Language and Gender

• How language reveals, embodies and sustains attitudes to gender.
• How language users speak or write in (different and distinctive) ways that reflect their sex.

The first of these is partly historic and bound up with the study of the position of men and women in society. It includes such things as the claim that language is used to control, dominate or patronize. This may be an objective study insofar as it measures or records what happens. But it may also be subjective in that such things as patronizing are determined by the feelings of the supposed victim of such behaviour. Your patronizing me needs me to feel that I am patronized.

http://www.teachit.co.uk/armoore/lang/gender.htm

The Structure of English Language

We can study the structure of language in a variety of ways. For example, we can study

• classes of words (parts of speech),
• meanings of words (semantics), with or without considering changes of meaning,
• how words are organised in relation to each other (syntax),
• how words are formed (morphology),
• the sounds of words (phonology) and
• how written forms represent these (lexicography).

http://www.teachit.co.uk/armoore/lang/engstruct.htm

Will English no longer be spoken in space?

What about English elsewhere in space? The plaque on the Moon from the Apollo missions reads (in English): “Here Men From The Planet Earth First Set Foot Upon the Moon, July 1969 A.D. We Came in Peace For All Mankind.” (Read more about how Pluto’s fourth moon got its name.)

Space

Don't be a 404!

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/404

How accents affect language English ability

Accent

Slang Quiz

http://dynamo.dictionary.com/games/16/from-chutzpa-to-top-gun-slang-quiz/match/

Criticisms of the Television Medium

http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Students/jog9901.html

The languages we speak affect our perceptions of the world

http://psych.stanford.edu/~lera/papers/sci-am-2011.pdf

IB Language Policy - Linguistic Imperialism in Action?

English is the organization's internal working language, in which most operational and development activities take place. It is also the language of its governance, management and academic committees.

http://www.ibo.org/mission/languagepolicy/

Who bankrolls the IB?

Tragedy of modern day Romeo and Juliet: The lovers driven to suicide by Iranian regime that threw them in jail for being friends with a human rights activist

Nahal Sahabi and Behnam Ganji were until recently a carefree young Iranian couple, a kindergarten teacher and a student, very much in love and with high hopes for the future. Today both are dead.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2044057/Tragedy-modern-day-Romeo-Juliet-The-lovers-driven-suicide-Iranian-regime.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

It's a man's world - Watch Kiera Knightley Pout!!

Watch Keira Knightley jump on a motorbike, seduce a photographer and drive off into the sunset in Chanel's stylish new mini-movie for their Coco Mademoiselle fragrance.

http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/videos/TMG8396363/Keira-Knightleys-Chanel-Coco-Mademoiselle-advert.html

Are women seen as emotion-led and brain-dead?

Are adverts for men clever and sophisticated whilst adverts for women are far too simple and stereotypical?

Martha talks to advertising director, Jane Cunningham, who says the industry targets women in completely the wrong way and that ads for women should be much more like ads for men. She also talks to Sean Pillot de Chenecy, a trends analyst, who believes that bad advertising is certainly not unique to adverts aimed at women.http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/2004_19_fri_02.shtml