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Lisa Stewart

The "Angry Gamer": Is it Real or Memorex? | DIGITAL YOUTH RESEARCH - 26 views

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trash-talk smack-talk gaming_language

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  • “Trash-talking” (also known as “smack talk”) is very common on Xbox Live. However, its origins are non-digital: it has been used in traditional sports for centuries and it took the center stage during the final game of the World Cup, when an Italian player, Davide Materazzi, provoked football legend Zinedine Zidane.
  • Some argue that the brutal and ruthless nature of the game itself encourages rudeness. In fact, the first-person shooter is the most intense, graphic and explicit genre: in these games, players go around shooting each other in virtual scenarios that range from World War Two battlefields to sci-fi spaceships. If gameplay can be considered a language, the FPS has a very limited vocabulary. The interaction with other players is mostly limited to shooting – alternative forms of negotiation with the Other are not contemplated. The kind of language you hear during a game of Halo, Battlefield or Call of Duty evokes the crass vulgarity one can find in movies depicting military lives, such as Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket. This should not surprise, considering the close links between military culture and the videogame industry [note 1]. However, the focus of this short article is not the military-entertainment complex. What I would like to discuss, instead, is the figure of the “Angry Gamer”, a player of videogames that expresses his frustration in vocally and physically obnoxious manners.
  • It comes as no surprise, then, that the “Angry Kids” of the world are trying to elevate their rudeness to a new form of art. They outperform each other by upping the ante in vulgarity and vile speech. Their model is the now legendary “German Angry Kid that caused a major political outcry in Germany when it was “discovered” by the mass media
Samantha Pang

Why baby talk is good for your baby - 1 views

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  • Samantha Pang on 24 Apr 14
     
    The more parents exaggerate vowels and raise the pitch of their voices when talking to babies, the more the babies babble, new research shows. Common advice to new parents is that the more words babies hear, the faster their vocabulary grows.
averychung22

Cartoons that make a difference: A Linguistic Analysis of Peppa Pig - 1 views

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  • averychung22 on 18 Feb 22
     
    How TV shows, more specifically Peppa Pig, affect language development in young children. This study looked at the language lexicons within episodes and evaluated whether or not it was appropriate for young language learners.
Lara Cowell

Mandarin Monday | the Beijinger - 0 views

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Chinese culture language Mandarin

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  • Lara Cowell on 13 Mar 22
     
    謝謝, Michael Chang ʻ22, for discovering this fun Mandarin Chinese weekly column, which examines various pop culture elements of Mandarin Chinese and teaches vernacular, vocabulary, and other linguistics aspects that Chinese learners are unlikely to learn in a classroom setting. A sampling: Chinese Internet slang, Chinese gastronomic terms, sarcastic phrases, traditional Chinese children's games, poetic terms for snow, anti-COVID virus health propaganda slogans.
tcampello23

Different Language Teaching Methods - 0 views

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Learning Grammar Teaching Language Brain

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  • tcampello23 on 26 May 23
     
    This article talks about the several different types of language learning methods and the different types of language learners. They start from basic methods to more complex ones and integrate different methods together. This is all to take into account pronunciation, grammar rules, speaking and writing skills, and vocabulary and best course of options to find it.
darcietanaka23

Identifying the basic structure of the language of fungi - 0 views

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fungi communication language

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  • darcietanaka23 on 14 May 22
     
    Research has found that fungi send electrical signals to each other through underground filaments. Electrodes were inserted near mushrooms and signals were recorded to find that electrical signals resembled vocabularies much like words in the English language.
meganuyeno23

The Language of Liars - 0 views

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  • meganuyeno23 on 03 Mar 22
     
    In this article, the author explains that on top of body language, some language cues can also detect a liar. It mentioned things like liars trying not using first person pronouns and increased use of negative statements that could be subconsciously mirroring the negative emotions a liar may feel such as fear or guilt.
bsekulich23

Definition and Examples of Linguistic Accommodation - 0 views

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  • bsekulich23 on 03 Mar 22
     
    This article talks about the phenomenon of linguistic accommodation. This is the process of copying the vocabulary, accent, intonation, and other speech patterns of ones conversation partner.
nicktortora16

When Your Punctuation Says it All (!) - 3 views

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  • Lara Cowell on 12 Apr 15
     
    While we may be punctuating less as a whole (a recent study found that only 39 percent of college students punctuate the end of texts and 45 percent the end of instant messages), the punctuation we do use is more likely to be scrutinized. "Digital punctuation can carry more weight than traditional writing because it ends up conveying tone, rhythm and attitude rather than grammatical structure," said Ben Zimmer, a linguist and the executive editor of Vocabulary.com. "It can make even a lowly period become freighted with special significance."
  • nicktortora16 on 21 Apr 15
     
    The correct use of punctuation can really improve someone's opinion of you. The author of this piece decided to go out with someone based on their use of punctuation in a text message. The author also discusses how we have been conditioned to read certain punctuation marks and how they correlate to tone of voice in the text message. Punctuation marks are an important aspect of language that can help convey a meaning in a text.
Lara Cowell

There's a science behind baby talk - and why everyone does it : NPR - 0 views

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  • kailaosborn23 on 03 Mar 23
     
    This article talked about how adults talk to babies and why we do it. When we talk to babies, we tend to raise our pitch a little and supposedly, it calms the baby down. They also talked about a research project where they recorded adults from different parts of the world, and noticed that those who come from western places raised their pitch the most, and in remote places didn't raise their pitch that much but everyone raised their pitch at least a little. The way we talk to babies is universal and we've evolved as humans to be able to communicate with infants.
  • Lara Cowell on 31 Mar 24
     
    The features of baby talk - softer tone, higher pitch, almost unintelligible vocabulary - are global. Researchers at Harvard's Music Lab documented over 1,500 recordings in 21 urban, rural and Indigenous communities - making their work possibly a first of its kind experiment. The article includes samples from different languages around the world. There are many reasons why baby talk might have evolved in humans and why it might serve beneficial purposes. Some theories suggest that the way we speak accentuates the vowels of the speech and helps babies learn speech. Other theories suggest that this kind of baby talk helps regulate the baby's emotions and helps structure the social interactions we have with babies, so it helps socialize them and control their behavior and mood. In prehistoric times, having ways to interact with babies and to care for them while still being able to keep your eyes up to look out for predators and use your voice to interact with babies, might have been an important reason why we may have evolved these kinds of behaviors.
zanebecker24

COVID-19 first lockdown as a window into language acquisition: associations b... - 0 views

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  • zanebecker24 on 26 Feb 24
     
    This article focussed on how the covid lockdown had affected the language acquisition of children, ranging from about 1 to 3 years old. It talked about how screen use was shown to lower the amount of words learned during the same periods of time as compared to face to face interaction with another person.
Lara Cowell

The fight to save Hawaii Sign Language from extinction - CNN - 0 views

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HSL Hawaii Sign Language Hawaii deaf

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  • Lara Cowell on 27 Jan 24
     
    There's evidence deaf Hawaiians had been communicating with a homegrown sign language for generations, predating the arrival of missionaries, sugar plantations and the Americans who would overthrow the Hawaiian Kingdom in 1893. But linguists didn't officially document the language until 2013, when research by the University of Hawaii found HSL to be a language isolate: born and bred on the Hawaiian Islands with no outside influence. More than 80 percent of its vocabulary bears no similarity to ASL. The findings launched a three-year project to document what remained of HSL, led by Lambrecht and linguistics professor James "Woody" Woodward, who has spent the last 30 years studying and documenting sign languages throughout Asia. By 2016, the team had built a video archive and developed a manuscript for an introductory HSL handbook and dictionary, featuring illustrations of Lambrecht demonstrating signs.
Lara Cowell

Sign Preservation - 0 views

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Hawaii Sign Language sign language endangered sign Hawaii deaf

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  • Lara Cowell on 27 Jan 24
     
    Hawaii Sign Language (HSL) was once believed to be similar to American Sign Language (ASL), used in the majority of deaf communities in the U.S. However, the work of Woodward and his team revealed they're not similar at all. In 2013, the language was recognized as its own distinct language. "Everything is different," Woodward says. "The vocabulary has less than 10% correlation to ASL, which is typical of languages that don't have a relationship to each other and were developed independently." HSL also uses much more body movement and facial expression than ASL.
Lara Cowell

Korean language speakers should take pride in Konglish - it's another wonderful example... - 1 views

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linguistic diversity Korean prescriptivism descriptivism

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  • Lara Cowell on 21 Mar 22
     
    Konglish is the term used to describe the variety of English unique to Korea. It is just one of many varieties of the English language that exists far beyond the borders of so-called "inner circle" Englishes - those spoken in countries such as Britain and the US, for example. The author takes umbrage against those who argue that Konglish is incorrect. From a linguistic standpoint, deeming only one variety of grammar and vocabulary usage as correct is, nonsensical. Rather, Konglish reflects cultural identity, connects with linguistic diversity and above all, is already used to communicate in Korea, which is the ultimate purpose of language.
solomonlee24

An Investigation of Sex-Related Slang Vocabulary and Sex-Role Orientation Among Male an... - 0 views

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  • solomonlee24 on 22 Feb 24
     
    A research paper done by Nancy G. Kutner and Donna Brogan, while both being professors at Emory University, on the slang usage of university students split between the gender binary: what sort of slang each gender uses, which gender uses slang more commonly, and the cause and effects of both.
sinauluave19

Neuroscience for Kids - Second Language - 19 views

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  • In most cases, if a person is not exposed to a language during the critical period, he or she will never be able to speak the language as well as someone who learned language normally.
  • Although the person may be able to learn many vocabulary words, his or her syntax will probably never reach a normal level.
  • Children who have brain damage are often able to regain their language abilities with practice. Adults, however, who suffer damage to language areas are rarely able to achieve their previous language proficiency.
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  • This observation further supports the concept that there might be a difference between learning language in childhood and adulthood.
  • Surgeons need to know which brain areas are involved in language comprehension and production, so that they will not disturb these valuable centers during operations on the brain.
  • Research suggests that learning second (or third) languages is easier for young children, and some evidence indicates certain brain areas that might be involved in this learning. Several studies have related second language learning to Broca's and Wernicke's areas.
  • Many studies suggest that the age at which a second language is learned may determine whether brain areas used for processing each language are overlapping or different. Early bilinguals seem more likely to use overlapping brain areas and late bilinguals seem more likely to use different areas for each language.
  • Although it is generally believed that a critical period exists for a first language, it is not known if there is a similar critical period for a second language.
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  • Demi Coolen on 03 Apr 12
     
    This site is very insightful as to the differences in language development in the brain between those that learn a second language in childhood and those that learn the language as adults. It explains briefly the idea of a critical period and discusses the interesting aspects that come along with learning a second language later in life. It mentions Broca's and Wernicke's area.
rylieteraoka24

Why language might be the optimal self-regulating system | Aeon Essays - 0 views

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  • daniellelee24 on 01 Mar 24
     
    This article describes the debate between prescriptivists and descriptivists in terms of language use and change. Prescriptivists believe in traditional grammar and vocabulary while descriptivists analyze how language evolves over time. The article goes on to talk about how language changes naturally but remains cohesive due to its systematic nature.
  • rylieteraoka24 on 16 May 24
     
    This article explored who has control over language. It touches upon how certain words eventually get used in contexts that it was not originally intended to be. It concludes that language is too complex for anyone to attempt to manage. Language is a genius self-regulating system.
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