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Caitlin Moran: Should my tweets be on the A-level syllabus? - 0 views

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Language Part 1 Language change Education UK Curriculum Written Tasks

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    Writing in the Times, Caitlin Moran says she was initially horrified to discover that her Twitter feed, along with speeches by Russell Brand and the lyrics of Dizzee Rascal
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    Writing in the Times, Caitlin Moran says she was initially horrified to discover that her Twitter feed, along with speeches by Russell Brand and the lyrics of Dizzee Rascal
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What should be on the A-level syllabus? | Books | theguardian.com - 0 views

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Language Part 1 Language change Education UK Curriculum Written Tasks Blog Opinion

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    Is including Russell Brand in the reading list a "rubbish" idea or total genius? Tell us what you think should be on the reading list for UK language and literature course (Guardian Blog)
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    Is including Russell Brand in the reading list a "rubbish" idea or total genius? Tell us what you think should be on the reading list for UK language and literature course (Guardian Blog)
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English A-level with Russell Brand and Dizzee Rascal on reading list under fire | Educa... - 0 views

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Language Part 1 Language change Education UK Curriculum Written Tasks

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    UK A-level students will study Russell Brand's views on drugs and Caitlin Moran's Twitter feed alongside more conventional literature in a new A-level that was immediately denounced as "rubbish" by sources at the Department for Education (Guardian Online
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    UK A-level students will study Russell Brand's views on drugs and Caitlin Moran's Twitter feed alongside more conventional literature in a new A-level that was immediately denounced as "rubbish" by sources at the Department for Education (Guardian Online
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Media Talk podcast: Marketing and advertising to children - a necessary evil? | Media |... - 0 views

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Mass communication Part 2 Advertising Children Marketing Podcast

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    Although the advertising industry is subject to regulation, child-targeted advertising remains a concern, especially as kids spend more time online. John Plunkett and guests debate the issues (Guardian Online)
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    Although the advertising industry is subject to regulation, child-targeted advertising remains a concern, especially as kids spend more time online. John Plunkett and guests debate the issues (Guardian Online)
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How is Outkast like Shakespeare? It all comes down to vocabulary. - 0 views

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Language Part 1 Mass communication Part 2 Rap Shakespeare Vocabulary

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    A data scientist quantified the vocabularies of Shakespeare and various rap artists. The results: Big Boi and Andre 3000 are just as prolific as the Bard.
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    A data scientist quantified the vocabularies of Shakespeare and various rap artists. The results: Big Boi and Andre 3000 are just as prolific as the Bard.
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Poem of the week: Words by Edward Thomas | Books | theguardian.com - 0 views

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Language Part 1 Identity Bilingualism Welsh Vocabulary Poetry

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    This loose-limbed lyric on the elemental power of language seems rooted in a distinctly Welsh landscape
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    This loose-limbed lyric on the elemental power of language seems rooted in a distinctly Welsh landscape
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This is why your brain wants to swear | David Shariatmadari | Comment is free | theguar... - 0 views

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Language Part 1 Vocabulary Swearing Taboo

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    A recent study shows that children are adept at absorbing swearwords. That's the power of linguistic taboos for you
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    A recent study shows that children are adept at absorbing swearwords. That's the power of linguistic taboos for you
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Relatively speaking: do our words influence how we think? | Education | theguardian.com - 0 views

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Language Part 1 Identity Culture

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    Linguistic relativity can tell us about our perceptions of reality and the relationship between language and the way we think
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An Artist Took Disney Characters and Put Them Into Real Life Situations - PolicyMic - 0 views

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Mass communication Part 2 Disney Image Stereotype Parody WT2

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    A series called "Disney Unhappily Ever After" re-imagines favorite animated classics and transforms them into realist horror stories.
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George Szirtes: what being bilingual means for my writing and identity | Education | th... - 0 views

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Language Part 1 Bilingualism Identity Culture

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    Hungarian-born poet George Szirtes writes in both English and his native tongue. He contemplates bilingualism and belonging
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Cultural vocabularies: how many words do the Inuits have for snow? - 0 views

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Language Part 1 Culture Vocabulary Identity

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    The Inuits are not alone in having many words to describe a thing that preoccupies them, patterns occur in the vocabularies of many cultures
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Look Up - YouTube - 0 views

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Mass communication Part 2 Social Media Spoken Word

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    A spoken word film for an online generation - is social media an oxymoron?
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Shanghai Laments Loss of TV Show in Local Dialect - 0 views

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Language Part 1 Language Death Chinese Mass communication Part 2 TV Dialects

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    The show, which focused on traditional life and culture and was presented in the Shanghai dialect, collided with government guidelines that nationally broadcast programs use only Mandarin.
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Lupita in the Mirror : The New Yorker - 0 views

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Mass communication Part 2 Magazines Race Beauty Literature Bluest Eye Part 4

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    Judith Thurman on the significance of Lupita Nyong'o's People magazine cover: "Women with strong African features and jet-black skin are, even today, with a black family in the White House, scarce in the pages of mainstream fashion magazines."
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#GirlsCan: Women Empowerment | COVERGIRL - YouTube - 0 views

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Mass communication Part 2 Advertising Gender WT2

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    Cover Girl commercial
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    Cover Girl commercial
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Slip of the Tongue by Karen Lum - YouTube - 0 views

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Language Part 1 Culture Identity Gender Spoken Word Beauty

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    Film by Karen Lum, featuring spoken word piece by Adriel Luis, touches on language, beauty, ethnicity, gender…
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    Film by Karen Lum, featuring spoken word piece by Adriel Luis, touches on language, beauty, ethnicity, gender…
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Study Reveals Discrimination Starts Before Grad School - 0 views

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Language Part 1 Names Discrimination Gender Race

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    Study showed that professors are much more likely to respond to a student who sounds like a white male than to a student who sounds like a female or minority.
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    Study showed that professors are much more likely to respond to a student who sounds like a white male than to a student who sounds like a female or minority.
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An Alarm Over the Incursion of Foreign Words - 0 views

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Language Part 1 Foreign languages Language change Chinese Culture

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    While a language's absorption of foreign words is often seen as a positive mark of a society's cosmopolitanism, the reaction in China has been anything but positive - at least according to state media.
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    While a language's absorption of foreign words is often seen as a positive mark of a society's cosmopolitanism, the reaction in China has been anything but positive - at least according to state media.
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Beijing's call to ban foreign words in Chinese media meets with mocking satire | South... - 0 views

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Language Part 1 Chinese Mass communication Part 2 Foreign languages

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    The recent call by Chinese authorities to banish foreign words in Chinese publications and broadcast has met with scathing sarcasm and mockery online.
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    The recent call by Chinese authorities to banish foreign words in Chinese publications and broadcast has met with scathing sarcasm and mockery online.
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