Sociolinguistics and Culture

Non-Verbal Communication

• Types of Nonverbal Communication (Very Well Mind)

Culture

• Baseball Players Are Famous for Cliches. Here Are The Ones They Actual Use (The Washington Post)

• Why Midwestern City Accents Are Fading (CityLab)
• What the @#$%! Americans can’t get through the day without cursing (New York Post)
• Women who interrupt conversation seen as less intelligent by men (Ladders)
• Can You Lose A Language You Never Knew? (NPR)
• The joys and benefits of bilingualism (The Guardian)
• U.S. Census: English in the Home (Media Research Center)
• You use this word to help you through hard times without even knowing it (Mashable)
• Phrases Americans say that leave foreigners stumped (Insider)

Symbolic Culture

• Think twice before you use emoticons. People from other countries might not understand you : – ( (Quartz)
• Want to understand people's emotions? (World Economic Forum)

Global Culture

• Greece’s disappearing whistled language (BBC)
• There are 14 different kinds of love identified across the world’s languages (Quartz)
• One of the most common questions in American small talk is seen as rude in much of the world (Quartz)
• Why Some Cultures Frown on Smiling (The Atlantic)
• We’d have a better chance of preserving Africa’s dying languages if we learned their history (Quartz)

Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

• What is love, actually? The world's languages describe emotions very differently (MSN)
  

• Emotion concepts are not the same worldwide (University of Otago)

• The Language You Speak Influences Where Your Attention Goes (Scientific American)
• The way you see colour depends on what language you speak (The Conversation)
• 5 Languages That Could Change the Way You See the World (Facts So Romantic)
• People with depression use language differently (Business Insider)
• The Japanese words for “space” could change your view of the world (Quartz)
• Learning a new language changes the way you perceive reality (Quartz)
• Reading stories creates universal patterns in the brain (Medical News Today)
• We Use Words to Talk. Why Do We Need Them to Think? (New York Media LLC)
• Being fluent in two languages might literally change how you perceive time (Mic)
• 'Anumeric' people: What happens when a language has no words for numbers? (The Conversation)

Cultural Change

• As Animals and Plants Go Extinct, Languages Die Off Too (Vice)
• Cringing at how teens talk? Surprise: Language changes (Phys.org)

• 15 words that had to be added to the dictionary to keep up with the changin’ times (2017, Hello Giggles)
• Why 'Dumpster Fire' Was 2016 Word of the Year (Business Insider)

Technology

• There’s a reason using a period in a text message makes you sound angry (Quartz)
• Kuri, Ozlo, Cujo: Why Do So Many Robot Names Sound Alike? (FastCoDesign)

Perspectives

• The elusive foolproof theory of the origin of language (The Conversation)
• A linguistic anthropologist explains why, um, “filler words” are OK to use (Quartz)
• The psychological reasons why we use filler words like 'um' and 'you know' in conversations (Business Insider)
• Why do people swear?  (BBC News)