Today we're talking about Arrival! There's a plot summary, a discussion of the linguistic theory that drives the plot, and a fun other effect langauage has on us. Background music is taken from the film.&nbsp;
Sources/Fun Reads:
- Arrival (2016)
- "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang
- Grammar, Identity, and the Dark Side of the Subjunctive (TedTalk by Phuc Tran)
- “Reasoning Counterfactually in Chinese: Picking up the Pieces” by Yeh and Gentner
- “Linguistic Relativity” by Lera Boroditsky
- “How Do Infants Become Experts at Native-Speech Perception” by Werker, Yeung, and Yoshida

a show where I, your host Bea, see movies and talk about the language and linguistics used in them!