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  1. 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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  2. Information Theory Meets Writing (2010)

    Subject
    Information technology; Languages

    A video recording of the Clifford Paterson Lecture 2010 given by Professor David MacKay, University of Cambridge, at the Royal Society on 12 October. Information theory concerns the best way to get...

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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. Jacques Ranciere and Peter Sloterdijk Debate Aesthetics and Modernity (2008)

    Subject
    Languages; Philosophy

    This podcast provides a chance to hear two leading continental thinkers and public intellectuals debating the aesthetic both as a way of understanding the modern world and as a problematic category within...

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  6. Fighting to Fish / Un Siecle de Lutte (2004)

    Director
    Charles Menzies
    Subject
    Languages; Social sciences

    Adapted from Dr. Charles Menzie’s book ‘Red Flags and Lace Coiffes’, this film uses animated archival images to tell the turbulent history of industrialisation and resistance over the last century in...

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