English Linguistics / Peculiarities of English Language
Program Titles
- Peculiarities of English: Literal Literacy
- Literal Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know
- Poetry, Epigrams & Jokes by Kovacs
- Have you ever considered – or worse, used the idiomatic expression
- Linguistics
- Incomparable grammarian & epic epigrammarian
- Peculiarities of English
- Healthsthetics
- Anything bad that happens to anybody is something that’s bad for everybody!
George Kovacs, Ph.D., your ability to communicate is, ultimately, more important than your appearance, wealth or fame because, ultimately, you are what you say.
If you want your organizations’ letters and documents to be optimally literate, you must hear Dr. George Kovacs, the hilarious advocate of the English Language.
When it comes to grammar, do you tend to stammer?
You take no delight in speaking or in writing?
Hate the complication of proper punctuation?
Use the wretched slang which disgraces proper language?
Your mind isn’t jelling with the correct spelling?
Your brain, very thin, lacks hint or glint of syntax?
Kovacs is author (prose, poetry, drama), public speaker, professor, and editor.
Communications-Consultant to the Hippocrates Health Institute,
and he serves and has served in that capacity for various other prominent organizations, educational institutions, publications, and individuals.
Kovacs has taught and lectured about Communication Arts / Speech, English / Writing, and Theater / Drama at various institutions for many years.
He was Chairman of Liberal Arts and Law and Interim Academic Dean at Briarcliffe.
Kovacs has written 20 books, including
two about English
Literal Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know First and Literal Literacy II: What Every American Needs to Know Second,
two about theater
One about Man of La Mancha, upon the original-cast-revival of which he worked, and one about the plays of Neil Simon that the playwright himself called, in writing, the best such study that he has ever read,
Four about healthy living, two about social philosophy,
several academic, professional and institutional volumes, and, Hoops Zen: The Spiritual Beauty of Basketball.
He has written many essays, articles, scripts, speeches, poems, lyrics, epigrams and jokes; he is the uniquely-quintessential combination of incomparable grammarian and epic epigrammarian.
Ph.D. — Dramatic Theory and Criticism — The Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York
M.Phil. — Dramatic Theory and Criticism — The Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York
M. A. — Communication Arts and Sciences —
Queens College of the City University of New York
B. A. — Creative Writing / English — Queens College of the City University of New York
“The English Language and the American Musical Theater” —
Poetry-Presentation
“The English Language and the American Musical Theater” — National English-Speaking Union
“Words, Words, Words” — National English-Speaking Union
“Nothing Amusing about Amusing Aspects of Abuse of Language”
“The English Language” — Women’s American ORT
“George Kovacs: Man of Letters”
Interview: “Literal Literacy”
The Second Annual Book Fest — Friends of the Library
“Peculiarities of English”
“Hedonic Forms and Pathology”
Books by George Kovacs, Ph.D.
- Literal Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know First
- Literal Literacy II: What Every American Needs to Know Second
- Hoops Zen: The Spiritual Beauty of Basketball
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