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How does our speech affect the world around us? How can we measure the changes that our words make? In this week's episode, we take a look at performative language: what you need for your words to work their magic, what different parts make up our speech acts, and how our word choices can change the way we perceive and remember events.
This is Topic #65!
This week's tag language: Hausa!
Last episode:
Conservative Babies: How Do Kids Avoid Saying Things Wrong? - youtu.be/IbyO2D1A83E
Other of our general linguistics videos:
Future Tense: How Will Language Change in the Future? - youtu.be/5hibYoYwGko
Why So Sirious: How Do Computers Understand Our Speech? - youtu.be/FI9IJteS-5Y
Plays on Words: Is Wordplay Universal? - youtu.be/AT7Xd2tC62k
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Our website also has extra content about this week's topic at http://www.thelingspace.com/episode-65
(Or we will by Thursday morning.)
We also have forums to discuss this episode, and linguistics more generally.
Sources:
Austin, J.L. (1962). How to Do Things with Words.
Hall, S. (2000). "Who Needs Identity?" In du Gay, P., Evans, J., and Redman, P. (eds), Identity: A Reader.
Holten, L. (2013). Mothers, Medicine, and Morality in Rural Mali. books.google.ca/books?id=5MTA9-ru-4oC&pg=PA35&lpg=PA35
Sommerstein, A. H., and Torrance, I.C. (2014). Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece. de Gruyter.
http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-power-of-names
http://www.simplypsychology.org/loftus-palmer.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_name
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performative_utterance
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performativity
http://www.thebuddhacenter.org/buddhism/mantras
ualberta.ca/~francisp/NewPhil448/SearleOnAustinonLocutionaryIllocutionActs.pdf
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/speech-acts/
Looking forward to next week!
How does our speech affect the world around us? How can we measure the changes that our words make? In this week's episode, we take a look at performative language: what you need for your words to work their magic, what different parts make up our speech acts, and how our word choices can change the way we perceive and remember events.
This is Topic #65!
This week's tag language: Hausa!
Last episode:
Conservative Babies: How Do Kids Avoid Saying Things Wrong? - youtu.be/IbyO2D1A83E
Other of our general linguistics videos:
Future Tense: How Will Language Change in the Future? - youtu.be/5hibYoYwGko
Why So Sirious: How Do Computers Understand Our Speech? - youtu.be/FI9IJteS-5Y
Plays on Words: Is Wordplay Universal? - youtu.be/AT7Xd2tC62k
Find us on all the social media worlds:
Tumblr: http://thelingspace.tumblr.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/TheLingSpace
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/thelingspace
And at our website, http://www.thelingspace.com !
You can also find our store at the website, thelingspace.storenvy.com
Our website also has extra content about this week's topic at http://www.thelingspace.com/episode-65
(Or we will by Thursday morning.)
We also have forums to discuss this episode, and linguistics more generally.
Sources:
Austin, J.L. (1962). How to Do Things with Words.
Hall, S. (2000). "Who Needs Identity?" In du Gay, P., Evans, J., and Redman, P. (eds), Identity: A Reader.
Holten, L. (2013). Mothers, Medicine, and Morality in Rural Mali. books.google.ca/books?id=5MTA9-ru-4oC&pg=PA35&lpg=PA35
Sommerstein, A. H., and Torrance, I.C. (2014). Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece. de Gruyter.
http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-power-of-names
http://www.simplypsychology.org/loftus-palmer.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_name
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performative_utterance
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performativity
http://www.thebuddhacenter.org/buddhism/mantras
ualberta.ca/~francisp/NewPhil448/SearleOnAustinonLocutionaryIllocutionActs.pdf
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/speech-acts/
Looking forward to next week!
