RSS feed for all TtT episodes

You can now listen to all Talk the Talk episodes by copying and pasting this URL into your pod listener thing.

http://danielmidgley.com/talkthetalk/talk_classic.xml

Then follow on to Because Language with Daniel, Hedvig, and Ben.

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395: Outed or Misgendered (with Cedar Brown)

“What’s your pronoun?” Good question.

Many people would like to be more supportive of trans and non-binary people. In general, it’s helpful to disclose pronouns, but there’s a little more to this story.

Daniel and Ben are talking to researcher …

394: What’s Your Pronoun? (with Dennis Baron)

It’s been a big year for singular they, but there’s more than one pronoun in town.

What invented pronouns have there been? How far back does singular they go? And why did some people kick up a fuss about …

393: Push and Pull (Live Q&A)

Are there any pairs of words that you constantly get confused? They’re the ones where you have to think for a second to get them straight.

Why do our brains have this problem? What about these words makes them so …

392: Your Voice (with Jane Setter)

Your voice is your ability to represent your point of view.

So which voices are getting validated? Why are certain voices getting repressed? How do we end accent prejudice?

Daniel and Ben are speaking to Dr Jane Setter, author …

391: Words of the Year 2019

It’s Word of the Year time, and there are more words than ever before.

We bring you the results from the yearly American Dialect Society vote, and from dictionaries around the world on this episode of Talk the Talk.


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390: Words of the Week of the Year 2019 (Live Q&A)

Just about every week, we bring you the Words of the Week. Which word from 2019 will listeners vote to make Talk the Talk‘s Word of the Year? And which words did we miss?


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389: Mailbag of Pronouns

Again we open the Mailbag and answer our listeners’ questions.

  • What do lisps sound like in languages without the ‘th’ sound?
  • How do gender-neutral terms work in languages with gendered pronouns?
  • Do languages get more efficient over time?
  • One-third looks

388: Lies, All Lies (with Georgina Heydon, Heather Wilson, and Amanda Hamilton-Hollaway)

Can you tell when someone is lying? You may think you have a sense about this, but the answers may surprise you.

We’re talking to forensic linguist Professor Georgina Heydon on this episode of Talk the Talk.


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387: The Language of Emotion (with Maïa Ponsonnet, Steven Gagau, and Jodie Kell)

Language and culture are tightly bound. Or are they?

Many speakers of the Australian language Dalabon are shifting to Kriol. But the two languages function in very different ways. Will speakers be able to translate relevant concepts over, despite linguistic …

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