Stories
- Comic
Language
Our bodies convey stories through an alphabet of shrugs and shoulder poems. If your shoulders could talk, what poems would they tell?
- Article
Providing care across languages
When medics are taught in English but their patients speak other languages, effective communication becomes fraught. Niyoshi Shah explores the linguistic gaps between patient and doctor.
- In pictures
Writing the language of music
The earliest surviving attempts to notate music date from the 10th century, and became increasingly precise and complex over the following millennium. Discover the visual beauty of music manuscripts through the ages, and how they help musicians interpret composers’ intentions.
- Article
The shifting shape of language
Author Jessica Andrews explores how her brother’s deafness has influenced her relationship with words and the world.
Catalogue
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The outlines of the English and French languages. By Mr. Du Fresnoy, late Professor of the French Language in the University of Cambridge; author of the Art of Pronouncing that Language with propriety; and inventor of the new Grammatical Game.
Du Fresnoy, Mr.Date: [1792?]- Journals
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Publications of the Modern Language Association of America
Date: 1889-- Books
Reconstructing languages and cultures : abstracts and materials from the First International Interdisciplinary Symposium on Language and Prehistory, Ann Arbor, 8-12 November, 1988 / edited by Vitaly Shevoroshkin.
Date: 1989- Books
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The methodist: or, a new method of reading, writing, and printing, all languages in short-hand, by a new and universal alphabet; And of Learning all Arts and Sciences, BY A Real Character and Philosophical Language.
Date: Printed in the Year M.DCC.XLI. [1741]- Audio
The digital human. Language 2/6.
Date: 2014
