Language Trends
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Do languages really ‘live’ or ‘die’?: Why the metaphor is misleading
In reality, the history of languages is inextricable from the history of societies.
Mario Saraceni, The Conversation
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How Prashant Kishor has changed India’s political vocabulary
A linguist explains how a man who shuns the label of ‘political strategist’ shapes new connotations for political terms and the use of language.
Krishna Kumar Pandey
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What Oxford’s word of the year ‘goblin mode’ says about the mental health discourse and social media
Does having a word for what we feel make it better?
Zulekha Shakoor Rajani
Trending
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Over 17,400 citizens write to EC seeking action against PM Narendra Modi for hate speech
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Australian journalist leaves country amid visa troubles, says ‘too difficult to do my job in India’
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Dubai: How a high-altitude jet stream, not cloud seeding, created a storm ‘the size of France’
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The Jammu and Kashmir voter who is fighting corruption in job recruitments
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How Guwahati became the second-most polluted city in the world
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Why people hate or love the sound of certain words
The phenomenon where the sound of a word triggers an emotion or a meaning is referred to as ‘sound symbolism’.
Morten H Christiansen, The Conversation & Nick Chater, The Conversation
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Five ways in which British English has changed in the internet era
A new study based on a 100 million-word sample of current language shows us just how it has evolved.
Vaclav Brezina, The Conversation
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How Covid-19 has not only changed our vocabulary, but also made us use language more gently
In April and July 2020, the Oxford English Dictionary released special updates to accommodate new words born in the pandemic.
Janice Pariat
Video
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Watch: Doordarshan newsreader faints on live TV in Kolkata owing to severe heat
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Watch: Spice Girls sing ‘Stop’ as bandmates reunite to celebrate Victoria Beckham’s 50th birthday
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Watch: Over 350 ballerinas come together to break the world record for standing on tip toes
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Eco India: How can India deal with its mounting tyre waste?
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Eco India, Episode 258: Is repurposing waste saving the environment from further degradation?
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Is Rajasthani a single language or a spectrum of many related but distinct tongues?
How can a language with all the granularity and diversity that comes out of a thousand years of evolution be adapted to contemporary institutions?
Dalpat Singh Rajpurohit & Vishes Kothari
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Why is the Covid-19 pandemic being compared to war? Western literature from the 1800s has answers
But unlike our times, war was a metaphor for the problem, not the solution.
Julia M Wright, The Conversation
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Rajasthani: How a mother language can be lost, and how ‘folk’ histories can reclaim it
On February 21, International Mother Language Day, a study in losing and finding a tongue.
Vishes Kothari
The Reel
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Watch: Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman in ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ trailer
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Start the week with a film: A legend returns in ‘Bob Marley: One Love’
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In Cannes-bound ‘In Retreat’, a Ladakh that has rarely been seen before
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‘Trap’ trailer: M Night Shyamalan’s thriller stars Josh Hartnett as a serial killer
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Watch: Five directors shoot on iPhones for MAMI Mumbai Film Festival initiative
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You know that warm, fuzzy feeling evoked by cat videos? There is a Sanskrit word to describe it
Researchers believe that a sudden burst of love, a sense of kinship, and faith in worship are all grounded in a single emotion.
Alan Fiske, Aeon
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Why are language and grammar the way they are? Because of the limitations of the human mind
Studies show that humans are better able to follow grammatical rules that involve changing vowels around consonants and not the other way around.
David Adger, The Conversation
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How Telugu has become America’s fastest growing foreign language
Between 2010 and 2017, the number of native Telugu speakers in the US surged 86% – the largest uptick in a foreign language-speaking group, a study found.
Ananya Bhattacharya, qz.com
The Field
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IPL 2024: Sandeep Sharma, Yashasvi Jaiswal lead Rajasthan Royals to dominant win over Mumbai Indians
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Squash: Saurav Ghosal announces retirement from professional circuit
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Chess: Gukesh Dommaraju – inexperienced, expected to fail, but the chosen Candidate
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Chess: Gukesh Dommaraju becomes youngest winner in history of Candidates tournament
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ISL 2024: Vikram Partap Singh bounced back from tragedy to reach great heights in breakthrough year