53: Mailbag of Compounds (with Tiger Webb)
Language titan Tiger Webb is helping us with our voluminous Mailbag. Hedvig is giving her annual Eurovision language roundup. And we're sorting through the lexicon of the 2022 Australian election. Is...
31 Maj 20221h 32min
52: The Language Game (with Morten Christiansen and Nick Chater)
How is language like a game of charades? According to a new book, quite a lot. Charades players and language users improvise and work together to create meaning in a situation, and they get better at ...
11 Maj 20221h 31min
51: A Wug-Tonne of Advice (with Kitty Liu and Romany Amber)
We had the pleasure of an interview with two up-and-coming linguists, wanting to find out more about the show and linguistic communication. It was such a fun chat that we wanted to share it with you. ...
1 Maj 202252min
50: Employing Linguistics (with Anna Marie Trester and Ellen)
Linguistics is what we all love, but how do we make it pay? Turns out there are more ways than you might have thought of, and a new book is here to help. Dr Anna Marie Trester joins Daniel for an upli...
8 Apr 20221h 37min
49: Mailbag - It's That T Again (with Mignon Fogarty)
Lingcomm legend Mignon Fogarty (Grammar Girl) joins us to answer all the questions in our Mailbag! And we have to ask her about National Grammar Day. How do we bring out descriptive grammar, and tone ...
23 Mars 20221h 11min
48: The Black Side of the River (with Jessi Grieser)
Anacostia is a rapidly gentrifying suburb in Washington DC, and as Anacostia changes, so does the language. How do the original Black residents use language to establish their cred? What about the lan...
4 Mars 20221h 32min
46: Just Words (with Rebecca Shapiro)
Can dictionaries create a more fair world? One language observer sees that dictionaries, far from being a neutral chronicle of language, are capable of promoting social justice. Daniel speaks with Dr ...
10 Feb 20221h 35min
