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47: We Need to Talk About Grice (with Rikker Dockum)
20. feb. 2022 1t 13m

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...

46: Just Words (with Rebecca Shapiro)
10. feb. 2022 1t 35m

Can dictionaries create a more fair world? One language observer sees that dictionaries, far from being a neutral chronicle of language, are capable o...

45: Mailbag of Words
29. jan. 2022 1t 19m

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...

44: Words of the Week of the Year 2021 (with Lauren Gawne)
22. dec. 2021 1t 23m

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...

43: Journal Club: Zoomies on Zoom (with Hadas Kotek and friends)
17. dec. 2021 1t 22m

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...

42: Replicability Crisis (with Martine Grice and Bodo Winter)
1. dec. 2021 1t 34m

The sciences are facing a replicability crisis. Some landmark studies were once considered settled, but then failed when they were retested. So have a...

41: Mailbag of Caitlin University (with Caitlin Green)
16. nov. 2021 1t 14m

Here to help us answer our voluminous Mailbag is the tireless Dr Caitlin Green, Vice Cancellor of Caitlin University. Among our questions: NON-BINA...

40: Dialect Playthrough (with Hakan Seyalıoğlu and Stephen Mann)
15. nov. 2021 2t 56m

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...

39: Is This a Reference? (with Sylvia Sierra)
1. nov. 2021 1t 41m

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...

38: Generativism 2: How It's Going (with Taylor Miller and Adam Tallman)
14. okt. 2021 1t 56m

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 ...

37: Generativism 1: How It Started (with David Adger and John Goldsmith)
30. sep. 2021 1t 50m

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...