John Worne, CEO of the Chartered Institute of Linguists leads a conversation on the future of language. He is joined by Casper Grathwohl, president of Oxford Languages and the academic product director at Oxford University Press; Dr Kathrin Kunkel-Razum, editor-in-chief of The Duden Dictionary - the dictionary of the German Language; Professor Aditi Lahiri, professor of linguistics andthe director of the Language and Brain Laboratory at the University of Oxford; and Tony Thorne, language consultant at King’s College London, and former director of their Language Centre. In this articulate and precise conversation, the guests explore the massive impact technology and artificial intelligence is having on our language - including the use of emojis, memes and gifs to imitate expression; they discuss the social issues that arise with differences in language, particularly with relation to gender and education; and delve into the connection between neuroscience and language.
