For this episode, we want to hear about the emoji usages or combinations that are unique to you and your social network. We’ll unearth new patterns, or at least shine a light on the variability of digital communication. We’re taking …
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The International Day of Signed Languages is upon us.
If we could look at all the signed languages in the world, what would they have in common? What misconceptions do hearing people have? And what is International Sign?
It’s all on this …
The Talk the Talk team is taking their show to the Disrupted Festival, and they’re chatting with internet influencer Ketan Joshi about data privacy, science advocacy, and changing minds. Plus their usual antics, games, and the dreaded Words of the …
We’re on our customary mid-year hiatus, but Daniel’s still having a great time in the studio, taking your questions, playing tracks, and talking about whatever’s happening in the world of language.
We’re thinking of putting together a best-of for the …
A conference on the linguistics of Pokémon? Is this for real?
It sure is. Looking at the names of Pokémon across different languages is showing linguists more about how language operates. And it could show us how children learn language …
The sign language glove is an idea whose time has come! Or has it?
Could this tech tool be helpful for Deaf people? Or it is just so much hand-waving? Not everyone in the world of singed language is wild about …
Some big corporations are paying big money to make sure you don’t use their names.
Usually they love it if their trademark name is well-known. But if it becomes so well-known that the name becomes generic, the company can lose …
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 …
Puns. Some people love them, some people hate them.
But why do some people find puns so exasperating? And why do we make them anyway? What’s it like to be on the receiving end of a rapid-fire pun off?
Daniel…
How can you make a difference to language?
Linguists are doing a lot of great work, but what if you’re not a linguist? Is there anything that you can do to make the world a better place for language and …
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