New Books in Language
Interviews with Scholars of Language about their New Books
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- Interviews with Scholars of Language about their New Books
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- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-12-31 12:28
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- 2024-12-31 09:00
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- 10.63 days
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2024-12-31 | In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Alexandra Grey about Dr. Grey’s book entitled Language Rights in a Changing China: A National Overview and Zhuang Case Study (De Gruyter, 2021). China has had constitution... |
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| 2024-12-24 | In this episode of the Language on the Move podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Laura Smith-Khan about language and accents in children’s media, from Octonauts to Disney to Bluey, and they investigate what a choice as seemingly banal as a character’s ... |
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| 2024-12-17 | In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Hannah White, a Postdoc researcher at Macquarie University in the Department of Linguistics. She completed her doctoral research in 2023 with a thesis entitled “Creaky Voi... |
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| 2024-11-30 | Popular discourse around British Muslims has often been dominated by a focus on Muslim women and their sartorial choices, particularly the hijab and niqab. British Bangladeshi Muslims in the East End: The Changing Landscape of Dress and Language (Manch... |
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| 2024-11-19 |
Supporting Multilingual Families to Engage with their Children’s Schooling How can school communications become more accessible to multilingual families? In this episode of the Language on the Move podcast, Dr Agnes Bodis talks to Professor Margaret Kettle about the Multilingual Glossary of School-based Terms. This is list of... |
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| 2024-11-15 | The Holocaust radically altered the way many East European Jews spoke Yiddish. Finding prewar language incapable of describing the imprisonment, death, and dehumanisation of the Shoah, prisoners added or reinvented thousands of Yiddish words and phrase... |
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| 2024-11-15 | How do street-level bureaucrats in Austria’s public service deal with linguistic diversity? In this episode of the Language on the Move podcast, Ingrid Piller speaks with Dr Clara Holzinger (University of Vienna) about her PhD research investigating ho... |
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| 2024-11-14 |
Tyler W. Williams, "If All the World Were Paper: A History of Writing in Hindi" (Columbia UP, 2024) In If All the World Were Paper: A History of Writing in Hindi (Columbia UP, 2024), Tyler W. Williams puts questions of materiality, circulation, and performance at the center of his investigation into how literature comes to be defined and produced wit... |
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| 2024-11-13 |
David Shoemaker, "Wisecracks: Humor and Morality in Everyday Life" (U Chicago Press, 2024) What good is a good sense of humour especially when the humour may be ethically questionable? Although humour seems a valuable part of a good conversation and indeed a good life, jokes have never seemed more morally problematic than they do now. How ca... |
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| 2024-11-10 |
Matti Eklund, "Alien Structure: Language and Reality" (Oxford UP, 2024) It is not uncommon to encounter people who think and talk about the world so differently from the way you do that it’s not really possible to put yourself in their shoes. But such systems of representing the world are not truly alien – they still invol... |
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