Re: "Inside English" BBC Radio 4

On Fri, 05 May 2006 10:29:43 +0100, Julian Richards <see@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

"Melvyn Bragg explores the latest revelations that computing and
science are bringing to the way we use our language: using the latest
computer-assisted research he discovers hitherto unrealised patterns
in the way we use our language, both literary and spoken.

Some forty years ago great hopes were raised in the literary community
that the sort of routine mechanical analysis of literary texts (e.g.
word counts and frequency of use of particular terms) that the advent
of the computer and its ability to crunch large amounts of detail
quickly and accurately could deliver were going to revolutionise
study. Today, there's a certain degree of scepticism. Some of the
claims - like the computer-aided study that suggested that Sylvia
Plath's verse foreshadowed her suicide - have been greeted with
ridicule in some quarters. Yet slowly but surely as the software
becomes more sophisticated, major advances are being made.

For 'Inside English', Melvyn goes inside the differences between
spoken and written English to find out the way science is being roped
in to analyse and then potentially change the way we use it. "

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio4_aod.shtml?radio4/knowwhatyouresaying

This is the "Listen Again" link. BBC Radio 4's resident clever clogs,
Melvyn Bragg, a favourite shm on-topic radio presenter, analyses how
much Anglo Saxon is in modern English and shows that we speak
principally Anglo Saxon with a little Norse and not that much Norman.
I'm sure that there will be those here that will disagree.


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Julian Richards
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www.richardsuk.f9.co.uk
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