Showing results for "The Evolution of Language" in Education & Learning
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The Story of Human Language
- Written by: John McWhorter, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: John McWhorter
- Length: 18 hrs and 15 mins
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Language defines us as a species, placing humans head and shoulders above even the most proficient animal communicators. But it also beguiles us with its endless mysteries, allowing us to ponder why different languages emerged, why there isn't simply a single language, how languages change over time and whether that's good or bad, and how languages die out and become extinct.
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Content is good. But it is not captivating.
- By Shivakumar on 02-06-20
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The Story of Human Language
- Narrated by: John McWhorter
- Series: The Great Courses: Linguistics
- Length: 18 hrs and 15 mins
- Release Date: 08-07-13
- Language: English
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A World Without 'Whom'
- The Evolution of Language in the BuzzFeed Age
- Written by: Emmy J. Favilla
- Narrated by: Christine Marshall
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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As language evolves faster than ever before, what is the future of 'correct' style? With wry cleverness and an uncanny intuition for the possibilities of Internet-age expressiveness, Favilla argues that rather than try to preserve the sanctity of the written language as laid out by Strunk and White, we should be concerned with the larger issues of clarity, flexibility, playfulness and political awareness. Her approach to the new rules - as practical as they are fun - will fascinate and delight believers and naysayers alike.
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A World Without 'Whom'
- The Evolution of Language in the BuzzFeed Age
- Narrated by: Christine Marshall
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Release Date: 14-11-17
- Language: English
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Whose Language Is English?
- Written by: Jieun Kiaer
- Narrated by: Hannah Choi
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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In this ambitious book, Jieun Kiaer explores the lives of English words in the twenty-first century, when the creation and use of language has become an increasingly dynamic, interactive, and diverse process in which ordinary people have taken leading roles—offering such coinages as "flexitarian," "MeToo," "glow up," and "s--tizen" to "No sabo kids" and beyond. As English language grows ever more diverse, Kiaer believes, we need a paradigm shift.
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Whose Language Is English?
- Narrated by: Hannah Choi
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Release Date: 17-09-24
- Language: English
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The Lexicographer's Dilemma
- The Evolution of 'Proper' English, from Shakespeare to South Park
- Written by: Jack Lynch
- Narrated by: Anthony Gettig
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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In its long history, the English language has had many lawmakers - those who have tried to regulate or otherwise organize the way we speak. The Lexicographer's Dilemma poses a pair of questions: What does proper English mean? And who gets to say what's right? Our ideas of correct or proper English have a history, and today's debates over the state of the language - whether about Ebonics in schools, the unique use of language in a South Park episode, or split infinitives in the Times - make sense only in historical context.
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The Lexicographer's Dilemma
- The Evolution of 'Proper' English, from Shakespeare to South Park
- Narrated by: Anthony Gettig
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Release Date: 21-03-13
- Language: English
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Why Chimpanzees Can't Learn Language and Only Humans Can
- Written by: Herbert S. Terrace
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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In the 1970s, the behavioral psychologist Herbert S. Terrace led a remarkable experiment to see if a chimpanzee could be taught to use language. A young ape, named “Nim Chimpsky” in a nod to the linguist whose theories Terrace challenged, was raised by a family in New York and instructed in American Sign Language. Initially, Terrace thought that Nim could create sentences but later discovered that Nim’s teachers inadvertently cued his signing. Terrace concluded that Project Nim failed - not because Nim couldn’t create sentences but because he couldn’t even learn words.
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Why Chimpanzees Can't Learn Language and Only Humans Can
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
- Release Date: 22-10-19
- Language: English
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It isnt Nice to be Angry
- Written by: Sonia Mehta
- Narrated by: Sonia Mehta
- Length: 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Grumps the goat gets angry with everyone and everything all the time. The other animals try to reason with him but when something goes wrong, he just can't help himself. One day, something convinces Grumps that it's really not nice to be so angry. What brings about this change? Listen to find...
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It isnt Nice to be Angry
- Narrated by: Sonia Mehta
- Length: 7 mins
- Release Date: 30-07-19
- Language: English
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