Language
Language - TOK Questions
HOW DOES OUR LANGUAGE SHAPE THE WAY WE THINK?
1) Protecting Vanishing Languages
2) Languages: why we must save dying tongues
3) Four Things That Happen When a Language Dies
4) How to Save an Endangered Language (TED) or an article with the same title
5) How to Save a Dying Language OR Code Switch on the rebirth of Hawaiian languages
6) To Save Their Endangered Language, 2 Cherokee Brothers Learn As They Teach
7) A Rare Universal Pattern in Human Languages
8) Evolution of the Alphabet
9) The joy of lexicography
10) What makes a word "real"
11) A Map of Lexical Distances (graph)
12) When Everybody Speaks English (monolinguialism)
13) The benefits of a bilingual brain
14) From Salt To Salary: Linguists Take A Page From Science
15) Learning a new language changes the way you perceive reality
16) How language can affect the way we think
17) Language as a Window into the World
18) How Language Transformed Humanity
19) The linguistic genius of babies
20) Does Your Language Influence How You Think?
21) A guide to how gender-neutral language is developing around the world
22) Body Language
23) Elon Musk and linguists say that AI is forcing us to confront the limits of human language
24) Don’t Use These Free-Speech Arguments Ever Again
25) AP Stylebook update: It’s OK to call something racist when it’s racist OR this tweet
26) Icelandic language battles threat of 'digital extinction' or At risk of digital extinction: Europe's smaller languages fight to survive
27) Migrant vs. refugee: what the terms mean, and why they matter
28) Which Came First: Orange the Color or Orange the Fruit?
29) How a Word Enters the Dictionary: A Quick Primer
30) 'Hangry' has officially been added to the Oxford English dictionary
31) 'Emojis enhance human interactions' argues Royal Institution lecturer
32) Why Emojis Mean Different Things in Different Cultures
33) Texting is Killing Language... JK
34) The British-Irish Dialect Quiz
35) The Disappearing American Dialect of North Carolina
36) THE WHISTLED LANGUAGE OF NORTHERN TURKEY
37) The return of Yiddish (in Texas)
38) A Native Village In Alaska Where The Past Is Key To The Future
39) Dragging the Language Out of Color
40) Why so many languages invented words for colors in the same order:
41) Why Red Means Red in Almost Every Language
42) Our Language Affects What We See
43) 30 Untranslatable Words From Other Languages Illustrated By Anjana Iyer
44) 40 brilliant idioms that simply can’t be translated literally
45) 7 cultural concepts we don't have in the U.S.
46) Is this Japanese concept the secret to a long, happy, meaningful life?
47) Whale Hello: Orcas Can Imitate Human Speech, Researchers Find
48) In Birds’ Songs, Brains and Genes, He Finds Clues to Speech
49) Orangutan's Vocal Feats Hint At Deeper Roots of Human Speech
50) How Dogs Understand What We Say
51) The Meme as Meme (an example of language evolution)
52) The Racist Politics of the English Language OR George Orwell - Politics and the English Language
53) Silesian, the 103rd language on TED.com, and the story behind it | TED Blog
PODCASTS
Radiolab - Words
Radiolab - Translation
New Life for Dying Languages
Hello, My Name Is Marijuana Pepsi! (Ep. 387)
Independent Lens: We Still Live Here - As Nutayunean or a related article Preserving Biocultural Diversity
HOW DOES OUR LANGUAGE SHAPE THE WAY WE THINK?
1) Protecting Vanishing Languages
2) Languages: why we must save dying tongues
3) Four Things That Happen When a Language Dies
4) How to Save an Endangered Language (TED) or an article with the same title
5) How to Save a Dying Language OR Code Switch on the rebirth of Hawaiian languages
6) To Save Their Endangered Language, 2 Cherokee Brothers Learn As They Teach
7) A Rare Universal Pattern in Human Languages
8) Evolution of the Alphabet
9) The joy of lexicography
10) What makes a word "real"
11) A Map of Lexical Distances (graph)
12) When Everybody Speaks English (monolinguialism)
13) The benefits of a bilingual brain
14) From Salt To Salary: Linguists Take A Page From Science
15) Learning a new language changes the way you perceive reality
16) How language can affect the way we think
17) Language as a Window into the World
18) How Language Transformed Humanity
19) The linguistic genius of babies
20) Does Your Language Influence How You Think?
21) A guide to how gender-neutral language is developing around the world
22) Body Language
23) Elon Musk and linguists say that AI is forcing us to confront the limits of human language
24) Don’t Use These Free-Speech Arguments Ever Again
25) AP Stylebook update: It’s OK to call something racist when it’s racist OR this tweet
26) Icelandic language battles threat of 'digital extinction' or At risk of digital extinction: Europe's smaller languages fight to survive
27) Migrant vs. refugee: what the terms mean, and why they matter
28) Which Came First: Orange the Color or Orange the Fruit?
29) How a Word Enters the Dictionary: A Quick Primer
30) 'Hangry' has officially been added to the Oxford English dictionary
31) 'Emojis enhance human interactions' argues Royal Institution lecturer
32) Why Emojis Mean Different Things in Different Cultures
33) Texting is Killing Language... JK
34) The British-Irish Dialect Quiz
35) The Disappearing American Dialect of North Carolina
36) THE WHISTLED LANGUAGE OF NORTHERN TURKEY
37) The return of Yiddish (in Texas)
38) A Native Village In Alaska Where The Past Is Key To The Future
39) Dragging the Language Out of Color
40) Why so many languages invented words for colors in the same order:
41) Why Red Means Red in Almost Every Language
42) Our Language Affects What We See
43) 30 Untranslatable Words From Other Languages Illustrated By Anjana Iyer
44) 40 brilliant idioms that simply can’t be translated literally
45) 7 cultural concepts we don't have in the U.S.
46) Is this Japanese concept the secret to a long, happy, meaningful life?
47) Whale Hello: Orcas Can Imitate Human Speech, Researchers Find
48) In Birds’ Songs, Brains and Genes, He Finds Clues to Speech
49) Orangutan's Vocal Feats Hint At Deeper Roots of Human Speech
50) How Dogs Understand What We Say
51) The Meme as Meme (an example of language evolution)
52) The Racist Politics of the English Language OR George Orwell - Politics and the English Language
53) Silesian, the 103rd language on TED.com, and the story behind it | TED Blog
PODCASTS
Radiolab - Words
Radiolab - Translation
New Life for Dying Languages
Hello, My Name Is Marijuana Pepsi! (Ep. 387)
Independent Lens: We Still Live Here - As Nutayunean or a related article Preserving Biocultural Diversity