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372: Because Internet (with Gretchen McCulloch and Grant Mathumba Thompson)

21 July 2019 / / Comments Off on 372: Because Internet (with Gretchen McCulloch and Grant Mathumba Thompson)

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 …

369: The Grammarian Is In (with Ellen Jovin and Pete Swanton)

25 June 2019 / / Comments Off on 369: The Grammarian Is In (with Ellen Jovin and Pete Swanton)

If you’re at a park in New York City, you may see someone at a table offering free grammar advice.

That person is writer Ellen Jovin, and she dispenses wisdom from her Grammar Table. What motivates her to do …

368: Poetry (with Pete Swanton)

18 June 2019 / / Comments Off on 368: Poetry (with Pete Swanton)

Poetry isn’t (just) enjoyable, it can be useful.

It can help us with language learning and memorisation, and help us in historical linguistics. And even computers are getting into poetry generation, probably because they want to learn the secret of …

367: Your Inner Prescriptivist (with Alyssa Severin and Pete Swanton)

11 June 2019 / / Comments Off on 367: Your Inner Prescriptivist (with Alyssa Severin and Pete Swanton)

Even if we’re trying not to be the grammar police, we all have that internal voice that notices linguistic difference, and categorises people thereby.

How do we deal with that inner prescriptivist? How can we have linguistic discussions with grammar …

363: Talking Race (with Jessi Grieser)

13 May 2019 / / Comments Off on 363: Talking Race (with Jessi Grieser)

What happens to language when newcomers move in?

Language isn’t just for communication — it also signals membership in a group, and this is especially clear in a gentrifying community in Washington DC. Black residents are using African-American English to stake …

362: Gesture in Mind (with Violet Wardrill)

6 May 2019 / / Comments Off on 362: Gesture in Mind (with Violet Wardrill)

Gesture. We all do it. But what are our brains doing while it’s going on?

What does gesture contribute to our interpretation? Can we work out complex meanings when words are replaced by gestures? And when a gesture like the …

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