Week 9
Shirley Brice Heath talks about an arts-based approach to get young students more involved in school (it gets interesting after the first couple of minutes).
Week 8
Week 7
Check out this cartoon about different greeting rituals.
Also, Manuel shared this article on the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis with us.
Week 6
Teens portrayed as morons, circa 1982. Both of our articles for Tuesday mention stereotypes of adolescent speech in the media. D’Arcy references Frank Zappa’s song Valley Girl, which featured his daughter:
… and Kiesling fondly recalls the character of Spicoli in Fast Times and Ridgemont High:
Week 5
A bridge between last week and this coming week: Deborah Cameron, Simon Blackburn, and Carol Gilligan discuss language, gender, and sexuality in this video.
Week 4
Check out the ways that language and gender interact in this Scottish video on assertiveness:
Week 3
(Reprise from fall: William Labov talks about “standard American English” and the status of postvocalic r)
Week 2
George Orwell delivers a chilling message in one of his last interviews:
Week 1
Video and article: Steven Pinker discusses first language acquisition.
Another video of Pinker, since some of you found Pinker’s TED talk clearer than his writing. In the lecture, Pinker presents The Language Instinct on the occasion of the translation of this book into Hebrew.