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Language and Communication

2008

International Year of Languages

(See also communication slides)

Google Search: Society > Genealogy > Language and Linguistics

International Mother Language Day

The wisdom of disappearing languages -- MPR (WEDNESDAY, DEC. 3, 2003)

Google: Science > Social Sciences > Linguistics >

linguistics -- Wikipedia

Google: Science > Social Sciences > Linguistics > Languages > Natural > Sign Languages
sign language -- Wikipedia
American sign language -- Wikipedia

search linguistics on JSTOR

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synchronic linguistics (structural linguistics)

phonemics

phonetics

morphemics

syntax

semantics

diachronic linguistics (historical linguistics)

sociolinguistics / psycholinguistics

• distributional studies
  • dialectology
    
    
• Measuring Linguistic Diversity on the Internet -- UNESCO
  
  
• Native Words, Native Warriors [American Indain Code Talkers] -- National Museum of the American Indian

kinesics / proxemics

applied

 

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• Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL)
  
  
• Literature, Languages and Linguistics -- The University College for the Creative Arts
  
  
• Open Semiotics Resource Center
  
  

From Anthroplogy in the News, Texas A&M

• Perception Coloured by Language Nature (3/3/08)
  
  
• Gender Differences in Language Appear Biological EurekAlert (3/3/08)

• Punctuation Marks in Language Evolution? Science (1/31/08)
• Introduction to the Indo-European languages
• Family tree of Indo-European languages

• Languages Burst Forth Rapidly Discovery (2/1/08)
  • Language Origins
  • Commonly-Used American Slang
    
    
• Languages Evolve in Sudden Leaps, Not Creeps Discovery (2/1/08)
  
  
• Running Dialog: New Languages Rapidly Spring from Old Ones Scientific American (2/1/08)
  
  
  • Evolutionary Tools Help Unlock Origins of Ancient Languages
  • Use It or Lose It: Why Language Changes over Time

   

From Anthroplogy in the News, Texas A&M

 

One Language Disappears Every 14 Days Los Angeles Times (9/19/07)

Languages Die, but Not Their Last Words New York Times (9/19/07) A Final Say? They Hope Not Los Angeles Times (9/21/07)

From Anthroplogy in the News, Texas A&M

Tracking the Evolution of Language Los Angeles Times (10/11/07)

Words Subject to 'Survival of the Fittest' Discovery (10/11/07) Language 'Mutations' Affect Least-Used Words New Scientist (10/11/07) Scientists Chart How Words Are Changing Telegraph (10/10/07) Verbal Evolution: The More You Say a Word, the Less Likely It Will Change Christian Science Monitor (10/25/07)

After E.A. Hoebel, Anthroplogy: The Study of Man, 4th ed. (NY: McGraw-Hill, 1972.)