Past Resources - 2010 Fall Lecture Series - As we speak: Language change and social change, from grammar to emoticons

Does Your Language Shape How You Think? by Guy Deutscher

Entrevue Avec Monica Heller

L'Ecole de la Minorite Francophone D'Hier a Aujourd'hui

The Value of Linguistic Diversity: Viewing Other Worlds through North American Indian Languages by Marianne Mithun

Paradoxes of Language in the New Economy by Monica Heller

Reading suggestions for Professor Merlin Donald’s lecture on “The Evolution of Language,” on December 2, 2010, and his seminar on “The impact of technology on thought and language” on December 3, 2010:

• Human cognitive evolution: what we were, what we are becoming, Social Research, 1993, 60: 143-170.
• Preconditions for the evolution of protolanguages. In The Descent of Mind, Ed. M.C.Corballis & I.Lea. Oxford University Press, 1999, 355-365.

For the Furby's morning seminar on the impact of technology:

• Memory Palaces: The Revolutionary Function of Libraries. Queen's Quarterly 108/4 (Winter 2001) pp. 559-572