In our effort to help people learn more about linguistics, or find new and/or interesting articles and podcasts, we’ve cumulated a list of resources for you to check out!
Podcast Title: Why can’t I change my accent? Source: BBC
Released On: 21 Oct 2022
Description: This is a podcast about accents and why some people strongly desire to change their accents.
Podcast Title: Bringing dead languages back to life Source: BBC
Released On: 10 Jan 2023
Description: A podcast about linguistic professor Ghil’ad Zuckermann and his attempts to revive dead languages in Australia.
Podcast Title: Unconscious bias runs deep in employers’ language, says Linguist Kieran Snyder Source: WOUB
Posted on: Wednesday, September 7, 2022
Description: A podcast about the unconscious bias that lies within employers’ language and how this can negatively affect employees.
Podcast Title: Myanmar Source: BBC
Posted on: 27 Oct 2014
Description: A podcast on the government education policy of Burma and how it prohibits the teaching of ethnic languages in schools. Ultimately, this jeopardizes these ethnic languages and may cause them to become dead languages.
Podcast Title: Is the Future one World, one Language? Source: BBC
Posted on: 15 May 2000
Description: A podcast about the rising concern of the rate at which we are losing languages.
Video Title: What Can Body Language Actually Tell Us? Source: WOUB
Posted on: Saturday, September 7, 2019
Description: A short video on common myths about body language and some ways in which we can identify body language.
Video Title: What’s In a Name? Source: WOUB
Posted on: Tuesday, March 6, 2018
Description: A short video that explains, linguistically, what gives our names meaning and why some people might change their names to better suit their identity.
Article Title: The Language Of Cybercrime Source: WOUB
Posted on: Monday, November 18, 2019
Description: A short article about the new language that scammers may be using on their victims.
Podcast Title: New York City Source: BBC
Released On: 17 Dec 2012
Description: A podcast on the many languages in New York and how they have changed with time.
Article Title: Tennessee Push Wants State Book to Cover Appalachian Dialect Source: WOUB
Posted on: Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Description: A short article about the push being made to recognize the Appalachian Dialect of Tennessee as a legitimate dialect.
Article Title: Reading Arabic ‘hard for the brain’ Source: BBC
Posted On: September 10, 2010
Description: Professor Zohar Eviatar at the University of Haifa is examining why Arabic language is hard to read. It is the ability to tell letters apart that seems to work differently in Arabic – because telling the characters apart involves looking at very small details such as the placement of dots.
Article Title: Buzz Lightyear film banned from cinemas by UAE Source: BBC
Posted On: June 13, 2022
Description: Disney and Pixar’s latest animated movie Lightyear has been banned from cinemas in the United Arab Emirates, officials said.
Article Title: The Aladdin controversy Disney can’t escape Source: BBC
Posted On: July 14, 2017
Description: As the filmmakers of the new live-action remake of Aladdin struggle to cast their hero, Sophia Smith Galer looks at the troubled history of the Disney classic.
Article Title: BBC Arabic radio goes off air after 85 years Source: Aljazeera
Posted On: Jan 27, 2023
Description: The Arabic language radio is among 10 different languages that are ending due to inflation and licensing fees, BBC says.
Article Title: Translating “Frozen” Into Arabic Source: The New Yorker
Posted On: May 30, 2014
Description: One of the forty-one languages in which you can watch “Frozen” is modern standard Arabic. This is a departure from precedent. Earlier Disney films (from “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” to “Pocahontas” to “Tangled”) were dubbed into Egyptian Arabic, the dialect with the largest number of speakers in the region, based in a country with a venerable history of film production.