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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 suc...
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 he...
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. ...
Anacostia is a rapidly gentrifying suburb in Washington DC, and as Anacostia changes, so does the language. How do the original Black residents use la...
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...
Can dictionaries create a more fair world? One language observer sees that dictionaries, far from being a neutral chronicle of language, are capable o...
The Words of the Year are out! And we're talking about 'em. We're answering all the questions in our voluminous Mailbag. We have here, there, and...
Our listeners have voted, and here are all the words! Which were our top Words of the Week? Which were the worst? And what did all the dictionary peop...
Our friends and listeners bring us lots of great stories, questions, and words. So for this episode, we've invited them to present them themselves! Al...
The sciences are facing a replicability crisis. Some landmark studies were once considered settled, but then failed when they were retested. So have a...
Here to help us answer our voluminous Mailbag is the tireless Dr Caitlin Green, Vice Cancellor of Caitlin University. Among our questions: NON-BINA...
Dialect is a role-playing game about language and how it dies. Over the course of a game, players form an isolated community, create a private languag...
You probably communicate with your friends using media references all the time. Not that there's anything wrong with that. But why do we include media...
This is the second of a two-parter on generativism, the linguistic school of thought originated by Noam Chomsky. This time, it's from the perspective ...
We're doing a deep dive into generativism, the linguistic school of thought championed by Noam Chomsky. It's had an enormous impact on the direction o...
