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Linguistics


Human Language



BIRTH OF LANGUAGE, THE

By Paul Jay

What is the meaning of language? How and where did it begin? This highly original and challenging film examines these questions as it explores human evolution and the development of language. The Birth of Language uses a unique combination of extraordinary documentary footage, expert interviews and dramatic re-enactments to unravel the fascinating origins of language, the essential differences between human and animal communication and the relationship between language and thought.

Featuring such renowned experts as anthropologists Jane Goodall and Sherwood Washburn, the film compares the special language ability of humans to the instinctual and involuntary form of communication used by animals. Theories are illustrated by remarkable animal footage including the famous Chantek ape experiment in which an orangutan is taught to communicate with American Sign Language. The varied information presented in The Birth of Language strongly supports Charles Darwin's theories on evolution and natural selection.

Presenting complex social and biological concepts in a logical and accessible format, The Birth of Language explains the mystery that sets the human race apart from all other animals: the ability to think and translate our abstract ideas into concrete realities.


DVD (Color) / 2009 / (Grade 7 or above) / 58 minutes

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HE SAID SHE SAID: GENDER LANGUAGE & COMMUNICATION

By Deborah Tannen

First, Deborah Tannen revolutionized our understanding of gender and communication. Now, Tannen takes your students on an intellectual journey to the core of how men and women use language, and why communication between the sexes so often goes awry.

Taking a linguistic approach that sheds light on psychology, Tannen uses everything from scholarly research to familiar examples from everyday life as her canvas. In this illuminating and entertaining presentation, Tannen draws a road map through the complex maze of why we speak the way we do, and why others so frequently don't hear what we mean.

From patterns formed in childhood, to the "conversational rituals" of adulthood, Tannen reveals how "conversational style" lies at the core of myths, stereotypes, and miscommunication between the sexes.

From why HE won't stop and ask for directions, to why SHE thinks he's not listening (even when he is), Deborah Tannen's extraordinary and challenging presentation will inspire your students to discuss, debate, and rethink the nature of communication and gender.


DVD / 50 minutes

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HUMAN LANGUAGE, THE: PART 1 - DISCOVERING THE HUMAN LANGUAGE: COLORLESS GREEN IDEAS

Discovering the Human Language, Noam Chomsky asks, "You meet somebody, say, at a bus stop, and you start having a conversation. How do you do it?" How does anyone know what word to say next? Program one is about words, sentences, and something unique to our species: syntax.

DVD (Region 1) / 55 minutes

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HUMAN LANGUAGE, THE: PART 2 - ACQUIRING THE HUMAN LANGUAGE: PLAYING THE LANGUAGE GAME

Acquiring the Human Language, asks: are children wrong when they say "he drived" and "two gooses?" How does anyone know what a word really means? Do we inherit grammar? Program two is about how children "acquire" language without seeming to be taught.

DVD (Region 1) / 55 minutes

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HUMAN LANGUAGE, THE: PART 3 - THE HUMAN LANGUAGE EVOLVES: WITH AND WITHOUT WORDS

The Human Language Evolves discusses why chimps can't talk and we can. How language must be a biological phenomenon. How the human Larynx "fell" and we acquired new vowels. How we inherited body language, gestures, and facial expressions from our animal past, but only we have the most human thing there is about being human.

DVD (Region 1) / 55 minutes

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LANGUAGE AND MIND

By Noam Chomsky

One of the most gifted thinkers of our time, Noam Chomsky has revolutionized our understanding of language, its use and its acquisition. Now, Language & Mind brings Chomsky into your classroom, where he takes your students on a guided tour through his epoch-making ideas.

The theories of Noam Chomsky propose that the human brain is endowed with an innate "language faculty" and that part of this biological endowment is a set of principles common to all languages--otherwise known as the "theory of Universal Grammar."

From Aristotle to Gallileo to Descartes to Hume--to the cognitive revolution of the 1950s and the most recent work in clinical and developmental psychology--Chomsky charts the history of philisophical inquiry in the nature of Language & Mind.

A foundational and essential presentation for curricula in linguistics, psychology, or philosophy, this provocative presentation will inspire your students to discuss, debate, and rethink the nature of Language & Mind.


DVD / 50 minutes

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MYTHS, LIES, AND HALF-TRUTHS OF LANGUAGE USAGE

Taught By Professor John McWhorter, Ph.D.

Myths, Lies, and Half-Truths of Language Usage dispels the cloud of confusion that clings to English, giving you a crystal-clear view of why we use it the way we do and where it fits into the diverse languages of the world. After completing these 24 lectures, you will think about how you use English in a new way, listen to others with discernment and fascination, and take joy in speaking such a wonderfully idiosyncratic tongue.


4 DVDs (With Course Guidebook) / 720 minutes

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THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEANT! LANGUAGE, CULTURE, & MEANING

By Deborah Tannen

Deborah Tannen revolutionized our understanding of gender and communication. Now, Tannen takes your students on an intellectual journey to the core of how men and women use language, and why communication between the sexes so often goes awry.

Debunking the misconception that communication would be transparent if we simply "said what we meant," Tannen counters by suggesting that we do say what we mean--only we say it in our own "conversational style".

On a canvas of disciplines from linguistics and psychology, to anthropology and communication, Tannen paints a fascinating picture of the conversational "signals," "devices," and "rituals" that structure our every interaction.

Against a backdrop of ethnic, gender, and other cultural factors, Tannen demonstrates how conversational signals send "metamessages" that "frame" the meaning of what we say. And why, when conversational styles differ, the frame we intend may not be the one perceived.


DVD / 50 minutes

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SEXISM IN LANGUAGE: THIEF OF HONOR, SHAPER OF LIES

By Lynn Lovdal

Designed for use in a broad range of educational settings and disciplines, this lively and provocative video analyzes the gender bias that permeates our everyday language. Quick-paced, wide-ranging, and frequently humorous, the video explores sexism in both the syntax and semantics of language and shows how it is often unintentional or even unrecognized.

Four key areas are explored: female words that are dependent on a male version; words that are more positive for men than for women; words for women that carry negative sexual connotations; and neutral words that become inferior when applied to women.


DVD (Color) / 29 minutes

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HUMAN VOICE, THE: EXPLORING VOCAL PARALANGUAGE

By Dane Archer

The voice is an extraordinary human instrument. Every time we speak, our voice reveals our gender, age, geographic background, level of education, native birth, emotional state, and our relationship with the person spoken to. All these clues (and many more) are contained in even small fragments of speech, and other people can "read" our voices with remarkable accuracy. When we speak, we "encode" important information about ourselves; when we listen to others, we "decode" important information about them.

This remarkable video explores the power and importance of "vocal paralanguage." Spoken language contains two distinct types of communication. Text (the words themselves) is whatever can be typed on a page. Vocal paralanguage is everything else - the thousands of ways in which any given words can be said.

"The Human Voice" examines twelve different types of "clues" that are contained in vocal paralanguage. These include clues to our biography and background, our identity and uniqueness, our use of standard or nonstandard speech, our regional and national accents, our emotions and true feelings, our voices when we speak to children, our ability to perform and recognize sarcasm, our efforts to tell if others are telling the truth, and our response to dialects and other variations in vocal paralanguage.


DVD (Color) / 30 minutes

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