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Language links

An archive collection around the theme of language.

12 March 2021

Over the years, we've published some fascinating stuff on language: how we speak, write, language and thought, the importance of metaphors etc. Here's a selection of links:

How to talk so people listen - Liz Stokoe at Latitude Festival. See also 'Do women and men talk differently?' and How real people communicate

Weathering the storm – the importance of language in how we talk around Covid

The great baby signing debate

A new kind of language (acquisition)

The dance of dialogue - how people align in conversations

Voice perception

Words that matter for psychology

The content of minds - interview with Asifa Majid, who herself interviewed Daniel Everett here

Child interpreters

Lost and found in translation

Swearing - the language of life and death

Metaphors of mind

Browse our archive for insight into the process and importance of writing