London Language

Boxing Day leftover

separated by a common language: Boxing Day leftovers: http://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2006/12/boxing-day-leftovers.html

Billy

another scifi movie language

Here's the latest invented scifi movie language:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8408245.stm

B-)

A visual people and a visual language

Bencie Woll (Director of DCAL, Deafness, Cognition and Language Research Centre) gave a talk recently about British Sign Language (BSL) and some of the research taking place at DCAL - worth watching!

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/lhl/lhlpub_autumn2009/11_241109

UK Linguistics Olympiad update

UK Linguistics Olympiad - latest news

37 schools have registered for the UK Linguistics Olympiad in 2010, which is great news, although slightly worrying when we think about the marking. Most of the students planning to take part are  working on AS or A levels, but some are as young as 12.

Billy

Word of Mouth on iplayer

Word of Mouth - creoles, translation, Ebonics, dubbing, etc. etc.

Michael Rosen discussing lots of interesting linguistic topics with lots of linguistics, including Salikoko Mufwene, Jorge Diaz-Cintas, Paul Kerswill, Clive Upton, and John Baugh.

Available until 15 December.

Billy

repetitionalism and Ray Carver

Shoot the Projectionist - a stylistic analysis of Raymond Carver's 'Cathedral'

We've looked at work by Ray Carver in our 'Writing Techniques' module several times and may well do so in semester two of this year, particularly now that Beginners is out. This is an interesting discussion of Carver's style with reference to his fantastic story 'Cathedral', pointing out that he did not set his 'minimalism' dial permanently to 11.

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Deafinitely Shorts

Why Do We Talk?

BBC2 - Why Do We Talk? 2100 GMT, BBC2 10 November 2009

This looks good. I assume it'll be on iplayer if you miss it tonight

Billy

babies with an accent

BBC — babies cry with an accent

Mmm, the sentence that leaps out for me here as maybe involving a bit of a stretch is:

'they say the babies are probably trying to form a bond with their mothers by imitating them.'

It's great that they've got an audio clip to compare the crying.

Billy

Chomsky podcast

MIT Press just released this conversation between Samuel Jay Keyser and Noam Chomsky:

http://www.mitpressjournals.org/page/podcasts