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Andrew Ollett, “Language of the Snakes” (U California Press, 2017)
Andrew Ollett,
Language of the Snakes
Prakrit, Sanskrit, and the Language Order of Premodern India
University of California Press, 2017

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Hindu StudiesNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in LanguageNew Books in Literary StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in South Asian StudiesNew Books Network March 19, 2020 Malcolm Keating

Andrew Ollett, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, argues in his book, Language of the Snakes (University of California Press, 2017), that Prakrit is “the most important Indian language you’ve never heard of.” In this book, subtitled “Prakrit, Sanskrit, and the Language... Read More
Dennis Baron, “What’s Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She” (Liveright, 2020)
Dennis Baron
What's Your Pronoun?
Beyond He & She
Liveright, 2020

New Books in CommunicationsNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in LanguageNew Books in LawNew Books in PoliticsNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network March 17, 2020 Carrie Gillon

Today Dennis Baron talks about his new book What’s Your Pronoun?: Beyond He & She (Liveright, 2020). Baron is professor emeritus in English at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and has written many books about language and its connection to culture. What’s Your Pronoun addresses an important cultural question about... Read More
Elise Berman, “Talking Like Children: Language and the Production of Age in the Marshall Islands” (Oxford UP, 2019)
Elise Berman
Talking Like Children
Language and the Production of Age in the Marshall Islands
Oxford University Press, 2019

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Big IdeasNew Books in LanguageNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychologyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network March 2, 2020 Alex Golub

Since World War II, the fate of the Marshal Islands has been tied to the United States. The Marshalls were a site of military testing, host a US military base, and many Marshallese migrate to the US to pursue education and economic opportunity. Yet there are few books about Marshallese... Read More
Kate Lockwood Harris, “Beyond the Rapist: Title IX and Sexual Violence on US Campuses” (Oxford UP, 2019)
Kate Lockwood Harris
Beyond the Rapist
Title IX and Sexual Violence on US Campuses
Oxford University Press, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in CommunicationsNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in LanguageNew Books in LawNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network February 6, 2020 Lee Pierce

On this episode of the New Books Network, Dr. Lee Pierce (she/they)–Asst. Prof. of Rhetoric and Communication at the State University of New York at Geneseo–interviews Dr. Kate Lockwood Harris (she/they)–Department of Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota -on the courageous new book Beyond the Rapist: Title IX and... Read More
David Adger, “Language Unlimited: The Science Behind Our Most Creative Power” (Oxford UP, 2019)
David Adger
Language Unlimited
The Science Behind Our Most Creative Power
Oxford University Press, 2019

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in LanguageNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychologyNew Books in ScienceNew Books in Science & Technology February 4, 2020 John Weston

David Adger is Professor of Linguistics at Queen Mary University of London. He has served as President of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain since 2015, and has authored a number of monographs on syntactic theory, in addition to the widely used undergraduate textbook Core Syntax: A Minimalist Approach (Oxford... Read More
Eleanor Gordon-Smith, “Stop Being Reasonable: How We Really Change Our Minds” (PublicAffairs, 2019)
Eleanor Gordon-Smith
Stop Being Reasonable
How We Really Change Our Minds
PublicAffairs, 2019

New Books in CommunicationsNew Books in LanguageNew Books in PoliticsNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychologyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network January 29, 2020 Richard Davies and Jim Meigs

With today’s furious political and cultural divisions, it’s easy to shake our heads in exasperation at those who disagree with us. In this episode with Australian writer and philosopher, Eleanor Gordon-Smith, we take a journey to the limits of human reason. Her compelling new book, Stop Being Reasonable: How We... Read More
H. Suzanne Woods and L. A. Hahner, “Make America Meme Again: The Rhetoric of the Alt-Right” (Peter Lang, 2019)
Heather Suzanne Woods and Leslie A. Hahner
Make America Meme Again
The Rhetoric of the Alt-Right
Peter Lang, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in CommunicationsNew Books in LanguageNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in PoliticsNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network January 2, 2020 Lee Pierce

On this episode of the New Books Network, Dr. Lee Pierce (she/they)–Asst. Prof. of Rhetoric and Communication at the State University of New York at Geneseo–interviews Heather Suzanne Woods (she/hers), Asst. Prof. of Communication at Kansas State and Leslie A. Hahner (she/hers), Assoc. Prof. in Communication at Baylor University, on... Read More

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