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  1. Tracking the Emergence of New Words Across Time and Space (2015)

    Subject
    English language and literature; Media studies

    Podcast. Dr Jack Grieve, Lecturer in Forensic Linguistics at Aston University, asserts that very little is known about how new words spread in language. New words are regularly identified by lexicographers,...

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  2. Language and Creativity (1972)

    Director
    Michael Chanan
    Producer
    Noel Chanan
    Subject
    Linguistics; Philosophy
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Professor P F Strawson and Gareth Evans discuss linguistic theory.* (60 minutes)

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  3. Linguists, The (2008)

    Director
    Seth Kramer; Daniel A. Miller; Jeremy Newberger
    Subject
    Anthropology; Languages
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 65 minutes), $300.00

    Like modern-day explorers, the two academics featured in The Linguists travel to forgotten places around the globe to unearth rare treasures—in this case, endangered languages. On a shoestring budget,...

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  4. Language Evolution: A Gene for Language (2015)

    Producer
    Mary Ward-Lowery
    Subject
    Languages; Linguistics

    Podcast. Word of Mouth is a BBC Radio 4 series about the English language and the way we use it presented by Michael Rosen. In this edition neuroscientist Dr Frederique Liegeois joins Michael Rosen and Dr...

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  5. Building and Analysing a Semantic Network (2016)

    Subject
    Mathematics

    The history of graph (network) theory (GNT) started with an attempt to find a single walking path, which crosses, once and only once, each of the seven bridges of old Königsberg - known as the Seven Bridges...

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  6. Routes of English, The - Inside English: Do You Know What You Are Saying? (2006)

    Subject
    English language and literature

    Some forty years ago great hopes were raised in the literary community that the sort of routine mechanical analysis of literary texts (e.g. word counts and frequency of use of particular terms) that the...

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  7. Speaking in Tongues: The History of Language (5 Parts) (2009)

    Subject
    Languages; Linguistics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 250 minutes ), $599.95 (set)

    Currently there are more than 6,000 languages spoken around the world. This five-part series traces the history and evolution of language and attendant theories and controversies, while evaluating the scope...

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  8. History of the English Language (1943)

    Director
    Mary Field
    Subject
    English language and literature; Linguistics

    History of the English Language acts as an excellent layman’s introduction to the origins of one of the most common languages on the planet, demonstrating how dialect changes over time, and presenting...

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  9. With Reference to ... (2005)

    Subject
    Librarianship

    A series of five 15-minute Radio 4 programmes each recorded on location at a unique or definitive collection of some sort (eg teeth, plants, ice, recordings of English dialects). With the help of the...

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