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Language
Sociology
March 1, 2021
What the Signs Say
Language, Gentrification, and Place-Making in Brooklyn
Shonna Trinch and Edward Snajdr
Hosted by Richard Ocejo
Two stores sit side-by-side. One with signage overflowing with text: a full list of business services (income tax returns, notary public, a variety of insurance) on the storefront, twenty-two words …
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Scholarly Communication
February 24, 2021
Writing in Disciplines
A Discussion with Shyam Sharma
Shyam Sharma
Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Shyam Sharma, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric at Stony Brook University. We talk about how mutually appreciative …
Jewish Studies
February 23, 2021
How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish
Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert
Hosted by Zalman Newfield
Is it possible to conceive of the American diet without bagels? Or Star Trek without Mr. Spock? Are the creatures in Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are based on …
Psychoanalysis
February 17, 2021
The Autistic Subject
On the Threshold of Language
Leon S. Brenner
Hosted by Jordan Osserman
Leon Brenner's The Autistic Subject: On the Threshold of Language (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) makes a forceful case for the relevance of Lacanian psychoanalysis in the understanding and treatment of autism …
Japanese Studies
January 29, 2021
Scripting Japan
Orthography, Variation, and the Creation of Meaning in Written Japanese
Wesley C. Robertson
Hosted by Jingyi Li
Imagine this book was written in Comic Sans. Would this choice impact your image of me as an author, despite causing no literal change to the content within? Generally, discussions …
Language
January 6, 2021
Extraterrestrial Languages
Daniel Oberhaus
Hosted by Malcolm Keating
In Extraterrestrial Languages (MIT Press 2020), Daniel Oberhaus tells the history of human efforts to talk to aliens, but in doing so, the book reflects on the relationship between communication …
Language
January 5, 2021
Changing Minds
How Aging Affects Language and How Language Affects Aging
Roger Kreuz and Richard Roberts
Hosted by Malcolm Keating
Everyone ages, and just about everyone uses language, making Changing Minds: How Aging Affects Language and How Language Affects Aging (MIT Press, 2019) a book with practically universal relevance. The …
Philosophy
January 4, 2021
The Ethics of Microaggression
Regina Rini
Hosted by Robert Talisse
Seemingly fleeting and barely legible insults, slights, and derogations might seem morally insignificant. They’re the byproducts of ordinary thoughtlessness and insensitivity; moreover, insofar as they inflict harm at all, the …
Language
December 4, 2020
Fiction
A Philosophical Analysis
Catharine Abell
Hosted by Malcolm Keating
In Fiction: A Philosophical Analysis (Oxford University Press, 2020), Catharine Abell draws our attention to the character of Emma Woodhouse. She is handsome, clever, and rich. Or, at least, that's what …
Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight
December 3, 2020
Negotiating the Sweet Spot
The Art of Leaving Nothing on the Table
Leigh Thompson
Hosted by Dan Hill
Leigh Thompson is a Professor of Dispute Resolution and Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. An acclaimed researcher, author, and speaker, she has developed several online and in-person …
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 …
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 …
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