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Please provides some ideas for an interesting research paper on language and culture.

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This solution provides three ideas for controversial topics in language and culture, along with references to relevant resources on these topics.

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I would recommend looking into the loss of native languages and language extinction or language death. David Crystal has written some really intriguing books on topics related to language & culture. The book specifically about this topic, called "Language Death" is a pretty insightful and digestible read raising some issues for debate that perhaps you could take a stance on. I haven't yet read K David Harrison's book, "When languages die," but ...

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