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Who counts as a speaker of a language?

Anna Babel · TED

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About

Backed by research and personal anecdotes, Spanish professor Anna Babel reveals the intricate relationship between language and culture, showing how social categories and underlying biases influence the way we hear, regard and, ultimately, judge each other. A talk that will leave you questioning your assumptions about what it really means to speak a language.

The talk

  1. Who counts as a speaker of a language? 11 min · TED's player

Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TEDxOhioStateUniversity
Speaker
Anna Babel
Year
2020
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Languages and linguistics, Teaching and learning
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
TED Talks are licensed by TED under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International and are shown here in TED's own player, as TED's usage policy asks.
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