secondary research materials. Other records include the working papers from three books edited by Gordon: McLuhan Unbound, Understanding Media (Critical Edition) and The Classical Trivium: The Place of Thomas Nashe in the Learning of his Time.
Series contains correspondence to and from Terrence Gordon. Materials include letters both typed and handwritten from family members and various business and research colleagues.
Terrence Gordon is an active member of the Fort Sackville Foundation, whose mission is to collect, protect, preserve and promote the history and cultural heritage of Bedford. Included in the file are general meeting minutes; meeting minutes from the reading, research, resources committee and the archives and acquisition committee; programs and correspondence.
The course taught by applying concepts such as sources and influences, groupings and affinities, evolution and revolution to a broad range of contributions to linguistic theory, with particular emphasis on the last 150 years. Focusing on Ferdinand de Saussure, Hermann Paul, Hjelmslev, Guillaume, Jakobson, Martinet, and others.
This course analyzed how words and sentences convey meaning in language. Students learn how lexical items can be represented in terms of their semantic components and how interrelated groups of words form semantic fields. At the sentence level, grammatical, pragmatic and logical aspects of meaning are introduced. The course also explored idiomatic expressions and the ubiquity of metaphor.
File includes correspondence with Dean Graham Taylor, Roberta Mazzanati, Tony Farrell (SMU), J. E. Holloway (Spanish), Giulio Molinaro (U of Toronto), Ruba Afani, Suzanne Garnier, Silvia Giuliani regarding the launching of Italian studies at Dalhousie University. Also included are minutes from the French department and a course evaluation for ASSC 1010 - Italian for beginners.
