Talking Leaves and Lightning Paper
Sequoyah: The Cherokee man who invented an alphabet for his language. X: @lexiconvalleyFacebook: facebook.com/LexiconValleyWebsite: booksmartstudios.com/LexiconValley Learn more about your ad choices...
4 Dec 201229min
Undocumented Illegals
The heated debate over language at the heart of U.S. immigration policy. X: @lexiconvalleyFacebook: facebook.com/LexiconValleyWebsite: booksmartstudios.com/LexiconValley Learn more about your ad choi...
13 Nov 201234min
Death to Potatoes
On the all-important role that language translation — and mistranslation — plays in our lives, with Nataly Kelly and Jost Zetzsche. X: @lexiconvalleyFacebook: facebook.com/LexiconValleyWebsite: books...
1 Nov 201233min
Here's to You Mrs. Malaprop
What misspeaking might reveal about the way our mental dictionary is organized. X: @lexiconvalleyFacebook: facebook.com/LexiconValleyWebsite: booksmartstudios.com/LexiconValley Learn more about your ...
16 Okt 201232min
The Rate of Exchange
On the widespread belief that other languages are spoken more rapidly than your own. X: @lexiconvalleyFacebook: facebook.com/LexiconValleyWebsite: booksmartstudios.com/LexiconValley Learn more about ...
2 Okt 201226min
Ascent of the A-Word
Linguist Geoffrey Nunberg on his book Ascent of the A-Word: A**holism, the First Sixty Years. X: @lexiconvalleyFacebook: facebook.com/LexiconValleyWebsite: booksmartstudios.com/LexiconValley Learn mo...
18 Sep 201228min
Our Dying Words
Should we care when a language dies? X: @lexiconvalleyFacebook: facebook.com/LexiconValleyWebsite: booksmartstudios.com/LexiconValley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
9 Juli 201223min
Then Is Now, Now and Then
The narrative mastery of Seinfeld's Kramer: talking about the past in the present tense. X: @lexiconvalleyFacebook: facebook.com/LexiconValleyWebsite: booksmartstudios.com/LexiconValley Learn more ab...
2 Juli 201232min
