Language plays a huge part in the complex of our individual and communal identities, like for the distinguished linguist Alexandra Aikhenvald, who tells her life story with many of them.

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Lingua Franca, presented by Maria Zijlstra, looks at all aspects of language: language old, modern, and even invented. Through interviews and prepared talks, the program features experts who analyse a single topic of interest to users and lovers of language. Examples of the sort of linguistic territory they traverse are: bi-lingual education, ebonics, the language of pornography, and the political use of words. Lingua Franca is published every Saturday.
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Folge vom 29.12.2012RN summer series, part 1: Me & other languages
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Folge vom 22.12.2012Chinglish toastmasters“Chinglish” is what the often weirdly amusing results of the direct translation of words and phrases into English, by Chinese speakers, is called. But it is also the name of a bilingual – Mandarin and English – toastmasters’ club operating in the Sydney suburb of Chatswood.
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Folge vom 15.12.2012How Sherpa children learn their languageThe Sherpa people – famous for their assistance to climbers of Mount Everest – speak to their children using short, sharp commands, rather than the ‘motherese’ or child-directed baby talk that is so common among native speakers of European languages. Current research in this remote Himalayan community may debunk the notion that such baby talk is a universal component of child language acquisition.
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Folge vom 08.12.2012The voiceThe human voice is an amazing instrument. Capable of strenuous activity, with our tiny vocal chords often travelling more than two kilometres a day, we use it to express so much more than words.