Why dangerous symbols can't last forever 5 min video
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1) 2016 AP Lang Q1 prompt on monolingualism!!!!!!!!! (pg2-8)
What suffers with the rise of monolingualism article
Being multilingual alters your experience of time
TED video - could language affect your ability to save money?
2) Untranslatable words (that show you the limits of your native language)
article 1
article 2
article 3
article 4
3) Dying/Extinct Languages: Why We Must Save Dying Languages
4) 4 Things That Happen When a Language Dies
the disappearing dialect of North Carolina (video)
the whistled language of Turkey
2 Cherokee brothers work to save their language
Thousands Once Spoke His Language in the Amazon. Now He's the Only One
Icelandic language battles threat of digital extinction OR At risk of digital extinction: Europe's smaller languages fight to survive | Education | theguardian.com
Why some French-speaking non-binary people don't seek treatment in their language
podcast - New Life for Dying Languages (Lexicon Valley)
5) How Do Languages Shape the Way We Think article or the TED video by the author
6) New Rules of Language Evolve with the rise of emojis
Oxford Dictionary's Word of the Year 2009-2018
Meme’ - coined thirty-nine years ago, now worlds away from its original meaning: http://bit.ly/1DAipZo
7) Words Don't Mean What They Mean article OR the RSA video on Language as a Window into Human Nature (on indirect speech acts)
8) George OrwellPolitics and the English Language
9) The Racist Politics of the English Language article
10) George Orwell Why I Write
CodeSwitch Podcast on the rebirth of a Hawaiian language
Radiolab Podcast - Words
Radiolab Podcast - Translation
Samantha Bee's comedy show treatment on Trump and how words have no meaning now
Free Speech in USA article
A rare universal pattern in human languages
Mount McKinley vs Denali article
AP 1992 "Cripple" passage - sample essays
Baby Name evolutions 1960 to now in USA
Freakonomics article on Baby Names
Freakonomics podcast - How Much Does your Name Mean
Freakonomics podcast - Hello Marijuana Pepsi
TOK class' Language as a Way of Knowing folder (read 01 PDF)
Shakespeare in emojis
why/how languages die
wukchumni
Language - TOK Questions
This beautiful language tree shows how India is as linguistically diverse as Europe http://wapo.st/1tjvtz0
BBC News - Why speaking English can make you poor when you retire OR Keith Chen: Could your language affect your ability to save money? | Talk Video | TED.com OR 5 examples of how the languages we speak can affect the way we think | TED Blog
How languages evolve - Alex Gendler http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-languages-evolve-alex-gendler …
Native American struggle to retain near extinct languages: Independent Lens: We Still Live Here - As Nutayunean or a related article Preserving Biocultural Diversity
OR
how-to-save-an-endangered-language ORSilesian, the 103rd language on TED.com, and the story behind it | TED Blog OR
Patricia Kuhl: The linguistic genius of babies | Talk Video | TED.com
How to Edit a Dictionary - Jen Doll - The Atlantic OR Punctuated Equilibrium - Joe Pinsker - The Atlantic
Draining the Language Out of Color
When patients suffer a loss of language, must they also lose their sense of self?
Anne Curzan: What makes a word "real"?
Erin McKean: The joy of lexicography
Bobby Ghosh: the evolution of the word jihad
John McWhorter: Txtng is killing language. JK!!!
Mark Pagel: How language transformed humanity - a somewhat unusual theory
Excellent: Why Red Means Red in Almost Every Language http://nautil.us/issue/26/color/why-red-means-red-in-almost-every-language …
Body Language: ethnicity, stereotypes and the complexity of communication http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/communication/body-language …
How Dogs Understand What We Say http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2014/11/28/367092004/how-dogs-understand-what-we-say
From Salt To Salary: Linguists Take A Page From Science http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2014/11/08/362478685/from-salt-to-salary-linguists-take-a-page-from-science
45 The Mind’s Eye – what the blind see
AP Lang Essays/Speeches Reading List with links - see the Language itself section lines 104-121 OR see below
Hellen KellerThe Key of Language / The Most Important Day of My Lifeharper & row 178 (can use a longer version)https://www.breathitt.kyschools.us/userfiles/46/Classes/33299/The%20Most%20Important%20Day%20Keller.pdf
LakoffMetaphors we Live By (pg 8-18)harper & row 237http://shu.bg/tadmin/upload/storage/161.pdf
George OrwellPolitics and the English Languagedolphin reader 735https://www.npr.org/blogs/ombudsman/Politics_and_the_English_Language-1.pdf
Cyra McFaddenIn Defense of Genderreadings for writers 577https://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/02/magazine/on-language-in-defense-of-gender.html
Eudora WeltyOne Writer's Beginningsnorton reader 573http://writing.laccdssi.org/files/2014/10/Welty.pdf
George Orwell Why I Write
EB WhiteWhy I Writelexington reader pg23https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/schools/whitmanhs/academics/english/Why%20I%20Write%20Orwell.pdf
Vladimir NabokovGood Readers and Good WritersNorton Reader 579http://www.en.utexas.edu/amlit/amlitprivate/scans/goodre.html
EB WhiteThe Essayist and the Essay (sorta included in URL)The Essay Connection pg30https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/04/18/e-b-white-on-egoism-and-the-art-of-the-essay/
comicDavid SedarisMe Talk Pretty One Daycommon threads 160http://theessayexperiencefall2013.qwriting.qc.cuny.edu/files/2013/09/Me-Talk-Pretty-One-Day-by-David-Sedaris.pdf
comicKirk JohnsonToday's Kids are, like, killing the English languagecommon threads 167https://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/09/weekinreview/correspondence-duh-today-s-kids-are-like-killing-the-english-language-yeah-right.html
Leslie Marmon SilkoLanguage and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective50 essay pg346http://www.leeannhunter.com/gender/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/SilkoLanguageLiterature.pdf
Frederick DouglassLearning to Read and Writehttp://learningabe.info/fd_ReadandWrite.pdf
Deborah TannenWhy is it so hard for men and women to talk to each otherportals 151http://swc2.hccs.edu/kindle/Sexlies.pdf
Deborah TannenThere is No Unmarked Woman50 essays 409http://academics.otc.edu/media/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/There-is-No-Unmarked-Women.pdf
Joan DidionOn Keeping a Notebookhttps://accessinghigherground.org/handouts2013/HTCTU%20Alt%20Format%20Manuals/Processing%20PDF%20Sample%20Files/00%20On%20Keeping%20a%20Notebook.pdf
Woody AllenSlang Originshttps://sotira.livejournal.com/1316.html
Damn Interesting » This Place is Not a Place of Honor
1) 2016 AP Lang Q1 prompt on monolingualism!!!!!!!!! (pg2-8)
What suffers with the rise of monolingualism article
Being multilingual alters your experience of time
TED video - could language affect your ability to save money?
2) Untranslatable words (that show you the limits of your native language)
article 1
article 2
article 3
article 4
3) Dying/Extinct Languages: Why We Must Save Dying Languages
4) 4 Things That Happen When a Language Dies
the disappearing dialect of North Carolina (video)
the whistled language of Turkey
2 Cherokee brothers work to save their language
Thousands Once Spoke His Language in the Amazon. Now He's the Only One
Icelandic language battles threat of digital extinction OR At risk of digital extinction: Europe's smaller languages fight to survive | Education | theguardian.com
Why some French-speaking non-binary people don't seek treatment in their language
podcast - New Life for Dying Languages (Lexicon Valley)
5) How Do Languages Shape the Way We Think article or the TED video by the author
6) New Rules of Language Evolve with the rise of emojis
Oxford Dictionary's Word of the Year 2009-2018
Meme’ - coined thirty-nine years ago, now worlds away from its original meaning: http://bit.ly/1DAipZo
7) Words Don't Mean What They Mean article OR the RSA video on Language as a Window into Human Nature (on indirect speech acts)
8) George OrwellPolitics and the English Language
9) The Racist Politics of the English Language article
10) George Orwell Why I Write
CodeSwitch Podcast on the rebirth of a Hawaiian language
Radiolab Podcast - Words
Radiolab Podcast - Translation
Samantha Bee's comedy show treatment on Trump and how words have no meaning now
Free Speech in USA article
A rare universal pattern in human languages
Mount McKinley vs Denali article
AP 1992 "Cripple" passage - sample essays
Baby Name evolutions 1960 to now in USA
Freakonomics article on Baby Names
Freakonomics podcast - How Much Does your Name Mean
Freakonomics podcast - Hello Marijuana Pepsi
TOK class' Language as a Way of Knowing folder (read 01 PDF)
Shakespeare in emojis
why/how languages die
wukchumni
Language - TOK Questions
This beautiful language tree shows how India is as linguistically diverse as Europe http://wapo.st/1tjvtz0
BBC News - Why speaking English can make you poor when you retire OR Keith Chen: Could your language affect your ability to save money? | Talk Video | TED.com OR 5 examples of how the languages we speak can affect the way we think | TED Blog
How languages evolve - Alex Gendler http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-languages-evolve-alex-gendler …
Native American struggle to retain near extinct languages: Independent Lens: We Still Live Here - As Nutayunean or a related article Preserving Biocultural Diversity
OR
how-to-save-an-endangered-language ORSilesian, the 103rd language on TED.com, and the story behind it | TED Blog OR
Patricia Kuhl: The linguistic genius of babies | Talk Video | TED.com
How to Edit a Dictionary - Jen Doll - The Atlantic OR Punctuated Equilibrium - Joe Pinsker - The Atlantic
Draining the Language Out of Color
When patients suffer a loss of language, must they also lose their sense of self?
Anne Curzan: What makes a word "real"?
Erin McKean: The joy of lexicography
Bobby Ghosh: the evolution of the word jihad
John McWhorter: Txtng is killing language. JK!!!
Mark Pagel: How language transformed humanity - a somewhat unusual theory
Excellent: Why Red Means Red in Almost Every Language http://nautil.us/issue/26/color/why-red-means-red-in-almost-every-language …
Body Language: ethnicity, stereotypes and the complexity of communication http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/communication/body-language …
How Dogs Understand What We Say http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2014/11/28/367092004/how-dogs-understand-what-we-say
From Salt To Salary: Linguists Take A Page From Science http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2014/11/08/362478685/from-salt-to-salary-linguists-take-a-page-from-science
45 The Mind’s Eye – what the blind see
AP Lang Essays/Speeches Reading List with links - see the Language itself section lines 104-121 OR see below
Hellen KellerThe Key of Language / The Most Important Day of My Lifeharper & row 178 (can use a longer version)https://www.breathitt.kyschools.us/userfiles/46/Classes/33299/The%20Most%20Important%20Day%20Keller.pdf
LakoffMetaphors we Live By (pg 8-18)harper & row 237http://shu.bg/tadmin/upload/storage/161.pdf
George OrwellPolitics and the English Languagedolphin reader 735https://www.npr.org/blogs/ombudsman/Politics_and_the_English_Language-1.pdf
Cyra McFaddenIn Defense of Genderreadings for writers 577https://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/02/magazine/on-language-in-defense-of-gender.html
Eudora WeltyOne Writer's Beginningsnorton reader 573http://writing.laccdssi.org/files/2014/10/Welty.pdf
George Orwell Why I Write
EB WhiteWhy I Writelexington reader pg23https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/schools/whitmanhs/academics/english/Why%20I%20Write%20Orwell.pdf
Vladimir NabokovGood Readers and Good WritersNorton Reader 579http://www.en.utexas.edu/amlit/amlitprivate/scans/goodre.html
EB WhiteThe Essayist and the Essay (sorta included in URL)The Essay Connection pg30https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/04/18/e-b-white-on-egoism-and-the-art-of-the-essay/
comicDavid SedarisMe Talk Pretty One Daycommon threads 160http://theessayexperiencefall2013.qwriting.qc.cuny.edu/files/2013/09/Me-Talk-Pretty-One-Day-by-David-Sedaris.pdf
comicKirk JohnsonToday's Kids are, like, killing the English languagecommon threads 167https://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/09/weekinreview/correspondence-duh-today-s-kids-are-like-killing-the-english-language-yeah-right.html
Leslie Marmon SilkoLanguage and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective50 essay pg346http://www.leeannhunter.com/gender/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/SilkoLanguageLiterature.pdf
Frederick DouglassLearning to Read and Writehttp://learningabe.info/fd_ReadandWrite.pdf
Deborah TannenWhy is it so hard for men and women to talk to each otherportals 151http://swc2.hccs.edu/kindle/Sexlies.pdf
Deborah TannenThere is No Unmarked Woman50 essays 409http://academics.otc.edu/media/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/There-is-No-Unmarked-Women.pdf
Joan DidionOn Keeping a Notebookhttps://accessinghigherground.org/handouts2013/HTCTU%20Alt%20Format%20Manuals/Processing%20PDF%20Sample%20Files/00%20On%20Keeping%20a%20Notebook.pdf
Woody AllenSlang Originshttps://sotira.livejournal.com/1316.html