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212: Fourth Floor

4 August 2015 / / Comments Off on 212: Fourth Floor

Language change is all around us — even at department stores.

It’s there that linguist Daniel Midgley travelled to get in touch with a 50-year-old linguistic experiment that changed the world. And it all starts with a question: What’s on …

209: Typography

15 June 2015 / / Comments Off on 209: Typography

Typography is more than just font design.

It affects informational readability — and at times, credibility. It’s contributed terms to our language. And sometimes, there are stories of intrigue hidden in its past.

Linguist Daniel Midgley is the font of …

208: Bogan Linguistics (featuring Roz Rowen)

9 June 2015 / / 1 Comment

Are you, or have you ever been a bogan?

Bogan English doesn’t get a lot of respect, but one linguist is transcending social boundaries to bring Bogan Linguistics to the world.

Linguist Roz Rowen cracks a tinny with Daniel Midgley…

190: Rap Linguistics (featuring Darin Flynn)

3 February 2015 / / Comments Off on 190: Rap Linguistics (featuring Darin Flynn)

Rap is the music of the street. And now it’s on campus.

Linguist Darin Flynn has created a university linguistics class that puts rap lyrics on the syllabus. What can hip-hop poets tell us about language?

Dr Flynn tells Daniel …

184: We Do Language (featuring Anne Charity Hudley)

18 November 2014 / / Comments Off on 184: We Do Language (featuring Anne Charity Hudley)

There’s more than one way to speak English.

But too often, kids who speak other varieties of English find themselves on the wrong side of their teachers. How can educators — and everyone else — avoid linguistic discrimination and value …

170: Word Crimes 1

29 July 2014 / / Comments Off on 170: Word Crimes 1

Weird Al Yankovic’s new parody “Word Crimes” is chock-full of grammar advice — but is it good advice?

Or is it just a three-minute-long language peeve session? What should we take from the song, and what should best be left …

164: Sounding Gay

20 May 2014 / / Comments Off on 164: Sounding Gay

Can you tell someone’s orientation by the way they talk?

While there’s been a lot of supposition and stereotyping, there’s also a body of linguistic work on this very topic.

Linguist Daniel Midgley swings that way on this episode of …

115: John Gumperz

16 April 2013 / / Comments Off on 115: John Gumperz

Legendary linguist John Gumperz passed away recently, and leaves behind a body of work that changed linguistic study as we know it.

Gumperz was a pioneer of the burgeoning field of interactional sociolinguistics, and it explains how we understand each …

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