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The extraordinary words that capture the colourful diversity of the English language.
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Researcher at Lambeth Palace follows ‘usefully messy’ fragment of Roman history to its royal source
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New course lets fans brush up on native tongue of Westeros as the final season of TV show is aired
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September 2018: On the origins of urban dialects: economic change and demography in nineteenth- century Britain. Keynote at the 16th Annual Conference of The International Association of Urban Language Studies (ULS16) Oita, Japan
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This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Do you speak this language? Do you share the experience? These ar
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API Cartographer Eric Fischer plots language shapefiles of Twitter.
Some other images show how social media cuts across place, time and culture and communications have 'defeated' geography to unite the world. This image (besides looking pretty) shows that culture and place still matter within our increasingly interconnected globalized communications. There are some very real creating obstacles to diffusion and even if the technology exists for "one huge conversation," there are non-intersecting conversations because of cultural and community differences. Via Andrew Shears, PhD
Emily Bian's curator insight,
October 3, 2014 5:13 PM
This is a thematic map showing the different languages spoken on Twitter in Europe. This Europe thematic is really neat to look at, but it also shows globalization in that Twitter is everywhere, and people are more connected because of it. This increases interactions between people living in different countries, and even different continents. 3) language and communication This will help future APHUG students, because Twitter is relatable to a lot of teens and it will open their eyes to the different languages spoken across Europe and the world, and it's not just English. It connects them to the rest of the world.
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"If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world. After trying the verses, a Frenchman said he’d prefer six months of hard labour to reading six lines aloud."
This is the darndest poem and shows how truly complex English pronounciation really is (while also showing how spatially contingent the very idea of 'correct pronunciation' actually can be).
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"It may seem surprising, but in this age where geographic mobility and instant communication have increased our exposure to people outside of our neighborhoods or towns, American regional dialects are pulling further apart from each other, rather than moving closer together. And renowned linguist William Labov thinks there’s a connection between political and linguistic segregation.
"Labov suggests that it’s these deep-seated political disagreements that create an invisible borderline barring the encroachment of Northern Cities Vowels. When he looked at the relationship between voting patterns by county over the last three Presidential elections and the degree to which speakers in these counties shifted their vowels, he found a tight correlation between the two. And the states that have participated in the vowel shift have also tended to resist implementing the death penalty.
"Social identities are complex, and can be defined along a number of different dimensions like class, race, or ethnicity. Not everyone feels that politics are a part of their core identity. But I suspect that political ideology may become an anchor for accents to the extent that large social groups collectively identify themselves by their political beliefs. According to Bill Bishop, author of The Big Sort, this is happening more and more as Americans voluntarily cluster themselves into homogenous, politically like-minded communities."
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Oldies and goodies: From ancient languages such as Hebrew to Tamil. Check out our list of the ten oldest languages in the world.
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From Lord of the Rings to Game of Thrones, writers and linguists have invented an array of new languages.
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A previously unidentified language has been found by linguists from the Lund University in Sweden, during their work in the Malay Peninsula. The language has been given the name JEDEK and represents the Aslian group of languages within the Austroasiatic language family. “Jedek is not a language spoken by an unknown tribe in the jungle, as you would perhaps imagine, but in a village previously studied by anthropologists,” said Niclas Burenhult, Associate Professor of General Linguistics at Lund University, who collected the first linguistic material from Jedek speakers.
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MessageToEagle.com – The mysterious Dead Sea Scrolls have long fascinated archaeologists, historians and Biblical scholars. First discovered in West Jordan in 1947, near the ruins of Qumran, these ancient scrolls have delivered more surprises than expected. Now, new fragments have been unearthed and they seem to contain a never-before-seen language. When the first Dead Sea Scrolls …
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This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Do you speak this language? Do you share the experience? These are ... | IELTS, ESP, EAP and CALL
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New York has long been a city of immigrants, but linguists now consider it a laboratory for studying and preserving languages in rapid decline elsewhere in the world.
This is an excellent video for showing the diffusion of languages in the era of migration to major urban centers. It also shows the factors that lead to the decline of indigenous languages that are on the fringe of the global economy and the importance of language to cultural traditions. Article related to the video available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/29/nyregion/29lost.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1317132029-I36HNrdg4+dXkbgUQXnK6w
Elizabeth Bitgood's curator insight,
January 29, 2014 10:25 AM
This article and video were very interesting. They point out how a city full of immigrants can help preserver a dying language. The work being done to learn about and preserve these obscure languages is great. The fact that in New York you will hear language spoken more there than in their home country is astounding to me and very interesting. This fact is key to preserving these language as they are from areas of the world were the technology level is much lower and less likely to be preserved. It is also interesting as it shows where people are coming from to live in NY. The city draws immigrants like a sponge draws in water and this adds to the cultural mosaic that is NY city.
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"80% of all web communication is in ten languages, yet 95% of humanity speaks roughly 300 languages. Could Apple Siri and Google Voice help save the world's languages?"
This graph stunningly displays the result of dwindling linguistic diversity in this era of globalization and technological innovation. Why have so many languages been dwindling? Why are an important few growing? What is the future of the majority of the world's languages that have so few native speakers?
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TED Talks Biologist Mark Pagel shares an intriguing theory about why humans evolved our complex system of language.
Why is language such a critical component to human cultures and the technologies that we have created? Why did linguistic diversity exist in great abundance 500 years ago but is now increasingly shrinking? What is the future geography of languages on Earth going to look like?
Cynthia Williams's curator insight,
July 19, 2013 12:27 PM
And if we did choose one language that would be the world standard what would it be? I would guess that the Western cultures would demand English. But why should English be the standard? |
