Professor Jean Aitchison delivers her fifth and final Reith Lecture from her series entitled ‘The Language Web’. She looks at the possibilities and the pitfalls of the way we use language, and how it can shape as well as distort our view of the world.
Reith Lectures Archive: 1996 5. The World Wide Web
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Reith Lectures Archive: 1996 5. The World Wide Web
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Reith Lectures Archive: 1996 5. The World Wide Web
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