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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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Languages of the world - 0 views

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Language World Languages Part 1 Language Death Global languages

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    BBC guide to languages of the world, with links to endangered languages, the origins of language, etc
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European Union prepares to adopt 24th official language as costs mount, calls for Engli... - 1 views

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Language Part 1 Global English Lingua franca Translation EU

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  • Jenni Young on 03 Mar 14
     
    In the European Union, every language is an official language. Government officials speak in the official language of their country, and those comments are then translated into 22, soon to be 23, other languages. All of that costs $1.4 billion per year - and that total will increase when Croatian becomes an official language later this year.
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Suzanne Talhouk: Don't kill your language | Talk Video | TED - 0 views

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Language Part 1 Global English Language Death Mother Tongue Culture Arabic

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    More and more, English is a global language; speaking it is perceived as a sign of being modern. But - what do we lose when we leave behind our mother tongues? Suzanne Talhouk makes an impassioned case to love your own language, and to cherish what it can express that no other language can. In Arabic with subtitles. (Filmed at TEDxBeirut.)
  • Jenni Young on 24 Mar 14
     
    More and more, English is a global language; speaking it is perceived as a sign of being modern. But - what do we lose when we leave behind our mother tongues? Suzanne Talhouk makes an impassioned case to love your own language, and to cherish what it can express that no other language can. In Arabic with subtitles. (Filmed at TEDxBeirut.)
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BBC Languages - Language and Identity - 2 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...language_and_identity.shtml

Language Part 1 Language Death Global languages Opinion

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    Page has many links to other topics related to Global English, including Endangered Languages, adopting words from other languages, etc.
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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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Slate, you're doing it wrong - 0 views

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Language Part 1 USA Language use Asian Non-native speakers

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  • Jenni Young on 16 May 14
     
    Article which corrects a Slate.com map which shows the top language in each state other than English or Spanish. Asian languages are more used than shown on the Slate map.
  • Jenni Young on 16 May 14
     
    Article which corrects a Slate.com map which shows the top language in each state other than English or Spanish. Asian languages are more used than shown on the Slate map.
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By Using Language Rooted in Andes, Internet Show's Hosts Hope to Save It - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...guage-rooted-in-the-andes.html

Language Part 1 Language Death Mass communication Part 2 Internet Indigenous languages

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  • Jenni Young on 16 Aug 14
     
    Kichwa, a variant of the South American language Quechua, is the tongue in which a weekly program is broadcast by speakers who are striving to sustain it.
  • Jenni Young on 16 Aug 14
     
    Kichwa, a variant of the South American language Quechua, is the tongue in which a weekly program is broadcast by speakers who are striving to sustain it.
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Helping Hands? - 0 views

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Language Language Death Sign Language

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    article about American Sign Language being used instead of local sign languages
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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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  • Jenni Young on 01 Apr 13
     
    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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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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Multiples: 12 Stories in 18 Languages by 61 Authors edited by Adam Thirlwell - - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...ies-languages-thirlwell-review

Language Part 1 Translation

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    12 stories are translated out of the original language and then back again. A fascinating experiment in language and the effects of style
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Why languages matter to me: Eddie Izzard, Alastair Campbell and more - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...eddie-izzard-alastair-campbell

Language Identity Part 1

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    A group of high-profile linguists reveal the impact languages have had on their lives and what sparked their passion for learning languages
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European and Asian languages traced back to single mother tongue - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...an-language-tongue-superfamily

Language Part 1 Language families History of language

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  • Jenni Young on 25 Sep 13
     
    Eurasiatic languages from Portugal to Siberia form 'superfamily' with root in southern Europe 15,000 years ago, scientists claim
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Should gender-biased language be outlawed? - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...ender-biased-language-law-poll

Language Part 1 Gender

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  • Jenni Young on 25 Sep 13
     
    Washington is now the fourth state to remove gender-biased language from the law. No more 'freshman', 'fisherman' or 'clergyman'. That's 'first-year student', 'fisher' and 'clergy' to you. Do you think other states should pass bills banning gender-biased language?
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The man who kept the Lakota language alive - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...hat-kept-lakota-language-alive

Language Part 1 Language revival Indigenous languages USA

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    Albert White Hat, a member of the Rosebud Sioux tribe died recently, but his work helped the Lakota language remain in existence.
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Stephen Fry Kinetic Typography - Language - 0 views

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Language Part 1 Language change Language use Language deterioration

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    Stephen Fry's essay on pedants who complain about 'incorrect' use of language, transformed into kinetic typography animation.
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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)
  • Jenni Young on 25 Mar 14
     
    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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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.
  • Jenni Young on 24 Mar 14
     
    "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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