Recent Episodes
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Amie Souza Reilly, "Human/Animal: A Bestiary in Essays" (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2025)
Jun 9, 2025 – 41:36 -
Speaking Philosophically: Communication at the Limits of Discursive Reason
Jun 8, 2025 – 54:16 -
Paola De Santo and Caterina Mongiat Farina, (eds. and trans.) Isabella Andreini, "Letters" (Iter Press, 2023)
Jun 7, 2025 – 58:26 -
Is Beach Safety Signage Fit For Purpose?
Jun 4, 2025 – 31:08 -
Jana Dambrogio and Daniel Starza Smith, "Letterlocking: The Hidden History of the Letter" (MIT Press, 2025)
May 29, 2025 – 45:48 -
Laura Otis, "Banned Emotions: How Metaphors Can Shape What People Feel" (Oxford UP, 2019)
May 27, 2025 – 35:21 -
Timothy A. Lee, "The Syriac Peshiṭta Bible: The New Testament" (Gorgias Press, 2023)
May 17, 2025 – 30:41 -
Zev J. Handel, "Chinese Characters Across Asia: How the Chinese Script Came to Write Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese" (U Washington Press, 2025)
May 3, 2025 – 45:26 -
The Case for ASL Instruction for Hearing Heritage Signers
Apr 28, 2025 – 33:27 -
Laura Spinney, "Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Apr 27, 2025 – 55:44 -
Lorna Gibb, "Rare Tongues: The Secret Stories of Hidden Languages" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Apr 26, 2025 – 39:47 -
Christian Ilbury, "Researching Language and Digital Communication" (Routledge, 2025)
Apr 20, 2025 – 44:32 -
Yellowlees Douglas, "Writing for the Reader's Brain: A Science-Based Guide" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Apr 16, 2025 – 01:01:55 -
Mara Nicosia, "Syriac Lexis and Lexica: Compiling Ancient and Modern Vocabularies" (Gorgias Press, 2024)
Apr 14, 2025 – 01:01:34 -
Gestures and Emblems: A Discussion with Lauren Gawne
Apr 13, 2025 – 36:26 -
Ryan M. Nefdt, "The Philosophy of Theoretical Linguistics: A Contemporary Outlook" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Apr 10, 2025 – 01:07:56 -
Joseph J. Diorio, "A Few Words about Words" (Beaufort Books, 2021)
Apr 7, 2025 – 30:43 -
Lingua Napoletana and Language Oppression
Apr 6, 2025 – 40:07 -
Ian Rapley, "Green Star Japan: Esperanto and the International Language Question, 1880–1945" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
Apr 1, 2025 – 01:07:12 -
Genevieve Guenther, "The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Mar 19, 2025 – 30:32 -
Intercultural Competence in the Digital Age
Mar 11, 2025 – 34:54 -
Emma Borg and Sarah A. Fisher, "Meaning: a Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Mar 9, 2025 – 01:06:40 -
Multilingual Law-Making: A Discussion with Karen McAuliffe
Mar 4, 2025 – 48:33 -
Educational Inequality in Fijian Higher Education
Feb 25, 2025 – 45:45 -
Constantine R. Campbell, "Basics of Verbal Aspect in Biblical Greek" (Zondervan Academic, 2024)
Jan 25, 2025 – 51:27 -
Multilingual Crisis Communication
Jan 21, 2025 – 47:33 -
The Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet
Jan 14, 2025 – 01:01:22 -
S4E20 Cosmic Connections: A Conversation with Charles Taylor
Jan 8, 2025 – 50:55 -
Andrew S. Latham, "Hey! Listen!: Hypertext Rhetoric and The Legend of Zelda" (McFarland, 2024)
Jan 5, 2025 – 39:25 -
Language Rights in a Changing China
Dec 31, 2024 – 39:31 -
Whiteness, Accents, and Children's Media
Dec 24, 2024 – 01:11:25 -
Creaky Voice in Australian English
Dec 17, 2024 – 27:56 -
Fatima Rajina, "British Bangladeshi Muslims in the East End: The Changing Landscape of Dress and Language" (Manchester UP, 2024)
Nov 30, 2024 – 01:01:40 -
Supporting Multilingual Families to Engage with their Children’s Schooling
Nov 19, 2024 – 41:16 -
Linguistic Diversity as a Bureaucratic Challenge
Nov 15, 2024 – 43:20 -
Hannah Pollin-Galay, "Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
Nov 15, 2024 – 01:00:00 -
Tyler W. Williams, "If All the World Were Paper: A History of Writing in Hindi" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Nov 14, 2024 – 44:32 -
David Shoemaker, "Wisecracks: Humor and Morality in Everyday Life" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Nov 13, 2024 – 53:57 -
Matti Eklund, "Alien Structure: Language and Reality" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Nov 10, 2024 – 01:05:47 -
"The Languages of Indonesian Politics" Revisited
Nov 8, 2024 – 37:41 -
Roni Henig, "On Revival: Hebrew Literature Between Life and Death" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
Nov 7, 2024 – 53:10 -
Elia Powers, "Performing the News: Identity, Authority, and the Myth of Neutrality" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
Nov 6, 2024 – 59:23 -
Ben Yagoda, "Gobsmacked!: The British Invasion of American English" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Nov 1, 2024 – 49:59 -
Judging Refugees: Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determination
Oct 30, 2024 – 01:09:49 -
How Did Arabic Get on That Sign?
Oct 26, 2024 – 41:27 -
Derek Hook, “Six Moments in Lacan: Communication and Identification in Psychology and Psychoanalysis” (Routledge, 2018)
Oct 25, 2024 – 59:42 -
Subatomic Writing: Six Fundamental Lessons to Make Language Matter
Oct 10, 2024 – 01:00:34 -
Transnational Communicative Care
Oct 6, 2024 – 52:55 -
Naomi Seidman, "In the Freud Closet: Psychoanalysis and Jewish Languages" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Oct 2, 2024 – 01:13:30 -
Police First Responders Interacting with Domestic Violence Victims
Sep 27, 2024 – 33:56
Recent Reviews
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Nirgal_iiVariable quality; can be very goodPerhaps that speaks to the variety of books covered. I suggest having an annotated transcript to allow a deeper dive, similar to SmartyPants or ScienceFriday.
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August ConsumerLess informative than an infomercialTalk radio on the net. The podcaster believes we are a captive audience like their students.
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