The latest in an erratic series. In this set we have punctuation, phonetics, raciolinguistics, gesture, lexicography, and writing advice. Viewing length ranges from 4 minutes to 1 hour 18 minutes...
https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2023/01/25/six-more-videos-about-language/
How slang catches on, survives, and fades: The schwa is never stressed? Ridiculous, says Geoff Lindsey: What America got wrong about Ebonics: How dialect coaches put the accent on perfor...
https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2022/08/18/six-short-videos-about-language/
A few years ago I shared six videos about language, so posting seven this time may set a perilous precedent. (I’ve also blogged a bunch of others, before and since, if you want still more audio...
https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2021/02/05/seven-videos-about-language/
I’ve been greatly enjoying videos by Geoff Lindsey, an accent coach from the UK who also gives courses at University College London. His YouTube channel has about 20 videos to date, mostly arou...
https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2020/08/16/geoff-lindsey-putting-the-fun-in-phonetics/
Oliver Sacks is one of my favourite science writers, for many reasons: the remarkable lives he reports, his insight and empathy in doing so, his unabashed honesty, his love for the creative arts....
https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2019/04/10/the-most-coveted-and-desirable-book-in-the-world/
Over the last year or so, Macmillan Dictionary (for whom I write a column on language) published 11 videos and blog posts in a series titled Real World English. I wrote the video scripts, which w...
https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2017/09/07/real-world-english-a-video-series/
The news website Vox has produced some good videos on linguistic topics, which can be found amidst their many other clips. Its latest one looks at the vexed question of colour names and categorie...
https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2017/05/16/the-linguistics-of-colour-names/