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What Language!

Date released

18 Oct 1962

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1741A

NoS ID

024840

Story no

4 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: What Language!. DESCRIPTION: Flemish-speaking Belgians demonstrated against their French-speaking compatriots, the Walloons, and the demonstrators, afraid that their native language is...

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Rsa Animate: Language As a Window into Human Nature (2011)

Subject

Psychiatry; Psychology

In this RSA Animate, Steven Pinker explains how the mind turns the finite building blocks of language into infinite meanings. Th transcript of this talk can be downloaded as a pdf file. [11 minutes]

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Living Will: The Legacy of William Shakespeare (2021 Video)

Recording of an audio visual presentation by American linguist Dr Richard Lederer on Shakespeare’s contributions to the English language.

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Language on official forms criticised (1980)

Genre

Interview

Interview on the problems caused by the over-complicated language that people face when reading and filling out official forms. Female speaker and interviewer not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

First broadcast of Parliament (1978)

First broadcast of Parliament on Radio 210 [3rd April 1978]. The issue today is Welsh language. [Box 5]

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Brian Anderson in China (1989)

The first of five fascinating programmes about life in China portrayed through the eys of many different people. Brian Anderson meets the Editorial Director of Chinese Radio, members of the Peking National...

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

Language change in Gibraltar (1982)

Genre

Interview

Unidentified male speaker on how language in Gibraltar has changed since the border with Spain was opened, and why he likes living in Gibraltar. Female interviewer not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Use of English in new Russian slang (1981)

Genre

Interview

Interview on the decline of the Russian language among young people in favour of an English-Russian slang called Ruslish and on campaigns against it. Male speaker and interviewer not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

What Language!

Date released

26 Oct 1961

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1690A

NoS ID

024334

Story no

6 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: What Language!. DESCRIPTION: What language to be used, that was the cause of the recent trouble in Brussels. The Flemish people demanded that there should be equality for the Flemish...

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Language of the Hands

Date released

24 Jan 1938

Series name

Pathetone Weekly

Issue no

409

NoS ID

123919

Story no

2 / 5

Extras

1 film clip

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