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Procession of the Linguists

Date released

10 Aug 1942

Series name

Gaumont British News

Issue no

897

NoS ID

062979

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet

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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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Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991 Film)

Series

Star Trek

Director

Nicholas Meyer

Producer

Gene Roddenberry; Leonard Nimoy; Ralph Winter; Steven-Charles Jaffe

Final Star Trek feature film featuring the cast of the original science fiction series. In this episode the aging crew must stop a plot to prevent a peace treaty between the Klingon Empire and the United...

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Listening Post

Date released

8 Jan 1940

Series name

Pathetone Weekly

Issue no

510

NoS ID

124422

Story no

2 / 5

Extras

1 film clip

Somewhere in England skilled listeners and linguists of the BBC eavesdrop on all parts of the world. They take down as many as 150 bulletins from 22 different countries, and each item has to be timed to the...

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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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