Words R Us

This article discusses the differences between speech and written language and the interplay between the two. It discusses how speech and written language can and have been separate from each other, like how written language has evolved to convey certain things that speech doesn't. The article then goes on to discuss the internet and texting language, or "Live internet vernacular English" as they call it, focusing on specific aspects, such as emojis, reduplication, and purposeful typos, and making a connection between internet language and speech.

This article features an interview with linguist Gretchen McCulloch about how the Internet has changed our language. McCulloch provides insight that disputes the idea that the Internet is killing or destroying our language. The article covers topics such as language usage amongst different age groups, emojis, the use of punctuation and capitalization, text speak, and more.

I liked using this article for my Field Research project because it helped to answer a lot of the "why?" questions I had. For example, I found that gratitude journaling was beneficial for sleep quality and this article explained how gratitude can help us to have better pre-sleep cognitions, which calms the nervous system. It also led me to a lot of other good sources.

This was an interesting article I used for my Smorgasboard project. I wanted to study how dementia affects our ability to speak and understand language. This article covered different types of aphasia, or loss of language that occur when one has either Alzheimer's or other types of dementia.

This journal talks about the history of linguistic comparison between Japanese and Korean as languages. I thought it was kind of interesting that the only viewpoint on the two languages was taken from a European standpoint. Even when discussing the Japanese and Korean findings of similarities between the languages, those realizations are told in a third person point of view instead of specifically to the people in Japan or Korea that figured these things out, as compared to the specific European linguists whose findings were accomplished. This was pretty cool as a Japanese-Korean person, though.

This journal examines the role that emotions have played in past court cases, and how they might've influenced the decisions of the court. I personally believe that section 3.2 in which the author discusses how pain can be a motivator to put the jury into an agitated state might tip the scales of the court in favor of one argument.

This article talks about a few different endangered languages (Ainu, Shinnecock, Mustang, Irish, Hawaiian, and Zaza.) and what they are doing to revitalize them. They all share the different strategies that are working for them.

Digital manners are so new that there are no 'official' rules. What is or isn't rude?

This article talks about the benefits of gratitude journaling and how the actual content of what you journal about affects how you feel after the practice. "It was only when people used fewer negative emotion words in their letters that they were significantly more likely to report better mental health. In fact, it was the lack of negative emotion words-not the abundance of positive words-that explained the mental health gap between the gratitude writing group and the other writing group."

This opinion piece reasons that more power will go to the rich and there is no contesting their power no matter if the implications are good or bad.

This article talks about the different marketing/persuasion tactics using language and what plays a role in convincing people.

This article discusses the different theories on what influences language development: Nature or Nurture? Is language bound to develop from genetics, or is language dependent on environment?

A research paper analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of distance learning for upper education and adult learners.

Article written by a 13-year old student entering high school during the pandemic.

This article talks about how what we say can create stigma around mental health and the reaction our brains have to this language, as well as things we should avoid saying.

This talks about how to effectively use self-affirmations and how they can help you.