Some parts of the world are packed with languages. Others not so much.
Is there a reason that some places are linguistically dense? Researchers are turning up connections between biological ecology and language ecology.
Xia Hua studies language diversity, and …
Boiling with rage. A warm embrace. A cool time in a hot town.
How do we think about heat and cold, and how does this work its way into language? And does this have anything to do with what the …
We’re taking your questions on this episode.
What’s happening with tildes and Facebook? Can you have a big huge balloon, or could it also be huge big? And if you move a meeting forward, is it later or …
Does language influence the way we think?
Many people have thought so. And this thought has worked its way into an enormously popular idea called the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis. Yet linguists often dismiss this idea as unfounded. So what’s the …
It’s Oscars time, and the film about Alan Turing “The Imitation Game” is in contention for best picture.
But that’s not the only language movie out there — there are plenty of cinematic delights to quench your passion for linguistic …
Do you like long discussions or heavy conversations?
If you understood that, you’re good at metaphors. They help us express ourselves, and even understand things. But what’s happening in our brains when we hear them? And can metaphors change our …
The US intelligence agency IARPA is putting a heavy research focus, not into lie detection or speech recognition, but metaphor.
That’s right, the figure of speech where you describe something as something else. But why would that be useful for …
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Become a Patron!Talk the Talk was a podcast about language that ran on community radio station RTRFM in Perth Australia. It aired on Tuesdays at 11am from about 2009 until early 2020.
Many people took part, but the main crew was Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, Kylie Sturgess, and Hedvig Skirgård.
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