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Jenni Young

Does It Taste As Sweet To Say 'I Love You' In Another Language? : Code Switch : NPR - 2 views

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Language Part 1 Culture Identity Bilingualism

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    When it comes to cross-cultural and bilingual relationships, not everyone speaks the same language of love. The language with the deepest emotional resonance tends to be the one that was spoken by each romantic partner at home when they were growing up.
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A Culture Clings to Its Reflection in a Cleaned-Up Soap Opera - 1 views

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Language Culture Mass communication Language loss

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    "Baktun," made entirely in the Mayan language, might be the cleanest telenovela in Mexico.
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And the Word of the Year Is... Selfie! : The New Yorker - 0 views

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Language Language change New words Mass communication

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    Silvia Killingsworth explores the history and culture surrounding the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year for 2013: "selfie" (blog)
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Language learning: Bridge to a better world - 0 views

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Language Culture Part 1 Bilingualism South Africa Xhosa

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    South African Craig Makhosi Charnock's TEDx talk on learning Xhosa to show respect for the language and culture.
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How to Tame a Wild Tongue by Gloria Anzaldua - 1 views

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Language Part 1 Identity Culture Bilingualism Code-switching Spanish

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    Anzaldua, poet, feminist, and writer, writes in "How to Tame a wild Tongue" about her life as an Hispanic immigrant to the US, and how the new language and culture were "forced" upon her.
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Mugging de Queen's English - 0 views

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Language Culture Part 1 Listen Mr Oxford Don Agard Poetry Accents

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    Article in NewStatesmen about the inclusion of multi-cultural writers in the British school curriculum. The headline comes from John Agard's poem Listen Mr Oxford Don.
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When Vanilla Was Brown And How We Came To See It As White : Code Switch : NPR - 0 views

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Language Part 1 Connotations Meaning

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    Vanilla has become a cultural metaphor for blandness and whiteness. But the flavor's history is rife with conquest and slavery and theft.
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    Vanilla has become a cultural metaphor for blandness and whiteness. But the flavor's history is rife with conquest and slavery and theft.
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Why not study Russell Brand for A-level English? Language evolves - get over it | Laura... - 0 views

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Language Part 1 Language change Education UK Curriculum Written Tasks Opinion

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    Laura Barton: Those who mock the inclusion of modern cultural references in the syllabus are misguided to think English was a once-fine structure now at risk (Guardian Online - Opinion)
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    Laura Barton: Those who mock the inclusion of modern cultural references in the syllabus are misguided to think English was a once-fine structure now at risk (Guardian Online - Opinion)
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If Comedy Has No Lady Problem, Why Am I Getting So Many Rape Threats? - 0 views

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Language Part 1 Mass communication Part 2 Rape Gender Rape Joke Comedy Taboo Internet Offensive

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    After debating rape culture and rape jokes, writer Lindy West was attacked on the internet and threatened with rape (opinion)
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    After debating rape culture and rape jokes, writer Lindy West was attacked on the internet and threatened with rape (opinion)
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Commenters threaten writer with rape after she argues against rape jokes - Salon.com - 0 views

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Language Part 1 Comedy Rape Rape Joke Gender Mass communication Part 2 Internet

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    Lindy West and Jim Norton debated the role of rape jokes in rape culture, but the Internet had the last word (VIDEO)
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    Lindy West and Jim Norton debated the role of rape jokes in rape culture, but the Internet had the last word (VIDEO)
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Last Words: The Dying of Languages | Worldwatch Institute - 0 views

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Language Part 1 Global languages Language Death

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    Millennia of human experience are wrapped up in the planet's many languages, and this linguistic diversity may be as essential to our cultural health as biological diversity is to our physical health (Blog)
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    Millennia of human experience are wrapped up in the planet's many languages, and this linguistic diversity may be as essential to our cultural health as biological diversity is to our physical health (Blog)
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Oxford Dictionary Recognizes: YOLO, Amazeballs and Hot Mess - 0 views

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Language Part 1 Oxford Dictionary New words Neologisms Slang

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    The online dictionary added new terms inspired by popular culture and online usage.
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    The online dictionary added new terms inspired by popular culture and online usage.
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How Code-Switching Explains The World - 1 views

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Language Identity Part 1 Code-switching

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    In linguistics, "code-switching" means mixing languages or patterns of speech in conversation.This NPR blog interprets code-switching more broadly, as a dialogue that spans culture, race and ethnicity.
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'Rock the Casbah' Author: Hip-Hop Has Been the Rhythm of Arab Spring - 0 views

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Language and power Mass communication

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    Journalist Robin Wright chronicles the cultural and social forces behind this year's Arab revolt in her new book, "Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World.' Margaret Warner and Wright discuss her book and the new wave of empowerment in the Arab world.
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Greetings, From Around the World - 0 views

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Language Part 1 Letter to editor Culture clash Communication Identity

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    Readers' letters in response to the article
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Humboldt's parrot | Omniglot blog - 1 views

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Language Part 1 Language Death Humboldt's Parrot Maypure

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    In 1799 the German naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was exploring the Orinoco and Amazon rivers and documenting the languages and cultures of the tribes he encountered there. He was given a parrot which was apparently the last surviving 'speaker' of the Maypure language.
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Dark Girls: Race, beauty, and bias - 0 views

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Literature Bluest Eye Part 4 Beauty Race

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    9-minute trailer for the documentary Dark Girls. In it, African American women discuss their own experiences of bias toward dark-skinned women, both in pop culture broadly and from people in their own lives.
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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - 0 views

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Mass communication Part 2 Advertising Pop Protest Television

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    Wikipedia page lists cultural references in Gil Scott-Heron's poem recorded in 1970
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Search for My Tongue (GCSE English) - 0 views

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Language Culture Part 1 Identity Bilingualism Poetry Bhatt Search for My Tongue Gujarati

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    Discussion of Sujata Bhatt's poem about being bilingual
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