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  1. Listen and Learn

    Date released
    12 Feb 1962
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1706
    NoS ID
    024499
    Story no
    3 / 6

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Listen and Learn. DESCRIPTION: They’re learning to speak a language by listening to it at Britain’s first Language Laboratory in London. The students’ efforts, which are recorded...

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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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.

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  5. Focus: Dr. Johnson [Samuel Johnson Profile] - nd [1975-1986]

    Sean Street reads the profile of Samuel Johnson, born on the 18th of September of 1709 in Litchfield and famous for the compilation of the very first edition of the Dictionary of the English Language in 1755...

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  6. 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...

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  7. 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.

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  8. 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.

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  9. V S Pritchett on English language and career (1980)

    Genre
    Interview; Discussion

    Interview with British writer and critic V S Pritchett (Victor Sawdon Pritchett), on his upbringing, the use of English in the modern world, the standard of modern literature and criticism, and his own work....

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  10. John Honey on standard English pamphlet (1983)

    Genre
    Interview

    Interview with John Honey on his pamphlet The Language Trap, which advocates the teaching of Standard English and grammar in schools. Honey cites NUM leader Arthur Scargill, who was encouraged by his father...

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