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Your texts might be cool and clever, but you still get tongue-tied when talking to people face-to-face. Why is that? It's all just words, right? Learn the difference between what linguist call synchronous and asynchronous communication.
Otherwords is a PBS web series on Storied that digs deep into this quintessential human trait of language and finds the fascinating, thought-provoking, and funny stories behind the words and sounds we take for granted. Incorporating the fields of biology, history, cultural studies, literature, and more, linguistics has something for everyone and offers a unique perspective on what it means to be human.
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https://www.latrobe.edu.au/news/announcements/2021/emoji-as-digital-gestures-returning-the-body-to-disembodied-communication
theconversation.com/emoji-arent-ruining-language-theyre-a-natural-substitute-for-gesture-118689
wired.com/2013/03/texting-isnt-writing-its-fingered-speech
archive.org/details/languagefilesmat0000unse_m7m9/page/616/mode/1up
https://open.lib.umn.edu/publicspeaking/chapter/13-1-oral-versus-written-language/
courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-jeffersoncc-sta101/chapter/spoken-versus-written-communication/#:~:text=Similarly%2C%20texting%20is%20a%20form,it%20functions%20as%20synchronous%20communication.
slate.com/technology/2019/07/because-internet-excerpt-linguistic-taxonomy-emoji-use.html
jstor.org/stable/2155877
sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1364661399013972
andrewferrier.com/blog/2006/07/20/is-text-messaging-synchronous
https://news.uchicago.edu/story/blind-adults-gestures-resemble-those-other-native-speakers#:~:text=New%20research%20shows%20that%20blind,make%20gestures%20in%20similar%20ways.&text=When%20people%20talk%2C%20how%20they,on%20the%20language%20they%20speak.
global.oup.com/academic/product/lets-talk-9780198850694?cc=us&lang=en&
Host: Erica Brozovsky, Ph.D.
Creator/Director: Andrew Matthews & Katie Graham
Writer: Talylor Behnke
Producer: Katie Graham
Editor/Animation: Andrew Matthews
Executive Producer: Amanda Fox
Fact Checker: Yvonne McGreevy
Executive in Charge for PBS: Maribel Lopez
Director of Programming for PBS: Gabrielle Ewing
Assistant Director of Programming for PBS: John Campbell
Stock Images from Shutterstock
Music from APM Music
Otherwords is produced by Spotzen for PBS.
© 2023 PBS. All rights reserved.
Your texts might be cool and clever, but you still get tongue-tied when talking to people face-to-face. Why is that? It's all just words, right? Learn the difference between what linguist call synchronous and asynchronous communication.
Otherwords is a PBS web series on Storied that digs deep into this quintessential human trait of language and finds the fascinating, thought-provoking, and funny stories behind the words and sounds we take for granted. Incorporating the fields of biology, history, cultural studies, literature, and more, linguistics has something for everyone and offers a unique perspective on what it means to be human.
sources:
https://www.latrobe.edu.au/news/announcements/2021/emoji-as-digital-gestures-returning-the-body-to-disembodied-communication
theconversation.com/emoji-arent-ruining-language-theyre-a-natural-substitute-for-gesture-118689
wired.com/2013/03/texting-isnt-writing-its-fingered-speech
archive.org/details/languagefilesmat0000unse_m7m9/page/616/mode/1up
https://open.lib.umn.edu/publicspeaking/chapter/13-1-oral-versus-written-language/
courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-jeffersoncc-sta101/chapter/spoken-versus-written-communication/#:~:text=Similarly%2C%20texting%20is%20a%20form,it%20functions%20as%20synchronous%20communication.
slate.com/technology/2019/07/because-internet-excerpt-linguistic-taxonomy-emoji-use.html
jstor.org/stable/2155877
sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1364661399013972
andrewferrier.com/blog/2006/07/20/is-text-messaging-synchronous
https://news.uchicago.edu/story/blind-adults-gestures-resemble-those-other-native-speakers#:~:text=New%20research%20shows%20that%20blind,make%20gestures%20in%20similar%20ways.&text=When%20people%20talk%2C%20how%20they,on%20the%20language%20they%20speak.
global.oup.com/academic/product/lets-talk-9780198850694?cc=us&lang=en&
Host: Erica Brozovsky, Ph.D.
Creator/Director: Andrew Matthews & Katie Graham
Writer: Talylor Behnke
Producer: Katie Graham
Editor/Animation: Andrew Matthews
Executive Producer: Amanda Fox
Fact Checker: Yvonne McGreevy
Executive in Charge for PBS: Maribel Lopez
Director of Programming for PBS: Gabrielle Ewing
Assistant Director of Programming for PBS: John Campbell
Stock Images from Shutterstock
Music from APM Music
Otherwords is produced by Spotzen for PBS.
© 2023 PBS. All rights reserved.
