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While technology platforms increasingly dictate the way we write and converse, language is being modified to fight back, to subvert the platforms. In this show we examine the growth of "algospeak". And if you want to know how we'll all be communicating in the future, just listen to the way teenage girls speak, because young women lead the ongoing development of language.
Original broadcast on July 7, 2024
Guests
Dr James Cohen – Assistant Professor, Media Studies, Queens College, City University of New York
Dr Sali Tagliamonte – Professor of linguistics and Chair of the Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto
Philip Seargeant – Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies, Open University UK
Further information
Philip Seargeant's book "The Future Of Language"
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While technology platforms increasingly dictate the way we write and converse, language is being modified to fight back, to subvert the platforms. In this show we examine the growth of "algospeak". And if you want to know how we'll all be communicating in the future, just listen to the way teenage girls speak, because young women lead the ongoing development of language.
Original broadcast on July 7, 2024
Guests
Dr James Cohen – Assistant Professor, Media Studies, Queens College, City University of New York
Dr Sali Tagliamonte – Professor of linguistics and Chair of the Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto
Philip Seargeant – Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies, Open University UK
Further information
Philip Seargeant's book "The Future Of Language"
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