Effective Living > Language Summary. On 2 October 2009, the Pusack-Otto Lecture Series at the University of Iowa hosted an event with Richard Schmidt of the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa speaking on linguistics. The event took place at the historic Old Capitol of Iowa. In this presentation, Schmidt examines how the cognitive paradigm of… Continue reading The Paradigm Wars in Applied Linguistics: Irrevocable differences or complementary perspectives?