{"id":12736,"date":"2020-05-26T09:18:12","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T08:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=12736"},"modified":"2020-10-01T10:42:03","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T09:42:03","slug":"laura-bailey-voice-of-islam-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2020\/05\/26\/laura-bailey-voice-of-islam-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Bailey appears on the &#8216;Voice of Islam&#8217; radio show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Laura Bailey, Lecturer in the Department of English Language and Linguistics, recently appeared on the <a href=\"http:\/\/voiceofislam.co.uk\/\">Voice of Islam radio show<\/a> to discuss the evolution of language.<\/p>\n<p>Laura considered the recent statement by Elon Musk that language may well disappear in the next five years as an effect of technology.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is not something that we have the technology to achieve based on what we have now,&#8221; Laura stressed, &#8220;However, it is a thought experiment worth thinking about. Technology could help those who have disadvantages. However, we don\u2019t want to reach the point where we&#8217;re reading each other\u2019s thoughts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When asked on how technology could affect the way we communicate and talk, Laura responded: &#8220;I dare say it would, but whether it would be for better or worse, I don\u2019t know. As linguists, we wouldn\u2019t say any form of communication is better or worse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the full episode on <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/voislam\/breakfast-show-podcast-21-05-2020?in=voislam\/sets\/breakfast-show-1\">Soundcloud<\/a> (Laura&#8217;s segment begins at 37:57).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Laura Bailey, Lecturer in the Department of English Language and Linguistics, recently appeared on the Voice of Islam radio show to discuss the evolution &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2020\/05\/26\/laura-bailey-voice-of-islam-radio\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52167,"featured_media":12745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[237575,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12736"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12744,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12736\/revisions\/12744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}