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Jenni Young

Two Song Cycles by Liza Lim : The New Yorker - 0 views

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Language Part 1 Identity Culture Language Death

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    Music and language: Liza Lim's opera "Mother Tongue" addresses the power of language to shape consciousness, and what is lost when languages die away. Review has some relevant ideas about language and culture (Review)
  • Jenni Young on 28 Apr 14
     
    Music and language: Liza Lim's opera "Mother Tongue" addresses the power of language to shape consciousness, and what is lost when languages die away. Review has some relevant ideas about language and culture.
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Linguist Finds a Language in Its Infancy - 2 views

www.nytimes.com/...a-language-in-its-infancy.html

Language Language Death Language change New languages

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    A linguist has concluded that a new language, with unique grammatical rules, has come into existence, created by children in a remote area of Australia (NYT article)
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ushing Science's Limits in Sign Language Lexicon - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...s-broaden-science-lexicon.html

Language Language change Sign language

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    New sign language for scientific terms
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Endangered Languages - 1 views

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Language Language Death Indigenous languages

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    UNESCO page has links to other pages, including: Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger, Biodiversity and Linguistic Diversity, FAQs, etc.
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IPI International Press Institute: 'Use With Care' handbook on 'loaded language' - 0 views

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Mass communication Part 2 Journalism Israel-Palestine Connotations Bias News

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    "Use With Care: A Reporter's Glossary of Loaded Language in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict" is a handbook for journalists of language to avoid when reporting on the conflict, to avoid implying support for one or the other side.
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    "Use With Care: A Reporter's Glossary of Loaded Language in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict" is a handbook for journalists of language to avoid when reporting on the conflict, to avoid implying support for one or the other side.
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Gambia To Drop English As Official Language For A Local Language - ModernGhana.com - 0 views

www.modernghana.com/...-official-language-for-a-.html

Language Part 1 English Gambia Nationalism Colonialism

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    Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh on Friday shocked many with a disclosure that the West African nation wants to implement a policy change that would drop English as the official language
  • Jenni Young on 24 Mar 14
     
    Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh on Friday shocked many with a disclosure that the West African nation wants to implement a policy change that would drop English as the official language
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Mark Pagel: How language transformed humanity - 1 views

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Language Community

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    Biologist Mark Pagel shares an intriguing theory about why humans evolved our complex system of language. He suggests that language is a piece of "social technology" that allowed early human tribes to access a powerful new tool: cooperation.
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Reconsidering the Adoption of English as an Official Language: National Discussion on L... - 0 views

www.yomiuri.co.jp/...culture_100823.htm

Language Part 1 Global English Japanese Opinion

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    In the summer of 2010, news of companies such as Rakuten and Fast Retailing promoting the adoption of English as their official language is attracting attention (Opinion piece from The Japan News, Yomiuri Shimbun)
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How to speak 'Menglish' - the language 'only men' understand - Telegraph - 0 views

www.telegraph.co.uk/...guage-only-men-understand.html

Language Part 1 Gender Communication Menglish Men Talk

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    Scientists have cracked it! Men and women don't understand each other because he speaks 'menglish', a report reveals. A sceptical Rebecca Holman tries to learn a new language. (Daily Telegraph)
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BBC News - Firms ignore the foreign language internet at their peril - 2 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...business-13878064

Language Part 1 Mass communication Part 2 Foreign languages Internet Culture

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    Only 25% of the world speaks English - so businesses ignore the foreign language internet their peril.
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New Study Shows Brain Benefits Of Bilingualism : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR - 0 views

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Language Identity Part 1 Bilingualism

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    The largest study so far to ask whether speaking two languages might delay the onset of dementia symptoms in bilingual patients as compared to monolingual patients has reported that bilingual patients suffer dementia onset an average of 4.5 years later than those who speak only a single language.
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Lack of language skills is diminishing Britain's voice in the world - 1 views

www.theguardian.com/...ls-universities-business-hague

Language Global English Monolingualism Part 1

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    Applications for language courses slump - which is bad news for British diplomacy and business (Guardian)
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Lost indigenous language revived in Australia - 1 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...world-asia-20066624

Language Language Death

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    An Aboriginal language whose last speaker died n 1929, has been revived in Australia.
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Schumpeter: The English empire | The Economist - 0 views

www.economist.com/...heir-official-language-english

Language Part 1 Global English Language and power

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    A growing number of firms worldwide are adopting English as their official language (The Economist)
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How language is literally losing its meaning - 1 views

www.theguardian.com/...e-literally-losing-its-meaning

Language Language change Meaning Part 1 Literally

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    The Oxford English Dictionary has accepted a new definition for the word literally - and it's not the only word changing beyond recognition. It's enough to, like, make one despair
  • Jenni Young on 29 Apr 14
     
    The Oxford English Dictionary has accepted a new definition for the word literally - and it's not the only word changing beyond recognition. It's enough to, like, make one despair (Blog)
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The Case for Profanity in Print - 0 views

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Mass communication Part 2 Swearing Taboo Journalism Language

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    Censoring language deprives readers of news and information.
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    Censoring language deprives readers of news and information.
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Narendra Modi's Election Sparks Hope for Sanskrit - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...ope-for-sanskrit-in-india.html

Language Part 1 Mother Tongue Sanskrit India Culture Identity

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    Proponents of teaching the ancient scholarly language dream of its revival under the government of India's new prime minister.
  • Jenni Young on 18 Jun 14
     
    Proponents of teaching the ancient scholarly language dream of its revival under the government of India's new prime minister.
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BBC News - Koreas: Joint dictionary aims to bridge cultural divide - 0 views

www.bbc.com/...s-news-from-elsewhere-26066829

Language Part 1 Korean Dictionary Culture

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    North and South Korea work on a joint dictionary to reunite a common language divided by different political systems.
  • Jenni Young on 24 Mar 14
     
    North and South Korea work on a joint dictionary to reunite a common language divided by different political systems.
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What language barrier? - 2 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...gender.books

Language Gender Stereotypes

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    It is a truism that men and women do not communicate in the same way. But is there really any evidence to support this Mars-and-Venus theory? Oxford language professor Deborah Cameron investigates in the first of three extracts from her new book
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