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Four experts describe intriguing insights regarding the overlap of language and culture, from the global proliferation of sign languages, to the idea of language as an expression of identity. Featured are Carol Padden, Prof. of Communication and specialist in sign-languages (UC San Diego), David Bel...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Open Agenda Publishing (publsher.)
Other Authors:	Bellos, David (on-screen participant.), Berry, Michael, 1974- (on-screen participant.), Mishra, Pankaj (on-screen participant.), Padden, Carol (on-screen participant.), Burton, Howard, 1965- (Director, Narrator)
Format:	Video
Language:	English
Published:	[Canada] : Open Agenda Publishing, [2016]
Subjects:	Language and culture. Sign language. Chinese language > Dialects. Educational films. Nonfiction films. Internet videos. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

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Summary:	Four experts describe intriguing insights regarding the overlap of language and culture, from the global proliferation of sign languages, to the idea of language as an expression of identity. Featured are Carol Padden, Prof. of Communication and specialist in sign-languages (UC San Diego), David Belllos, Prof. of French Literature and Comparative Literature (Princeton University), Michael Berry, Prof. of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies (UCLA) and award-winning author Pankaj Mishra.
Item Description:	"Ideas Roadshow Compilation"--Kanopy website.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (1 video file (19 min., 22 sec)) : sound, color
Production Credits:	Editor, Ruth Barnwood ; music, Luke Mulholland