18: Swearin' Time (with Kory Stamper)
There's a new show on Netflix, and it's The History of Swearing, featuring Nicolas Cage. Backing him up is a team of...
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18: Swearin' Time (with Kory Stamper)
There's a new show on Netflix, and it's The History of Swearing, featuring Nicolas Cage. Backing him up is a team of...
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17: Words of the Week of the Year 2020
On this momentous episode, we look back on all the words that made our year. Like, all of them. Including some from...
01:49:23
These cute critters, once part of a pioneering study in child language acquisition, have become an unofficial mascot...
01:12:31
15: Xenolanguage (with Kathryn Hymes)
If you love language, and you also love role-playing games with a sci-fi flair, then you're going to want to check...
01:12:58
14: Word Jail (with Ian Cushing)
Schools are banning words and policing language. It may be a well-meaning attempt to encourage good language habits,...
01:14:10
13: White Supremacy (with Kelly Wright)
The definition of white supremacy: is it expanding, or are we just getting better at recognising it and its reach?...
01:25:47
11: Aboriginal English: Yarning (with Glenys Collard and Celeste Rodriguez Louro)
Aboriginal English has been around a long while, but linguists have not taken the opportunity to really listen to the...
01:05:37
OzCLO is the Australian Computational and Linguistics Olympiad, where Australian high school students compete with...
01:41:25
8: How Translatable Are Languages? (with Gary Lupyan)
Blog post: http://becauselanguage.com/8-how-translatable-are-languages/ Patreon: http://patreon.com/becauselangpod/...
01:06:32
7: Mailbag of One Wrong Answer
Our ever-popular Mailbag is bursting with questions, so let’s get to them! How do you communicate...
01:09:18
6: Decolonising Linguistics: Grammars (with Hannah Gibson)
Linguistics as a discipline has some work to do when it comes to examining and eliminating the legacy of colonialism....
01:23:33
An open letter to the LSA has ignited a furious debate among linguists and the wider public about who represents...
01:09:26
4: Bilingual Advantages (with Iryna Khodos)
We’ve heard a lot about the cognitive benefits of bilingualism. But then we’ve also seen a lot of the...
01:18:41
3: Let's Talk (with David Crystal)
Show notes: http://becauselanguage.com/3-lets-talk/ Subscribe: http://becauselanguage.com/listen/ How does...
01:13:33
Time to get to this Mailbag! Why are flip-flops called 'thongs'? When people write the date as '7 April' or...
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For our first episode, we asked some of our linguist and lingo-pod friends what their favourite thing is about...
01:11:39
395: Outed or Misgendered (with Cedar Brown)
"What's your pronoun?" Good question. Many people would like to be more supportive of trans and non-binary people....
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394: What’s Your Pronoun? (with Dennis Baron)
It's been a big year for singular they, but there's more than one pronoun in town. What invented pronouns have...
50:06
Are there any pairs of words that you constantly get confused? They're the ones where you have to think for a second...
30:02
392: Your Voice (with Jane Setter)
Your voice is your ability to represent your point of view. So which voices are getting validated? Why are certain...
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