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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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Date

27 Feb 2015, 15:16

Author

Andrew Ormsby

Post Type

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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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Before Babel (1992 Video)

Subject

Linguistics

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Is it possible that all human languages share a common ancestor? Since William Jones discovered the link between English and Sanskrit in 1783, the existence of a group of languages known as Indo-European has...

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A-Z of English, An (1996 Video)

Producer

Paul Manners

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

From ‘accent’ to ‘zero’ - a humorous tour through the different topics covered in the course. People with a wide range of views on English, from countries as diverse as India, Jamaica, France,...

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Building on the Foundations (1987 Video)

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col.

Deals with group interaction in the age group 7 to 16 years. Illustrates how language skills continue to develop through exposure to a wide curriculum and emphasises the quality of interaction between both...

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Joy of Stats, The (2011)

Director

Dan Hillman

Producer

Dan Hillman

Subject

Mathematics; Science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £20

BBC4 series on statistics presented by Hans Rosling. In San Francisco, a new app mashes up police department data with the city’s street map to show what crime is being reported street by street, house by...

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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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