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
47: We Need to Talk About Grice (with Rikker Dockum)
Every Linguistics 101 student knows about HP Grice and his famous Maxims. They state that dialogue is usually cooperative — and when it doesn't appear to be, they explain how we manage to work out mea...
20 Feb 20221h 13min
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
