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The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary w/ Stefan Fatsis
We’re in a paradoxical time for dictionaries, claims Stefan Fatsis. On the one hand, we’re bombarded by words and ways to understand them in this lexically intense, linguistically charged political a…
Published on 8 hours ago
Language Ideologies w/ Savithry Namboodiripad
“And that’s what ideologies are: the air that you’re breathing, something that feels like it’s common sense.” From start to finish, this episode is about ideologies: their consequences, their makeup,…
Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago
The AI Con w/ Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna
The AI Con may as well be the answer to the question: what happens when a linguist and a sociologist come together to write a book? Co-written by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna, The AI Con isn’t just…
Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Philosophy of Language w/ Justin Khoo
Justin Khoo, an associate professor of Philosophy at MIT, begins this episode with the assertion that philosophy asks the most fundamental questions we can possibly articulate—but this assertion is n…
Published on 6 months, 1 week ago
Neurolinguistics, Phonetics, and Language Change w/ Chiara Repetti-Ludlow
Throughout this episode, Chiara Repetti-Ludlow, a postdoctoral research fellow at Carnegie Mellon's Neuroscience Institute, asks us to consider the essentials of speech processing and its constraints…
Published on 7 months ago
Education, Anthropology, and Schoolishness with Susan Blum
In early 2023, Susan Blum came on Tomayto Tomahto to discuss linguistic anthropology. 2 years later, she's back to discuss her work on schoolishness, ungrading, and linguistic ideology. From plagiari…
Published on 8 months, 1 week ago
Communicating Climate Science w/ Josh Willis (NASA)
A defining quirk of fields like English, Linguistics, Comparative Literature, etc is that the the objects of study mirror the medium through which the objects of study are explicated. Literary schola…
Published on 9 months, 3 weeks ago
A Raciolinguistic Perspective with Jonathan Rosa
"What frame allows you to take seriously the consequence of ideological overdetermination without conceding that it has a reality or a natural position?” This is one of many questions that Jonathan R…
Published on 11 months, 3 weeks ago
Language and Law w/ Alex Walker: Part 2: Optimality Theory and the Tapestry of Law
While legal academia is no stranger to questions of linguistics, it has been estranged (until now) from the practice of adopting linguistic theory and methods. In Part 2 of our conversation, Alex Wal…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
Language and Law w/ Alex Walker: Part 1: Dialectal Due Process
Legal academia is no stranger to questions of linguistics. After all, law is, in some sense, a linguistic construction. But our entire legal system interfaces with language far more than we might thi…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago