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Words that last - 0 views

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Language Language families History of language

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    A research team led by Mark Pagel at the University of Reading in England has identified 23 "ultraconserved words" that have remained largely unchanged for 15,000 years (Washington Post)
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Coca-Cola Super Bowl ad: Can you believe this reaction? - 0 views

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Mass communication Part 2 Advertising Racism Bilingualism Coke Reaction USA Language Part 1

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    Coca-Cola's Super Bowl ad sparked both outrage and kudos. The ad, entitled "It's Beautiful," features the patriotic song "America the Beautiful" sung in eight languages. The ad shows people of different ethnicities.
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Reconsidering the Adoption of English as an Official Language: National Discussion on L... - 0 views

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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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Top 15 US colleges - 0 views

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College apps USA

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    Slideshow of top 15
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PG-13 movies match R rating for violence, study says - 0 views

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Mass communication Part 2 Film Violence

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    The prevalence of gun violence in top PG-13 movies has more than tripled since the rating was introduced in the mid-1980s, a study says.
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Linguists explain how to tell statements from questions in Valley Girl talk - 0 views

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Language Part 1 Identity Varieties of English Idiolect USA

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    Amanda Ritchart is a native speaker of Southern Californian English, the dialect also known as "Valley Girl talk" - you know, the one that's like totally full of the word "like."
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Minority languages face grim future - 1 views

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Language Part 1 Cambodia Indigenous languages Language Death

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    Specialists say the languages of Cambodia's once-isolated highland minorities are being eroded by global forces
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A language in crisis - 0 views

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Language Part 1 Khmer Cambodia Language degradation Opinion

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    Opinion piece about the deterioration of the Khmer language
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Bilingual education aims to preserve minority languages - 0 views

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Language Language Death Part 1 Cambodia Indigenous languages Bilingualism Education

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    Some of the oldest indigenous languages in Southeast Asia may soon become relics of the past, but bilingual education programs could reverse the slide
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In time, our language will correct itself - 0 views

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Language Part 1 Khmer Cambodia Letter to editor Language degradation

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    letter to the editor in response to opinion piece that Khmer language is in crisis
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Ancient tongue sits on the brink of extinction - 0 views

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Language Part 1 Cambodia Language Death Indigenous languages S'aoch

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    IN FOCUS: Cambodia's imperiled languages
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Is Britain becoming a nation of accent snobs? - 0 views

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Language Part 1 English Pronunciation Accents Class Discrimination

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    Erica Buist: As an accent coach I increasingly hear from people sidelined because they sound foreign (Comment is Free, Guardian.com)
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    Erica Buist: As an accent coach I increasingly hear from people sidelined because they sound foreign (Comment is Free, Guardian.com)
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No English please, we're Gambians: president - ModernGhana.com - 0 views

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Language Part 1 English Colonialism Gambia Nationalism

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    Dakar AFP - Gambia will drop English as its official language, President Yahya Jammeh said in his latest diatribe against former colonial power Britain.
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    Dakar AFP - Gambia will drop English as its official language, President Yahya Jammeh said in his latest diatribe against former colonial power Britain.
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Life as an Alien by Meri Nana-Ama Danquah - 0 views

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Language Part 1 Identity Race Culture USA

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    Meri Nana-Ama Danquah left Ghana at the age of 6 to live in the US. In this essay she examines what it is like to grow up bicultural.
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Notes of a Native Speaker by Eric Liu - 0 views

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Language Part 1 Race Culture Identity Asian-American Assimilation Chinese

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    Eric Liu is an Asian American: "I never asked to be white. I am not literally white. That is, I do not have white skin or white ancestors. I have yellow skin and yellow ancestors, hundreds of generations of them. But like so many other Asian Americans of the second generation, I find myself now the bearer of a strange new status: white, by acclamation."
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    Eric Liu is an Asian American: "I never asked to be white. I am not literally white. That is, I do not have white skin or white ancestors. I have yellow skin and yellow ancestors, hundreds of generations of them. But like so many other Asian Americans of the second generation, I find myself now the bearer of a strange new status: white, by acclamation."
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    Eric Liu is an Asian American: "I never asked to be white. I am not literally white. That is, I do not have white skin or white ancestors. I have yellow skin and yellow ancestors, hundreds of generations of them. But like so many other Asian Americans of the second generation, I find myself now the bearer of a strange new status: white, by acclamation."
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    Eric Liu's essay examines the meaning of assimilation, and what it means to be a "banana", an Asian American who identifies as white.
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