Cara and Ed along with special guest, Emily Wheeler of Film Inquiry, discuss New Kings of the World by Fatima Bhutto to talk about Bollywood, Dizi, K-Pop, and the shifting of soft power from America to the rest of the world. We also discuss the magical power of SRK, Turkish Soap Operas and K-Pop groups like NCT 127.

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https://www.filminquiry.com/silly-brilliance-orlando/

https://bookshop.org/books/new-kings-of-the-world-dispatches-from-bollywood-dizi-and-k-pop/9781733623704

In episode 7, Cara and Ed discuss the value of an official language in the modern nation state, how language influences identity and what the language situation is in South Sudan, from Juba Arabic to English and a bit of Swahili.

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South Sudan Civil Warhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84fjG22fCrE

Peace in South Sudanhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_lXeyYuOnk

South Sudan Traveloguehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAH7UyI4mHM

Article on Language Policy in South Sudanhttps://foreignpolicy.com/2018/11/14/for-south-sudan-declaring-independence-from-arabic-is-not-so-easy-language-politics-juba-khartoum-english/

Cara and Ed gather on this minisode to celebrate a huge milestone for the podcast: 500 downloads! We discuss the research of Gretchen McCulloch about emojis as language and a little bit about the experiment that was Emoji Dick (an Emoji translation re-telling of Moby Dick). We also discuss how we use emojis in our day to day lives.

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References:

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/62584/will-we-all-speak-emoji-language-couple-years

https://the-toast.net/2016/06/29/a-linguist-explains-emoji-and-what-language-death-actually-looks-like/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9Ybyoaz9iw

https://lingthusiasm.com/post/186386270916/lingthusiasm-episode-34-emoji-are-gesture-because

In Episode 5, Cara and Ed, along with guest Jen, discuss A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea by Don Kulick. We discuss the death of the Tayap language as well as the people of the village of Gapun.

https://bookshop.org/books/a-death-in-the-rainforest-how-a-language-and-a-way-of-life-came-to-an-end-in-papua-new-guinea-9781643750477/9781616209049

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Cara and Ed gather to discuss the only truly revitalized language, Hebrew. From its 3000 BC roots to modern day, the language had been on a rollercoaster. We discuss how it’s been influenced by Arabic throughout its history and how Biblical Hebrew is different from Modern Hebrew.

You can email us at [email protected] Twitter us@LinguisticsEver@Carajoell@EdwardGiordano

References

Langfocushttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70jb2c8Qtsk  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfThdgT6GSk  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BByig02vJWM 

Unpackedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBiiad9fO-g

A Brief History of Modern Hebrewhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IChcua1MLDg 

https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/israel-hebrew/reviving-hebrew-persian-ancient-languages-eliezer-ben-yehuda-manekji-limji-hataria/

https://ling.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/alumni%20senior%20essays/Freeburg%2C%20Elizabeth%20-%20Senior%20Essay.pdf

Ed and Cara discuss what is Language Death. With a language dying about every two weeks, preserving and recording these languages is of the utmost importance. We discuss different ways languages die (Gradual Language Death, Bottom-to-Top Language Death, Sudden Language Death and Radical Language Death). We also discuss dialect stigmatism and standardization in France.

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References:

Wikitongues:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcMkmEzUE18

Langfocus on Language Death:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3qbYFvOHwk

France 24 Video on French Dialect Diversity Death: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO5eq6dOPok

Language Magazine article on Mandarin language education:https://www.languagemagazine.com/2020/04/23/tibetan-language-phased-out-as-schools-switch-to-mandarin/

Afrikaans coverage:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dolLuO9hM5s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIWKAWxbjWs

Ed and Cara take a deep dive into the world of English Based Creoles from the Carribean, Africa and the Pacific like: Hawaiian Pidgin to Kreyol to Jamaican Patois to Singlish to Manglish and many more!

How an accent transforms over time in an isolated setting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHKGErnN9W8

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Ed and Cara introduce you to the exciting world of creole languages! We discuss how a pidgin becomes a creoles, what  makes a creole a creole to begin with as well as touching on the world's many creoles like Haitian Creole, Louisiana Creole, Malaysian Creole and Juba Arabic.

How an accent transforms over time in an isolated setting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHKGErnN9W8

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