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What can emoji teach us about human civilization?
Languages

What can emoji teach us about human civilization?

...English-language culture they’re not replacing alphabetic writing. They’re adding to it. And specifically, they’re adding a way to convey what we might call ‘emotional framing’ for online conversations. In other words, they fill a particular need in modern-day communication – a need produced by the fact that social media encourages a much more conversational...
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Growing the popularity of women’s football in the UK
Health, Sports & Psychology

Growing the popularity of women’s football in the UK

...English Football League, a private investment company, a media organisation or a technology company like Amazon or Apple. To whoever The FA sell the commercial rights is a critically important decision for the future of the WSL and probably needs to do the following: Not under-value the commercial potential of the WSL. Preserve free-to-air broadcasting to maximise...
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What is the evidence that King Edward VIII was a Nazi sympathiser?
History & The Arts

What is the evidence that King Edward VIII was a Nazi sympathiser?

...English government and conclude a peace with Germany contingent on a military alliance against the USSR. Even more evidence of Windsor’s treachery was hidden in Spanish archives. Like his relative Coburg, the Duke of Windsor was anti-Semitic. In June 1940 Don Javier Bermejillo, a Spanish diplomat and old friend of Windsor – he had known him since the 1920s –...
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East Asian Heritage month: a celebration of Studio Ghibli films
Education & Development

East Asian Heritage month: a celebration of Studio Ghibli films

...English title: The Boy and the Heron, as the Japanese title is untranslatable). Paradoxically a refusal to advertise the film in a commercial way has led to huge interest in it. We visited Japan for the first time about five years ago. We spent most of our time in Kyoto, however we were determined to make one visit outside to the Studio Ghibli museum in Tokyo. (While...
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Teaching equality: unconscious bias in education
Education & Development

Teaching equality: unconscious bias in education

...English as an Additional Language, Pupil Premium, Special Educational Needs, School Action. All of which categorically avoided identifying Black and brown students and the need to scrutinise their progress against their white counterparts. Perhaps the policy had similar intentions as my younger self – remove labels of race which could reduce pupils to simply a colour...
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Terrorism in Europe and beyond: A reading list
Society, Politics & Law

Terrorism in Europe and beyond: A reading list

...English speaking world. Once again the spirit of French critique ­– this time a darker, more troubled one – found itself connecting with a national, and global, audience. Read: Reading French literature in a time of terror Across the border in Germany, three violent events in seven days shook the country, especially in a week which also featured the unconnected...
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Article 30 mins
Adaptation and Assimilation: The Irish Catholic Experience in America
OpenLearn Ireland

Adaptation and Assimilation: The Irish Catholic Experience in America

...English speaking. The development of a network of national primary schools across Ireland in the mid-19th century ensured that Irish immigrants had basic literacy skills in English to meet the demands of a modernizing American economy. By 1900 most emigrants who embarked from Queenstown, then the busiest emigration port in Ireland, could read and write (Meaney, O’Dowd...
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Hip Hop, Transculturation and Ethnography in Delhi
Education & Development

Hip Hop, Transculturation and Ethnography in Delhi

...Englishes, rip slyme, and performativity. Journal of Sociolinguistics 7(4): 513-533. Pennycook, Alastair (2007a) Global Englishes and Transcultural Flows. London: Routledge. Pennycook, Alastair (2007b) Language, localization, and the real: Hip-hop and the global spread of authenticity. Journal of Language, Identity and Education 6(2): 101-115. Pennycook, Alastair and Tony...
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