The rules are changing. Here’s the manual.
Gretchen McCulloch’s book Because Internet is a look at how people use language on the net to communicate and to show identity. How do people laugh online? How is emoji like gesture?
It’s …
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We’re working together with Pint of Science to bring science to the pub. But we’re not alone — we’ve got early-career researchers Amy Budrikis and Troy Reynolds to talk about their work in …
North and south? Left and right? Or something else?
Different languages have different ways of talking about space. Sometimes this has to do with the environment of the people who speak them. But what happens when the environment changes?
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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?
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Can you hear colours? Or smell sounds?
We’re starting to understand synaesthesia — the blending of senses that some people experience. Now language researchers are using synaesthesia to understand how we process language, and even how language got started in …
It’s the last show of the year, and we’ve got Daniel, Ben, and Kylie live in the studio.
We’re discussing everything from punctuation in texting, to YouTube voice. And we unveil our Word of the Year.
All on this episode …
It’s a new year, and that means it’s time for our Word of the Year round-up.
What words tripped on our tongues, tickled our ears, and zeited our geist in 2014?
Linguist Daniel Midgley can’t even on this episode of …
Emoji. You know them, you use them — maybe more than you’d like to admit.
But where do they come from? Which ones are most popular? And what new emoji are on the way?
Linguist Daniel Midgley is worth a …
Will the Internet save minority languages, or kill them?
Many small languages lack an online presence, as only a handful of languages dominate the Web. On the other hand, we’ve never had so many tools to include other languages in …
Emotions are fleeting. But when they’re captured in language, we can study how they spread from person to person, and even through time.
What impact does the emotional language of others have on you? And how many emotions are there …
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