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I am busily preparing my talks for this and next week. Keep your fingers crossed. It is a different thing to speak in front of scholars at another university in a foreign country & in a foreign language ... You see how nervous I am. The first talk will be on emotions and soccer language, and the second on silences in Russian. I am looking forward to doing something different then, believe me! What I am interested in at the moment is language and rituals, language and sexuality, and language and testing ... The libraries here are great! A search for reading assessment in book titles, for example, yields 174 results.