u/musicluvrrr111

Hey everyone!
I'm looking at studying linguistics at university and just wondering if there are any articles or research you guys can recommend which I can read to learn more.
At the minute I'm very interested in how gestures and sign language relate to or differ from spoken language as well as something I've noticed recently: speaking in hospitality settings or when you're trying to be polite is often similar to the way you talk to babies, higher pitch more tonality, and was just wondering if you guys could point me towards anything?
I'm sorry if this isn't the right place to ask but I don't really want to use AI and it's hard to find things which I can understand because I lack the foundational knowledge needed (if anyone has anywhere for me to learn the foundations please share!!).
Thank you so much in advance

This is my first post on here but I am beyond desperate.
I'm meant to have chosen two coursework books by Friday 26th and I am completely lost.
I do The Handmaid's Tale, Frankenstein, A Streetcar Named Desire, Othello (not yet started), modern poetry and John Keats poetry for Edexcel a level English Literature.
I really enjoy streetcar and I liked handmaids but I tried The Glass Menagerie by Williams but it wasn't a bit of me I don't think.
I like using critical theory like the unconscious mind, symbols, feminist readings.
I was going to do The Great Gatsby and American Psycho but I was lost on points of comparison but my teachers are quite against doing texts that we did lower down in the school again more critically (for context we did The Great Gatsby in year 9 but I got my own copy and annotated it myself because I was so into it, nerd I know)
Please please please send me some advice and help guys, I will read as many of the recommendations as possible and I would really appreciate the help.
I've been struggling recently but I go to a grammar school with very high expectations and I need AAB to go to university and I'm aiming for an A in literature.
Thank you so much everybody!

This is my first post on here but I am beyond desperate.
I'm meant to have chosen two coursework books by Friday 26th and I am completely lost.
I do The Handmaid's Tale, Frankenstein, A Streetcar Named Desire, Othello (not yet started), modern poetry and John Keats poetry for Edexcel a level English Literature.
I really enjoy streetcar and I liked handmaids but I tried The Glass Menagerie by Williams but it wasn't a bit of me I don't think.
I like using critical theory like the unconscious mind, symbols, feminist readings.
I was going to do The Great Gatsby and American Psycho but I was lost on points of comparison but my teachers are quite against doing texts that we did lower down in the school again more critically (for context we did The Great Gatsby in year 9 but I got my own copy and annotated it myself because I was so into it, nerd I know)
Please please please send me some advice and help guys, I will read as many of the recommendations as possible and I would really appreciate the help.
I've been struggling recently but I go to a grammar school with very high expectations and I need AAB to go to university and I'm aiming for an A in literature.
Thank you so much everybody!