How language shapes our identity
Saturday 25th October 2014
Venue: Faculty of Law
Category: Talks & Classes
Price Info: Free, pre-book
Time Info: 2:30pm-3:30pm
The way we speak and write is a major part of our identity. In this talk sociolinguist Dr Esther-Miriam Wagner explores what dialects tell us about our social networks, whether alphabets really mean anything, and why youth speak is not all that terrible.
This event is taking place as part of the Cambridge Festival of Ideas 2014.
Pre-book online at www.festivalofideas.cam.ac.uk or by calling 01223 766766. Booking opens 22 September.
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