language and communication Archives - Forward Thinking

Benefits of bilingualism: Thomas Bak on BBC Brainwaves

9 February 20188 June 2018 School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences

Benefits of bilingualism

Beyond Burns - Howlat the Owl

25 January 20188 June 2018 School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences

Scots screivings beyond Burns

Speech Production

10 January 201819 April 2019 School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences

Edinburgh Skeptics: Research in Speech Disfluency

20 FT - Bilingualism beats dementia advent calendar

20 December 201711 June 2018 School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences

Bilingualism beats dementia

16 - Linguistics of arrival advent calendar

16 December 20179 March 2018 School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences

The linguistics of Arrival: a closer look

12 - Political pronunciation advent calendar

12 December 201711 June 2018 School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences

Political party trick: the pronunciation of Iraq

11 - Scots language and pro-indy tweets Advent Calendar

11 December 201711 June 2018 School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences

Scots language and pro-indy tweets

10 - Saving rare languages Advent Calendar

10 December 201711 June 2018 School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences

Saving rare languages has its benefits

7 - Plain English in the law advent calendar

7 December 201711 June 2018 School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences

Plain English in the law: give it to me straight!

Oversharing

15 November 201711 June 2018 School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences

Are you oversharing? As you age, the risk increases

hand drawn map of Europe

27 October 201713 June 2018 School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences

The origins of the Scots language

Crowds of people on Edinburgh's Royal Mile during the Festival Fringe

6 September 20175 September 2018 School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences

Tourist attitudes to linguistic variation in Scotland

21 August 201711 June 2018 School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences

Is monolingualism making us ill?

Hill walkers huddle round a map on a snowy day

26 June 201711 June 2018 School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences

Perspectives on language evolution

Tiled letters spell out "English"

23 April 201711 June 2018 School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences

World English and globalisation