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Language November 24, 2020

A Revolution in Tropes

Alloiostrophic Rhetoric

Jane S. Sutton and Mari Lee Mifsud

Hosted by Lee Pierce
Aristotle, the co-called father of rhetoric, supposedly conceptualized his theory of persuasion as a means of bringing meaning to rest. But what if there’s another story, one in which forgotten …

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Language November 24, 2020

Indian Perspectives on Consciousness, Language and Self

The School of Recognition on Linguistics and Philosophy of Mind

Marco Ferrante

Hosted by Malcolm Keating
For many Indian philosophers, language is inextricably tied up with conceptualization. In Indian Perspectives on Consciousness, Language and Self (Routledge, 2020), Marco Ferrante shows how a set of tenth century …
Literary Studies October 29, 2020

Transforming Ethos

Place and the Material in Rhetoric and Writing

Rosanne Carlo

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Transforming Ethos: Place and the Material in Rhetoric and Writing (Utah State UP, 2020) approaches writing studies from the rhetorical flank, the flank which, for many, is the only flank …
Literary Studies October 28, 2020

How Dead Languages Work

Coulter George

Hosted by Malcolm Keating
After reading How Dead Languages Work (Oxford University Press 2020), Coulter George hopes you might decide to learn a bit of ancient Greek or Sanskrit, or maybe dabble in a …
Animal Studies October 23, 2020

A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path

Animal Metaphors in an Eastern Indonesian Society

Gregory Forth

Hosted by Akash Ondaatje
Gregory Forth, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Alberta and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, has studied the Nage people of the eastern Indonesian island of …
Communications October 8, 2020

All Bullshit and Lies?

Insincerity, Irresponsibility, and the Judgment of Untruthfulness

Chris Heffer

Hosted by Malcolm Keating
The implied answer to the titular question of All Bullshit and Lies? (Oxford University Press, 2020) is no, it’s not. In this book, subtitled Insincerity, Irresponsibility, and the Judgment of …
American Studies October 2, 2020

EQ Spotlight Special

Roundtable on the 2020 Presidential Race

John R. Hibbing and Jonathan Weiler

Hosted by Dan Hill
What are we to make of the year’s first presidential debate? Listen in as John R. Hibbing, Jonathan Weiler and I discuss this question and others surrounding the 2020 presidential …
Latin American Studies September 22, 2020

Transforming Indigenity

Urbanization and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Amazon

Sarah Shulist

Hosted by Carrie Gillon
Transforming Indigenity: Urbanization and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Amazon (University of Toronto Press) examines the role that language revitalization efforts play in cultural politics in the small city of …
Language September 11, 2020

How You Say It

Why You Talk the Way You Do - And What It Says About You

Katherine Kinzler

Hosted by Matthew Jordan
We gravitate toward people like us; it's human nature. Race, class, and gender shape our social identities, and thus who we perceive as "like us" or "not like us". But …
Language September 9, 2020

Making Sense

Reference, Agency, and Structure in a Grammar of Multimodal Meaning

B. Cope and M. Kalantzis

Hosted by Daniel Shea
What do all these have in common: Disneyland and the Dreamtime, the shopping mall and the planned economy, Chomsky's Syntactic Structures and Halliday's Functional Grammar, Unicode and door handles? All …
Eastern European Studies September 2, 2020

Ukrainian, Russophone, (Other) Russian

Hybrid Identities and Narratives in Post-Soviet Culture and Politics

Marco Puleri

Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
Marco Puleri’s Ukrainian, Russophone, (Other) Russian: Hybrid Identities and Narratives in Post-Soviet Culture and Politics (Peter Lang, 2020) examines a complex process of identity formation in the context of exposure …
South Asian Studies September 1, 2020

The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Philosophy of Language

Alessandro Graheli

Hosted by Malcolm Keating
The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Philosophy of Language (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020) spans over two thousand years of inquiry into language in the Indian subcontinent. Edited by Alessandro Graheli, project …
Critical Theory August 20, 2020

Saussure’s Linguistics, Structuralism, and Phenomenology

The Course in General Linguistics after a Century

Beata Stawarska

Hosted by Sarah Tyson
In Saussure’s Linguistics, Structuralism, and Phenomenology: The Course in General Linguistics after a Century (Palgrave Macmillan), Beata Stawarska guides us to consider Ferdinand de Saussure’s Course in General Linguistics anew …
Literature August 11, 2020

Finna

Poems

Nate Marshall

Hosted by Rebekah Buchanan
In Finna: Poems (One World), his new collection of poetry, Nate Marshall examines the way that pop culture influences Black vernacular, the role of storytelling, family, and place. Marshall defines …
British Studies July 29, 2020

Language and the Making of Modern India

Nationalism and the Vernacular in Colonial Odisha, 1803-1953

Pritipuspa Mishra

Hosted by Malcolm Keating
The province of Odisha, previously “Orissa,” was the first linguistically organized province of India. In Language and the Making of Modern India: Nationalism and the Vernacular in Colonial Odisha, 1803-195 …
East Asian Studies July 23, 2020

Philosophy of Language, Chinese Language, Chinese Philosophy

Bo Mou

Hosted by Malcolm Keating
Contributors to Philosophy of Language, Chinese Language, Chinese Philosophy, edited by Bo Mou, professor of philosophy at the San Jose State University, bring together work on the syntax and semantics …
South Asian Studies July 17, 2020

A Śabda Reader

Language in Classical Indian Thought

Johannes Bronkhorst

Hosted by Malcolm Keating
In A Śabda Reader: Language in Classical Indian Thought (Columbia University Press, 2019), Johannes Bronkhorst, emeritus professor at the University of Lausanne, makes the case through an extensive introduction and …
American Studies July 16, 2020

A Change is Gonna Come

How to Have Effective Political Conversations in a Divided America

Brian F. Harrison

Hosted by Lilly Goren
The United States takes pride in its democratic model and the idea that citizens deliberate in a process to form political opinions. However, in recent years, division and partisanship have …
American Studies July 10, 2020

Warped Narratives

Distortion in the Framing of Gun Policy

Melissa K. Merry

Hosted by Susan Liebell
If gun violence kills so many Americans, why don’t we see more effective solutions? How much does the way we frame an issue impact how we feel about it? How …
Chinese Studies July 7, 2020

Dialect and Nationalism in China, 1860-1960

Gina Anne Tam

Hosted by Ed Pulford
The question of how a state decides what its official language is going to be, or indeed whether it even needs one, is never simple, and this may be particularly …