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<\/a>Laura Bailey<\/a><\/strong>, Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics, says:\nThe long-awaited Because Internet<\/em> by Gretchen McCulloch was published earlier this year, so if you haven’t got your greasy mitts on a copy yet, now’s your chance. Gretchen dives deep into internet linguistics with the most informed but accessible take on this you’re likely to see.<\/p>\n
Podcast fans should have a listen to The Vocal Fries<\/em>, about linguistic discrimination from linguists Carrie Gillan and Megan Figueroa, who will ‘teach you how not to be an accidental jerk’.<\/p>\n I’ll be keeping a close eye on the Twitter hashtag #woty in early January, when the American Dialect Society announce their Word Of The Year. There’s always a really fascinating discussion around what should and shouldn’t win – and why.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s a link to a fascinating review<\/a> of a lecture given by the main academic consultant for the film, Jessica Coon, by some boring bloke<\/a> from the University of Kent!<\/p>\n<\/a>David Hornsby<\/a><\/strong>, Senior Lecturer in French and Linguistics, says:
\nAmy Adams is great in everything but particularly in the thought-provoking movie\u00a0Arrival,<\/em>\u00a0of 2016. Have a watch, then look up \u2018Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis\u2019 straight afterwards….<\/p>\n<\/a>Christina Kim<\/a><\/strong>, Lecturer in Linguistics, picks the same film, so it must be a good one!
\nThe film Arrival<\/em> was a real joy to watch \u2013 linguists were consulted on the script, so there were scenes in the film all of us recognised from our own lives explaining linguistic principles to students. I would really recommend the novella that Arrival<\/em> was based on: Story of Your Life<\/em> by science fiction writer Ted Chiang. You can find it in a short story collection called Stories of Your Life and Others<\/em>, which has other great stories touching on subjects like neural plasticity and artificial intelligence.<\/p>\nJeremy Scott<\/strong><\/a>, Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics, recommends:
\nI\u2019d recommend the film Arrival. <\/em>It\u2019s about the efforts of a linguist to decipher an alien language, and raises interesting questions about the Saphir-Whorf Hypothesis: the notion that the language we speak to some extent determines how our brains work, including the ways in which we conceptualise the world.<\/p>\n