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Sticks and bones may break your bones, but names can also hurt you. And language gives us surprisingly many ways to deride, hurt and demean – from a subtly sneering intonation to hurtful and offensive names. How does such language work? And why is there so much of it around these days? Has our acerbic political culture ushered in a new era of name-calling? Or is name calling a phenomenon as old as language itself? John and Ken welcome back linguist and NPR commentator Geoffrey Nunberg, author of "Ascent of the A-Word: Assholism, The First Sixty Years."

The Linguistics of Name Calling

Applied Linguistics   U.1  Part  1 Of 2

Applied Linguistics   U.1  Part  2 Of 2

The MOSAIC Centre for Research on Multilingualism at the University of Birmingham, was delighted to host Professor Stephen May who is a Professor in Te Puna Wānanga (School of Māori Education) in the Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Auckland, New Zealand. 

Linguistic superdiversity as a “new” theoretical framework in applied linguistics

The Cambridge Animal Alphabet series celebrates Cambridge's connections with animals through literature, art, science and society. 

Here, C is for Chicken – a popular source of protein that carries a hidden hazard in the form of Campylobacter.

Read by Barney Brown.

C is for Chicken

Elizabeth Knoll, Assistant Provost for Faculty Appointments, talks about why writers should think about editors as human beings.
 
Stylish Academic Writing can be watched in its entirety at: www.faculty.harvard.edu/stylish-academic-writing.

Editor as human being | Elizabeth Knoll

Elizabeth Knoll, Assistant Provost for Faculty Appointments, explains the importance of asking ourselves why our books matter?
 
Stylish Academic Writing can be watched in its entirety at: www.faculty.harvard.edu/stylish-academic-writing.

Why does your book matter? | Elizabeth Knoll

Helen Sword, Associate Professor of Academic Practice at The University of Auckland, describes the importance of concreteness in abstract ideas.
 
Stylish Academic Writing can be watched in its entirety at: www.faculty.harvard.edu/stylish-academic-writing.

Concreteness in abstract ideas | Helen Sword

 Dr. Patty Limerick, Faculty Director and Chair of the Board of the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado Boulder and professor of environmental studies and history, joins Stephanie Ratte, a student at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, for a conversation about the importance of history for understanding environmental issues today, challenges and opportunities in the American West, and why we should care more about bureaucrats. 

The Bureaucrat in Western American History

Teaching and Researching: Listening (Applied Linguistics in Action)  download pdf http://dloadbooks.xyz/?book=1408205076 Teaching and Researching Listening provides a focused, state-of-the-art treatment of the linguistic, psycholinguistic and pragmatic processes that are involved in oral language use, and shows how these processes influence listening in a range of practical contexts. Through understanding the interaction between these processes, language educators and researchers can develop more robust research methods and more effective classroom language teaching approaches.  In this fully revised and updated second edition, the book:  examines a full range of teaching methods and research initiatives related to listening gives definitions of key concepts in neurolinguistics and psycholinguistics provides a clear agenda for implementing listening strategies and designing tests offers an abundance of resources for immediate use for teaching and research Featuring insightful quotes and concept boxes, chapter overviews and summaries to guide the reader, Teaching and Researching Listening will engage and inform teachers, teacher trainers and researchers investigating communicative language use. 

Teaching and Researching: Listening (Applied Linguistics in Action)  download pdf

Teaching and Researching: Language and Culture (Applied Linguistics in Action)  download pdf http://dloadbooks.xyz/?book=1408205068 Language and culture are concepts increasingly found at the heart of developments in applied linguistics and related fields. Taken together, they can provide interesting and useful insights into the nature of language acquisition and expression. In this volume, Joan Kelly HallÂ gives a perspective on the nature of language and culture looking at how the use of language in real-world situations helps us understand how language is used to construct our social and cultural worlds.The conceptual maps on the nature of language, culture and learning provided in this text help orient readers to some current theoretical and practical activities taking place in applied linguistics. They also help them begin to chart their own explorations in the teaching and researching of language and culture. 

Teaching and Researching: Language and Culture (Applied Linguistics in Action)  download pdf

Get to know Brenna and Andrew Byrd, hear about their constructed languages course at the upcoming 2017 Linguistic Institute.

Music:
The opening/closing song: Clear Blue Sky recorded by Chatham County Line and available in full from the free music archive and used here under a Creative Commons license.

Notes:
UK linguists develop language for new ‘Far Cry Primal’ game
http://www.kentucky.com/living/article65975367.html

The Wenja blog:
http://speakingprimal.blogspot.com

David Peterson developed the constructed languages for Game of Thrones and other titles.  His book The Art of Language Invention will likely be the textbook for the Constructed Languages course.

The Vinča orthography:
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/vinca.htm

DNA Deciphers Roots of Modern Europeans: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/16/science/dna-deciphers-roots-of-modern-europeans.html?_r=0

Episode 1: Constructed Languages

More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/can-speech-kill.

Free speech is one of the core tenets of our democracy. We’re inclined to think that more speech is always better. Although the Supreme Court has outlined some minor restrictions to our right to free speech, the most courts are willing to admit is that speech can lead to violence—it cannot itself do violence. But is it possible for speech to do both? If hate speech is used against a marginalized group, couldn’t the speech act literally do harm? And how does the answer to this question affect our commitment to free speech in a liberal democracy? The Philosophers do no harm with Lynne Tirrell from the University of Connecticut, author of “Genocidal Language Games.”

Can Speech Kill?

Evolving English: Linguistics at the Library Podcast

Episode 1
The first episode of Linguistics at the Library introduces the British Library’s Evolving English Collection, which is a sound archive capturing the diversity of English accents and dialects. Podcast hosts Andrew Booth and Rowan Campbell are working with this archive as part of a PhD placement, and every few weeks will be bringing you a fresh discussion about linguistics and how to identify different accents. 

This week’s ‘What’s the feature?’ used a clip from:

BBC Voices Recording in Newcastle. BBC, UK, rec. 2005 [digital audio file]. British Library, C1190/32/01. Available: http://sounds.bl.uk/Accents-and-dialects/BBC-Voices/021M-C1190X0023XX-0101V0

Interesting links: 
The glottal stop in Glasgow: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/17/glasgow-accent-scottish-dialect-homogenised-london 
The Bristol ‘l’: http://blogs.bl.uk/sound-and-vision/2014/03/bristolian-my-ideal-of-an-idea-dialect.html 
An in-depth look at the Newcastle accent: http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sounds/case-studies/geordie/

Evolving English: Linguistics at the Library - Episode 1

Evolving English: Linguistics at the Library Podcast

Episode 2

In the second episode of Linguistics at the Library, Andrew and Rowan discuss some of the differences between regional accents and ‘RP’ (Received Pronunciation), and why people might feel that they have to change the way they speak to work in certain jobs. Using clips from the British Library’s Evolving English Collection, we look at the concepts of stigma and prestige, and how social factors can influence the way we perceive accents.

Tweet us your questions! @ VoicesofEnglish

This week’s ‘What’s the feature?’ used a clip from:

BBC Voices Recording in Driffield. BBC, UK, rec. 2004 [digital audio file]. British Library, C1190/16/02. Available: http://sounds.bl.uk/Accents-and-dialects/BBC-Voices/021M-C1190X0016XX-0201V0

Interesting links:
Have you experienced discrimination due to your accent? Submit your story to the Accentism Project: http://accentism.org/ 

Peter Trudgill’s piece on modern RP: http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/estuary/trudgill.htm 

Social Mobility Commission report: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/less-affluent-kids-are-locked-out-of-investment-banking-jobs

Prejudice against English teachers with Northern accents: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/research-exposes-prejudice-over-teachers-with-northern-accents/

Overt and covert prestige: https://linguistics.knoji.com/language-and-socioeconomic-status-overt-vs-covert-prestige/

Evolving English: Linguistics at the Library - Episode 2

Professor Errington is interested in the linguistic dimensions of social life, ranging from the social implications of patterns of verbal communication, to forms and uses of sociolinguistic hierarchies, to the linguistic effects of large scale dynamics. His research and writing have focused on linguistic dimensions of modernization and identity in Java and Indonesia, reflecting his broader interests in semiotics and the politics of language. We talk with Professor Errington about his book, Linguistics in a Colonial World: A Story of Language, Meaning, and Power.

Joseph Errington: Linguistics in a Colonial World: A Story of Language, Meaning, and Power

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